BYTES of the BIG APPLE is a family of software, data, and geographic base map files for the City of New York. Here's what you can get for free:

• Administrative and Political Districts—MapInfo table and ArcView shapefile.
  
  • Political & Election Districts: New York State Assembly Districts, New York City Council Districts, U.S. Congressional Districts, New York State Senate Districts, New York City Election Districts and New York City Municipal Court Districts.
  • Borough & Community Districts: Borough Boundaries [with and without Water Area], and Community Districts.
  • School, Health, Fire & Police: School Districts, Instructional Regions, Police Precincts, Fire Companies, Health Areas, and Health Center Districts.
  • 2000 Census Blocks & Tracts: [with and without Water Area]
• DCPLION—A single line street base map representing the city’s streets and other linear geographic features such as shorelines, surface rail lines and boardwalks, along with feature names and address ranges for each addressable street segment. MapInfo tables or ArcView geodatabase.
• Selected Facilities and Program Sites—Data providing the location, type and capacity of public and private community facilities in New York City, including schools, parks, libraries, public safety, day care, foster care, special needs housing, health and mental health facilities and programs. ASCII delimited text files or Microsoft Access database.
• Tax Block Base Map Files—Geographic base files of tax blocks in New York City. MapInfo table, ArcView shapefile, or Adobe Illustrator file.

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission provides the following data as ESRI^tm shapefiles [.shp]:

• boundaries of the historic districts [polygons]
• locations of individual landmarks [points]
• locations of interior landmarks [points]
• boundaries of scenic landmarks [polygons]

These data can be downloaded here.

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