New York City State Assembly District Boundaries Clipped to Shoreline

State Assembly Districts is a dataset of New York State Assembly District boundaries for New York City, clipped to the shoreline. The dataset is provided by the City of New York's Department of City Planning and was last updated on March 15, 2026. All previously released versions are available on the DCP BYTES of the BIG APPLE website.

Use Cases

• Visualizing electoral district boundaries for New York City based on the geospatial data.
• Analyzing the relationship between assembly districts and shoreline geography based on the clipping feature.
• Supporting redistricting research and analysis based on the political boundary data.
• Integrating political boundaries with other NYC geospatial datasets based on the stated source.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative City of New York Department of City Planning.
• Multiple file formats are available, including XML, RDF, JSON, and CSV.
• All historical versions of the dataset are archived and accessible.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

City of New York, Department of City Planning (DCP)

Collection Method

Likely derived from official legislative and cartographic sources.

Time Range

Current version is 26a; temporal coverage is not explicitly stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 15 02:45:32.192428; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New York City, New York State, USA.