New York skyline during summer 2011, when the city and much of the country suffered a deadly heatwave. (Photo courtesy Chris Goldberg, Flickr Creative Commons)
New York City’s Environment & Health Data Portal provides detailed statistics on how extreme heat affects communities throughout the city. Click on your zip code below to see stats on your neighborhood’s average temperature, vulnerability to heatwaves, average number of heat-related hospitalizations, and comparison to the rest of the city (hint: mostly, it’s worse):
Central Harlem: 10026, 10027, 10030
East Harlem: 10029, 10035, 10037, 10039
