A study examining the racial dynamics of New York City's neighborhoods has, unsurprisingly, turned up pockets of segregation.
After finding a University of Michigan study which claimed that NYC is the U.S.'s second most-segregated metropolitan area, a graduate student from Chicago named Daniel Hertz decided to use census data to get to the bottom of it. The end result was maps showing areas of the city that are less than 10 percent black and 10 percent white, as well as those that are less than five percent black and five percent white.
So what conclusions did he draw after putting in work? Nothing shocking:
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So even coupled with claims that New York City also apparently has the most segregated public school system with America, the city still has an advantage over Chicago. Perhaps it's some twisted payback for the Bulls domination of the Knicks during the NBA playoffs back in the '90s.
Still, it's really nothing to celebrate.
[via Gothamist]
