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SUMMARY:PLUTO and City of Yes: How NYC Planning turns legislation into data
DESCRIPTION:City of Yes for Housing Opportunity is a city-wide zoning text amendment that addresses New York City’s housing crisis by making it possible to build a little more housing in every neighborhood. It was adopted by the City Council in December 2024 and is already being put to use to create homes across all five boroughs. \nHow do legislative changes translate to data changes? How can new and old zoning tools be reflected in land use data? What do people need to know about the City’s tax lots to make informed decisions? \nIn this session\, the Data Engineering team from the NYC Department of City Planning (DCP) will share how the agency added new fields to one of it’s most popular datasets: PLUTO. New fields about Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) and transit zones will soon be available in PLUTO to give data users a more complete picture of the City’s zoning and land use. \nDCP subject matter experts in zoning\, housing\, and transportation worked with engineers to understand the relevant Zoning Resolution text\, the intentions of City of Yes amendments\, and the data necessary to relate them to every tax lot in the City. Attendees will learn about the processes\, decisions\, and surprises that have been a part of this journey through legislation\, code\, and open data.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/pluto-and-city-of-yes-how-nyc-planning-turns-legislation-into-data/
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SUMMARY:Establishing a Central Data Function at a Public Agency
DESCRIPTION:Using data insights to make decisions is what every organization seeks to do\, but there are many reasons why this doesn’t happen in practice: data is hard to find\, it is siloed and inaccessible\, it is undocumented and difficult to understand\, it is too large or complex for the skills and tools available. All these problems existed at Metropolitan Transportation Authority \n(MTA) and were the motivation for the recent establishment of a central data team\, which has the goal of facilitating analytical work for teams all across the company. Standing up such a team is challenging\, especially for public sector agencies with many internal and external stakeholders\, legacy systems and limited resources. In this talk\, Andy Kuziemko\, who leads the Data & Analytics team at the MTA\, will describe the progress to date at the agency\, lessons learned along the way\, and the remaining challenges the agency faces.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/establishing-a-central-data-function-at-a-public-agency/
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SUMMARY:Marron Institute of Urban Management Presents: Open Data in Action
DESCRIPTION:The Marron Institute of Urban Management will host an afternoon of presentations featuring research from its Transportation and Land Use\, Civic Analytics\, and Health\, Environment and Policy programs\, alongside NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s City Health Dashboard and Congressional District Health Dashboard. The event will highlight how these teams apply open data to advance research and policy in transportation\, urban systems and public health. \n\nPresenters will discuss how they compile\, integrate\, and analyze complex datasets to inform urban policy and decision-making. They will also share approaches for making data accessible to broader audiences\, including strategies for transparency\, effective communication\, and open access to data and research findings. \nThis event is intended for anyone interested in how data-driven research can strengthen policymaking\, expand access to information\, and promote more transparent\, equitable\, and effective public sector decisions. \nLight refreshments will be provided. \nSchedule:\n1:00 – 1:05  Introduction\n1:05 – 1:45  Transportation and Land Use Program (Marron Institute): Elif Ensari\, Research Scholar and Program Deputy Director\, Franklin Tang\, Assistant Research Scholar.\n1:45 – 2:25  Civic Analytics Program (Marron Institute): Bartosz Bonczak\, Research Scientist and Lab Manager\, Callie Clark\, Doctoral Researcher.\nBreak\n2:40 – 3:20  Health\, Environment\, and Policy Program (Marron Institute): Noussair Lazrak\, Research Scientist.\n3:20 – 4:00  City Health Dashboard and the Congressional District Health Dashboard (NYU Grossman School of Medicine): Ben R. Spoer\, Program Director.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/marron-institute-of-urban-management-presents-open-data-in-action/
LOCATION:Marron Institute\, 370 Jay Street Room 1201\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201
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SUMMARY:Feeding New York: The Hidden Burden on the South Bronx
DESCRIPTION:New York City’s food supply chain relies on a distribution system dependent on diesel trucks\, creating compounding environmental and economic burdens in the South Bronx. This session\, hosted by independent researcher Dan DeWitz\, examines Hunts Point—home to the city’s largest wholesale food distribution hub—through the intersecting lenses of air quality\, poverty\, and climate risk. Participants will learn to critically evaluate environmental data\, test the statistical significance of neighborhood-level air quality differences\, and understand the limitations of relying on existing monitoring systems as “ground truth.” \nLooking forward\, the session explores policy alternatives to the current model. By mapping Metro-North and LIRR rail lines alongside regional farmland and underserved communities\, we will examine the untapped potential of existing transit infrastructure to reduce diesel emissions and improve food access. With portions of Hunts Point projected to flood under future climate scenarios\, change is not just desirable—it is inevitable. \nThis event is ideal for anyone interested in environmental justice\, urban planning\, transportation policy\, food systems\, or applied data science. Whether you are a community advocate\, policymaker\, student\, or curious New Yorker\, you will leave with a deeper understanding of the data behind urban inequality and practical frameworks for solutions.
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SUMMARY:NYC PIT Pop Up: CUNY Open Data Takeover Day Four
DESCRIPTION:As part of NYC Open Data Week 2026\, the CUNY Public Interest Technology (PIT) Lab will host a week-long Open Data Takeover of the NYC PIT Pop-Up at the Oculus / World Trade Center. The activation advances Open Data Week’s goals of accessibility\, civic learning\, and practical use of open data by bringing open data projects into a highly visible\, public-facing space. Attendees can drop in at any time during the hours below for a demonstration of the tool and to speak with the presenter. Most of the demos will also be streamed live from the Pop-Up on its Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/cunypitlab). Inside the Oculus\, the Pop-Up is located on the Main Floor C2\, in the South Concourse\, at Shop #53 (next to M.A.C. Cosmetics). View the full PIT Lab schedule. No RSVP needed\, just stop by! \n[2pm-6pm]\nMasaru Kakutani – From Data to Action: Addressing NYC Winter Heating Complaints with Data Visualization\nI want to show how anyone interested in actionable policy can\, with the help of generative AI\, quickly create convincing stories. This demonstration is designed to help anyone who is interested in generating clear policy suggestions using NYC Data. A standard generative AI will assist in developing policy suggestions\, but the template ensures that the AI provides only support\, not direction or guidance\, for those interested in creating policies. \nLisa Mae Fielder – MTA Performance Metrics\nThe MTA’s dashboard\, metrics.mta.info\, which is built entirely off of open data\, is going through a major redesign in 2026. We’d like to collect user feedback to better understand features and visuals that the civic tech community would want. \nMichael Freedman – crashcount.nyc: an open data tool for safe-streets advocacy\nCrashcount.nyc is a public\, open-data–driven tool that uses NYC Open Data and AI to document and contextualize traffic crashes involving pedestrians and cyclists\, with the goal of supporting safer-streets advocacy at the neighborhood and district level. This session will demonstrate how publicly available NYC datasets—particularly traffic crash data—can be transformed into clear\, actionable narratives that help communities understand where traffic violence is increasing and how it relates to policy decisions\, street design\, and enforcement. The presentation will walk through the structure of Crashcount.nyc\, the datasets it relies on\, and the design decisions behind presenting complex data in a way that is usable by advocates\, journalists\, and community members without technical backgrounds.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/nyc-pit-pop-up-cuny-open-data-takeover-day-four/
LOCATION:Oculus World Trade Center\, 185 Greenwich Street\, New York\, New York\, 10006\, United States of America
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SUMMARY:**RSVP CLOSED** From Data to Policy: How the NYC Council Turns City Data Into Action
DESCRIPTION:Join the NYC Council Data Team for an inside look at how open and administrative data drive policymaking at the Council. In this interactive exhibition\, Senior Data Scientist Reese Hirota and Data Scientists Taylor Francisco\, Danylo Orlov\, and Erik Brown will showcase four tools designed for evidence-based decision-making. From tracking citywide trends in domestic violence and evaluating Vision Zero safety interventions to mapping public restroom equity and optimizing fieldwork with StoopLoops\, attendees will see firsthand how raw datasets become transparent tools for the public. \nThis session is ideal for civic tech enthusiasts\, policy researchers\, and engaged New Yorkers eager to understand the “how” behind city oversight. The event will feature 40 minutes of guided walkthroughs focused on the design and impact of these platforms\, followed by an interactive Q&A. During the session\, participants will have the opportunity to explore the dashboards themselves\, engaging directly with the team to uncover data-driven insights relevant to their own communities. \nBy bridging the gap between raw information and legislative action\, these projects demonstrate that open data is the essential foundation for a more equitable NYC. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how the Council identifies citywide needs\, tracks outcomes\, and makes the policymaking process more transparent and data-informed. Registration closes at 2 p.m.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/from-data-to-policy-how-the-nyc-council-turns-city-data-into-action__trashed/
LOCATION:New York City Council\, 250 Broadway 8th Floor\, Overflow Room\, New York\, NY\, 10007
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SUMMARY:Civic Media for Advocacy Across Amenity Gaps with Augmented Reality
DESCRIPTION:While initiatives like Mapping for Equity document what exists (or doesn’t exist) in public spaces\, these gaps must be communicated or demonstrated so that community demand for invisible\, unbuilt amenities can be recorded. Open Streetmap has a few ways to note desire or proposed amenities\, but civic media can also help. inCitu\, a NYC-based augmented reality company\, proposes AR as a tool to bridge this gap: by combining data from projects like Mapping for Equity and Spatial Equity NYC with augmented reality (AR) visualization\, communities can create compelling artifacts\, like AR videos and mockups\, that advocate for repair\, preservation\, and creation of public space infrastructure where it’s needed most. This session will present a sample workflow\, from scanning an existing amenity to creating an AR video of it in a new location\, and will be followed by open discussion on civic design considerations how this method might contribute to existing efforts.
URL:https://opendataweek.nyc/event/civic-media-for-advocacy-across-amenity-gaps-with-augmented-reality/
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