Request
I'm looking for a listing of all residential and commercial buildings by community district. I need CD, BIN, Block, Lot, house number, street address, and zip code.
Response
There is not a comprehensive list of all residential and commercial buildings that we are aware of but there are several datasets or geocoding applications that you could query to return the results you are looking for.
PLUTO or MapPLUTO: these two datasets are published by the Department of City Planning (DCP) and contains extensive land use and geographic data at the tax lot level for every tax lot in NYC. PLUTO is available in a tabular format (csv). MapPLUTO is available in a spatial format (shapefile or geodatabase). Make sure to consult the PLUTO Data Dictionary and Readme files for more information or if you have additional questions.
- Pros:
- This contains zoning and land use fields.
- If you are looking for all lots zoned residential or commercial, you should filter this dataset on ZoneDist1 and ZoneDist2 fields for all values that begin with “R” or “C”
- If you are looking for all lots that have a land use of residential or commercial, you should filter this dataset on LandUse field for all values 01 – 05
- This also contains fields for CD, BIN, Block, Lot (& full BBL – borough, block, lot), address and zip code (at the lot level)
- Cons:
- This is a tax lot level dataset – tax lots can contain multiple buildings.
- Will not contain info for every building, only primary building.
- Lots that contain campuses like NYCHA complexes, colleges, sub-divisions will only contain info for primary building
If you need every building you could download the Building Footprint data published by the Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI). This is comprehensive of all buildings in NYC and contains BIN but does not contain any of the other attribute information you are looking for. There is a MapPLUTO BBL so you could join it back to MapPLUTO to filter for zoning/land use and to retrieve the other attributes. See metadata here.
You may also be interested in Address Points – they were initially created from data in the DCP Property Address Directory (PAD) file. Points were created approximately five feet inside building footprints along the correct street frontage. A field collection/verification process was undertaken to validate "multi-valued" addresses contained in the PAD file (i.e. those locations with a range of addresses). Additionally, a statistical sample of PAD single valued addresses was field checked. Approximately 100,000 locations were visited (about 10% of the total). This contains BIN, address, and zip code, but none of the other attributes. You also must use another file to determine if they were Residential or Commercial properties. See metadata here.
If you have GIS capabilities, you could spatially join or select building foot prints or address points to the DCP zoning district files to determine residential or commercial zoning.
Lastly, DCP has several geocoding applications that allows you to enter input (addresses, BBLs, BINs, etc.) and return other geographic data associated with that property based on the search type (Function Type).
1. GeoService API: The Geoservice API is a RESTful web service interface to the NYC Department of City Planning’s core Geosupport system. Geosupport is a geocoding system used by NYC government. Geosupport provides coordinate and geographic attributes for supported input locations (address, intersection, blockface, BIN, BBL). Geoservice exposes all the Geosupport functions through simple and easy to use REST representations. Allows for batch runs (multiple records).
2. Geosupport Desktop Edition: is a highly customized geocoding package that allows users to process geographic information for New York City. Allows for batch runs (multiple records).
3. Geographic Online Address Translator (GOAT): allows you to enter a New York City geographic location (such as an address, intersection, street segment, street stretch, block and lot or BIN), and returns related geographic property and political information (such as cross streets, side of street, tax block and lot (AKA Parcel–ID), five-digit ZIP code, census tract and block, police precinct, community district and city council district). Single record search only, no batch runs.
If you have any follow up questions, first consult the data dictionaries, readme, and metadata files. If you still have questions about DCP data, you can reach out to us via DCPopendata@planning.nyc.gov.
Thank you,
-DCP Open Data Team
