Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG) is a North Brooklyn based grouping working to recapture the Greenpoint too Williamsburg waterfront too cut local environmental hazard. As role of this mission NAG has created an interactive map of toxic hot spots inward Greenpoint too Williamsburg.
The ToxiCity Map highlights potentially polluted sites inward North Brooklyn piece besides providing information layers on neighborhood characteristics, such equally population density too asthma infirmary visits inward the area. The information is organized into 3 principal categories: environmental risks, neighborhood characteristics too industrial history.
The environmental risks category contains 3 information layers: potentially polluted sites, hereafter overflowing risk too waste matter transfer stations. Any of these information layers tin live on combined amongst the neighborhood characteristics data. So, for example, yous tin overlay the population density layer on altitude of the potentially polluted sites to encounter how many people are living in potentially polluted areas.
