This report summarizes data from 2012-2014, the years immediately before and just after the Vision Zero initiative began in January, 2014. It highlights findings on disparities in the burden of traffic injury death due to motor vehicles.
This report highlights findings on disparities in the burden of pedestrian death due to traffic injury by neighborhood poverty, age group, and race/ethnicity.
As it pursues green infrastructure improvements on city-owned property, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) also encourages private property owners to apply for stormwater management funding. Through the Green Infrastructure Grant Program, all property owners in New York City served by combined sewers are eligible to apply for funding to design and construct stormwater management infrastructure to help improve the health of local waterways. DEP scientists have determined that following last week's blizzard, the snowpack in upstate watersheds measures 93.8 billion gallons of snow water equivalent, more than at any time over the previous winter. Work began on a $6.5 million road rehabilitation project along the west side of Schoharie Reservoir.