Sixty years of the Cross-Bronx: 1948–1955 displacements, 1960–1980 census, 2023 air quality and asthma rates.

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Digitized parcel-level acquisition records, an NHGIS-harmonized 1960 to 1980 decennial census panel for the quarter-mile buffer, and 2023 PM2.5, noise, and pediatric-asthma data at the tract level. The 1948–1955 acquisition files are public at the New York City Municipal Archives.

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The cleaned Rooted Forward replication archive for this paper is in preparation. Until it is released, every record below traces to a public upstream source. These are the same files we draw on, hosted by their primary publishers.

Files in the archive

cross-bronx-acquisitions-1948-1955.csv
Parcel-level acquisitions with payment and demographics.
2.9 MB
cross-bronx-census-1960-1980.csv
Quarter-mile buffer panel.
680.0 kB
cross-bronx-environmental-2023.csv
Tract-level PM2.5 and noise.
210.0 kB
cross-bronx-asthma-2023.csv
Pediatric asthma hospitalization rate.
190.0 kB
cross-bronx-quarter-mile-buffer.geojson
Buffer polygon.
1.2 MB

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Column Schema

The columns and types you can expect once the archive is live. Sample rows are intentionally omitted; we publish only verified records, not synthetic placeholders.

Schema · 4 columns · no sample rows

Column	Type	Description
tract_geoid	text
in_buffer	boolean
pm25_2023	numeric
asthma_rate_per_1000	numeric

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Sixty Years of Environmental Burden Along the Cross-Bronx Expressway

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