NYC Website Grants Access to Census Data Analysis

Census FactFinder lets users access socioeconomic and demographic information for specific areas of the city

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By Corinne Ramey

Wall Street Journal

At New York’s Department of City Planning, staff members are bombarded with requests for information about neighborhoods.

“How do you choose when you get a deluge of requests?” said Joseph Salvo, director of the department’s population division. “The demand just keeps coming up. If we don’t do this, we’re going to be buried.”

“This” is a significantly revamped version of a website with a large volume of neighborhood-level census data, which the department released this month.

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