What do New Yorkers think of their city? These 44 maps represent their attitudes on a host of issues spanning city life.

Percent saying “excellent” or “good”

For a metropolis as diverse as New York, there is quite a lot of agreement among residents about city life. According to a new citywide survey of resident satisfaction, New Yorkers tended to give high marks to fire services, emergency medical services, garbage pickup and neighborhood life regardless of where they lived. They were also nearly unanimous in their low opinion of the city’s services for the homeless, public housing and use of their tax dollars.

In general, New Yorkers are happiest with programs and services that directly affect their neighborhood and least happy with issues that relate to the city’s overall performance. (Most of the survey’s questions asked readers directly about their neighborhood, but also asked respondents for their views on citywide issues, like traffic and homeless services.)

“It’s kind of like the idea that I love my representative but I hate Congress,” said Maria Doulis, vice president of the Citizens Budget Commission, the organization that sponsored the survey this year.

These maps also highlight the uneven distribution of New York’s opportunities. Satisfaction with cultural activities, crime and neighborhood cleanliness are hugely unequal between neighborhoods and tend to closely follow neighborhood income.

The survey shows how satisfaction has changed since 2008, when the city government originally conducted the same survey. As a whole, New Yorkers are just about as happy – or unhappy, depending on your perspective – as they said they were nine years ago, with about half of New Yorkers saying they thought the city was a good or excellent place to live.

The borough that has grown less happy with New York City over all is Staten Island, whose residents reported a 9 percentage point decline in positive opinion. The borough that reported the greatest increase in positive opinion was Brooklyn.

See What People in Each Neighborhood Said

Some elements, like traffic, tended to be poorly rated everywhere, while others, like neighborhood cleanliness, varied widely. By default, we’re showing the neighborhood that New Yorkers are most satisfied with: Manhattan’s District 7, which includes the Upper West Side, Lincoln Square and Manhattan Valley. Residents there tended to rate New York’s services higher there than they did anywhere else.

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