Identifies additional local group of street names at the given location.

The Address Point ID is a unique nine digit identifier for each address point. Address Points are items in a CSCL feature class that represent point locations (approximately five feet inside a building (identified by BIN)) along the corresponding street frontage. Initially these were based on DCP’s Property Address Directory (PAD). Please note that whereas addresses in PAD reflect an administrative address range for a building, the Address Points usually only reflect the posted address. For example, PAD shows 14 – 32 Reade Street as the address for DCP’s former headquarters. The Address Point only shows 22 – 22 Reade Street (the posted address).

Input address number is often part of a larger address range that is valid for a tax lot. A location may also have additional address ranges on street names that differ from the input, particularly when the input address is located on a corner lot or a through lot. The address range list includes the Address Type, Low and High Address Numbers, Street Name, BIN and TPAD BIN Status.

Various geographic identifiers related to the property functions in Geosupport (1B, BL, BN).

This indicates if the cross streets returned have been modified.

New York State Assembly District. A district of the lower house of the New York State legislature.

A minimal polygon formed by most segments in the underlying data. 'Minimal' means the polygon is not subdivided by other segments into a smaller polygon. Atomic Polygon numbers are unique within 2010 Census Tracts and are used as building blocks for many higher geographies.

Represents the number of segments that were combined to create a generated record.

List of Segment ID's associated with a generated record.

Numeric street codes are assigned to represent the city’s street names and other geographic feature names. A borough code combined with a 5-digit street code (B5SC) corresponds to the primary name for a given piece of geography and encodes the alias relationships between street names. A borough code combined with a 7-digit street code (B7SC) corresponds to the preferred name for a specific location on a street whereas a 10-digit street code (B10SC) corresponds to a specific spelling of a specific street name in the given borough.

Identifies a parcel of real property in New York City, called a tax lot. The BBL contains a 1 byte Borough Code, a 5-byte Tax Block, and a 4-byte tax lot. The tax block and tax lot are both right justified, zero filled. In a condominium, each condominium unit is a separate tax lot and has its own BBL. GOAT will return both the low and high BBL associated with the condo's building and address range. Users should also note than if a condo lot is returned from (Function BL, 1A, or BN), the BBL returned in GOAT is a Billing BBL, generally associated with the management company for the condo instead of an individual owner. Occassionally, DOF has not assigned a Billing BBL for a condominium before a release of Geosupport. In these cases, the Billing BBL will contain all zeroes and thus the BBL field will contain all zeroes. In addition a new field called the condo base BBL field will contain the BBL that DOF converted into a condominium. It will only be populated in the cases where the property is a condominium and the Billing BBL is all zeroes.

Defines which street segments are part of the bicycle network as defined by the Department of Transportation.

Building Identification Number (BIN) is a seven-digit numerical identifier unique to each building in the City of New York. The first digit is the Borough Code. If the borough code is followed by all zeroes (commonly referred to as a ‘million BIN’, this indicates that a BIN has not been assigned, either because the address associated with the building has not yet been built, an address is assigned as a potential valid range where there is no building (vacant lot or vacant street frontage), or it is associated with a constituent entity of a Complex NAP but does not indicate a building or structure that would have a BIN assignment (such as the Children’s Zoo Spider Web within Central Park).

See TPAD BIN Status

A block face is generally described as one side of a street between two consecutive intersections, or one side a city block. This field returns the number of block faces that border the tax lot.

Left Blockface ID is a ten digit number identifying the block face on the left hand side of a segment. Correspondingly, Right Blockface ID identifies the block face on the right hand side of a segment. Block Face is defined as one continuous side of a physical block that is intersected on that side by two other physical through streets. Blockface IDs were established by DoITT’s consultants working on the planimetric feature classes for NYC and are not maintained by the Department of City Planning.

Identifies the local group of street names used by the Board of Elections as 'preferred' for a specific location on a street. The last two digits of the B7SC (Borough + 7 Digit Street Code) represents the valid name(s) for a given location.

New York City is composed of five boroughs

Business Improvement Districts are a public / private partnership in which property and business owners elect to make a collective contribution to the maintenance, development, and promotion of their commercial district.

Indicates whether the input location is in a census tract that is eligible for Community Development Block Grant funds.

Geographic area defined by the U.S. Census Bureau for the 2000 decennial census.

Geographic area defined by the U.S. Census Bureau for the 2010 decennial census.

Geographic area defined by the U.S. Census Bureau for the 2020 decennial census.

Geographic area defined by the U.S. Census Bureau for the 2000 decennial census.

Geographic area defined by the U.S. Census Bureau for the 2010 decennial census

Geographic area defined by the U.S. Census Bureau for the 2020 decennial census

A district represented by a member of the New York City Council. Consists of an aggregation of Election Districts.

Indicates situations where geography is stacked and therefore more than one segment. An example would be a portion of the Williamsburg Bridge which is located directly above a subway line. In this case, the Coincident Segment Count would be equal to 2.

Indicates a district created by DSNY as part of its efforts to reform the private carting industry. It is four characters long consisting of the initials of the borough (MN, BX, BK, QN, SI), followed by a one-digit number, and an optional suffix (currently ‘A’ or ‘B’).

The first byte is a borough code and the second and third bytes are the community district number. There are 59 community districts in the city of New York, as well as 12 Joint Interest Areas (JIAs). The JIAs are major parks and airports that are not contained within any community districts.

These are based on the Community District boundaries but with slight additions that insure that no Census Tract within the Community District is split.

See BBL (Borough, Block, and Lot).

See BBL (Borough, Block, and Lot).

Indicates whether or not this property is a condominium.

A district of the U.S. House of Representatives. Consists of an aggregation of Election Districts.

In the case of Function 2 (Intersection), the compass direction identifies, for a pair of input streets that intersect at two distinct locations, which of those two intersections is to be processed. In the case of Function 3 (Street Segment), the compass direction may be set to indicate the side of the street to be processed. The compass direction can also be indicated on Function 3S (Street Stretch) for one or both of the cross streets if they intersect at two distinct locations.

Indicates if the input is located on a corner property of the physical block.

A street intersecting another street. In GOAT, Cross Streets used as input for a street segment (Function 3) must be consecutive. GOAT also returns cross streets at the low and high address ends of street segments.

The number of streets that intersect at this intersection.

This flag indicates whether the given geographic feature segment is in reality curved. If so, the curve may be an arc of a circle or an irregular curve. When the segment specified by the input data is an arc of a circle, Functions 1 and 1E return Spatial Coordinates that are positioned relative to this arc rather than to the segment’s chord (the imaginary straight line joining the curved feature’s endpoints). When the segment specified by the input data is an irregular curve, Functions 1 and 1E return blanks in the Spatial Coordinate fields (q.v.), and issue a warning with Reason Code value ‘P’. In the case of Functions 3 and 3C, if the input data define a street stretch encompassing more than one segment (because of a T-intersection or bend), the Curve Flag is set ‘on’ (non-blank) if at least one of the constituent segments of the stretch is curved. See also discussion of Segment Length.

Identifies the local group of street names designated by the Department of City Planning as 'preferred' for a specific location on a street. The last two digits of the B7SC (Borough + 7 Digit Street Code) represents the valid name(s) for a given location.

DCP Zoning Map field contains the DCP Zoning Map number.

In NYC, a dog leg refers to an offset intersection.

Determination of which borough contractors are responsible for servicing the street light.

The DSNY (Department of Sanitation) Snow Priority indicates the priority of the street with respect to snow removal.

Defined by the NYC Board of Elections to conduct elections. Each ED is numbered uniquely within its Assembly District. All of NYC's higher-level political districts are defined as aggregates of EDs.

Identifies the type of geographic feature represented.

Administrative Fire district composed of Fire Companies.

Fire companies are characterized by the type the type of apparatus they use to fight fires (Engine or Ladder) or as a Squad, along with a number (i.e. Engine 220. Ladder 4, Squad 1). These are the smallest kind of administrative fire districts defined by the Fire Department.

Administrative Fire district composed of Fire Battalions.

See LION Node Number

Refers to the cross street where the lowest house numbers of the on-street begins. For streets where there are no addresses at all, the From Street is assigned arbitrarily, but consistently, along the street’s full extent.

See X, Y Coordinate

This indicates whether or not a gap exists along the 'on' street between a particular intersection and its predecessor.

The Generic Configuration of street geography depicts streets that are divided by medians using only a generalized, single centerline representation (vs. the Roadbed Configuration which depicts each roadbed of the divided street with a centerline of its own).

A unique ID assigned in order to aggregate granular geometry to represent a Generic View of the city's street network. Streets that contain multiple carriageways or roadbeds (such as Queens Boulevard in Queens and Park Ave in Manhattan) are represented by multiple centerlines corresponding to each roadbed as well as an imaginary 'single generic centerline.

This item indicates the type of geographic feature, an attribute of the geographic feature or the type of geographic feature name represented.

Districts defined by the NYC Department of Health for administrative purposes. Health Areas are aggregates of Census Tracts.

Districts defined by the NYC Department of Health for administrative purposes. Health Center Districts are aggregates of Health Areas.

See BBL (Borough, Block, and Lot)

A list of up to 5 cross streets at the high address end.

Synonymous with Address Number. The low or high value for the numeric address range (display format).

New York City’s hurricane contingency plans are based on six evacuation zones. More information on Hurricane Evacuation Zones can be found at Evacuation Zone Finder at OEM of New York City.

For “INTERSECTION (Function 2)”, these are the streets that intersect at the node in the underlying data. For “STREET STRETCH (Function 3S)”, these are the streets that intersect the 'On Street' for a given street stretch.

Spatial coordinates based on the lines of latitude and longitude. Lines of latitude measure the north-south position between the poles with the equator defined as 0 degrees. Lines of longitude (or meridians) measure the east-west position, with the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England. For NYC, Latitude is always positive and Longitude is always negative.

The values of the latitude and longitude of a location are based on the x,y coordinate of the location. As a result, the values in the Geographic Information portion of the Address function will be different from the values in the Property Level Information portion. See X,Y Coordinate

See LION Key.

The LION key consists of a borough code, a 4-digit face code and a 5-digit sequence number. A Face code is assigned to each linear geographic feature.

A node occurs wherever two or more linear features cross regardless of whether a physical intersection occurs at that point. Nodes also occur where a feature terminates and can also occur when a feature bends. The nodes returned in GOAT tend to be those corresponding with 'real' intersections.

The From Node is the Node identifier at the low address end, or beginning of a street segment. The To Node is the node identifier at the high address end, or end of a street segment.

See LION Key.

Indicates locational status of street segments.

See BBL (Borough, Block, and Lot).

A list of up to 5 cross streets at the low address end.

See House Number

See House Number

A district from which a Civil Court judge is elected. Consists of an aggregation of Election Districts.

Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) were created by the Department of City Planning to project populations at a small area level for PlaNYC, the long-term sustainability plan for New York City. These are now being used to present data from the 2010 Decennial Census and American Community Survey.

Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) were created by the Department of City Planning to project populations at a small area level for PlaNYC, the long-term sustainability plan for New York City. These are now being used to present data from the 2020 Decennial Census and American Community Survey.

Below is a table of the current NTA values, sorted alphanumerically

A 7 byte numeric ID. A node is an endpoint of a geographic feature segment represented in the base CSCL data. Most nodes are points where a feature bends or terminates or where two features intersect. Node IDs are unique and permanent identifiers. Also see LION Node Number.

Number of Addresses in the List of Alternative Addresses for the BBL.

A numerical count of the number of intersections returned for Function 3S (Street Stretch).

Indicates the number of building structures on the lot.

The number of lanes in a carriageway (roadway) that are reserved for parking of vehicles. The number of parking lanes were determined by DoITT’s consultants working on the planimetric feature classes for NYC.

The total number of lanes in a carriageway (roadway) including travel lanes and parking lanes. The total number of lanes were determined by DoITT’s consultants working on the planimetric feature classes for NYC.

The number of lanes in a carriageway (roadway) that are designated for the movement of vehicles traveling from one destination to another. The number of travel lanes were determined by DoITT’s consultants working on the planimetric feature classes for NYC.

Street Segments are defined in GOAT by an ‘On’ Street and two consecutive cross streets (without or without a compass direction). Street Stretches are defined by an ‘On’ Street and the optional entry of two cross streets that do not have to be consecutive.

An additional valid name (corresponding to a different Local Group Code (LGC) for a given street segment. For example, the preferred name for 7th Ave in Manhattan for a specific street is Adam C Powell Boulevard, but the name 7 Ave is also a valid name for the same street.

Indicates which days of the week the Department of Sanitation will pick up compostable waste at the given address. Organics recycling is currently only available in pilot areas.

A unique ID assigned in order to aggregate granular geometry to represent a Physical View of the city's street network. The raw data has very granular segmentation in order to accommodate many types of physical and non-physical geometry.

These are sub-borough geographic areas defined by the Police Department. They are composed of Police Precincts.

The PUMA Code field contains the Public Use Microdata Area Code associated with the input location. PUMA Code is related to Census tract and NTA applications

Service areas defined by the Police Department

Indicates which days of the week the Department of Sanitation will pick up recycling waste at the given address

Indicates which days of the week the Department of Sanitation will pick up non-recycling waste at the given address

Defines the right-of-way type for subway and rail segments returned in GOAT.

The Roadbed Configuration of street geography depicts streets divided by a median with a centerline for each roadbed (vs. the Generic Configuration which depicts divided streets with only a generalized, single centerline representation).

Defines the type of roadway.

RPAD Building Classification Code is a set of land use/building classification codes defined by the Real Property Assessment Division (RPAD) of the Department of Finance. If a tax lot has more than one building or land use, RPAD assigns the building class code they deem to describe best the principal building or the predominant land use on the tax lot. View Building Classification Codes of the City of New York.

An identification number assigned by the Department of Finance to each condominium in the city.

An identification number assigned by the Department of Finance to each co-op in the city.

This indicates whether a tax lot is interior to a physical block, i.e., it has no street frontages.

Indicates whether a tax lot is rectangular or irregularly shaped.

For each BBL value, the Department of Finance has computed a Self-Check Code (SCC). This is a one-digit number computed from the BBL value using an algorithm chosen by DOF. The purpose of the SCC is to assist in validating key-entered BBLs.

Sanborn Borough, Volume and Page. The Sanborn Map Company maintains a 79 volume atlas of New York City geography that is widely used by New York City agencies.

Sanborn 1 Boro/Vol/Page corresponds to the first input street of Function 2 (Intersection).

Sanborn 2 Boro/Volume/Page corresponds to the second input street of Function 2 (Intersection)

Indicates which days of the week the Department of Sanitation will pick up Bulk Items on a scheduled basis. Scheduled Bulk Items pickup is currently a pilot program

Districts defined by the Department of Sanitation for waste collection.

Subareas of Sanitation Districts. Please note that a value is only returned in areas where the City has responsibility for refuse pick-up.

Administrative areas defined by the Department of Education

A Segment ID is a seven digit numbers (right justified, zero filled) that represent the minimal segmentation of a street or non-street feature.

The length of a street segment represented in feet.

Segment Type defines the segment's status in relation to horizontal topology. The various segment types are used to define generic or multi-roadbed views of the street network.

Refers to the Node associated with the “from” end of segment that the input address belongs to. When there is only one segment for the block, this will be identical to the From Node. LION Node Number.

Refers to the Node associated with the “to” end of segment that the input address belongs to. When there is only one segment for the block, this will be identical to the To Node. LION Node Number.

Refers to the X,Y Coordinates associated with the Segment From Node. When there is only one segment for the block, these will be identical to the From X,Y Coordinate. X,Y Coordinates.

Refers to the X,Y Coordinates associated with the Segment To Node. When there is only one segment for the block, these will be identical to the To X,Y Coordinate. X,Y Coordinates.

These represent special addressing situations

A district of the upper house of the New York State legislature. Consists of an aggregation of Election Districts.

Speed Limit field contains the speed limit, in miles per hour, of the paved area of the input location.

The Street or non-street feature name for a given location. GOAT normalizes street names so that users have considerable leeway in data entry. For example, GOAT allows many commonly used abbreviations for street endings and ‘normalizes’ the name to the one stored in the software. Users have a choice of two formats for normalizing street names, called the compact and sort formats. The sort format includes spacing to allow the proper sorting of numerical street names for reporting purposes, and compact removes the spaces. A more complete explanation regarding street names and their associated street codes is beyond the scope of this document. For more information, please refer to Chapters III and IV of the User Programming Guide.

Street Width Minimum - Contains the minimum width, in feet, of the paved area of a street. Street Width Maximum - Contains the maximum width, in feet, of the paved area of a street.

See Number of Structures.

See BBL (Borough, Block, and Lot).

See BBL (Borough, Block, and Lot).

The Department of Finance real property tax maps were previously organized in sections; each section was organized into volumes; and each volume consisted of pages. Volumes were unique within a borough. Although the DOF now maintains the tax maps digitally, this data item has been retained.

See LION Node Number

Refers to the cross street where the highest house numbers of the on-street ends. For streets where there are no addresses at all, the To Street is assigned arbitrarily, but consistently, along the street’s full extent.

X,Y Coordinate

The TPAD (Transitional Property Address Directory) file allows users to get up-to-date information on the status of new building construction and/or demolition. Using the TPAD option will include this information with what is returned from the quarterly released PAD (Property Address Directory) file.

See TPAD New BIN

Corresponds to BIN that has been assigned in the Transitional PAD file.

On occasion, there will be conflicts between the data in the PAD and the TPAD record. These are reported via the TPAD Conflict Flag.

A new BIN assigned in the Transitional PAD file

This code indicates the flow of traffic relative to the street segment's directionality (as defined by the From and To nodes and in the direction of increasing addresses).

Indicates the type of truck route that is designated at the requested segment or block face

The Local Truck Route Network is designated for trucks with an origin and destination within a borough. This includes trucks that are traveling to make a delivery, or for loading or servicing. Trucks should only use Non-Designated routes at the beginning or end of a trip, when traveling between their origin/destination and a truck route.

The Through Truck Route Network is primarily composed of major urban arterials and highways and must be used by trucks that have neither an origin or destination within the borough.

Manhattan and Staten Island contain Limited Truck Zones with special time and size restrictions.

Dwellings or offices within a structure are assigned an individual Unit designation. A unit designation is comprised of two parts: Unit Types (like "Apartment," "Floor," or "Suite") are followed by a Unit Identifier, usually a number, a letter, or a combination of the two. When combined with a conventional street address, a unit designation provides a unique address assignment to each subdivision within a structure. Currently, data entered in this field will be accepted, normalized for the user, and then ignored during processing - in that the output returned will relate only to the address number and street name. A future enhancement will allow geographies that are defined on a unit level to be returned to the user.

The USPS (United States Postal Service) Preferred City Name (.e.g. Astoria, Jackson Heights) is based on the ZIP code associated with the input address, and of particular importance for Queens addresses. Unless there is a special ZIP code, the following holds true for the other boroughs: For Manhattan, the USPS Preferred City Name is New York; for all other boroughs the USPS Preferred City Name is the borough name, viz. Bronx, Brooklyn, and Staten Island.

Indicates whether or not a tax lot is vacant

Spatial coordinates (New York Long Island State Plane). Spatial coordinates are a pair of numbers that specify a location on the earth’s surface. The X, Y location returned in the geographic information section of an Address (Function 1B) call are imprecise and based on an algorithm that approximates the location based on the address range. In the property level information of an address call, the X, Y coordinate is an internal centroid derived from the tax lot. This same property level X, Y is returned in a Block & Lot (Function BL) and BIN (Function BN) call. The X, Y returned in an Intersection (Function 2) call corresponds to the node at that location.

GOAT also returns X, Y coordinates for the 'From Node' or end of the street segment and for the 'To Node' or end of the street segment.

U.S. Postal Service 5-digit zip code