State of New York City’s Housing & Neighborhoods – 2005 Report

The Furman Center is pleased to present the 2005 edition of the State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods. Every year the Furman Center compiles statistics on housing, demographics and quality of life in New York City’s neighborhoods from a variety of sources.

This edition streamlines the presentation to focus attention on the critical data that reveals how the City, its five boroughs, and its 59 community districts, have fared in recent years.  It shows how each of the City’s neighborhoods is progressing, both in absolute terms and in relation to other areas of the City.  It provides the first independent analysis of the just-released results of the 2005 Housing and Vacancy Survey.  Finally, it adds a chapter analyzing how the affordability and availability of housing has changed between 2002 and 2005.

You can access our Focus Chapter and Citywide Data in the PDF files below. For a copy of the full report, email furmancenter@nyu.edu.

  • Front Matter   Acknowledgments and Table of Contents
  • Overview   Introduction to the 2005 Edition and a summary of key findings
  • Recent Trends in Affordability and Availability of Housing In New York City  
  • Notes on the 2005 Edition   Geographic definitions, ranking information, and a look at what’s new in the State of NYC’s Housing and Neighborhoods 2005
  • Indicators   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
  • The Bronx   Data and analysis of trends on the Bronx and its twelve community districts
  • Brooklyn   Data and analysis of trends on Brooklyn and its eighteen community districts
  • Manhattan   Data and analysis of trends on Manhattan and its twelve community districts
  • Queens   Data and analysis of trends on Queens and its fourteen community districts
  • Staten Island   Data and analysis of trends on Staten Island and its three community districts
  • Appendix   This section includes a description of our data methods and pages about NYCHANIS, PlanNYC, the Furman Center and an index of the Community Districts.

The data for each community district may be downloaded as an individual PDF file below.