Neighborhoods in northern Manhattan, the Bronx and central Brooklyn saw the highest number of asthma-related emergency department visits.
“The Bronx has the most to lose in situations like this where the environment can be very taxing for our patients,” David Chong, chief of the pulmonary and critical care division at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, said. "And we have the highest number of vulnerable patients.”Eddie Bautista, executive director of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, noted the communities routinely suffer high pollution readings, an impetus behind the environmental justice movement.
The top-10 ZIP codes with asthma-related emergency room visits have far higher poverty rates and populations of Black and Hispanic residents than the rest of the city. According to a 2021 Census Bureau survey, roughly one in five New Yorkers lives below the federal poverty line – at the time $26,500 for a family of four – and a little less than half are Black or Hispanic Meanwhile, in the top-10 ZIP codes for ER visits, about a third of the residents live below the poverty line. In the same communities, Blacks and Hispanic residents account for at least half or significantly more of the population.
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