Neighborhoods - mattyschell/nyc-spatial-rolodex GitHub Wiki

In 2015 The New York Public Library published a general background and resources on the changing and contested definitions of New York City neighborhoods.

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/05/12/researching-nyc-neighborhoods

The New York Times also crowdsourced fuzzy neighborhood boundaries here:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/upshot/extremely-detailed-nyc-neighborhood-map.html

NYC Open Data

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Neighborhood-Names-GIS/99bc-9p23

The Department of City Planning created a poster and website in 2014 called "New York City: A City of Neighborhoods." The neighborhood names and point locations on NYC Open Data are the approximate centroids of the unofficial neighborhoods that appear on Department of City Planning poster. Presumably this dataset is rarely, if ever, updated.

As of early 2019 the following neighborhood names appear on NYC Open Data but not in the direct download from Bytes of The Big Apple (see next section):

Downtown Flushing
Navy Yard
Seaside
South Corona
Spring Creek

Bytes of the Big Apple

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/open-data.page

The Department of City Planning also releases unofficial neighborhood centroids as a download or REST service on their Bytes of the Big Apple page.

As of winter 2019 the following neighborhood names exist in the Bytes of the Big Apple download but not on NYC Open Data:

Allerton
Bayswater
Bronxdale
Corona
Erasmus
Flushing
Fox Hills
Hammels
Hudson Yards
Kingsbridge Heights
Queensbridge
Rockaway Beach

The Allerton vs Bronxdale neighbohood labels are perhaps the most dangerous ones to mishandle, depending on your audience. See for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20180121130005/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/nyregion/a-bronx-neighborhood-fights-for-its-spot-on-the-map.html