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Has anyone seen this map created by MIT researchers? It's a map showing how safe/unsafe a place is perceived to be from google street views. Seems to me very far from reality.
Quite a few of the safest neighborhoods in Staten Island show up as red. My area is the 2nd safest in the city based on reported crime stats yet there's plenty of red here on this map. Take that as you may. As a matter of fact, there's a red dot right on my corner. If there's ever been a crime here, I certainly have never seen it and I've lived here since the houses were built.
Quite a few of the safest neighborhoods in Staten Island show up as red. My area is the 2nd safest in the city based on reported crime stats yet there's plenty of red here on this map. Take that as you may. As a matter of fact, there's a red dot right on my corner. If there's ever been a crime here, I certainly have never seen it and I've lived here since the houses were built.
If the street views of two sides of a street give very different impressions, then they end up being perceived differently. I found some spots, two directly opposite buildings few yards apart, one green, one red. And notice the entire perimeter of Manhattan is red, while much of Harlem is green.
Ha! My entire block in Astoria is red. Probably because there's only a few houses on my street, it's mostly industrial, but I've never felt unsafe here.
Has anyone seen this map created by MIT researchers? It's a map showing how safe/unsafe a place is perceived to be from google street views. Seems to me very far from reality.
Definitely weird.Quite a few red dots in my area,which is one of the lower crime precincts in the city.
Very strangely,one of the nearby areas that is completely green is in and around the Pelham Parkway Houses, which is where most of the crime actually occurs.The judges must have felt safe because of all the trees on the grounds of the project.
Definitely weird.Quite a few red dots in my area,which is one of the lower crime precincts in the city.
Very strangely,one of the nearby areas that is completely green is in and around the Pelham Parkway Houses, which is where most of the crime actually occurs.The judges must have felt safe because of all the trees on the grounds of the project.
That's actually exactly how they did it. They just showed you pictures and asked the user to rate the picture solely based on the appearance. So a lot of housing projects were actually perceived as really safe because of the trees.
Was a past thread on this. Waste of time on MIT brains to create something based of perception when there are plenty of real World problems on these same streets.
Why did they leave out all of Queens (such as Douglaston, Little Neck, Bellerose, or Rosedale) that was east of the Cross Island Parkway? Don't they know where the city line is?
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