CEQR Projects: New York City Environmental Review Records Since 2005

CEQR Open Data contains information on projects undergoing or having completed review through the City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR) process. The dataset, provided by the City of New York, includes project names, descriptions, lead agencies, milestones, and geographical locations for filings from January 1, 2005 to the present. Associated documents are linked to the CEQR Access Database.

Use Cases

• Track project review timelines and milestones based on the documented project milestones.
• Analyze the distribution and types of projects undergoing environmental review based on project descriptions and geographical locations.
• Identify lead agencies responsible for specific development projects based on the Lead Agency field.
• Map the geographic footprint of development projects based on the geographical location data.

Strengths

• Data covers a long temporal range, with records from January 1, 2005 to the present.
• Includes multiple data formats (RDF, JSON, CSV, XML) for flexibility.
• Contains structured project information including milestones and geospatial data.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

City of New York

Collection Method

Projects filed with the Mayor’s Office through the CEQR process.

Time Range

January 1, 2005 to present

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 03:54:01.329916; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New York City