dataset · DCP via NYC Open Data

PLUTO — every NYC tax lot

The Department of City Planning's Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output: ~860,000 tax lots across the five boroughs, each with ~70 fields covering zoning, land use, building characteristics, and assessed value. Quarterly major refresh + monthly minor zoning updates.

data through 2026-05-28 · 858,602 tax lots

parcel count · all PLUTO lots

Tax lots by borough

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Click a borough to drop into the SoQL playground filtered to its lots. The Views, Filters, and Playground tabs land alongside the first PLUTO-driven story (the upzoning paradox).

Schema · 108 columns

borough string
block number
lot number
cd number
ct2010 number
cb2010 number
schooldist number
council number
zipcode number
firecomp string
policeprct number
healtharea number
sanitboro number
sanitsub string
address string
zonedist1 string
zonedist2 string
zonedist3 string
zonedist4 string
overlay1 string
overlay2 string
spdist1 string
spdist2 string
spdist3 string
ltdheight string
splitzone boolean
bldgclass string
landuse number
easements number
ownertype string
ownername string
lotarea number
bldgarea number
comarea number
resarea number
officearea number
retailarea number
garagearea number
strgearea number
factryarea number
otherarea number
areasource number
numbldgs number
numfloors number
unitsres number
unitstotal number
lotfront number
lotdepth number
bldgfront number
bldgdepth number
ext string
proxcode number
irrlotcode boolean
lottype number
bsmtcode number
assessland number
assesstot number
exempttot number
yearbuilt number
yearalter1 number
yearalter2 number
histdist string
landmark string
builtfar number
residfar number
commfar number
facilfar number
affresfar number
mnffar number
borocode number
bbl number
condono number
tract2010 number
xcoord number
ycoord number
latitude number
longitude number
zonemap string
zmcode boolean
sanborn string
taxmap number
edesignum string
appbbl number
appdate date
plutomapid number
version string
sanitdistrict number
healthcenterdistrict number
firm07_flag number
pfirm15_flag number
dcpedited string
notes string
bct2020 string
bctcb2020 string
mih_opt1 boolean
mih_opt2 boolean
mih_opt3 boolean
mih_opt4 boolean
transitzone string
geom string
basempdate string
dcasdate string
edesigdate string
landmkdate string
masdate string
polidate string
rpaddate string
zoningdate string

Source: NYC Open Data
Endpoint: data.cityofnewyork.us / 64uk-42ks

Stories using this data

article

The upzoning paradox

Between 2002 and 2010, New York City upzoned hundreds of blocks — increasing legal density, raising allowed building heights, opening capacity for thousands of new residential units. Eight years later, an academic team rolled the data forward to see what the rents had done. The answer punctured one of the most durable assumptions in U.S. urban policy.

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Who owns this building?

Twelve buildings citywide generated more than 20 Class C — immediately hazardous — housing violations apiece since 2024. The named owner is always an LLC. The beneficial owner is always findable. The corporate-veil-piercing pattern at the heart of NYC tenant advocacy.

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NYC's decade of pipe work

231,000 properties. One EPA deadline: 2037. Framing NYC's lead service line replacement program as a construction-industry challenge — which boroughs carry the heaviest load, and what annual pace the city needs to hit.