State of the City’s Housing & Neighborhoods

Each section may be downloaded as an individual PDF file below.

• Front Matter   Acknowledgments and Table of Contents
• Executive Summary   Introduction to the 2009 edition and a summary of key findings
• Causes and Consequences of New York City’s Residential Building Boom  
• The State of New York City’s Mortgage Lending  
• The State of New York City’s Capacity to Grow  
• The State of Immigrant New York  
• State of New Yorkers   Data and analysis of a number of neighborhood quality indicators by race rather than geography
• How to use the State of the City   Geographic definitions, ranking information, and a look at what’s new in the State of NYC’s Housing and Neighborhoods 2009
• Indicator Definitions and Rankings   Data indicator definitions, source information, and geography and year for which data is available. This section also provides rankings for each indicator, showing the neighborhoods that have the highest and lowest totals.
• New York City   Data and analysis of trends on New York City as a whole.
• Bronx   Data and analysis of trends in the Bronx and its 12 community districts
• Brooklyn   Data and analysis of trends in Brooklyn and its 18 community districts
• Manhattan   Data and analysis of trends in Manhattan and its 12 community districts
• Queens   Data and analysis of trends in Queens and its 14 community districts
• Staten Island   Data and analysis of trends in Staten Island and its three community districts
• Index of Community Districts  
• Methods   This section includes a description of our data methods
• About the Preservation Data Project  
• About the Furman Center