The State of the Urban Forest in New York City - Supplemental Datasets

Summary:

The files available here contain summary data for the urban forest of New York City, associated with the report, The State of the Urban Forest in New York City, developed by The Nature Conservancy and released in 2021. Methods and data used in development of these files are described in Appendix 1 of the report. and additional details and supplemental code are available at https://github.com/tnc-ny-science/NYC_StateOfUrbanForest_Docs. If you do not find what you are looking for here, you may contact Michael Treglia at [e-mail].

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If using these data, please cite the both the report and the data, based on the following recommended citations.

Recommended citation for the report:

Treglia, M.L., Acosta-Morel, M., Crabtree, D., Galbo, K., Lin-Moges, T., Van Slooten, A., Maxwell, E.N. 2021. The State of the Urban Forest in New York City. The Nature Conservancy. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5532876

Recommended citation for the data is:

Treglia, M.L., Acosta-Morel, M., Crabtree, D., Galbo, K., Lin-Moges, T., Van Slooten, A., Maxwell, E.N. 2021. The State of the Urban Forest in New York City - Supplemental Datasets. The Nature Conservancy. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5210261

Contents

canopy_jurisdiction_landuse_borough.zip - Zipped folder with comma separated values (.csv) file of land and canopy area summaries by approximated general ownership type, land use categories, and natural/developed breakdown, with Data Dictionary files in .docx and .html formats.

canopy_streettree_summaries.zip - Zipped folder containing GeoPackage, Esri File Geodatabase, and comma separated values (.csv) files with canopy and street tree summary data at the scales of Neighborhood Tabulation Area, Community District, City Council District, and Borough, with Data Dictionary files in .docx and .html formats.

equity_data.zip - Zipped folder containing GeoPackage, Esri File Geodatabase, and comma separated values (.csv) files with data used for equity analyses at the scale of Neighborhood Tabulation Area, with Data Dictionary files in .docx and .html formats.

naturalareas_canopy_jurisdiction_borough.zip - Zipped folder with comma separated values (.csv) file of summaries of natural area canopy data by approximated general ownership type and by borough, with Data Dictionary files in .docx and .html formats.

*Note for the contents of equity_data.zip: For data in this .zip folder, the column named "relativecanopychange_percent" represents relative canopy change from 2010 to 2017 as proportions, not percentages. To convert these numbers to percentages, values can be multiplied by 100. The data are accurately depicted in the report, and column names are otherwise accurate in this repository.