With the "VACANT NEW YORK" which mapped the empty shop where the shutter was located, the problem of the big city is highlighted

Updated number of tourists for six consecutive yearsIn New York, the largest number of tourists visited by 58.3 million visitors in 2015, but depending on the district it seems that there are many shops with shutters without tenants entering. Justin Levinson, who was interested in the empty store situation in New York, is a map that actually walked around New York and mapped an empty store "VACANT NEW YORK"Has been created and made public.

Vacant storefronts in NYC
http://map.vacantnewyork.com/

Opening the above URL opens a map of New York where things like red dots are mapped. All red spots refer to empty shops where no one has moved in.


Click on the map and move it, you can see every corner of New York.


Double click to zoom in. When you move the crosshair cursor to an empty store, the address of that place is displayed at the top of the screen.


When zooming out and looking at the whole of New York, you can see that empty stores are concentrated in the south.


There are no vacant stores around Times Square which is popular as a sightseeing spot ... ....


Lower East side where bars and clubs line up stands out a lot of vacant stores.


Soho with shopping street is full of empty stores.


When zooming in and looking it, I was a little surprised by its many. Mr. Levins said that when mapping Soho for the first time, he misunderstood a bug or something because there are too many empty stores.


Levinson believes that there are three reasons for the existence of many empty stores. One thing is that you do not want to lend out vacant properties because you want to lend to a restaurant or a large chain store that the landlord will contract for a long term. The other is the height of the rent on the lower East side. According to Mr. Levinson, even if the rent is $ 36,000 (about 3.7 million yen), it seems that it is as wide as it feels small.


Besides the above, it seems that many vacant properties are created for various reasons, Ms. Levinson asked many people VACANT NEW YORK to see the current situation and become a clue to the solution thinking about.