How a corner page is built

How every figure on a corner page is found, measured and matched to its corner, with the counts each rule produced from the current data.

In short

  • A corner is a point where streets meet in LION, the Department of City Planning's street network: 43,958 of them have a page.
  • Distances are walks along the streets, at about three miles an hour; a few counts use a straight-line radius instead, and say so on the page.
  • The safety record counts police-reported crashes within 100 feet of a corner over a fixed window, 2021 to 2025, and sets the count beside the median for a corner in its borough.
  • Camera tickets are the Department of Finance's, counted by the corner each ticket names, in two periods that are never added together.
  • Every figure is what a public body recorded, as of the date the site retrieved it, and a page makes no finding of fault, danger or safety from it.

What a corner is

Every corner comes from LION, the Department of City Planning's street network, release 26c, retrieved September 18, 2026. LION marks each point where streets meet; the registry holds 52,374 of them, and 43,958 have a page. The rest are points a reader would not call a corner: crossings at different levels, where a road passes over another, stretches where two roads run as one, unnamed paths and driveways, and points LION draws only to join its own lines.

Pages are offered to search engines in stages, the corners with the most on record first. At this stage a corner page is offered when at least two of five things hold: ten or more police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, a subway entrance within a five-minute walk, 20 or more places to eat within a five-minute walk, a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet, or school-zone speed or bus-lane camera tickets recorded at the corner; a corner with red-light camera tickets is always offered. Street pages, which list the corners along a street, will be offered once they carry facts of their own. Every page exists either way, is linked from its neighbors and can be found with the search.

How a corner is named

A corner is named by its streets as people write them, the larger street first: LION's abbreviations are written out ("Av" becomes "Avenue") and a crossing renamed for a person keeps the name in common use, from a short file of our own in which every entry cites its evidence. Other names travel with the corner: the search finds "Fifth Avenue" as readily as "5th Avenue", and any honorary co-naming the City has enacted at a corner is stated on its page.

How distances are measured

Distances to stations, stops and places are walks along the street network, measured on the LION segments pedestrians can use, at about three miles an hour, the standard planning pace. A walk is never reported shorter than the straight line. A walk reaches a place from the streets nearest its point, and from the street its address names when that street is within 490 feet. Subway and bus distances run to the entrance or stop the walk reaches first, up to a ten-minute walk, about 0.5 miles; places are counted within a five-minute walk, about 1,310 feet. On a page's map, every pin stands where its distance was measured to, and everything it marks is listed on the page.

A few counts use a straight-line radius instead, and say so on the page: homes, landmarks, public housing, new affordable homes and bicycle racks within 820 feet of the corner, and trees within 330 feet.

The Walk button on a corner's map draws the streets a walk from the corner reaches in any time up to 15 minutes, in bands of five minutes, and counts what that walk reaches: stations, bus stops (each side of a street counts as its own stop) and the routes they serve, bike-share stations, places, food stores and places to eat. Its walks are the page's own, worked out when the site is built, so at five minutes its places and counts are the ones the page gives, and at ten its stations, buses, nearest bike-share station, major stores and shopping centers; past those it goes on to a 15-minute walk, about 0.7 miles. A place it lists is chosen as the page chooses one. Its files load only when a reader presses the button.

Getting there

Subway entrances come from the MTA, with exit-only stairwells left out because they are a way out rather than a way in; 2,071 entrances are used. Bus stops come from the MTA's stop list: 13,379 stops where a rider can board. The MTA publishes these datasets on the State's open-data portal, data.ny.gov, and the site serves them from its own files. The MTA does not license or endorse CornerFacts, and neither the MTA nor this site states that the data is accurate, complete or timely.

The nearest bus stop's row on a page also shows what the Department of Transportation records there: a shelter, or a countdown sign, which has small screens beside each route showing the minutes until its next bus and a button that reads them aloud. DOT's list of the signs it installed gives each one the stop's MTA stop ID, and a sign is shown where DOT records it as finished, names the same two streets as the MTA, places it within 100 feet of the MTA's stop and lists a route that still stops there: 435 stops in all.

A shelter in DOT's list has no stop ID, so it is matched by its two street names and its position: within 100 feet, and clearly nearer one stop of those names than any other, because the stop for the other direction across the street would be a guess. That places shelters at 2,543 stops. A row shows only what DOT records.

Under the stop, Next buses shows the MTA's own predictions for it, one row for each route and destination with its next three buses, in the order the stop's row lists its routes, and the routes with nothing coming together in one row.

This site's server fetches them as that part of the page comes near the screen and keeps each stop's answer for 30 seconds, and the page asks again every 30 seconds while it stays near, for up to 15 minutes. A row gives the destination and the nearest bus's distance as the MTA gives them, the predicted arrivals in minutes, and a star on a bus the MTA lists as on layover or still finishing an earlier trip; the time the MTA produced them is beside the heading. They may not be real time, and the site makes no estimate of its own. The Live arrivals link opens the MTA's own page for the stop code.

Next trains shows the MTA's own predictions for the nearest station's platforms, from the MTA's real-time subway feeds, which need no key. The platforms are the ones the station's entrances name in the MTA's entrance list, and, where the station serves a line that none of those platforms does, the platform for that line which the MTA's station list files in the same station complex, within 1,150 feet (each door of 14 St-Union Sq names the 4, 5 and 6 or the N, Q, R and W platform, and none the L's).

The board has a column for each way the trains run, under the MTA's own words for it ("Uptown", "The Bronx"), and a row for each line and the station its train ends at, soonest first, with the next train in large figures, or "Due" under a minute, and the two after it; every row shows. Each row carries its line's color as a thin bar at its edge, the value the MTA publishes for the line in its subway timetable feed, unchanged.

This site's server reads all eight feeds as that part of the page comes near the screen, since night and weekend service sends trains of one line along another, and keeps each feed and each station's answer for 30 seconds; the page asks again every 30 seconds while it stays near, for up to 15 minutes. A star marks a trip with no train assigned to it yet, and a train that ends at the station is not listed. The headings, line names and station names are the MTA's station list, unchanged; the time the MTA produced the predictions is beside the heading. They may not be real time, and the site makes no estimate of its own.

Where a page names its nearest station, it also names what the MTA's Permanent Art Catalog lists there: each work's title, year and artist as the catalog writes them, and nothing more; where the file garbles an accented letter, a page prints the letter the name carries (Nitza Tufiño), and no word is changed. The works are the artists' own, so a page shows no image and none of the catalog's descriptions.

Of the catalog's works, 293 are matched to 262 stations; where the catalog writes a station's name differently from the station list, or uses a name since changed, the match is a reviewed decision kept in the project's files. A page says what the catalog lists, not that a work is on view, and the MTA's terms above apply to the catalog as to its other data.

Bus lanes come from the Department of Transportation and are attached to the corners at both ends of the block they run on, with the hours posted for them. A shared lane, used by buses and general traffic, is named as such. Bike routes are DOT's own classes: a lane separated from traffic, a lane marked in the roadway, or a signed route shared with traffic; routes DOT has retired are left out. Bicycle parking is a count of racks within 820 feet, as DOT records them.

Bike-share stations come from the public feed of New York City's bike-share system, as it listed them on October 3, 2026: the 2,343 stations inside the city that were installed, had docks and had reported to the system within 30 days. A page names the nearest station within a ten-minute walk, measured along the streets as for the subway and the bus, with the number of docks the system lists for it, and counts the other stations within a five-minute walk, about 1,310 feet. Station names are the system's own, and a name that carries its sponsor's is given without it. The list changes as stations open, move and close, and a page says nothing about bikes or open docks, which change by the minute. The bike-share system does not sponsor or endorse this site.

The nearest highway entrance comes from LION alone. A ramp counts as an entrance when, followed in the direction LION says traffic flows, it reaches an expressway, a parkway, or a major bridge or tunnel, and its own name does not call it an exit; bus-only and terminal ramps are left out. Of the ramps LION records, 481 pass as entrances, and every ramp checked is listed with its verdict in the project's evidence files. The distance is driven along the streets, with one-way streets in their direction and never along another highway. Turn restrictions are not in LION, so a real drive can be longer. An entrance within three miles is found for 96% of corners, and a page names the corner where the ramp starts. Exit numbers are not given.

How gas stations and charging sites are found

Gas stations come from the State Department of Environmental Conservation's register of petroleum bulk storage, retrieved October 6, 2026, which records every registered site's tanks. A station is a site registered for retail gasoline sales whose status is active, with at least one tank in service holding gasoline: 681 sites.

A page gives one only where the City's records agree: a lot that City Planning's tax-lot file, PLUTO, classes as a gas station stands within 200 feet of the State's point for the site (634 sites), or at the same address, on the same street and side within 20 house numbers (12 more). The other 35 were read one by one: nine were placed on their lot; ten are service areas reached only from a highway or on airport roads, left for the highway pages; four are not stations the public can use, such as a members-only club's; and 12 are held, with no gas-station lot at their address or near their point.

Several registrations on one lot are one station: 642 stations. A station stands at its lot's own point, never at the State's, which is placed from the registration's address and can lie hundreds of feet away, and it is named by the lot's address, never by a brand or by the company that registered it.

A page gives the nearest by car, driven along the streets as for the highway entrance, never by an expressway, a major bridge or a tunnel, to the street nearest the lot, or the street of its address where that is the shorter drive, and on to it, never shorter than the straight line and not past three miles: 97.9% of corners have one. Where the station's lot is a corner lot with its address on one of the corner's own streets, within 130 feet of the corner, the page says the station stands at the corner (207 corners). A page does not say whether a station is open, what it sells or what it charges.

Public charging for electric cars comes from the Alternative Fuels Data Center's station list, retrieved October 6, 2026 from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' National Transportation Atlas Database, courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Laboratory of the Rockies and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. A page gives only what the list shows as public and available, with a connector any car can plug into (J1772, CCS or CHAdeMO), inside the five boroughs: 566 of the 928 charging records with a city ZIP code. The 273 with only Tesla connectors are left out, since saying which cars they serve would need a brand.

The list has a record for each charging station, and records with the same address within 200 feet of each other are one site, their chargers added up: 416 sites, 58 of them with fast chargers. A site is named by its address as a page writes it, by the street the list names where it gives no house number, or by its airport; never by a station's, a garage's or a network's name.

A page gives the nearest site by car, measured as for gas stations, with its Level 2 and fast chargers as the list counts them, and no number where Tesla chargers share the count; and, where it is another site, the nearest with fast chargers any car can use. A site lies within three miles by car of 94.9% of corners. A page does not say whether a charger is free or working, or what it costs.

The safety record

The safety record uses the NYPD's Motor Vehicle Collisions dataset for the fixed window 2021 to 2025, which stays the same from one month to the next. A crash is counted at a corner when it was reported within 100 feet of it; a crash farther from every corner happened mid-block and is counted at none. Of 2,269,145 crashes in the file, 2,020,601 carry a location and 1,616,025 fall within 100 feet of a corner.

Pages say "police-reported crashes" because the file holds what police reported. It records people injured and killed but carries no measure of how serious an injury was, so pages say "hurt" and grade nothing. Reporting practice has changed over the years, so a page compares no early year with a recent one. A page sets a corner's count beside the median for a corner in its borough over the same years. A corner with no crash on record says only that: quiet corners see fewer crashes partly because fewer people pass through them, so an empty record is not a claim that a corner is safe.

What the City has built

What the City has built comes from seven Department of Transportation datasets: leading pedestrian intervals, accessible pedestrian signals, Barnes Dance crossings, turn calming, enhanced crossings, Safety Improvement Projects and Vision Zero priority intersections. Each record is matched to the nearest corner within 200 feet and checked against the street names the record carries; records the source itself places mid-block stay unattached. Dates are the installation or completion dates as recorded, the most recent kept where a corner has several. A priority intersection is a corner the City selected for attention, and pages present it as that designation.

Camera tickets

The Department of Finance publishes every camera ticket. Its records carry, on each red-light, school-zone speed and bus-lane camera ticket, the street and cross street where it was issued, and the site matches those names to a corner carrying both streets.

Two periods are counted, calendar years by the date on the ticket, each with its own dates and never added together: 2025, the whole year, with 599,611 red-light, 4,464,767 speed and 838,149 bus-lane tickets, of which 93.7%, 84.1% and 99.2% were placed on a corner; and 2026 so far, through the last date the files held when they were fetched. Each of the Department's fiscal-year files also holds camera tickets dated a few weeks past its year, so each calendar year is read from two of them, and the most recent weeks keep filling in as the Department adds tickets.

A school-zone speed camera often stands mid-block, and its tickets name the nearest cross street: where those two streets never meet, the tickets are left unplaced rather than moved to a corner nearby. A page says how many tickets were issued for violations recorded at the corner, which is what the record shows.

The location on each ticket also carries a direction of travel on one of its two streets, northbound on West Street for instance; where a corner's tickets carry two directions or more, the page counts them by direction, in the same two periods. A ticket is a citation, not a finding that a violation happened, and no page says a camera stands at a corner or which way a camera faces.

About this corner

The neighborhood is the City Planning Neighborhood Tabulation Area the corner falls in: a statistical area built from census tracts, not a neighborhood boundary as anybody feels it. A corner on the edge of a park or a cemetery is placed in the neighborhood beside it and described as at that edge. The police precinct and City Council district are the areas the corner falls in, and a corner on a boundary names both sides. The community board and ZIP code come from LION's records for each side of the street.

Elevation is the height of the street at the corner, from the City's planimetric survey: the spot elevations the Office of Technology and Innovation measured from aerial photography flown in 2022, one at the center of the roadbed at each intersection, in feet above the North American Vertical Datum of 1988, which at the Battery lies within a few inches of mean sea level. A page gives the survey point nearest the corner, within 33 feet, rounded to the nearest foot; 41,202 corners have one. Where streets meet at different levels, on a bridge, in a tunnel or at an expressway, or where two survey points at the corner differ by more than ten feet, one number cannot describe the corner, and the page gives none.

Honorary co-namings come from the Department of Records and Information Services: each intersection co-naming is matched to the nearest corner within 100 feet whose streets agree with the law's own description, 2,153 of 2,258. The co-name is printed as the record writes it, with the local law and the date it was enacted, and nothing is added about whom or what it honors: the Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset carries its own note on each, and the corner's page links to it.

Homes

Homes are counted from PLUTO, the City's tax-lot file (version 26v2): the homes on residential lots whose center lies within 820 feet, with the years those buildings went up. Pages give counts and years and name no building, address or owner.

Public housing developments are NYCHA's, placed by their boundaries and addresses. New affordable homes are the Department of Housing Preservation and Development's new construction since 2014; only 75% of those records carry a location, so pages say "at least".

Trees

Trees are NYC Parks' forestry records of standing trees within 330 feet, park trees included: 898,204 trees across the city.

Parking

Parking rules are quoted as the Department of Transportation records the signs, for the blocks that meet at the corner (327,969 regulation signs placed), listed by street and side, and the active on-street meters are counted with their ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones (12,798 active meters). A sign governs its own block, so a page quotes the rule and leaves the final word to the sign on the street. The wording is DOT's, with sign-shop notation removed and nothing added.

Over each rule stands a plain heading taken from its first words: "No standing" over NO STANDING ANYTIME, "Authorized vehicles only" over AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT, and "Other rule" where the words fit none of the headings; a heading never softens a rule. A meter's posted hours are written out only on a side where no metered sign is listed, since there the sign says the same.

The dates under the list run from the earliest to the latest day DOT completed a sign order for one of the wordings shown, and where a corner carries more rules than a page lists, the page says the ones shown are the first by street and side. Where on the block a sign stands is not in the record, and signs change. Nothing on a page says where anyone may park.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

Landmarks come from the Landmarks Preservation Commission: designated buildings within 820 feet, and the historic district a corner stands in or beside. A building is named on the page when the Commission's record gives it a name and it is an individual landmark or was built for a use other than homes: 2,312 of 37,993 buildings.

A building built with homes in it, such as apartments over shops, is named only where the City's tax-lot file, PLUTO, shows no one living there today, and an entry in the record that labels a building rather than naming it, such as the court a Sunnyside Gardens garage faces, is never printed as a name. The same record holds 112 designated structures that are not buildings, such as lampposts, street clocks, bridges, monuments and amusement rides; they are never counted as buildings, and a named one is named on its own.

Public art and monuments come from the Public Design Commission's inventory of the outdoor art the City owns: statues, sculptures, busts, reliefs, fountains, memorials and murals, 433 works in all once plaques, tablets, flagstaff bases and markers are left out. A page lists the nearest works within 820 feet in a straight line, as it does designated landmarks, each by its title, year and artist as the inventory writes them, measured to the inventory's own point.

Where the inventory places a work in a park, the point must fall inside that park or within about 100 feet of it, and a work in NYC Parks' care must also be listed as standing in NYC Parks' own monuments catalog, in a park the work stands in or within about 330 feet of, or as the only work of its title in a park the catalog cannot place on a map.

A record can outlive a work's place in the city, so a page says what the inventory lists, and a reviewed list leaves out works known to have been removed, such as the statue of Theodore Roosevelt taken from the steps of the American Museum of Natural History in 2022. The works are the artists' own: a page shows no image and none of the inventory's descriptions or inscriptions.

Within a walk

Places within a walk come from City Planning's Facilities Database, limited to 125 kinds of public place: schools, child care, libraries, parks, hospitals, museums, older adult and community centers, fire and police stations and the like, within a five-minute walk.

Plazas and public spaces are listed apart from the parks: the Department of Transportation's 92 pedestrian plazas, and the 432 public spaces City Planning lists at private buildings, each named "Public space at" its building or its address. A Parks property is listed as the kind its own name ends in, a playground, park, garden or field, and otherwise as NYC Parks files it; NYC Parks' triangles and squares are parks, each under the kind its name gives it, and a Parks property whose name is only a kind, such as "Park" or "Sitting Area", is left out.

Parks that NYC Parks does not draw, such as Hudson River Park, the State parks, Roosevelt Island's parks, Governors Island and the National Park Service's units, come from City Planning's maps of publicly owned waterfront and of waterfront public access areas, read one by one, and are measured to their edges like any park. Since some of these maps take in the street beside a park, a corner stands inside one only when it is at least 100 feet inside its edge, and nearer it is beside the park; on Fort Tilden, Fort Wadsworth and Governors Island, whose corners are on their own roads, it stands inside at any depth.

To these are added 2,882 named places from four more City lists: the City's list of common places (theaters and concert halls, houses of worship, recreation centers, post offices, courthouses, ferry landings, monuments, public artworks and the named features of parks, such as fountains and lawns), NYC Parks' named park zones and its playgrounds, and GreenThumb community gardens.

A list we checked by hand holds back what is not a place to visit, such as an organization's office or a museum that has closed or moved, and adds ten open museums that only the Department of Cultural Affairs names. Services whose visitors a page has no business pointing to are left out by design, as are businesses the lists cannot say still trade, such as cinemas and clubs, so the list is a guide to public places rather than a directory of everything nearby.

A house of worship is named only where the City's tax-lot file, PLUTO, classes the lot at its point as a religious building, and religious buildings are counted from PLUTO for every faith alike: 4,880 lots.

A page names every place it counts: each card shows the nearest place of each kind first, then the next nearest, and folds the rest under "Show all". One building is one row: its listing on the State and National Register, or its designation as a City landmark, is a note on the row, and so is a park's own listing on the park's row; a register entry that only points to another entry is left out; and a center listed under the organization that runs it is named by its address.

Its opening lines name one or two of these places or a designated landmark, each place first on the page of the corner closest to it, so that neighboring pages name different places where they can. Names are printed as the publisher wrote them, and park names as NYC Parks writes them; a park feature is written with its park.

Child care is the Health Department's list of active child care programs, group child care and school-based child care, which the Department updates daily; this build uses the list of October 2, 2026, with 2,753 programs at 2,239 centers. It replaces the Facilities Database's own child care records, a copy of the Department's inspections list as it stood in April 2023.

A center that holds more than one permit in a building, a preschool and an infant and toddler permit, is one place, and its row says what the permits are for and the ages they serve, as the list records them, never whether a center has places or is taking children.

Where the Department of Education's pre-K directory lists a center in the same building, the two are one row, marked Pre-K, and a school's own preschool or pre-K is the school. A center in a building the City lists as a house of worship is measured from that house of worship's point, so both rows give one distance. The Health Department does not endorse this site.

Food stores and places to eat are counted within the same five-minute walk, and never named. Food stores are New York State's list of licensed retail food stores, which the State publishes once a year; this build uses the list last updated September 30, 2025, with 11,224 stores in the five boroughs. Places to eat are the Health Department's inspection records, which list only establishments with an active permit, counted when the department inspected them within two years of its list of September 18, 2026: 26,125 places. Neither list can say which places are open today, so a page gives two counts and no names, and never adds them together, because a deli with a kitchen can be on both.

Bank branches come from the FDIC's list of the offices of every bank it insures, in its run of September 25, 2026. A page lists only the ten banks with the most branches in the five boroughs (Chase, Citibank, TD Bank, Bank of America, Santander Bank, Citizens Bank, Flagstar Bank, Apple Bank, Capital One and Wells Fargo) and only full-service branches a customer can walk into: the nearest branch of each within the same five-minute walk, up to three banks, under the name on the door rather than the bank's legal name. These ten hold 997 of the 1,372 walk-in bank branches in the city.

Bank branches are listed and mapped, but never counted among a corner's public places and never named in its opening lines. Check cashers, pawnshops, money transmitters and ATMs are not banks, and none is listed.

Supermarkets, pharmacies and other big stores are named only where two government lists agree. One is New York State's list of licensed retail food stores, last updated September 30, 2025; the other is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's list of the retailers authorized in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as of December 31, 2025.

A store is named when its State license carries the name of one of 35 grocery chains, of CVS, Duane Reade and Walgreens among pharmacies, or of BJ's Wholesale Club, Costco, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar and Target, or is one of 140 large independent supermarkets we checked by hand; and the Department lists the same chain within 490 feet of it, or the same store at its street address under the company that holds the license or with its store number. A counter inside another store is never named, and licenses of one chain within 160 feet of each other are one store.

Each store is placed from its license address by the City's geocoder, or at the State's own point for the license where the geocoder cannot find the address (12 stores); where the two points stand more than 330 feet apart, we checked by hand which is the store's before naming it: the geocoder's for 32 stores, the State's for 19. Where OpenStreetMap records a store of the same chain, Walgreens and Duane Reade counting as one, at the same house number within 490 feet of that point, or records no house number for the chain's only store there within 200 feet, the store stands at OpenStreetMap's point for it instead: 765 stores (OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License).

In each group a page lists the nearest store of up to three names within a ten-minute walk, about 0.5 miles, under the name on the door: 746 supermarkets, 286 pharmacies and 156 other stores across the city. Both lists are yearly, so a store that opened or closed since may be missing or still listed. Stores are listed and mapped, but never counted among a corner's public places and never named in its opening lines.

Shopping centers are named from a list we checked by hand, as of October 4, 2026. City Planning's tax-lot file, PLUTO, says which lots are shopping centers and how much retail space each holds; nine of the malls are filed as other kinds of lot, such as condominiums and office buildings, and the list ties each center to its own lots. A center is named only where its own website, or its owner's or leasing agent's page for it, gives the name, and where its lots, its anchor stores' included, hold at least 25,000 square feet of retail space: 55 centers across the city.

Each is drawn by the outlines of its lots on the Department of Finance's tax map, and a walk is measured to that edge, as for a park, never to a point in the middle of its parking lot.

A page lists the nearest one or two within a ten-minute walk, about 0.5 miles, and a corner inside a center's lots says so. Shopping centers are listed and mapped, but never counted among a corner's public places and never named in its opening lines.

Neighborhood pages

Each neighborhood page opens on an introduction we researched and wrote: three or four sentences on where the area is, its history and what it is known for. Every claim in it was checked a second time against the sources printed beneath it, and where two sources disagreed on a date or a figure, the introduction leaves it out. The figures below it are measured over the area's own 2020 boundary:

  • subway and Staten Island Railway stations whose platform point lies inside it or within 150 feet of its edge, since a station on a border street serves both sides, and bus routes with a stop there
  • NYC Parks properties of a park kind, by the acres inside the boundary, so a road median or a vacant lot is not counted as a park
  • designated landmarks its corner pages name, and historic districts with at least 20% of their area, or 20 acres, inside it
  • the residents the 2020 Census counted, summed from the Census Bureau's count for each census tract with City Planning's list of the tracts in each area (an area is made of whole tracts, so the sum is exact, and the five boroughs add up to the city's count of 8,804,190)
  • the homes counted by the 2020 Census and the net homes completed since April 2010, from City Planning's Housing Database (retrieved October 2, 2026)
  • the median year of construction of its residential tax lots, from PLUTO
  • the trees NYC Parks records
  • its corners' safety record, safety changes and camera tickets in 2025, each a sum of what the corner pages print
  • the schools and libraries its corner pages list, a school public, charter or private as City Planning's Facilities Database lists it
  • NYCHA developments with at least 10% of their land inside it
  • the bike-share stations on the station list of October 3, 2026 and the works of the City's public art inventory that stand inside it

An area is named as a neighbor when the two boundaries run together for at least 300 feet, and the direction given is from the area's center to the middle of the shared border. Each area's map is drawn from the same City records, City Planning's areas and streets and NYC Parks' properties, with the MTA's stations numbered from north to south as the list beside it numbers them. Of the City's 262 areas, 243 hold a corner and have a page.

The populations on the borough pages and the New York page for July 1, 2025 are the Census Bureau's estimates (Vintage 2025), not counts; the Bureau revises them each year.

Public safety

The neighborhood, borough and New York pages carry the complaints the NYPD recorded, from its two complaint files on NYC Open Data, Complaint Data Historic and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date). Each figure is a count of the NYPD's records as they are, and each describes the place of the page it is printed on.

What is counted

Major felonies are the NYPD's seven major felony offenses. Six of them are these, by the NYPD's own names:

  • Murder and non-negligent manslaughter
  • Robbery
  • Felony assault
  • Burglary
  • Grand larceny
  • Grand larceny of motor vehicle
  • The seventh is the category the NYPD gives only a precinct as its place. It is counted only where a precinct is the place: on Central Park's page, the borough pages and the New York page, each time inside "major felonies" and never on its own.
  • So on a neighborhood page "major felonies" means the six, and on Central Park's page, the borough pages and the New York page it means all seven. No offense is named or counted on its own on any of them.
  • Other felonies, misdemeanors and violations are every other complaint in the same files, apart from codes 116 and 233, which are counted in no figure at all.
  • A complaint is a report the NYPD recorded, counted as the files hold it: the pages say "recorded", and every figure is a count of the NYPD's records, never an estimate, a model or a share of a larger count.

The five places

Every figure describes the place of the page it is printed on, and a record counts only where its own location supports that place:

  • A neighborhood: the complaints whose mapped point lies inside City Planning's outline of the area and away from the streets along it, and inside or within 50 feet of the precinct the NYPD gives them.
  • The streets along a neighborhood's edge: a line of their own, printed on the page of each residential neighborhood on either side and counted in neither one's figure. Along Central Park, the 22nd Precinct's complaints on those streets count in the park's figure, and the edge line, printed on the other side's page alone, counts the rest, apart from complaints the NYPD records at a park or playground.
  • Central Park: the 22nd Precinct's complaints, all seven major felonies, because the park and the precinct share one boundary, to within 1,000 square feet and 0.01% of the park's land. A record whose point lies more than 50 feet outside the precinct is refused. No other neighborhood's outline matches a precinct so closely.
  • A borough: the complaints the NYPD gives to the borough's precincts, all seven major felonies. Complaints in the Department of Correction's jurisdiction are left out of it, as they are out of every figure on every page.
  • New York: the five borough lines added together.

Records kept outside the area figures

These are kept out of every residential neighborhood's figure and edge line, and count in the borough and New York lines, apart from codes 116 and 233 and complaints in the Department of Correction's jurisdiction, which no figure counts; in the 22nd Precinct, all but the last also count in Central Park's figure:

  • Complaints on a precinct's station-house point, the place the NYPD gives a complaint it places at the station house (its footnote 9), including the second such point each precinct used in the window's earlier years.
  • Complaints within 5 feet of another agency's reporting point: a point holding 25 or more of one agency's complaints in a full year, such as the Port Authority's point for John F. Kennedy International Airport, which lies outside the airport.
  • Complaints the NYPD's Transit Bureau recorded in the subway, and complaints made to agencies other than the NYPD's patrol, transit and housing bureaus.
  • Complaints in a park other than Central Park, a cemetery, an airport or another area City Planning does not class as residential: the NYPD places a park's complaints on the streets that border it (its footnote 10), so a figure there would describe the streets around the place, and these areas carry no section. For the same reason, complaints the NYPD records at a park or playground on the streets along any of these areas, or along Central Park, count in no edge line.
  • Complaints whose point lies more than 50 feet outside the precinct the NYPD gives them, since the point and the precinct disagree about where they were recorded.

The edge rule

  • City Planning draws its outlines down the middle of streets, and the NYPD's points sit on those same center lines, so a complaint on a street that divides two neighborhoods belongs to both of them or to neither. It is given to neither, and counted on the street as an edge line.
  • A street piece runs along an outline when points spaced along it all lie within 60 feet of the outline and its two ends lie about the same distance from it, so a cross street leaving the outline is not along it. A complaint within 10 feet of such a piece, or within 3 feet of the outline itself, is on the edge.
  • A street along a shoreline stays in its neighborhood, since no neighborhood lies across it, and a street on the city line goes to its one neighborhood's edge line.
  • The edge line is printed on the page of each residential neighborhood on either side; along Central Park, which has no edge line, it is printed on the other side's page alone, since the park's figure counts its own precinct's complaints there. It is left out, with its rate, where it holds fewer than five complaints, or where one point holds half or more of them.

The rate

  • The rate counts a neighborhood's figure and its edge line together, for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in the neighborhood, to one decimal place. Every record in it was recorded in or along the neighborhood.
  • It is printed only where every test passes: at least 20 records; homes outweighing offices and stores in the City's tax-lot floor areas (PLUTO); no single point holding more than 10% of the records it counts; and both the neighborhood's figure and its edge line printed beside it, so the rate can never give a withheld number away.
  • Rates are given for each neighborhood alone and set beside no other place: where City Planning draws an outline moves a rate by more than chance.
  • "Fewer" under the year before's figure is printed only where the drop is beyond chance at 95%, the share on the edge streets moved by less than chance, and both years are five or more; never for a rise, and never as a trend.

The patch map's rules

  • Where a neighborhood has one, its map shades patches of whole street blocks and corners, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025, from the records of the neighborhood's own figure. A street block is a street between two corners. A patch's edges run between the streets and cross one only at a corner; on the map the thin white lines are its streets.
  • A patch is left unshaded where it holds fewer than five; where one block, corner or site holds a third or more of it and that place holds five or more; or where half or more of its land is public-housing grounds or half or more of its count is on private streets. Parks and public-housing grounds are left unshaded, and the edge streets are left blank, since the edge line counts them.
  • Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the neighborhood's figure and stay off the map.
  • A neighborhood gets a map only where at least four patches are shown and they hold at least half of its placed records, and only where its own name finds room on the map. The map moves once a year, and it never shows a point, a street name, an address, a business, a building or a public-housing development's name.

Borough notes

  • A borough's line follows the NYPD's precincts, so Marble Hill, which is part of Manhattan, is counted with the Bronx in the 50th Precinct, and Roosevelt Island with Queens in the 114th Precinct.
  • Rikers Island, which City Planning draws in the Bronx and does not class as residential, carries no section. The NYPD records the island's complaints in the 41st Precinct, a Bronx precinct, so the Bronx line counts them, those in the Department of Correction's jurisdiction aside, though the NYPD's precinct map draws the island inside the 114th Precinct.
  • Some complaints have a mapped point across the Brooklyn-Queens line from the precinct the NYPD gives them; each borough's line counts the complaints of its own precincts.

The tallies, citywide

  • A citywide tally counts one of three groups only: the six named categories; the six with the other felonies, misdemeanors and violations; or those other complaints alone. None counts the category the NYPD gives only a precinct as its place, or codes 116 and 233.
  • A tally is printed only while the six categories' records it and the pages leave unprinted outnumber that seventh category's own citywide count, so the New York line less the printed figures can never give it away.
  • Each count is of major felonies in the six named categories, citywide, and each complaint is counted once, in the first line below that fits it. The lines leave out complaints under the Department of Correction's jurisdiction or made to agencies other than the NYPD's patrol, transit and housing bureaus, complaints with no usable mapped point, and complaints recorded in the subway away from a station house or a reporting point.
  • recorded at a precinct's station house: 639 in 2025.
  • at other government agencies' reporting points: 462 in 2025.
  • more than 50 feet outside their own precinct, or with a precinct blank or off the precinct map: 115 in 2025.
  • on the streets along parks, cemeteries and other non-residential areas, Central Park included, kept out of every edge line: 266 in 2025.
  • in parks, cemeteries, airports and other non-residential areas, Central Park included: 356 in 2025.

Report dates, and the NYPD's caveats

  • Complaints are counted by the date the NYPD recorded the report. The five-year strip runs from 2021 to 2025, and the year so far runs from January to the last report date in the current file.
  • The historic file holds whole years and is renewed once a year; the current file holds the year so far and is renewed each quarter. The year-so-far line is left out when the current file's last report date is more than 180 days old, and the site is alerted at 150 days.
  • In its footnotes the NYPD says its data "should be considered a close approximation of current records". They follow the definitions of New York State's Penal Law rather than the FBI's, so they cannot be compared with the FBI's national counts.
  • A complaint records what was reported to the NYPD, and many incidents are never reported to the police. In the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey of 2024, fewer than half of the incidents it counted were reported to the police.

Which pages carry the section

  • Every residential neighborhood with complaints on record in 2025, 197 of City Planning's 197 residential areas, and Central Park, on the 22nd Precinct's figures.
  • The other parks, the cemeteries, the airports, Rikers Island and the other non-residential areas carry no section, for the reasons above; an area's second page, its corners across a borough line, points to the area's own page, which carries it.
  • Each borough page carries its line after its safety record, and the New York page its line after the camera tickets. A corner page carries no figure: About this corner links the neighborhood to its page.

Named places

New York has no official neighborhood boundaries. The neighborhood pages follow the Department of City Planning's Neighborhood Tabulation Areas, statistical areas that sometimes join several names into one. Where a City line carries a neighborhood's own name (a special purpose district in City Planning's zoning file, or a Landmarks Preservation Commission historic district), the place has a page of its own: SoHo, NoHo, Little Italy, Hudson Square and Tribeca. A corner is listed inside a place only when two City records agree: the line itself, and PLUTO, the City's tax-lot file, which records the special district and historic district of every lot. Of the 4,090 tax lots around these places, the two agree on 4,079. A corner the line runs along or across is listed as on the line. City Planning's zoning file is for information only: a page says a corner is inside a district as the City draws it, never how any lot is zoned.

How to read the figures

Every figure is what a public body recorded, as of the date the site retrieved it. A count describes what was reported, and a page makes no finding of fault, danger or safety from it. Nothing here is legal, insurance, engineering or safety advice; for a decision, confirm the figure with the publisher.

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