New York City Taxi and For Hire Vehicle Relief Stand Locations

Relief stands provide a specific urban amenity for professional drivers, allowing them to park for up to one hour to attend to personal needs. The dataset lists stand locations, including street names, borough, side of the street, and the number of available parking spaces. It is maintained by the City of New York and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of driver amenities by `Borough` and `On Street` to identify service gaps.
• Optimize stand placement by correlating `Space Count` with nearby points of interest using `From Street` and `To Street` coordinates.
• Validate compliance with parking regulations by cross-referencing `Relief Stand` locations and `Sign Description` with city ordinances.
• Create a map layer for driver apps using the `the_geom` field to display available relief stands.
• Assess capacity per street segment by aggregating `Space Count` filtered by `Side of the Street`.

Strengths

• Includes precise geospatial coordinates via the `the_geom` field for mapping.
• Contains specific operational details like `Side of the Street` and `Sign Description`.
• Data is maintained by a municipal authority (`data.cityofnewyork.us`), suggesting official status.

Limitations

• Dataset size, row count, and temporal coverage are unknown, limiting reproducibility assessments.
• No sample data is available to verify data formats or common values.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us

Freshness

Updated April 2026, indicating planned future maintenance.

Geography

New York City, based on `Borough` column and organizational source.