Sanitation Districts

Sanitation Districts are the middle-tier geography in which the Department of Sanitation manages work. Sanitation Districts are commonly referred to as "DSNY Districts" and pronounced "Dee-Ess-En-Why Districts."

Sanitation Districts nest within the top-level Sanitation-Zones. Sanitation Districts are built up from Sanitation-Sections which in turn are based on Community-Districts.

Sanitation Districts are named like "BKS06" for district 6 within the Brooklyn South Sanitation-Zones. The Department of Sanitation defines and uses this name. Sanitation Districts also have codes like "306" which is district 6 within Brooklyn Borough (borough code 3). The Department of City Planning uses and defines Sanitation District codes. Oh yes, this dataset has 2 different unique identifiers.

NYC Open Data

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/DSNY-Districts/6j86-5s7z

These boundaries occasionally change. As of fall 2018 the links to the arcgis REST services no longer appear to work.

Geocoding and Sanitation Districts

Given an address we can also derive its Sanitation District from New York City's geocoders. They will return the code (ex 306) from the Department of City Planning.

• GOAT (http://a030-goat.nyc.gov/goat/Default.aspx)
• Geosupport (https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/open-data/dwn-gde-home.page)
• Geoclient (https://api.cityofnewyork.us/geoclient/v1/doc)