Tom Kunich wrote:
With all of this congestion, noise, pollution, hostility and ill health perhaps you
can explain why since 1900 the life expectancy of a white man in NYC has gone from 47
years to 72 years while a black man has gone from 33 years to about he same 72?

Proximity to immediate help; proximity to medical care. You can get many chances to die in a place like that.

You don't have to spend a lot of time examining New Yorkers to see that huffing exhaust is bad for you. If you're from a less car-infested place, you can't fail to notice.