Skip to content

Empire Zones

Jump to bottom
Matt Schell edited this page May 9, 2019 · 1 revision

Empire Zones are

boundaries of New York City business districts under The New York State Empire Zone (EZ) Program which offers a wide array of incentives including tax credits and utility discounts.

The New York City Economic Development Corporation manages New York City's Empire Zones.

NYC Open Data

In the past this dataset has not been up to date, see the New York State dataset for an alternative.

The New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications Geographic Information Systems group may be the group that passes updates along to NYC Open Data.

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Empire-Zones/3aim-ipk8

New York State GIS Clearinghouse

There is a county column in this dataset so to get all New York City Empire Zones select records where the county value is in the set of New York City counties (Bronx, Kings, Queens, New York, Richmond).

Be advised that the records in this dataset may be exploded with "multipolygon" Empire Zones represented as multiple records.

https://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/inventories/details.cfm?DSID=895

Clone this wiki locally