About CornerFacts

CornerFacts gives each of 43,958 New York City street corners a page of facts: its safety record, the subway and buses that serve it, the parking rules, the homes and landmarks around it and what stands within a walk. Every figure comes from a public record, and each page names its sources and when they were retrieved.

Why it exists

New York publishes a remarkable amount about its streets: every police-reported crash, every red-light camera ticket, the signals and crossings the City has built, subway entrances, bus stops, parking signs, landmarks, tax lots and street trees. Each arrives as a separate download, organized by the agency that keeps it. CornerFacts joins them at the one place people actually think about, the corner, so that one page answers what the records say about the place where two streets meet.

What a corner page holds

  • A map with the corner and everything the page names pinned in place
  • Getting there: the nearest subway entrances, bus stops and bike-share station by a real walk, and by car the nearest highway entrance, gas station and charging site
  • The safety record: police-reported crashes and the people hurt in them, and what the City has built there, from signal timing to safer crossings
  • Camera tickets, where a corner has them
  • About this corner: its streets, neighborhood, districts and other names, and the homes and trees within 820 feet
  • The parking rules, quoted as the Department of Transportation posts them
  • Landmarks within 820 feet, and the places within a walk

How it is made

The pages are generated from 57 datasets published by 15 City and State agencies, three federal agencies, New York City's bike-share system and OpenStreetMap contributors, with one short file of our own for the names of renamed crossings, joined at the corner by the rules on the Methodology page. Every sentence is written from that corner's own record; where a record is silent, the page says so rather than guessing. Every source is listed with its publisher, date and license on Data and sources. Methodology · Data and sources

Who runs it

CornerFacts is an independent project based in Ontario, Canada, and is paid for by the people who run it. It is independent of the City of New York, the NYPD, the Department of Transportation, the MTA and every other publisher whose data it uses, and none of them endorses it. Its Toronto edition is cornerfacts.ca, built the same way from Toronto's records.

Corrections and contact

If a figure looks wrong, check its source first, because the site republishes what the publisher records: the foot of each corner page names the publishers it drew on, and Data and sources lists every dataset. An error in how we matched a record to a corner, or in how a page words it, is ours: write to hello@cornerfacts.com and it is corrected when the site is next rebuilt. The same address takes questions and press inquiries.

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