NYCEDC

Apr
18

Last night, Mayor Bloomberg announced the winners of NYC BigApps 3.0, the third annual competition for software developers and members of the public to create web or mobile applications using official City data. A total of 11 winning applications were selected from a record 96 eligible applications that were submitted for this year’s contest. The NYC BigApps 3.0 winners are:

Best Overall Application

Grand Prize: NYCFacets - seeks to streamline and simplify the process for accessing, understanding, and utilizing the tremendous amount of data available in City’s NYC Open Data site. (Joel Natividad and Sami Baig)
Second Prize: Work+ - helps New Yorkers who traditionally work from home find nearby locations to work in their communities. (Steven Baughman, Xichuan Wang, Kota Kobayashi, Paul Bland, and Robbie Williams)

Popular Choice Award

Grand Prize: New York Trip Builder - a travel site that helps users personalize a trip in just a few quick steps. (Muku Pal, Shefali Sarangal, Charu Malhotra, and Vivek Puri)
Second Prize: Scene Near Me - provides alerts when users are near legendary New York City movie scenes. (Avinash Dabir, Luis Miranda, Dan Blumberg, and Dave Isenberg)

Investor’s Choice Award

The Funday Genie - an application designed to help users plan a free day in New York City. (Joe Foxton, Eran Lobl, Yonit Kariri, and Shirley Cohen-Mintz)

Best Mobility App

Embark NYC - an application designed to make taking the subway simple. (David Hodge, Taylor Malloy, and Ian Leighton)

Best Green App

596 Acres - a public education project aimed at making communities in Brooklyn aware of the land resources around them. (Eric Brelsford and Paula Segal)

Best Education App

Sage: Pre-K and Elementary Schools Search - a mobile application that enables parents to search by location for nearby NYC public Pre-K and elementary schools. (Edward Yau)

Best Health & Safety App

TestFlip.com Personal Safety App (Lite) for NYC - a personal emergency web mobile application which helps alert the nearest Police Precinct, provides a custom emergency phone number by SMS or provides a pre-scripted voice message or a custom email by simply pressing one Emergency Button. (John Yung)

Best NYC Mashup

Work+

Best Student Award

ParkAlly - an application which simplifies the search for available parking spots and eliminates the inconveniences associated with parking in heavily populated areas. (Zacharaiah Reitano and Mason Silber)

City Talent Award

Uhpartments - provides building maintenance reports for those users seeking apartments. (Sam Bauch)

First launched in 2009 as part of the City’s ongoing efforts to increase transparency in government, as well as to improve the quality of life for New Yorkers and visitors, BigApps has grown each year and this year included more than 230 new datasets from more than 60 City agencies, commissions, and Business Improvement Districts, for a total of nearly 750 available data sets for developers.

Check out all the winning apps and read much more in the official press release. Congratulations to all who participated in this year’s competition!