May
16
Members of NYCEDC’s Research, GIS, and Social Media teams had lots of fun yesterday demonstrating StatsBee, our pop economics maps, at City of New York’s lounge at Internet Week NY headquarters. Catch NYCEDC again Thursday night at our Internet Week panel, NYC BigApps: Civic Hacking, Startup Success.

Members of NYCEDC’s Research, GIS, and Social Media teams had lots of fun yesterday demonstrating StatsBee, our pop economics maps, at City of New York’s lounge at Internet Week NY headquarters. Catch NYCEDC again Thursday night at our Internet Week panel, NYC BigApps: Civic Hacking, Startup Success.

Feb
14
As New York City’s dog lovers anxiously await the crowning of this year’s “Best In Show” at The Westminster Kennel Club’s 136th Annual Dog Show at Madison Square Garden, we estimated the number of pets (dogs and cats only) that call New York City their home. Based on our analysis, we estimate that there are approximately 1.1 million pets in the City (600,000 dogs and 500,000 cats), or an ownership rate of about one pet for every three households. This figure is lower than the national average (about 60%), as you might expect given the City’s tighter living quarters and that some apartment buildings still do not allow pets. As shown in the above map, dogs and cats seem to really enjoy living near Central Park and the back yards of Staten Island. Read the rest of our analysis via our StatsBee column on the NYCEDC blog. Image credit: NYCEDC

As New York City’s dog lovers anxiously await the crowning of this year’s “Best In Show” at The Westminster Kennel Club’s 136th Annual Dog Show at Madison Square Garden, we estimated the number of pets (dogs and cats only) that call New York City their home.

Based on our analysis, we estimate that there are approximately 1.1 million pets in the City (600,000 dogs and 500,000 cats), or an ownership rate of about one pet for every three households. This figure is lower than the national average (about 60%), as you might expect given the City’s tighter living quarters and that some apartment buildings still do not allow pets. As shown in the above map, dogs and cats seem to really enjoy living near Central Park and the back yards of Staten Island.

Read the rest of our analysis via our StatsBee column on the NYCEDC blog.

Image credit: NYCEDC

Feb
10

NYC OpenData: NYC Colleges and Universities

nycopendata:

Mayor Bloomberg often touts the fact that NYC has more college students than Boston has people.

Below is a map showing NYC’s 76 colleges and universities, created from NYC OpenData.

Source: nycopendata

Feb
03
This week at NYCEDC: We heard about how NYC’s tech boom is influencing the housing market We glimpsed a data visualization on NYC’s energy consumption by neighborhood We are looking forward to a new addition to our incubator network managed by 3rd Ward in Brooklyn We highlighted an Artist as Entrepreneur alum, whose theatre troupe is performing next week We look forward to an early spring, as forecasted by a Staten Island groundhog We presented our upcoming kitchen incubator We look forward to The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation We invite you to enter Downtown Alliance’s Lower Manhattan love story contest We organized NYC Tech Talent Draft, a career fair at Cornell University We watched Mayor Bloomberg open Pershing Square Signature Center We plan to develop Queens through the revitalization of the Rockaway Courthouse We enjoyed this illustration of The High Line We read an insider’s take on Silicon Valley v. Silicon Alley We noted the tech companies moving from Silcon Valley to New York We mentioned new attractions coming to Coney Island We were honored to be called data-mapping geeks We know who we’re rooting for at The Oscars: NYC Venture Fellows Company GKIDS We read about Tumblr’s rapid growth in NYC We encouraged you to apply for the hackNY 2012 Fellows Program Have a great weekend, New York City! Photo credit: NYCEDC

This week at NYCEDC:

Have a great weekend, New York City!

Photo credit: NYCEDC