New York City

Meet the team: Geographic Research

Do you wonder how you can look up your garbage pickup schedule via 311, emergency responders know the entrance of a building is on a side street despite the address being on an avenue, or you receive correspondences from the NYC Board of Elections that are specific to…

Mapping Historical Capital Spending in NYC: Introducing CSDB

Generating spatial data from free form text

How NYC Dept. of City Planning puts non-spatial data on a…

We’re hiring! Data Engineer @ NYC Planning [Filled]

We’re Hiring a Geographic Data Specialist!

City Planning’s Geographic Research Unit (GRU) is looking for someone who cares passionately about data quality and loves the intricacies of the City’s geography. GRU’s work is key to citywide operations, including the 911 dispatch system.

My Internship Experience at DCP

Sharing my contributions to the ongoing Data Library project.

Hello, World! We’re the Data Engineering team at NYC Planning

Data Engineering is a new data development team within the NYC Department of City Planning’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) group. We are passionate about data, and everything associated with it, from how it’s created and…

Geographic Filtering

The latest way to filter data on the Capital Planning Platform

We’re excited to announce one of the most requested features on the Capital Planning Platform: geographic filtering! There are now three new ways filter data on…