Public Park Toilet Directory With Accessibility Status

Over 1,000 public park toilet locations across New York City's five boroughs are cataloged, including their accessibility features. The dataset is maintained by the City of New York's Department of Parks and Recreation and was last updated in mid-2021. It provides a structured inventory of facility names, locations, and operational details.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of Handicap Accessible facilities across different Boroughs to identify service gaps.
• Map toilet Location coordinates to visualize spatial coverage and density of public park amenities.
• Assess seasonal service availability by filtering records based on the Open Year-Round column.
• Enrich park amenity databases by joining on park Name or Location for recreational resource planning.

Strengths

• Contains a Handicap Accessible column for analyzing ADA compliance.
• Geographic coverage includes all five Boroughs of New York City.
• Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV and JSON.

Limitations

• Data recency is limited, with a last update in June 2021.
• Sample data and total row count are unavailable, obscuring dataset scale.
• Key details like license, author, and exact record count are missing.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us (City of New York open data portal).

Collection Method

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Time Range

Snapshot as of June 2021.

Freshness

Last updated on 2021-06-30.

Geography

New York City boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island.