Rutgers professor Naa Oyo A. Kwate researches the density of fast food restaurants and alcohol ads in New York. The results aren't encouraging, but do offer insights into the ways that culture shapes the city and vise versa.

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Several other researchers have shown that there is a disproportionate amount of alcohol advertising in predominantly black neighbourhoods compared to predominantly white neighbourhoods. Kwate’s study not only revealed that an astonishing twenty-five percent of the outdoor advertising space in Central Harlem was dedicated to selling alcohol, but also that exposure to these ads increased black women’s chances of being a problem drinker—by up to thirteen percent. That, as she puts it, is “a really big deal.”