Acknowledgements
We thank the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and White Buffalo Inc. for making this study possible through data contribution. The authors would especially like to thank Pilar Fernandez and Nichar Gregory for sharing residential tick density data from Staten Island yards and the field assistants who helped in data collection. We also thank Ferdinando Urbano, Johannes Signer, Pallavi Kache, Andrea Corradini, Giole Passoni, and Nathan Ranc for help with data processing and methodological feedback.