NYC Parks Forever Wild: Ecologically Important Natural Resources

New York City's Forever Wild layer delineates ecologically important natural resources within NYC Parks property. The dataset is provided by data.cityofnewyork.us and was last updated on 2026-03-19. It includes columns such as GISPropNum, Acres, PropertyName, ForverWildID, and shape.

Use Cases

• Map and analyze the spatial distribution of protected areas using the shape and ForverWildID columns.
• Calculate total conserved acreage per park property using the Acres and PropertyName columns.
• Join with other NYC geospatial datasets using the GISPropNum column as a unique identifier for park properties.

Strengths

• Includes a direct link to a data dictionary and user guide for column definitions.
• Offers data in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.
• Provides a specific map URL for visual context of the geospatial data.

Limitations

• Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 14:04:34; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New York City, New York, USA