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Table 1 Characteristics of Comparison Neighborhoods, CoClo Project 2020

From: Assessing changes in the food retail environment during the COVID-19 pandemic: opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned

Neighborhood

Manhattan

Brooklyn

Lower East Side and Chinatown

Upper East Side

East Harlem

Park Slope and Carroll Gardens

Sunset Park

Brownsville

Bodega: Supermarket Ratioa

18

5

17

12

45

15

Population

171,103

225,914

124,323

109,351

132,721

84,525

Born outside US

34%

23%

24%

17%

48%

30%

Limited English proficiency

28%

6%

19%

7%

49%

10%

Poverty

18%

7%

23%

10%

29%

28%

Unemployment

8%

4%

11%

6%

8%

14%

Rent Burden

48%

41%

48%

37%

57%

57%

No Health Insurance

11%

4%

12%

4%

22%

12%

Physical activity in past 30 days

77%

87%

68%

86%

68%

74%

At least 1 fruit & vegetable serving/day

88%

94%

84%

94%

87%

80%

≥1 sugary drink/day

16%

13%

29%

14%

24%

35%

Obesity

10%

11%

28%

15%

24%

41%

Diabetes

11%

4%

17%

6%

11%

13%

Hypertension

22%

15%

34%

22%

27%

33%

COVID-19 cases per 100,000b

1638

1334

2476

1199

2002

2277

  1. aThe number of bodegas relative to supermarkets. Calculated from the inverse of the supermarket to bodega ratio, which is what is reported in the NYC Neighborhood Health Atlas
  2. bAll metrics are at the community district level aside from COVID-19 cases, which are average COVID-19 cases across zip codes included in community districts