NYC Open Data / Interactive 3D

CityShapeLab

Preparing your NYC postcard...

CityShapeLab

City Intelligence / Frozen source subset

Source-backed City Analytics

A frozen NYC OTI Building Footprints subset, not a neighborhood census.

Analytics will appear when a verified scene is available.

Preparing your NYC neighborhood postcard...

One dataset. Many ways to see a city.

Explore artwork

Interactive miniature / 01

The shape of a neighborhood

Real building outlines and positions, composed as an architectural study. Drag or use the controls to explore. Select SoHo to discover Historic Evidence from frozen LPC records, with building relationships and citations.

Start with a real example

Explore a neighborhood story

Open a curated selection from frozen NYC OTI building records. Compare these buildings with the remaining scene, change axes and filters, or share your own exploration.

Financial District · Tall recorded rooftops

Compare three buildings with high recorded roof heights against the remaining source buildings.

3 selected source buildings · NYC OTI Building Footprints

Open exploration

DUMBO · Two 1877 construction records

Explore two buildings whose frozen source records list 1877, and compare their measurements with the rest.

2 selected source buildings · NYC OTI Building Footprints

Open exploration

SoHo · Earlier recorded construction years

Select three buildings with early construction years in this frozen scene. Recorded years are not independently verified histories.

3 selected source buildings · NYC OTI Building Footprints

Open exploration

Central Harlem · Taller recorded rooftops

Compare two buildings with relatively high recorded roof heights against the remaining Harlem scene.

2 selected source buildings · NYC OTI Building Footprints

Open exploration

These are illustrations of records in the selected frozen source snapshots, not claims about current buildings or neighborhood-wide history.