We've just released the latest version of the NYC Geodatabase, our resource for mapping and analyzing NYC city-level features and data in GIS. We're continuing to offer two formats that have identical content - a Spatialite version for QGIS and Spatialite users, and an MS Access personal geodatabase for ArcGIS users (although the Spatialite version can also be used in ArcGIS from version 10.2 forward).
Here are the latest updates in the new version (Jan 2017):
- All of the American Community Survey data tables for PUMAs, ZCTAs, and census tracts have been updated with new data from the 5-year 2011-2015 ACS (the previous version of the database had tables from 2010-2014). The Census Bureau has re-coded all of their variables for asked rent, so that the bottom and top values have increased to reflect an increase in prices. The new variables do a better job at representing the distribution / spread of rent values.
- We updated the subway stations layer from the latest MTA data feeds. The new stations layer includes: the three new stations on the 2nd Ave subway line, the new station on the Staten Island Railway (and the removal of two stations that the new one replaced), and updated train attributes to account for the re-routing of the Q train and the re-introduction of the W train. The related subway complexes layer was not updated, as new ridership data isn't available for these stations yet (the complexes layer represents the state of subway service and ridership for 2015). That update will come this summer.
All metadata and documentation is up to date. If you still need data from the previous version (Aug 2015) it's been moved to the NYC Geodatabase Archive section.