Here’s A Shocker, New Study By National Center For Health Statistics Says Roosevelt Island Residents Life Expectancy Is 59 Years Of Age, But Only For Northern Half Of Roosevelt Island – Or Something Wrong With The Data

A new study by Marketplace says that living on Roosevelt Island shortens your life expectancy to 59 years old. WHAT?!? https://t.co/RNGZ7W1Gbe #RIOC #RooseveltIsland #GoodLiving https://t.co/RNGZ7W1Gbe

— Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (@RIOCny) November 8, 2018

Marketplace reports:

The life expectancy for people living in Chinatown, New York: 93.6 years.

Roosevelt Island, New York, which lies about 10 miles away: 59 years.

Two people living in different parts of the same city could have very different life expectancy rates, according to data from the U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project. USLEEP released a comprehensive data set, the first-of-its-kind, tracking these rates at the neighborhood level….

According to the National Center For Heath Statistics (NCHS):

The U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP) is a partnership of NCHS, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) to produce a new measure of health for where you live. The USALEEP project produced estimates of life expectancy at birththe average number of years a person can expect to livefor most of the census tracts in the United States for the period 2010-2015…

A review of the census track information reveals a huge divide between the Roosevelt Island Life expectancy of residents who live in northern section of Roosevelt Island (Manhattan Park, Octagon) and residents who live in the southern and middle portions of Roosevelt Island (Riverwalk and WIRE Building. Census Track 36061023802 for Manhattan Park and Octagon Buildings reports a Roosevelt Island life expectancy average of 59 years

But Census Track 36061023801 for Riverwalk Building and WIRE Buildings reports a life expectancy average of 81 years.

Coler Hospital at 900 Main Street on the north side of Roosevelt Island should be in the same Census Track as Manhattan Park and Octagon but is listed in this report with Riverwalk and WIRE Buildings (36061023801) with average Life Expectancy of 81 years.

So, either Riverwalk, WIRE Buildings and Coler Hospital patients are much healthier with a longer life expectancy than neighbors a few blocks away in Manhattan Park and the Octagon, or there is something wrong with the data.