NYC Digital City Map Street Centerlines

A spatial dataset containing street centerlines from the New York City Digital City Map (DCM). This layer represents the mapped streets, infrastructure, and unmapped streets throughout the five boroughs of New York City.

Usage

nyc_dcm_sf

Format

An sf object with 67,979 features and 6 fields:

borough: Character. The borough name (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, or Staten Island)
feat_type: Character. Feature type classification (e.g., "Infrastructure", "Unmapped_St")
jurisdicti: Character. Jurisdiction information for the street segment
record_st: Character. Record status or classification
edit_date: Date. Date when the feature was last edited or updated
geometry: sfc_MULTILINESTRING. Spatial geometry representing the street centerline

Source

NYC Department of City Planning, Digital City Map. Downloaded October 31, 2025. https://www.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/open-data.page

Details

The coordinate reference system is NAD83 / New York Long Island (ftUS), EPSG:2263. This projection uses US survey feet as units.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
library(sf)
library(ggplot2)

# Plot Manhattan streets
manhattan <- nyc_dcm_sf |>
  filter(borough == "Manhattan")

ggplot(manhattan) +
  geom_sf(aes(color = feat_type)) +
  theme_minimal()
} # }