ACRIS
Automated City Register Information System. Property Records maintained by the NYC Department of Finance.
Assembly District
Boundaries of NYC’s State Assembly districts
BBL
Borough, Block, and Lot. Used as a property identifier.
BCP/VCP
See: NYS Brownfield and Voluntary Cleanup Program Sites
BOA
Brownfield Opportunity Areas
Borough
Borough boundaries
CBS
See: NYS Chemical Bulk Storage Sites
City Council District
Boundaries of NYC’s City Council districts
Community District
Boundaries of NYC’s 59 Community Districts
Congressional District
Boundaries of NYC’s Congressional districts
CSV
Comma Separated Value. These files can be viewed in any spreadsheet application, such as Microsoft® Excel.
DOT Truck Route
Local and through truck routes per NYC Traffic Rules.
E-Designation Sites
See: NYC E-Designation Sites (E)
Federal Empowerment Zone
Areas in Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx offering business incentives.
Fill
Former waterbodies that have been filled.
Historic District
Boundaries of NYC’s historic districts as designated by the Landmarks Commission
HW
See: NYS Hazardous Waste Sites (HW)
IBZ
See: NYC Industrial Business Zones
Million Trees Properties
Publicly-owned property, identified as potential reforestation/planting areas, specifically without existing tree canopy, significant water bodies, built structures and impervious surface, including recreational facilities.
MOER
Mayor's Office of Environmental Remediation
MOSF
See: NYS Major Oil Storage Facilities
NPL
See: US National Priority List Sites
NYC E-Designation Sites (E)
An (E) designation is a zoning map designation that provides notice of the presence of an environmental requirement pertaining to potential hazardous materials contamination or noise or air quality impacts on a particular tax lot.
NYC Industrial Business Zones (IBZs)
Areas where industrial firms can get expanded assistance services. www.nyc.gov/ibz.
NYS Brownfield and Voluntary Cleanup Program Sites (BCP/VCP)
The goal of NYS Brownfield Cleanup Program is to encourage private-sector cleanups of brownfields contaminated with hazardous waste or petroleum through the availability of various tax credits. The NYS Voluntary Cleanup Program was developed to encourage private sector cleanup of brownfields by enabling parties to investigate and remediate sites using private funds rather than public funds.The NYS Environmental Restoration Program provides grants to municipalities for site investigation and remediation activities at brownfield sites.
NYS Brownfield Opportunity Areas (BOA)
The Brownfield Opportunity Area Program provides financial assistance to municipalities and community based organizations (CBOs) to complete revitalization plans for areas affected by the presence of brownfield sites.
NYS Chemical Bulk Storage Sites (PBS)
The NYS CBS program regulates aboveground storage tanks with a capacity of 185 gallons or more, all underground storage tanks regardless of capacity, and all non-stationary tanks, for example, trucks.
NYS Closed Petroleum Spill Locations (Closed Spills)
A Spill is an accidental or intentional release of petroleum or other hazardous materials.
NYS Empire Zones
Areas offering NYS tax benefits.  www.nylovesbiz.com.
NYS Environmental Zones
In the NYS Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP), areas where projects are eligible for enhanced tax credits.
NYS Hazardous Waste Sites (HW)
NYS Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Site Remediation Program (commonly known as State Superfund) is an enforcement program which identifies, characterizes and remediates contamination at suspected hazardous waste disposal sites.
NYS Major Oil Storage Facilities (MOSF)
The MOSF program regulates tanks and vessels at petroleum storage facilities with a cumulative capacity of 400,000 gallons or more.
NYS Open Petroleum Spill Locations (Open Spills)
A Spill is an accidental or intentional release of petroleum or other hazardous materials.
NYS Petroleum Bulk Storage Sites (PBS)
The NYS Petroleum Bulk storage Program regulates tanks at facilities with a cumulative storage capacity of more than 1,000 gallons. Fuel oil tanks with a capacity of less than 1,000 gallons are excluded.
NYS Petroleum Spill Locations (Spills)
A Spill is an accidental or intentional release of petroleum or other hazardous materials.
NYS Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) Facilities
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Program addresses adverse impacts to human health and the environment that are discovered a result of unsafe waste handling and disposal practices.
NYS Solid Waste Facilities (SW)
Solid waste facilities are sites listed on NYSDEC solid waste database and may include landfills or solid waste transfer stations.
OER
(Mayors) Office of Environmental Remediation
Ombudsman Areas
Areas where industrial firms can get expanded assistance services. www.nyc.gov/ibz. See Also: NYC Industrial Business Zones
Other Historic Maps
Antique maps from various sources dating back to the early 1800s. Most of these maps were acquired courtesy of the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division of the New York Public Library.
PBS
See: NYS Petroleum Bulk Storage Sites
PLUTO
Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output. Tax lot, ownership, and city zoning information for the city of New York.
raster
Representation of spatial data using measured values at specific locations stored as a collection of grid cells. This is a simple image that does not have interactive features.
RCRA
See: NYS Resource Conservation & Recovery Act
School District
Boundaries of NYC’s public school districts
Shoreline
2006 City basemap update
spills
See: NYS Petroleum Spill Locations
State Senate District
Boundaries of NYC’s State Senate districts
Subway
MTA subway lines and stations.
SW
See: NYS Solid Waste Facilities
Underserved Areas
Areas of high population density that are not accessible to a park within a 10-minute walk and where the amount of open space per 1,000 residents is currently less than 2.5 acres.
US National Priority List Sites (NPL)
The National Priorities List (NPL) is the list of national priorities among the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants throughout the United States. The NPL is intended primarily to guide the EPA in determining which sites warrant further investigation.
Vacant Property Database
This layer includes unimproved, privately-owned properties that were zoned for commercial and manufacturing uses, according to the NYC Department of City Planning’s PLUTO data in fall 2009. The status as vacant comes from observations of no use or structure during the last assessment by the NYC Department of Finance.
vector
Representation of spatial data using points, lines and polygons stored as a collection of discrete x,y coordinates.
VPD
See: Vacant Property Database
VPD Fill Properties
This layer is a subset of Properties from the Vacant Property Database (VPD) layer where evidence of historic fill was identified from historic map analysis.
ZIP Code
US Postal Service ZIP Code boundaries