Poverty can kill: New York’s poorest residents live 11 years less than less than Wall Street fat cat

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Poverty can kill: New York’s poorest residents live 11 years less than less than Wall Street fat cats
Agence France-Presse
14 Oct 2015 at 17:08 ET

New York is a city of extreme inequality, where people in the poorest neighborhood of Brooklyn die 11 years earlier than those living around Wall Street, according to data released Wednesday.

The city unveiled health statistics from across Brooklyn, one of New York’s five boroughs, that seek to provide the most reliable indicator of community health in a decade.

Updating and expanding the statistics, officials hope, will highlight extreme inequality in America’s largest city and help to improve quality of life for the poorest.

In Brooklyn’s poorest neighborhood of Brownsville, which has a majority black population of 76 percent, average life expectancy is 74.1 years — among the lowest in the city.