New York City Green Spaces

About

This map connects you to publicly accessible green spaces in New York City. Find places you can visit like community gardens and parks, and get a sense of how green a block is by seeing street trees.

Methodology

All data comes from NYC OpenData. Trees data are from the 2015 trees census. GreenThumbs Community Gardens and Parks Properties data are fetched from the API and update whenever the dataset is updated.

Each API query pre-selects relevant fields to keep the response data as small as possible. Parks data, for example, is constrained to Parks Properties that are public green spaces and excludes entries such as Park's buildings and jointly operated school playgrounds.

Because of API limits, the Street Trees data was downloaded, cleaned up in qGIS, and then uploaded as a custom vector tile set using Mapbox Studio's Mapbox Tiling Service. Street Trees data comes from the 2015 Street Tree Census.

The map is built with Mapboxgl JS. Everything else is vanilla HTML/CSS/JS.

Datasets Used

• GreenThumb Community Gardens
• GreenThumb site visits
• Parks Properties
• Street Trees Blockface Metrics
• Street Trees Points
• Borough Boundaries

Disclaimer

First published on May 3^rd, 2023
Last updated on February 16^th, 2026

Public cemetery data appears incomplete in the Open Data set.