WTC site damage assessment map, Sept 21, 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Neighborhood ■Y' - X'?"' ' YCY;; .Manhattan Civic Center "'“1,677...... 10.9 TOTAL 15,450 100.0

Since 1990, the construction of new residential units in Battery Park City has added approximately 1,950 residents, ane the conversion of office space into residences elsewhere in lower Manhattan has further increased the popui-ition by another 3,900 residents for a total of 5,850 new residents. The 1998 residential population of lower Manhattan is estimated to be approximately 21,300 persons. The future population growth is expected to occur primarily in Battery Park City where the Battery Park City Master Plan allows future population to increase to a maximum of20,000 residents from the 1998 population of 7,600 residc.its. An estimated 6,600 to 8,560 additional residents could be added to the lower Manhattan population through the development of residential units from converted obsolete office space.

Predictions for increases in population in the Lower Manhattan study area show a relatively stable situation overall, although an increase of 19.9 percent population reflects the completion of Battery Park City and the trend to residential conversion. Population in 1995 for Lower Manhattan was 47,487. In 2010, the population in this area is expected to be 56,925 and in 2020, the population is expected to increase to 59,148, a 24.6 percent increase. The labor force is projected to increase by more than 8 percent between 1995 and 2010. This predicted labor force increase is more than double the predicted population increase and reflects an increase in multiple-worker households and families. Construction workers will, for the most part, work in Manhattan.

Environmental Impacts •

The New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce will identify the socioeconomic impacts of the construction of the proposed project alternatives.

3.6.6 Environmental Justice

Executive Order 12898, Federal Ajtions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority ■ Populations and Low-Income Populations, mandates that federal agencies identify and address, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or enviroiraiental effects of programs on minority and low-income populations (59 Federal Register 7629-7633, February 16,1994). A minority population is defined as a group of people and/or a community experiencing common conditions of exposure or impact that consists of persons classified by the U.S. Census Bureau as Black or Afiican-American; Asian; American Indian or Alaska Native; Nativ Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander; Hispanic or Latino; or other non-white persons, including those persons of two or more races. A low-income population is defined as a group of people and/or a community that, as a whole, fives below the national poverty level based on the 1990 Census data (U.S. EPA 2001). The average poverty level threshold for a family of four people in 1989 was

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