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. 2019 Nov 4;23(8):1414–1427. doi: 10.1017/S1368980019002982

Table 2.

Street segments having businesses offering foods/drinks in two areas of New York City, USA, by ground observation and government records, 2015

Street segments having food/drink-offering business(es)
Having food/drink-offering business(es) overall Having restaurant(s)*, Having food store(s)*, Having food/drink-offering ‘gov. OSB’*, Having food/drink-offering ‘other OSB’*,, Having food/drink-offering street vendor(s)*,
n % n % n % n % n % n %
Of 154 street segments in the Bronx
 By ground observation 57 100 43 75·4 37 64·9 25 43·9 33 57·9 16 28·1
 By government records§ 56 100 39 69·6 38 67·9 15 26·8 N/A N/A
 Overlap between ground observation and government records 40 100 30 75·0 24 60·0 13 32·5 N/A N/A
Of 51 street segments in the UES
 By ground observation 33 100 24 72·7 11 33·3 4 12·1 12 36·4 6 18·2
 By government records§ 36 100 34 94·4 10 27·8 2 5·6 N/A N/A
 Overlap between ground observation and government records 29 100 23 79·3 8 27·6 2 6·9 N/A N/A

gov., government-recognized (i.e. included in government records); OSB, other storefront businesses (businesses not primarily focused on selling foods or drinks, but which nevertheless might offer them); UES, Upper East Side (part of Manhattan); N/A, not assessed.

*

Please see footnotes to Table 1 for definitions, explanations and examples.

Percentages for business categories do not sum to 100 % as they are not mutually exclusive; a street segment may have had any combination of businesses offering foods/drinks.

By ground observation, the numbers (and percentages) of street segments having food/drink-offering ‘OSB of any type’ (‘gov. OSB’ + ‘other OSB’) were the same as those for street segment having just ‘other OSB’: thirty-three (57·9 %) in the Bronx, twelve (36·4 %) in the UES. In other words, food/drink-offering ‘gov. OSB’ were only found on street segments that also had food/drink-offering ‘other OSB’.

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Government records included: (i) inspection records from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, applicable to the business category ‘restaurants’; and (ii) inspection records from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, applicable to the business categories ‘food stores’ and ‘food/drink-offering gov. OSB’.