Community Districts

The New York City charter mandates Community Districts as a unit of geography to review and monitor quality of life. Except for minor adjustments they are constant over time, and technocratic names like "1 Manhattan" are less controversial than neighborhood names and frequently more fluid neighborhood boundaries.

Community Districts loosely align with US Census Bureau Public Use Microdata Areas and the New York City Department of City Planning publishes decennial Census data by Community District.

Each community district has an appointed community board. Community boards have websites.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cau/community-boards/manhattan-boards.page

Open Data

Clipped to shoreline:

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Community-Districts/yfnk-k7r4

Water Included:

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/dataset/Community-Districts-Water-Areas-Included-/mzpm-a6vd

Bytes of the Big Apple

Should be the same as Open Data, but includes Metadata and REST services.

See "Borough Boundaries and Community Districts."

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/open-data/districts-download-metadata.page