New York City borough boundaries — nyc_boros

Clipped to shoreline. EPSG:2263, NAD83 / New York Long Island (ftUS). An sf object.

Usage

nyc_boros_sf

nyc_county_sf

A data frame with 5 rows and 6 columns:

boro_code: Numeric borough code
boro_name: Borough Name
geoid: Census county GEOID (state + county FIPS, e.g. "36061" for Manhattan). Character. Use to join county-level Census and ACS tables, such as those in the nycdemog package.
shape_leng: Shape length
shape_area: Shape area
geometry: Multipolygon

Borough boundaries for NYC, clipped to shoreline. Produced by NYC Planning Department. Release: 25C, August 2025.

nyc_county_sf is an identical copy of nyc_boros_sf, named for consistency with Census conventions, where the boroughs are counties.

Kieran Healy