The footprints of every building in NYC

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by jonathanmkeegan

adrianparsons
24d
Great writeup! I work with NYC open data but did not know about this dataset!
> Garages make up one-fifth of NYC buildings
I'm quite surprised by this.
1. HFguy
  06h
  Yes, something seems off. Wonder if "Parking" got lumped into "Garage"?
  Type of Building. List of values: 1000 = Parking 1001 = Gas Station Canopy 1002 = Storage Tank 1003 = Placeholder (triangle for permitted bldg) 1004 = Auxiliary Structure (non-addressable, not garage) 1005 = Temporary Structure (e.g. construction trailer) 1006 = Cantilevered Building 2100 = Building 2110 = Skybridge 5100 = Building Under Construction 5110 = Garage
2. pavel_lishin
  06h
  I wonder if this is in the parts of the outer boroughs where detached houses are the norm?
bflesch
03h
This is amazing. Unfortunately the 1960s, 70s and 80s seem to have been censored in the historic aerial maps. It's a very important period in NYC construction history where buildings with interesting shapes kept popping up.
The gap between 1951 and 1996 can be seen in: https://github.com/CityOfNewYork/nyc-geo-metadata/blob/main/...
xnx
14d
Direct link to the data: https://github.com/CityOfNewYork/nyc-geo-metadata/blob/main/...
Article does some nutzo thing where it adds ?ref=beautifulpublicdata.com to outgoing links.
1. dang
  07h
  Thanks, we'll put that link in the toptext as well.