Hi all,
I’m a big DH enthusiast & general lurker here, and recently finished building a NYC-focused web project/site I thought other DH enthusiasts/students/educators/etc might be able to use, so thought I’d send it along. The site had its birth as a project for library school (MLS program at Queens College), and was also something I conceived of as a teacher. I teach EN101 at Queensborough, within which I typically include several NYC-focused units, and I wanted to create one site from which students … or anyone, actually … might (easily) look up various kinds of information (& in some cases make maps & charts) about their own neighborhoods & buildings. The site is:
http://www.investigatenyc.com/
*Anyway,* from the site, you can look up all kinds of things about your (or any) NYC neighborhood, like air quality, 311 calls, environmental hazards, crime rates, STD & communicable disease rates, median income, poverty rates, rat inspection history, death trends, drinking habits, current & upcoming capital projects, what districts you live in, and who your elected officials are (and what they do). You can also find information about your (or any) building, including a pic of it taken in the 80s, the year it was built, who lived in it in 1940, who owns it, and if an LLC owns it, who’s in charge of the LLC. (Also, I actually found the listing for James Baldwin & family in the 1940 census, and have a screenshot up of that). So anyway. If anyone could use this as an educator, for personal interest or for any other reason, passing it along!
Cheers!
–Sharon
