The City of Kingston, NY has been seeking input to inform a community master plan for Midtown Kingston. From September to November 2024, we surveyed Kingston residents to learn more about their experiences, hopes, dreams, and concerns about this project.
The survey explored potential new development in Midtown and how it might impact five aspects of residents’ wellbeing. This web page shares the results of these surveys — including what residents are excited about, what they are worried about, and what tradeoffs the project might bring.
In the process of collecting survey feedback, the project team tried to reach historically underrepresented groups to ensure that the survey responses reflect the demographics of Midtown. This was done by hosting a series of community meetings, small group discussions, tabling at community events, and other strategies. To assess the success of our efforts to hear from the diverse communities of Midtown, our survey included a series of demographic questions. Because the results indicated that we did not reach our demographic representational goals, the survey dashboard presents disaggregated results broken up by subgroups such as age, income, ethnicity, and race. As this planning process continues, the project team will continue other engagement efforts to better reach all of Midtown’s communities.
We invite you to explore the data and learn more below:
We asked over 340 people about their most important quality of life issues and how this project would impact their wellbeing. Here’s what they told us.
We spoke with residents about how the project might affect them and what we could do to make the project more worth it.
Our advisory council of community members and city representatives reviewed the surveys and suggest these improvements to the project.
Our data collection efforts focused on gathering a data from a statistically representative sample of residents. We partnered with credible messengers to reach populations who have often been under-sampled in previous surveys, including Black or African-American residents, Hispanic or Latino residents, residents with household incomes below $50,000 per year, and non-English speakers. We compared survey respondent demographics to the demographics of the local community—Midtown Kingston and Kingston as a whole. Here’s a picture of who filled out our surveys:
We prioritized collecting enough surveys from these communities:
Our survey respondents better reflect the race and ethnicity composition of all of Kingston, not the composition of Midtown Kingston.
Positive trends across most questions
Suggested areas to pay attention to in the comments
Communities we need to connect with more because they were not adequately represented in survey results
Because the results indicated that we did not reach our demographic representational goals, the survey dashboard presents disaggregated results broken up by subgroups such as age, income, ethnicity, and race. As this planning process continues, the project team will continue other engagement efforts to better reach all of Midtown’s communities.
Note: Demographic groups with less than 30 responses are hidden, as we don’t have enough answers for their bar to be representative.
Why do you or don't you like our vision for Midtown?
What redevelopment would be most beneficial for the neighborhood?
What place in Midtown would you miss most if it were gone?
If you said that this project would positively affect you in some ways, please share why.
If you said that this project would negatively affect you in some ways, please share why.
Thinking about what you're concerned about losing, or other negatives, what would make this project more worth it to you?
Is there anything you'd like to explain about the ratings you chose?
Is there anything else you want to share about the project, or about you?