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.
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
See TPAD 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Community District
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 |
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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
See LION Node Number
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
See 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 |
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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 |
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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
See House Number
High House Number
See 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 |
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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.
blank | |
---|---|
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 |
---|---|
blank | |
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
Segment To 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
See Number of Structures.
Tax Block
Tax Lot
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
See LION Node Number
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
See TPAD New BIN
TPAD BIN Status
Corresponds to BIN that has been assigned in the Transitional PAD file.
Value | Description |
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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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blank | |
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 |
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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 |
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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