Tools

2020 Puerto Rico Earthquakes: Preliminary Damage Assessment

Centro has created an interactive webmap application titled "Puerto Rico Earthquake & Social Vulnerability: Preliminary Damage Assessment Tool" to show CDC’s social vulnerability index at the community (census tract) and county level, FEMA’s preliminary damage assessment (subject to change), and USGS earthquake data (events, magnitude, and shake intensity). This web… ...

Antonia Pantoja: A Founder

Dr. Antonia Pantoja, a Puerto Rican educator and activist, had a profound impact on the Puerto Rican Diaspora through the founding of multiple institutions, including ASPIRA, The Puerto Rican Forum, Boricua College, and more. The Antonia Pantoja: A Founder downloadable and interactive exhibition, created by CENTRO, is a free tool… ...

Covid-19 Impact on Puerto Rican Communities

The Social and Economic Indices and the Impact of COVID-19 in Puerto Rican Communities in the U.S. is an interactive dashboard to provide a greater understanding into how COVID-19 pandemic is unfolding across the nation’s communities, especially in Puerto Rican in the U.S. This dashboard contains the number of confirmed… ...

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Evelina Antonetty: “The Hell Lady of the Bronx”

Learn about the beautiful and powerful activist work done by Evelina Antonnety "The hell lady of The Bronx". Evelina was committed to improve the quality of life for Puerto Rican children of the South Bronx. Her work resulted in bilingual education accessible in the South Bronx through United Bronx Parents,… ...

IDA Y VUELTA

This exhibition is no longer on view. You can learn more about the exhibition below. "Ida y Vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo" is an expansive exhibition of 19 Puerto Rican artists whose works express their varied interpretations of the experience of migration—often formulated from direct… ...

New York City Council Redistricting Dashboard

The New York City Redistricting Dashboard offers population data to the block-level, aggregated to the city council district level. The population data are derived from the Redistricting File (P.L. 94-171) prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau based on the results of the 2020 decennial census.In addition to population data deriving… ...

Open and Closed Schools in Puerto Rico, 2011-2021

Over past decades, hundreds of schools in Puerto Rico have been arbitrarily closed by the government despite opposition and discontent by students and their communities. This tool shows the locations of 1,484 schools listed by the Puerto Rico Department of Education as operational between 2011 and 2021.

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Rebuild Puerto Rico Web Map

RebuildPR Web Map Application is an interactive data and mapping tool developed by Center for Puerto Rican Studies to support post disaster reconstruction in Puerto Rico. Its goal is to provide data for policy makers, researchers, on the ground non-profits, and community leaders to the rebuilding efforts of Puerto Rico’s… ...

The Fires: Hoboken 1978–1982

The Fires: Hoboken 1978–1982 is presented in partnership with the Hoboken Historical Museum, Diaspora Solidarities Lab, and New Jersey Council for the Humanities. The exhibition, first installed at the Hoboken Historical Museum, features the work of Christopher Lopez, a Puerto Rican Lens-Based Artist, Educator, and Public Historian. On view through… ...

The Puerto Rico Child Vulnerability Index Dashboard

The Child Vulnerability Dashboard provides the index at the county, county-subdivision, and census tract level in both English and Spanish, which allows local children-focused nonprofits, community leaders, educators, and policy analysts to determine where children are most vulnerable in Puerto Rico by certain social conditions such as poverty, disability, and lack of internet access.

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The State of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. Dashboard

The Socio-Demographic Data of Puerto Ricans in the United States and Puerto Rico: 2010 - 2021 Dashboard showcases Puerto Rican population data, including in- and out-migration from Puerto Rico, educational attainment and language proficiency, income, employment, housing, health and much more. This dashboard provides socioeconomic trends of the Puerto Rican… ...

US Territories – 2020 Decennial Census Data Dashboard

When assessing how the other territories were fairing using the same measures used to analyze Puerto Rico’s socio-economic situation, we started to take note of the unequal data collection across the territories as well as its impact. In response to these questions, we decided to create a tool to showcase… ...