How does the urban fabric of New York City align with its residential population?
To visualize this, I used high-resolution spatial data on built-up volume and population from the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, which was overlaid with the Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) map from the NYC Department of City Planning.
Based off the maps of the residential population, NYC evidently has a high population density with the possible exception of Staten Island and the outskirts of Queens towards Long Island. It is also interesting to see how Midtown (right below Central Park) can easily be located given its low population density in Manhattan despite being highly developed, as seen in the maps of the level of building construction. With this information, would this influence where you would plan to live in the city?