Brooklyn, NY - Does Living Here Shorten Your Life?

Brooklyn, NY - The numbers from a new Harvard study seem to suggest that living in Brooklyn shortens your life.

New York City residents live an average of 77.4 years. In Brooklyn, life expectancy is 76.7 years. "It just amazes me. You would think that Manhattan or the Bronx would be the lowest, with all the pollution," said Elmo Singletary, 56, a Flatbush sign painter.
Within Brooklyn, the study found that life expectancy ranged from a low of 71.1 years for black men, while white men had the next lowest life expectancy, 74 years. Black women averaged 78.5 years, and white women averaged 80.2.

Here are the figures for the other boroughs:

State Island: 77 years.

The Bronx: 77.7 years.

Manhattan: 78 years.

Queens: 79 years.