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GOAT Glossary

This is the Glossary Page for GOAT – Geographic Online Address Translator. It contains definitions for the fields displayed for the various function calls available in GOAT. A list of expected field values and their meaning accompanies the definitions. Click Version to get the version information.

A B C D E F G H I L M N O P R S T U V Z

 

Additional Valid B7SC/Street Name

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

Address Point ID

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).

Address Range List

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.

Address Type

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

Value Description
blank Address Range
B Non-Addressable Unnamed Building
F Vacant Street Frontage
G Name of NAP Complex
H Hyphenated Address Range
M Mixed Hyphenation Address Range
N Non-Addressable Place Name
O Out of Sequence Address
Q Pseudo Address
R Real Address for Vanity Address
T Bridge/Tunnel
U Subway - Railway Station
V Vanity Address
W Non-Addressable Building Frontage
X Constituent NAP of Complex

Alley/Cross Street Flag

This indicates if the cross streets returned have been modified.

XStrts Changed

No Split/Change

Assembly District

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

Atomic Polygon (formerly called Dynamic Block)

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.

Auxiliary Segment Count

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

Auxiliary Segment ID List

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

 

B5SC, B7SC, B10SC (Street Codes)

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.

BBL (Borough, Block, Lot)

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.

Bike Lane

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

Value Description
1 Class I: Separated Greenway
2 Class II: Striped Bike Lane
3 Class III: Signed Bicycle Route
4 Links: Connecting Segments
5 Class I, II: Combination of Class I and II
6 Class II, III: Combination of Class II and III
7 Stairs: Step streets, bridge stairs, etc.
8 Class I, III: Combination of Class I and III (Class I with segment and Class III against)
9 Class II, I: Combination of Class II and I (Class II with segment and Class I against)
10 Class III, I: Combination of Class III and I (Class III with segment and Class I against)
11 Class III, II: Combination of Class III and II (Class III with segment and Class II against)

Bike Lane Traffic Direction

Value Description
FT With
TF Against
TW Two-Way
NV Non-Vehicular

BIN

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).

BIN Status

Block Face

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.

Block Face ID

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.

BOE Preferred B7SC / Street Name

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.

Borough

New York City is composed of five boroughs

Value Description
1 Manhattan
2 Bronx
3 Brooklyn
4 Queens
5 Staten Island

Business Improvement District

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.

 

CD Eligibility

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

Value

CD Eligible

Not CD Eligible

2000 Census Block

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

2010 Census Block

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

2020 Census Block

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

2000 Census Tract

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

2010 Census Tract

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

2020 Census Tract

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

City Council District

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

Coincident Segment Count

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.

Commercial Waste Zone

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’).

Code Description
BK1 Brooklyn North
BK2 Brooklyn West
BK3 Brooklyn East
BK4 Brooklyn Southwest
BK5 Brooklyn South
BX1 Bronx West
BX2 Bronx East
MN1A Lower Manhattan
MN1B Manhattan Southwest
MN2 Manhattan Southeast
MN3 Midtown South
MN4 Midtown North
MN5 Manhattan West
MN6 Manhattan Northeast
MN7 Upper Manhattan
QN1 Queens West
QN2 Queens Central
QN3 Queens Northeast
QN4 Queens Southeast
SI1 Staten Island

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.

Community District Tabulation Area 2020

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

Condo Base BBL

Condo Billing BBL

Condo Lot

Indicates whether or not this property is a condominium.

Value

Condominium

Non-Condo

Congressional District

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

Compass Direction

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.

Value Description
E East
N North
S South
W West

Corner Code

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

Cross Street

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.

Cross Street Count

The number of streets that intersect at this intersection.

Curve Flag

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.

Value
Blank None: Segment is not curved
I Segment is an irregular curve, i.e., it is curved but it is not an arc of a circle
L Segment is an arc of a circle on the left side of the line joining the segment’s FROM and TO nodes
R Segment is an arc of a circle on the right side of the line joining the segment’s FROM and TO nodes
 

DCP Preferred B7SC / Street Name

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

DCP Zoning Map field contains the DCP Zoning Map number.

Dog Leg

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

DOT Street Light Area

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

DSNY Snow Priority

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

Value
C - Critical These routes are comprised of highways (main beds, entrances, exits interchanges), arterial roadways, main travel thoroughfares (single lane and multi-lane), bus routes, that contain emergency services & first responder facilities (Hospitals, EMS, FDNY, NYPD) and schools
S - Sector Designed to encompass all streets that are not classified as Critical Streets and are wide enough to accommodate a full size DSNY collection truck with a plow attached.
H - Haulster Designed to service dead ends and streets that cannot be serviced with a collection truck or salt spreader with a plow attached due to narrow street width or tight turning radius (either entering or exiting the street).
V Non-DSNY responsible segment
 

Election District

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.

 

Feature Type

Identifies the type of geographic feature represented.

Value
Street
Railroad
Shoreline
Census Boundary
Private Street
Physical Bndy
Walking Path
Possible CCO

Fire Battalion

Administrative Fire district composed of Fire Companies.

Fire Company

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.

Fire Division

Administrative Fire district composed of Fire Battalions.

Fire Node

From Street

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.

From X,Y Coordinate

Gap Flag

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

Value Description
blank
Combined Seg Segments with intervening nodes that do not result in cross streets have been combined when the ‘Show Real Streets Only’ box is checked.
Dog Leg Dogleg
Gap Gap in Stretch
New New Stretch Started
 

Generic Configuration

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).

Generic ID

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.

Geographic Feature Type

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

Value Description
Unhypenated Street with unhyphenated addresses
Addressable Pl Addressable Placename
Bridge Bridge
BID Business Improvement District
DAPs Street Duplicate address pseudo-street name (DAPS)
Entirely within Edgewater Park Street is entirely within Edgewater Park
Partially within Edgewater Park Street is partially within Edgewater Park
NAP Complex Name of a complex
Hyphenated Street with hyphenated addresses
Intersection Intersection name
Boundary Non-Physical boundary feature
Mixed Hyphen Street with both unhyphenated and hyphenated addresses
NAP Name Non-Addressable Placename (NAP)
Shoreline Shoreline
Pseudo name Pseudo Street Name
Rail line Rail line
Tunnel Tunnel
Misc Structure Miscellaneous structure
Constituent NAP Constituent NAP, part of a complex
Ramp Exit or Entrance Ramp
 

Health Area

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

Health Center District

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

High BBL of Condo

High End Cross Streets (B7SC/Name)

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

House Number

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

Hurricane Evacuation Zone

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.

Value Description
0 Coastal Water Polygon
1-6 Hurricane Evacuation Zone designation
X Land not part of an evacuation zone
 

Intersecting Streets

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.

 

Latitude, Longitude

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

LION Face Code

See LION Key.

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.

LION Node Number

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.

LION Sequence Number

See LION Key.

Location Status

Indicates locational status of street segments.

Value Description
H Segment internal to a block but not a Dead End
I Dead End Segment
X Tract boundary segment
1 Segment bordering Manhattan
2 Segment bordering Bronx
3 Segment bordering Brooklyn
4 Segment bordering Queens
5 Segment bordering Staten Island
9 Segment bordering City Limits

Low BBL of Condo

Low End Cross Streets (B7SC/Name)

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

Low House Number

High House Number

 

Municipal Court District

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

Neighborhood Tabulation Area 2010

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 Area 2020

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.

Node ID

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

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

Number of Intersections

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

Number of Structures

Indicates the number of building structures on the lot.

Number of Parking Lanes

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.

Number of Total Lanes

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.

Number of Travel Lanes

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.

 

On Street

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.

On-Street Additional Valid Names

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.

Organics Sanitation Pickup

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.

Value Description
M Monday
T Tuesday
W Wednesday
TH Thursday
F Friday
S Saturday
E 'E' is used in combination with a day of the week (as noted above) to indicate that collection occures 'every' week on that day
Z Recycling is collected privately
 

Physical ID

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.

Police Patrol Borough

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

Value
Manhattan South
Manhattan North
Bronx
Brooklyn South
Brooklyn North
Queens North
Staten Island
Queens South

PUMA Code

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

Police Precinct

Service areas defined by the Police Department

 

Recycling Sanitation Pickup

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

Value Description
M Monday
T Tuesday
W Wednesday
TH Thursday
F Friday
S Saturday
E ‘E’ is used in combination with a day of the week (as noted above) to indicate that collection occurs ‘every’ week on that day.
Z Recycling is collected privately

Regular Sanitation Pickup

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

Value Description
M Monday
T Tuesday
W Wednesday
TH Thursday
F Friday
S Saturday
NONE Refuse is collected privately
6X Refuse pick-up Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday

Right of Way Type

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

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1 Subterranean
2 Elevated
3 Surface
4 Hidden
5 Open Cut Depression
6 Embankment
7 Viaduct
8 Subterranean Coincident with Boundary

Roadbed Configuration

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).

Roadway Type

Defines the type of roadway.

Value
Street
Highway
Bridge
Boardwalk
Path/Trail
Step Street
Driveway
Ramp
Alley
Unknown
Ferry Route

Right of Way Type

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

Value Description
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1 Subterranean
2 Elevated
3 Surface
4 Hidden
5 Open Cut Depression
6 Embankment
7 Viaduct
8 Subterranean Coincident with Boundary

RPAD Building Class

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.

RPAD Condo Number

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

RPAD Co-op Number

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

RPAD Interior Lot

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

Value
Not Interior Lot
Interior Lot

RPAD Irreg. Shaped lot

Indicates whether a tax lot is rectangular or irregularly shaped.

Value
Not Irregular Lot
Irregularly-shaped Lot

RPAD SCC

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 Boro/Vol/Page

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)

Sanitation Bulk Pickup

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

Value Description
M Monday
T Tuesday
W Wednesday
TH Thursday
F Friday
S Saturday
E ‘E’ is used in combination with a day of the week (as noted above) to indicate that collection occurs ‘every’ week on that day.
Z Recycling is collected privately

Sanitation District/Section

Districts defined by the Department of Sanitation for waste collection.

Sanitation Subsection

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

School District

Administrative areas defined by the Department of Education

Segment ID

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

Segment Length

The length of a street segment represented in feet.

Segment Type

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.

Value
Undivided
Generic
Both generic and roadbed
Roadbed
Connector
Exit/Entrance Ramp
Terminator
Faux Segment

Segment From Node

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.

Segment To Node

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.

Segment From X,Y Coordinates

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.

Segment To 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.

Special Address

These represent special addressing situations

Value Description
Alternate Addr Address range is alternative to the address range that is stored in LION for this block face
Alternate St The input street name or five-digit street code is different from that stored in LION for this block face
Ruby St The input address pertains to Ruby Street along the Brooklyn-Queens boundary
Duplicate Addr The input address involves a duplicate address situation
Nhood as Street The input address is in one of the neighborhoods in which the name of the neighborhood can serve as an alternative street name for the streets in that neighborhood. Edgewater Park or Harding Park in the Bronx.
NAP Complex The input name or street code corresponds to a non-addressable place name of a complex
NAP Name The input street name or street code corresponds to a non-addressable place name of a 'stand-alone' geographic feature
Addr out of Seq The block face contains out-of-sequence and/or opposite-parity addresses
Place Name The input address contains an addressable place name
Suffix The input address contains a house number suffix and is either the first or last address on this block face
Vanity Address A Vanity Address is a geographically 'dislocated' address that developers constructing a new building sometimes use for marketing purposes. For Vanity addresses, the street name refers to a street (called the 'vanity street') that is different from the street on which the building entrance is actually located.
Constituent NAP The input data specify a non-addressable place name of a constituent entity of a complex

State Senate District

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

Speed Limit

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

Street Name

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 Min / Max

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.

Stuctures

 

Tax Map / Section / Volume

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.

To Node

To Street

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.

To X,Y Coordinate

TPAD (TRANSITIONAL PAD)

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.

TPAD BIN

TPAD BIN Status

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

Value Description
blank No activity for this BIN
0 New BIN issued for DOB, no NB application filed at this time
1 NB application filed and paid for at DOB
2 NB application signed-off on by DOB
3 New BIN issued for HPD, no NB application filed at this time
5 DM application filed and paid for
6 DM application signed-off on by DOB

TPAD Conflict Flag

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

Value Description
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0 TPAD data found, no conflicts with PAD data
1 PAD data found, no TPAD data found
2 TPAD BBL used, no existing PAD BBL
3 TPAD BBL used, PAD pseudo-address on different BBL than TPAD NB BIN
4 TPAD BBL used, existing PAD BIN of Input Address on different BBL than TPAD NB BIN
5 (not implemented)
6 TPAD BBL used, existing PAD BIN of Input Address with DM 5 on different BBL than TPAD NB BIN
7 TPAD BBL used, existing PAD BIN of Input Address with DM 6 on different BBL than TPAD NB BIN
8 PAD BBL used, TPAD NB BIN with NB-0 on different BBL than PAD BIN
9 PAD BBL used, TPAD NB BIN with NB-1 on different BBL than PAD BIN
A PAD BBL used, TPAD NB BIN with NB-2 on different BBL than PAD BIN
B PAD BBL used, TPAD NB BIN with NB-3 on different BBL than PAD BIN
C TPAD data found, TPAD address overlaps PAD address
D Address found in TPAD, not found in PAD
E BIN found in TPAD, not found in PAD

TPAD New BIN

A new BIN assigned in the Transitional PAD file

Traffic Direction

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).

Value Description
A One-way Street, flow is against direction of increasing addresses
P Pedestrian Path, non-vehicular
T Two-way Street
W One-way Street, flow is with direction of increasing addresses

Truck Route Type

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


Value Truck Route Type
1 Limited Truck Route
2 Local Truck Route
3 Through Truck Route
Blank Non-Designated Route (default)

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.

 

Unit

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.

USPS Preferred City Name

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.

 

Vacant Lot

Indicates whether or not a tax lot is vacant

 

X,Y Coordinate

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.

 

ZIP Code

U.S. Postal Service 5-digit zip code