QUESTION
What are the numbers of vacant storefronts based on? How is that data collected?
0:20:27
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The deputy commissioner explains that a vendor canvases all boroughs of New York City every quarter to document the number of storefronts and vacancies on commercial corridors.
- The vendor surveys and collects data every 90 days
- They canvas commercial corridors across all NYC boroughs
- They count the total number of storefronts
- They also count the number of vacant storefronts
Oswald Feliz
0:20:27
On the number of vacant storefronts that you mentioned, I think you mentioned something like 140 1000 versus 16,000.
0:20:36
How did we get that data?
0:20:37
What are those numbers based on?
Calvin Brown
0:20:39
So we have a vendor that every quarterly, they canvas New York City throughout all the boroughs, and they document the number of storefronts on commercial corridors, and they also document the number of storefronts that are vacant.
Oswald Feliz
0:20:55
And how accurate or more specifically how recent is the information that you provided.
0:20:59
Do they go around every 6 months?
Calvin Brown
0:21:01
Every every 90 days, they update the data.
0:21:06
Every 3 months.
