The footprints of every building in NYC – updated weekly
jonathanmkeegan
23 points
2 comments
July 20, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
xnx
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.
adrianparsons
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.