Car ownership in Community Board 4

Here are some interesting numbers. For all the talk that goes on (particularly with the Community Benefits Agreement) about the Yankees "doing the community a favor" by opening up parking, the Community Board 4 area actually has very low car ownership, compared with the rest of the city. Therefore, the Yankees don't need to build more parking just to open up parking to the community. If they just opened up one or two of the existing garages, that should do the trick. We don't need more parking...built in the parks!

Avg. vehicle ownership per housing unit:
Bronx -- 0.49 (not quite 1 car for every 2 households)
Brooklyn -- 0.54
Manhattan -- 0.24
Queens -- 0.86
Staten Island -- 1.32
Bronx CB 4 -- 0.27!
NYC-wide -- 0.58

Percent of households who don't own a vehicle:
Bronx -- 61.6%
Brooklyn -- 57%
Manhattan -- 77.5%
Queens -- 37.7%
Staten Island -- 18.4%
Bronx CB 4 -- 77%!
NYC-wide -- 55.7%

In other words, car ownership rates in the CB 4 are among the lowest in the city.