New York City Transit Zone Parking Policy Boundaries

Geospatial boundaries define areas within New York City's Greater Transit Zone where special residential parking rules apply. The dataset includes zones with different parking requirements for market-rate and affordable housing. It is published by the New York City Department of City Planning and was last updated in December 2025.

Use Cases

• Map the spatial extent of the Inner Transit Zone and Outer Transit Zone using the_geom to visualize parking requirement boundaries.
• Analyze Shape_Area to compare the size of different Transit Zone classifications for policy assessment.
• Join this dataset with housing data using Transit Zone as a key to evaluate parking rules for specific developments.

Strengths

• Includes geospatial geometry data (the_geom) for mapping.
• Distinguishes between multiple policy zones (Inner Transit Zone, Outer Transit Zone).

Limitations

• Sample data and total row count are unknown, hindering size assessment.
• Key metadata like license and author are unspecified.

Provenance

Source

New York City Department of City Planning via data.cityofnewyork.us.

Freshness

Last updated December 2025.

Geography

New York City, specifically the Greater Transit Zone area.