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New York City Census Blocks, 2000
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- New York City Department of City Planning
- Publication Date
- January, 2009
- Title
- New York City Census Blocks, 2000
- Edition
- 08C
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- BYTES of the BIG APPLE
- Issue Identification
- 08C
- Publication Information
- Publisher
- City of New York Department of City Planning
- Other Citation Details
- No major changes since previous version.
- Online Linkage
- https://www.columbia.edu/acis/eds/gis/images/nycp_2000_blocks.zip
- Abstract
- New York City Census Blocks, 2000 is a polygon theme representing block boundaries as defined and used for the 2000 United States Decennial Census. This file was generated from the New York City Census Blocks for 2000 US Census geopackage produced from the New York City Department of City Planning.
- Purpose
- This dataset is appropriate for use with other New York City GIS layers as well as data from the 2000 U.S. census.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- ground condition
- Time Instant
- 2008
- Bounding Box
- West
- -74.257233
- East
- -73.699214
- North
- 40.915808
- South
- 40.495972
- Theme Keyword
- boundaries
- society
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic categories
- Theme Keyword
- Census
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- New York (N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
- Queens (New York, N.Y.)
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
- NYC
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Temporal Keyword
- 2000
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- None
- Use Restrictions
- None
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- Quarterly
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- New York City Department of City Planning
- Delivery Point
- 22 Reade St, 5N
- City
- New York
- State
- NY
- Postal Code
- 10007
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- 212.720.3505
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.1850
- Data Quality Information
- Completeness Report
- These data are accurate as of the redistricting after the US Census 2000.
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
- The District files are created from the same release version of the Department of City Planning LION file. The LION file is spatially aligned with NYCMap aerial photography.
- Lineage
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- G-polygon
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 36600
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Planar
- Map Projection
- Map Projection Name
- Lambert Conformal Conic
- Lambert Conformal Conic
- Standard Parallel
- 40.666667
- Standard Parallel
- 41.033333
- Longitude of Central Meridian
- -74.000000
- Latitude of Projection Origin
- 40.166667
- False Easting
- 984250.000000
- False Northing
- 0.000000
- Planar Coordinate Information
- Planar Coordinate Encoding Method
- coordinate pair
- Coordinate Representation
- Abscissa Resolution
- 0.000000
- Ordinate Resolution
- 0.000000
- Planar Distance Units
- survey feet
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- North American Datum of 1983
- Ellipsoid Name
- Geodetic Reference System 80
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378137.000000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 298.257222
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- nycb2000
- Entity Type Definition
- Census Blocks
- Attributes
- CB2000
- Census block number.
- BoroCode
- Borough code for the borough in which the census block is located.
- 1
- Manhattan
- 2
- Bronx
- 3
- Brooklyn
- 4
- Queens
- 5
- Staten Island
- BoroName
- Borough Name.
- BCTCB2000
- Merged string value of the BoroCode, census tract number, and census block number
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- CT2000
- Census tract number.
- SHAPE_Leng
- SHAPE_Area
- Area of feature in internal units squared. (Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- STFIPS
- COFIPS
- FIPS
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- geopackage
- Distributor
- New York City Department of City Planning
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20090804
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Research Data Services (RDS), Columbia University Libraries
- Contact Person
- GIS/Metadata Librarian
- Contact Address
- Address
- 420 W. 118th St.
- City
- New York
- State or Province
- NY
- Postal Code
- 10027
- Country
- United States
- Contact Voice Telephone
- (212)854-6012
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- data@library.columbia.edu
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
- Metadata Extensions
- Online Linkage
- http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html
- Profile Name
- ESRI Metadata Profile