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| Products > BYTES of the BIG APPLETM |
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| BYTES of the BIG APPLE
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BYTES of the BIG APPLE is a family of software, data and geographic base map files for the City of New York. The Department of City Planning offers these products for free download or by a license agreement.
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Products by License Agreement
License agreement required - please call 212-720-3505 for more information. |
| NYC GIS Zoning Features |
The GIS Zoning Features data set is provided as a free download in ESRI Shapefile and file geodatabase formats. These are industry-standard GIS data formats, compatible with most GIS and CAD software, and also viewable using free GIS viewers like ESRI’s ArcGIS Explorer or Google Earth. This data set is continuous (seamless) city-wide and consists of 6 classes of zoning features: zoning districts, special purpose districts, special purpose district subdistricts, limited height districts, commercial overlay zones, and zoning map amendments.
While representative of the information contained in DCP’s printed zoning maps, this GIS data set is not intended to replace those maps, but to provide an additional source of zoning information for the general public’s use in digital mapping and analysis applications. The downloadable zoning data will be updated on the last Monday of every month. Updates will include recent zoning changes adopted by the City Council.
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Release.............. April 2013
Date of Data....... April 2013 (date of most recent City Council adoptions included in data: 04/09/2013) |
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Note To Users:
1. Zoning data changes frequently! The downloadable zoning data will be updated on the last Monday of every month. Updates will include recent zoning changes adopted by the City Council.
2. These features are not intended for determining zoning at the individual tax lot level. |
| FRESH Food Stores Zoning Boundaries |
FRESH boundaries where zoning and discretionary tax incentives are available for the development, expansion and renovation of full line grocery stores and supermarkets. This is a geographic file created by the New York City Department of City Planning, showing eligible areas for the zoning incentives adopted May 11, 2009 and eligible areas for tax incentives through the NYC Industrial Development Agency.
For more information on the FRESH program and other incentives targeting grocery stores, please see www.nyc.gov/FRESH. |
Release............. 2011.1
Date of Data..... May 2011 |
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| Inclusionary Housing |
| The Inclusionary Housing Designated Areas Program was created in 2005 to encourage the creation and preservation of affordable housing in medium and high-density neighborhoods being rezoned to create new housing opportunities. The program modifies the base floor area ratio (FAR) available for developments and offers a floor area bonus for developments that provide affordable housing either on-site or within the surrounding community.
Note to Users: These features are provided for reference only an are not intended for determining Inclusionary Housing Bonus eligibility at the tax lot level. Please refer to Appendix F of the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York. |
Release............. 2012.1
Date of Data..... November 2012 |
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| Lower Density Growth Management Area |
| A Lower Density Growth Management Area is an area designated in the Zoning Resolution where new developments must provide more off-street parking, larger yards and more open space than would otherwise be required in the applicable zoning districts In Staten Island and Bronx Community District 10.
This downloadable data is the approximate area in these sections of the City where new development are required to comply to the rules and regulations of Lower Density Growth Management Area.
Note to Users: These features are provided for reference only and are not intended for determining whether new development must comply to rules and regulations at the tax lot level. Please refer to the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York. |
Release............. 2011.1
Date of Data..... September 2011 |
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| Sidewalk Cafes |
This feature class is a spatial representation of the Sidewalk Cafe regulations in the New York City Zoning Resolution, Chapter 1, Article 4.
The CafeType field indicates the types of Sidewalk Cafes that are permitted:
All Cafes (includes Enclosed, Unenclosed, and Small)
Unenclosed Only (includes Small)
Small Only
Not Permitted (for locations where the zoning would normally permit, but some other regulation prohibits.)
Lines are coincident with the Department Of Finance Tax Block edges. This dataset is maintained to reflect changes to mapped zoning districts or zoning text amendments as they are adopted by the City Council.
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Release.............. April 2013
Date of Data....... April 2013 (date of most recent City Council adoptions included in data: 04/09/2013) |
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Note To Users:
1.The zoning districts affecting the allowed sidewalk caf� locations throughout the city change frequently! The Sidewalk Cafes GIS data will be updated on the last Monday of every month to include areas where recent zoning changes adopted by the City Council have changed allowed sidewalk caf� locations.
2. These features only indicate areas where certain cafes types should or should not be allowed according to zoning regulations. The Department of Consumer Affairs approval is always required for sidewalk cafes. |
| Waterfront related datasets |
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| NYC Publicly Accessible Waterfront |
The Publicly Accessible Waterfront data components are provided as a free download. These components complement each other and may be used together. However, to provide the most flexible access to the data each component may be downloaded separately. The two shapefiles were used to create the City Waterfront Interactive Maps.
To read more about the individual data components click on the Download button. |
Release............. 2010.1
Date of Data...... October 2010 |
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| Waterfront Access Plan |
| A Waterfront Access Plan is a detailed framework set forth in the Zoning Resolution, that tailors waterfront bulk regulations and public access requirements to the specific conditions of a particular waterfront. Development of individual waterfront parcels governed by the plan triggers a requirement to build and maintain public access areas in accordance with the WAP. This downloadable data is the representation of all existing WAP areas.
Note to Users: These features are provided for reference only and are not intended for determining WAP applicability at the tax lot level. Please refer to Section 62-90 of the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York. |
Release............. 2011.1
Date of Data..... September 2011 |
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| Coastal Boundary |
| The Coastal Zone Boundary defines the geographic scope of New York City's Waterfront Revitalization Program (WRP). Pursuant to federal statute, the boundary encompasses all land and water of direct and significant impact on coastal waters. Federal lands and facilities are excluded from the coastal zone and consistency review in accordance with federal legislation. However, should the federal government dispose of any coastal property; it would be included in the coastal zone.
This downloadable data is the representation of New York City’s Coastal Boundary as defined by the WRP.
Note to Users: These features are provided for reference only and are not intended for determining the Coastal Boundary at the tax lot level. Please refer to the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York. Please refer to the Coastal Boundary maps adopted in 1982. |
Release............. 2011.1
Date of Data..... September 2011 |
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| Single Line Street base map dataset |
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| DCPLION and LION Differences File (LDF) |
DCPLION:
- LION: A single line street base map representing the city's streets and other linear geographic features such as shorelines, surface rail lines and boardwalks, along with feature names and address ranges for each addressable street segment.
- Nodes: Points that represent the locations of any combination or intersection of linear features in LION. A node occurs wherever two or more linear features cross regardless of whether a physical intersectiosn occurs at that point.
- Node Street Name Table: The Table lists the Node Id and the Street names of segments that intersect at the node. Usually a node has more than one segments to be converged at the node location, therefore a Node Id will have one to many street names associated with the node.
- Alternate Names Table: Some streets may have multiple street names, valid for the full length or a portion of the street. The LION file accounts for most of these cases through the use of Street Codes and Local Group Codes (LGCs) which establish the valid names for each particular segment. The Alternate Names Table (altnames) is built using all the street names that correspond to the street code and lgc values.
The ESRI version is released as a File Geodatabase that can only be used with ArcGIS version 9.3 or higher. In addition to the data, the download includes several layer files for viewing the data.
Note To Users:
1. As of release 12C, the LION geodatabase will not include built-in Address Locator files for geocoding.
2. The Street Direction Arrows layer included in the download works only in ArcGIS 9.3. To symbolize Street Direction Arrows in ArcGIS 10x, Cartographic Representations can be used. Detailed steps are provided in the Read Me text file. |
Release............. 13A
Date of Data..... February 2013 |
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LION Differences File (LDF) is a sequential file containing records documenting certain types of changes that have occurred between a particular release of LION and the immediately previous LION release. A new LDF ‘edition’ is ‘published’ in conjunction with each new production release of LION. |
Release............. 13A
Date of Data..... February 2013 |
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| Administrative and Political Boundaries |
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| Administrative and Political Districts |
- Political & Election Districts (with and without Water Area):
- New York State Assembly Districts, New York City Council Districts,
U.S. Congressional Districts, New York State Senate Districts,
New York City Election Districts and New York City Municipal Court Districts.
- Borough & Community Districts:
- Borough Boundaries (with and without Water Area), and Community Districts.
- School, Fire, Health & Police:
- School Districts, Fire Companies, Fire Battalions, Fire Divisions, Health Areas, Health Center Districts and Police Precincts.
- 2010 and 2000 Census Tracts & Blocks: (with and without Water Area)
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Release............. 13A
Date of Data..... February 2013
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| Other City Planning datasets |
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| Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (Formerly "Neighborhood Projection Areas") |
Geographic files of Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) as created by the New York City Department of City Planning, using whole census tracts from the 2010 Census as building blocks. These aggregations of census tracts are subsets of New York City's 55 Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs). Primarily due to these constraints, NTA boundaries and their associated names may not definitively represent neighborhoods. |
Release............. 13A
Date of Data..... February 2013 |
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Areas of Interest |
| Geographic files of areas of interest labels as depicted in New York: A City of Neighborhoods. |
Release............. 2010.1
Date of Data..... December 2009 |
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| Selected Facilities and Program Sites |
| Data providing the location, type and capacity of public and private community facilities in New York City, including schools, parks, libraries, public safety, day care, foster care, special needs housing, health and mental health facilities and programs. Additional data included to provide location of transportation and waste management facilities. To facilitate analysis and mapping, the data is geocoded and available as ASCII delimited text files and as a Microsoft Access database. |
Release........... 2012 rev.1
Note to Users: Release 2012 rev.1 is a corrected version of Release 2012.
Click here to view Date of Data |

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Notes:
The data and geographic base map files can be imported into a variety of commercially available spreadsheet, database and/or geographic information systems (GIS) software for computer-generated map production and analysis. The City of New York does not provide such products to the public nor does it endorse or recommend specific products. Free GIS data viewers are available from both ESRI (Arc Explorer) and MapInfo (Pro Viewer).
Disclaimer:
The information contained in the BYTES of the BIG APPLE files was compiled for governmental use by the New York City Department of City Planning. The Department and the City make no representation as to the accuracy of the information or its suitability for any purpose. The Department and the City disclaim any liability for errors that may be contained therein. |
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