Summary confidence: high
This dataset covers 2,327 NYC census tracts with 23 columns describing housing tenure, rent burden, income, and rent levels across the five boroughs. The most urgent issue is data hygiene: median_gross_rent and median_household_income both contain a sentinel value of -666666666, which drags their means to roughly -41.5M and -36M respectively despite sensible medians (~$1,735 rent, ~$76,833 income) — these need to be filtered before any analysis. Beyond that, the substantive story is rent burden: pct_rent_burdened has a median of 50% with an IQR of 40.9–58.8, meaning half of NYC tracts have a majority of renters paying 30%+ of income on rent. Brooklyn (Kings) dominates the tract count at 35%, followed by Queens (31%) and the Bronx (15%), so any borough-level comparison should weight accordingly. The state column is constant (all 36, New York) and can be dropped.
citing: median_gross_rent · median_household_income · pct_rent_burdened · pct_severe_burden · pct_owner_occupied · county_name · state · total_households