The Math and Logic of Bloomberg’s Collective Punishment of minorities.
On June 28, 2013, the New York Post reported: Mayor Bloomberg claimed that people of color should...
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Quarterly complaints to NYC’s 311
The sharp drop from the second to the third quarter of 2019 is notable. A forensic look should establish if New Yorkers collectively decided to not complain as much as they were wont to (if you believe that, there’s a...
Read MoreNYC Public Advocate candidates: their council district performance – part 2
In the universe of quality-of-life issues, lack of heat and/or hot water in the dead of winter rank high. To those with inadequate or no heat or hot water. In terms of number of complaints, it ranks as the most or the...
Read MoreNYC Public Advocate candidates: their council district performance – part 1
Four members of the NYC Council and one former member are running for the job of Public Advocate on February 26, 2019. Aside from a host of others; apparently “everybody run for any office in sight” seems to be the...
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Most common complaints to 311, by Council district.
From 2014 to 2018 This graphic shows all complaints to 311 over the five years from 2014 through...
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NYC: mapping the under-served by council district 2014-2018
This graphic shows the six agencies that handled the most complaints called in to 311 over the...
Read MoreNYC Council districts and city agencies – mapping the under-served
This graphic presents the six agencies that handled the most complaints to 311 over the five years from the fourth quarter of 2013 to the third quarter of 2018. And divides them up by the council district to which they pertain....
Read MoreNYC Trivia: Dead Animal reports
Number of service requests to NYC’s 311 from 2004 to 2017: 26.99 million 372 of these reports got sent to the Dept. of Parks and Recreation. Animals dying in parks. And the balance 280 were to the Dept. of Transportation....
Read MoreNYC 311 Service Requests: Council District 30
Number of service requests to NYC’s 311 from 2004 to 2017: 26.99 million City Council District 30 Currently serving: Councilmember Robert Holden Representing the Queens neighborhoods of Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village,...
Read MoreBack to basics – what’s the “summary” stuff?
Number of service requests to NYC’s 311 from 2004 to 2016: 24.54 million Looking at a previous post a friend said “I know what median and mean are but what’s all the other stuff?”To begin at the...
Read MoreAverage number of days to resolve a service request
Number of service requests to NYC’s 311 from 2004 to 2016: 24.54 million So how long does the city take, on average, to take action on a service request? No idea. That gets into asserting what constitutes...
Read MoreUS Nobel Winners
From: www.nobelprize.orgUSA (259)High School1The Nobel Prize in Physics1923Robert A. Millikan”for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect”2The Nobel Prize in Physics1927Arthur...
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