The footprints of every building in NYC

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• adrianparsons 4 days ago
  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.

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  • HFguy 17 minutes ago
    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
  • pavel_lishin 54 minutes ago
    I wonder if this is in the parts of the outer boroughs where detached houses are the norm?
• xnx 4 days ago
  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.

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  • dang 1 hour ago
    Thanks, we'll put that link in the toptext as well.