NYC Open Data Plan: Historical Civic Engagements 2023-2025

2025

Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)

Leveraging Open Data for the Public

Celebrated our agency's anniversary by promoting our StoryMap documenting highlights over the past 60 years.
Individual landmarks were selected from the dataset to be highlighted in the StoryMap according to the theme, and information from the designation report linked in the dataset was used for context.
Referenced Datasets:
Individual Landmark Sites: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Housing-Development/Individual-Landmark-Sites/buis-pvji/about_data

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1100981042074008&set=pb.100064863661086.-2207520000&type=3
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIj8lWdSB-O/
https://x.com/nyclandmarks/status/1912970513619566938
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7318741660899692544

2025-04-17T00:00:00.000

2025

Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity

Public Open Data Event

A team in our office hosted an Open Data Week presentation, "Mind the Gap: Using Data to Visualize Emergency Food Need in NYC." The session was an informative dive on how to leverage multiple datasets to triangulate food supply, demand, and gaps therein in NYUC neighborhoods.

https://2025.open-data.nyc/event/map-the-gap-using-data-to-visualize-emergency-food-need-in-nyc/

2025-03-25T00:00:00.000

2025

Mayor's Office of Citywide Event Coordination and Management (CECM)

Digital Media Engagement

Our agency sent out a newsletter to users with an E-Apply account (portal for submitting permits), including information about the Open Data and the datasets link that CECM uploads.

https://nyceventpermits.nyc.gov/cems/findevents

2024-05-10T00:00:00.000

2025

Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice (MOCEJ)

Public Open Data Event

On January 13, we held a Climate Knowledge Exchange about the latest GHG inventory dataset.

https://climate.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2023-GHG-Inventory-MOCEJ-Climate-Knowledge-Exchange-Meeting-1.13.25.pdf

2025-01-13T00:00:00.000

2025

Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice (MOCEJ)

Public Open Data Event

The Environmental Justice team presented the EJNYC Mapping Tool at NYU's EJ and Racial Justice Spring Summit.

2025-04-04T00:00:00.000

2025

Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice (MOCEJ)

Public Open Data Event

Cities are critical drivers of climate action. This Earth Week, the Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice and The Exchange are showcasing the city's publicly accessible climate and greenhouse gas data. The question is: How can we get data into the right hands to lower emissions in our city?

https://info.nyclimateexchange.org/events-calendar; https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIwYK18h2N1/

2025-04-21T00:00:00.000

2025

Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice (MOCEJ)

Public Open Data Event

The Environmental Justice Team presented at the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities Symposium. They did a deep dive on the mapping tool, which included table activities where participants could navigate the tool and determine which layers could be useful when addressing extreme heat and to identify potential locations for resilience hubs.

https://aap.cornell.edu/news-events/symposium/cornell-mui-ho-center-cities-symposium-climate-resilience-new-york-city

2025-04-24T00:00:00.000

2025

Mayor's Office of Food Policy (MOFP)

Leveraging Open Data for the Public

Led by the NYC Mayor's Office of Food Policy, this session included guests from the Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity and Community Food Connection Administrators, whose work supports over 700 food pantries and soup kitchens across the city, leveraging insights from the supply gap analysis in areas of unmet need. Ideal for food security advocates, academics, students, data analysts, and others interested in food-related issues and data, the workshop provided answers to questions about neighborhood food security metrics, how need for emergency food is defined and measured, and how to leverage the dataset to support neighborhood and/or organizational strategies to close the gap. Participants had the opportunity to interact with the Emergency Food Supply Gap dataset using NYC Open Data tools to offer strategic insights to support food security.

https://2025.open-data.nyc/event/map-the-gap-using-data-to-visualize-emergency-food-need-in-nyc/

https://www.nyc.gov/site/foodpolicy/programs/supply-gap.page

2025-03-25T00:00:00.000

2025

Mayor's Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Digital Media Engagement

Creating or updating a page on OMB's website to explain its work in the context of the data OMB publishes.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/omb/publications/finplan01-24-cc.page

2025-01-01T00:00:00.000

2025

Mayor's Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Leveraging Open Data for the Public

Show how data can be simplified and displayed by using 311 data from the Open Data Portal at the OTI's Analytics Exchange Learning Summit held in October 2024

2024-10-15T00:00:00.000

2025

Mayor's Office of Operations (OPS)

Public Open Data Event

We conducted user testing on a public data tool we produce, the Dynamic Mayor's Management Report. We got gift cards from the Mayor's Office of Economic Opportunity's Community Compensation Fund to provide to people who spoke with us at Flushing Library and Ozone Park Library on June 6 and June 21 of 2024. We had a structured conversation with each participant to see how they interacted with the data tool, what they were confused by or what they expected to see, and any improvements they suggested.

2025-03-28T00:00:00.000

2025

Mayor's Office of Operations (OPS)

Public Open Data Event

Open Data Week presentation on using the Mayor's Management Report open dataset and other public tools housing the same data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5CsCh8HR_w

2025-03-28T00:00:00.000

2025

Mayor's Office of Urban Agriculture (MOUA)

Public Open Data Event

As part of its endeavor to build new metrics for the urban agriculture sector and to share data to demonstrate its impact, the Mayor's Office of Urban Agriculture (MOUA) is announcing the release of the MOUA Urban Agriculture Data Explorer Hub, a free, public interactive mapping tool and dashboard. Launched during a demonstration at the first-ever NYC Urban Agriculture Data Convening at Pier 57 in Manhattan, the Urban Agriculture Data Explorer Hub allows users to explore and contribute information about urban agriculture sites across New York City. Nearly 3,000 farms and gardens have already been identified in the data map and dashboard.

https://climate.cityofnewyork.us/moua-data-event/

2025-01-16T00:00:00.000

2025

NYC Emergency Management (NYCEM)

Other Engagement Activity

Presentation to Hunter College students about how NYCEM GIS Team uses NYC Open Data to support operations and public services.

2024-09-18T00:00:00.000

2025

NYC Emergency Management (NYCEM)

Public Open Data Event

Joshua Friedman reviewed publicly available tools and datasets utilized by NYCEM to serve NYC residents during the 2025 NYC Open Data Week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz0S4EPVDOs

2025-03-25T00:00:00.000

2025

NYC Emergency Management (NYCEM)

Public Open Data Event

Anna Prince and Jason Phillips presented during the 2025 NYC Open Data Week on how NYCEM uses 311 data in both the response and recovery phases of a disaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5u3MmXlpMA

2025-03-27T00:00:00.000

2025

Office of Environmental Remediation (OER)

Public Open Data Event

Moderated panel discussion on inter-agency geospatial data and tools with colleagues from NYCEM, DCP, and DOF. Over 100 people registered, from experienced GIS professionals to new open data users. This session has become a popular feature of Open Data Week.

https://2025.open-data.nyc/event/nyc-agency-maps-tools-geospatial-data-for-2025/

2025-03-25T00:00:00.000

2025

Office of the Comptroller (COMPTROLLER)

Public Open Data Event

Senior Data Analyst and Products Manager Dan Levine gave a virtual tour of two public dashboards '“ Agency Management and Homelessness '“ developed by the New York City Comptroller's Office in 2024. This tour gave information about the development of the dashboards, including how the office chose to tell a story with data and the mechanics of how the products were developed.

https://youtu.be/1DbR8RrDj84

2025-03-24T00:00:00.000

2025

Public Design Commission (PDC)

Digital Media Engagement

Posted information on the Public Design Commission Instagram page highlighting our participation in Open Data

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCUpHqYustG/

2024-11-13T00:00:00.000

2025

Public Design Commission (PDC)

Other Engagement Activity

Explained the NYC Open Data program and the datasets the Public Design Commission makes available during a public PDC Archive tour on October 3, 2024

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/browse?Dataset-Information_Agency=Public+Design+Commission+%28PDC%29&sortBy=relevance&page=1&pageSize=20

2024-10-03T00:00:00.000

2025

Public Design Commission (PDC)

Other Engagement Activity

Explained the NYC Open Data program and the datasets the Public Design Commission makes available during a PDC Archive tour for Pace University Political Science Society on October 23, 2024

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/browse?Dataset-Information_Agency=Public+Design+Commission+%28PDC%29&sortBy=relevance&page=1&pageSize=20

2024-10-23T00:00:00.000

2025

Public Design Commission (PDC)

Other Engagement Activity

Include a section in our Annual Report providing information about Open Data and PDCs participation.

https://www.nyc.gov/assets/designcommission/downloads/pdf/PDC_Annual_Report_2023_Digital-Spreads.pdf

2024-08-01T00:00:00.000

2025

Public Design Commission (PDC)

Other Engagement Activity

Explained the NYC Open Data program and the datasets the Public Design Commission makes available during a PDC Archive tour Untapped Cities on March 13, 2025

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/browse?Dataset-Information_Agency=Public+Design+Commission+%28PDC%29&sortBy=relevance&page=1&pageSize=20

2025-03-13T00:00:00.000

2025

Public Design Commission (PDC)

Other Engagement Activity

Explained the NYC Open Data program and the datasets the Public Design Commission makes available during a PDC Archive tour Untapped Cities on April 9, 2025

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/browse?Dataset-Information_Agency=Public+Design+Commission+%28PDC%29&sortBy=relevance&page=1&pageSize=20

2025-04-09T00:00:00.000

2025

Public Design Commission (PDC)

Other Engagement Activity

Explained the NYC Open Data program and the datasets the Public Design Commission makes available during a PDC Archive tour for Environmental Protection Agency staff on April 16, 2025

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/browse?Dataset-Information_Agency=Public+Design+Commission+%28PDC%29&sortBy=relevance&page=1&pageSize=20

2025-04-16T00:00:00.000

2025

Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC)

Digital Media Engagement

Published a Medium post about how TLC Policy's Division uses data engineering to integrate cloud technology with legacy systems given the various types of data submitted to us by companies, bases and vendors including geographic, temporal, financial and service. Include case studies including the integration of open data into our systems.

https://medium.com/@NYCTLC/data-engineering-for-urban-mobility-from-taxis-to-terabytes-23dc74809dcb

2024-11-26T00:00:00.000

2025

Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC)

Public Open Data Event

The NYC TLC Factbook is a public-facing Power BI dashboard that showcases charts, maps, and key metrics on various data and policies, including trip counts, electric vehicles, driver pay, utilization rates, and driver demographics. The underlying data for the dashboard includes publicly available information, such as trip data, as well as more sensitive data that is kept confidential to protect driver privacy. The Data Analytics team, part of TLC's Policy Division, invites members of the public to an interactive presentation that offers an in-depth look at the analysis behind the dashboard, as well as how it helps evaluate and monitor critical policies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI2fcpk6VyA

2025-03-27T00:00:00.000

2024

Administration for Children's Services (ACS)

Digital Media Engagement

created a Facebook post on agency's Facebook page encouraging people to use Open Data and sharing a link for an ACS report.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/9CEWFdi68K2J8Pjy/?mibextid=WC7FNe

2023-12-13T00:00:00.000

2024

Department for the Aging (NYC Aging)

Digital Media Engagement

Posted information on an NYC Aging Open Data dataset to Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X (Twitter)

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=817536237067494&set=a.637054731782313; https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Q6DBvtAyz/; https://twitter.com/NYCAging/status/1784191096198693017; https://www.threads.net/@nycaging/post/C6Q6DZ0usUY

2024-04-27T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of Buildings (DOB)

Digital Media Engagement

Promoting Open Data Week on agency's X

2024-02-07T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of City Planning (DCP)

Digital Media Engagement

Press release for Building Elevation Subgrade (BES) data

https://www.nyc.gov/site/planning/about/press-releases/pr-20230920.page

2023-09-20T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of City Planning (DCP)

Digital Media Engagement

Promote Housing Database update and corresponding story maps on X.

https://x.com/NYCPlanning/status/1783533411010859504

2024-04-25T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of City Planning (DCP)

Public Open Data Event

ODW: NYC Agency Maps, Tools, and Geospatial Data for 2024

https://2024.open-data.nyc/event/nyc-agency-maps-tools-and-geospatial-data-for-2024/

2024-03-20T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of City Planning (DCP)

Public Open Data Event

ODW: Explore NYC Population MapViewer and best practices for mapping population data

https://2024.open-data.nyc/event/explore-nyc-population-mapviewer-and-best-practices-for-mapping-population-data/

2024-03-18T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of City Planning (DCP)

Public Open Data Event

ODW: Using R to Create Dynamic Documents, Maps, and Charts: A Case Study Using ACS Data

https://2024.open-data.nyc/event/using-r-to-create-dynamic-documents-maps-and-charts-a-case-study-using-acs-data/

2024-03-20T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of City Planning (DCP)

Public Open Data Event

ODW-School of Data: City of Yes: How Data is Unlocking New Codes for Economic Opportunity

https://nycsodata24.sched.com/event/1aiMV

2024-03-23T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of City Planning (DCP)

Public Open Data Event

ODW-School of Data: Pluto: How the Department of City Planning builds data

https://nycsodata24.sched.com/event/1aiM1

2024-03-23T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS)

Public Open Data Event

Ryan Yeung, director of performance evaluation and analytics at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) will demonstrate how to create attractive and informative maps using NYC Open Datasets and QGIS, a free and open-source geographic information system (GIS) program. You will also have the opportunity to create a map of your own using a dataset from NYC Open Data.
Participants with little to no training in GIS are encouraged to attend, though everyone should have QGIS installed before this session!

https://2024.open-data.nyc/event/mapping-open-data-with-qgis/

2024-03-19T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP)

Digital Media Engagement

DCWP inspectors check the accuracy & quality of gasoline dispensed by NYC gas stations to ensure you get all the fuel you pay for at the pump.

https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1696500448084078966;
https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1684557630914670593?s=20;
https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1707854673699377613?s=20;
https://x.com/hellodcwp/status/1718317280650469714?s=46&t=-StKRmwa-QDpfSE3BYWBrg;
https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1728126340220743794;
https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1740744752507601331;
: https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1752076442265927893;
https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1761098292480356471;
https://x.com/helloDCWP/status/1773714226332229774?s=20;
https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1783869384257044531;

2023-08-29T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP)

Digital Media Engagement

Regularly posted on social media about DCWP data

https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1662082475009490944; https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1676629379055583232; https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1696500448084078966; https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1684557630914670593?s=20 ; https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1707854673699377613?s=20; https://x.com/hellodcwp/status/1718317280650469714?s=46&t=-StKRmwa-QDpfSE3BYWBrg; https://x.com/hellodcwp/status/1718317283821441214?s=46&t=-StKRmwa-QDpfSE3BYWBrg; https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1728126340220743794; https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1740744752507601331; https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1752076442265927893; https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1761098292480356471; https://x.com/helloDCWP/status/1773714226332229774?s=20; https://twitter.com/helloDCWP/status/1783869384257044531

2023-05-26T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of Design and Construction (DDC)

Digital Media Engagement

Posted about NYC Open Data to Twitter/ X / LinkedIn platform . The link was to active DDC projects.

https://x.com/NYCDDC/status/1653021910962253826;
https://x.com/NYCDDC/status/1653021910962253826;
https://x.com/NYCDDC/status/1664271379854917634;
https://x.com/NYCDDC/status/1675867589296128001;
https://x.com/NYCDDC/status/1686406394675646465;
https://x.com/NYCDDC/status/1697610560458703277;
https://x.com/NYCDDC/status/1708844575924621736;
https://x.com/NYCDDC/status/1719716258264793312;
https://x.com/NYCDDC/status/1730602966917263534;
https://x.com/NYCDDC/status/1741836922228449484;
https://x.com/NYCDDC/status/1753086102410322220;
https://x.com/NYCDDC/status/1763565198097428563;
https://x.com/NYCDDC/status/1774783934267560432;
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7070021191788290050;
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7081632695876788224;
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7093214002029174784;
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7103389344056455169;
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7116122716503453696;
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7125483695553028096;
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7148320804022226944;
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7159196187193974784;
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7171177464004501504;
https://x.com/NYCDDC/status/1774783934267560432

2023-05-01T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH)

Digital Media Engagement

DOHMH official account tweeted about Popular Baby Names and NYC Dog Licensing dataset. DOHMH linked directly to DOHMH's respective open datasets

https://twitter.com/nycHealthy/status/1658147840818921473; https://twitter.com/nycHealthy/status/1783167851739627601;

2023-05-15T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH)

Public Open Data Event

Open Data week presentation on 3/21. NYC Health Data Tour

2023-08-15T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD)

Digital Media Engagement

We advertised our newly published open dataset on Twitter and Facebook. The caption reads 'The City’s Open Data Portal provides free access to public data published by municipal agencies, including HPD. Check out our newly published dataset on #NYC #OpenData: ‘Local Law 159 of 2019 Vacate Relocation Charges By Building’: http://bit.ly/3F9Egg4'

Also, we announced the new release of our open dataset (Housing Maintenance Code Complaints and Problems) on our social media accounts.

https://twitter.com/NYCHousing/status/1603087906406633472; https://twitter.com/NYCHousing/status/1700223050577301641

2023-12-14T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of Investigation (DOI)

Digital Media Engagement

Posted notice on Twitter and Facebook that our PPR data was updated with a link to Open Data

2023-07-10T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of Investigation (DOI)

Digital Media Engagement

Posted on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter/X about our updated dataset on PPRs.

2024-04-02T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS)

Digital Media Engagement

We added new dataset regarding marriage licenses. Sent a tweet post to the public.

https://twitter.com/nycrecords/status/1724849975673139300

2023-11-15T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS)

Digital Media Engagement

After the OpenData week session, we sent a social media update on facebook and twitter regarding OpenData session update. The update is for the population interested in the OpenData week and session.

https://www.facebook.com/nycrecords

2024-04-04T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS)

Public Open Data Event

Held a public session for OpenData week on 3/20/2024 in person at 31 Chambers Street.

https://2024.open-data.nyc/event/finding-family-in-the-records-of-the-nyc-municipal-archives/

2024-03-20T00:00:00.000

2024

Department of Sanitation (DSNY)

Digital Media Engagement

Updated page on DSNY website to explain DSNY services associated with litter basket collection and linked to dataset on Open Data.

https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/site/services/cleaning/litter-litter-baskets

2023-09-20T00:00:00.000