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nycOpenData

nycOpenData provides simple, reproducible access to datasets from the
NYC Open Data platform — directly from R,
with no API keys or manual downloads required.

Version 0.1.2 now includes wrappers for 15+ NYC Open Data APIs, covering:

• 311 Service Requests
  
• For-Hire Vehicles (FHV)
  
• Juvenile Justice (rearrest rates + caseloads)
  
• School Discharge Reporting
  
• Violent & Disruptive School Incidents
  
• Detention Admissions
  
• Borough/Community District Reports
  
• Street Tree Census
  
• Urban Park Ranger Animal Condition Responses
  
• Permitted Events (Historical)
  
• and more

All functions return clean tibble outputs and support filtering via
filters = list(field = "value").

Installation

From CRAN (once published)

install.packages("nycOpenData")

Development version (GitHub)

devtools::install_github("martinezc1/nycOpenData")

Example

library(nycOpenData)

# Get 5,000 most recent 311 requests
data <- nyc_311(limit = 5000)

# Filter by agency and city
filtered <- nyc_311(
  limit = 2000,
  filters = list(agency = "NYPD", city = "BROOKLYN")
)

head(filtered)

## # A tibble: 6 × 35
##   unique_key created_date           agency agency_name complaint_type descriptor
##   <chr>      <chr>                  <chr>  <chr>       <chr>          <chr>     
## 1 66797209   2025-11-12T02:04:55.0… NYPD   New York C… Illegal Parki… Parking P…
## 2 66801994   2025-11-12T02:04:00.0… NYPD   New York C… Noise - Resid… Loud Musi…
## 3 66801997   2025-11-12T02:02:18.0… NYPD   New York C… Noise - Resid… Loud Talk…
## 4 66801875   2025-11-12T02:01:32.0… NYPD   New York C… Blocked Drive… No Access 
## 5 66805223   2025-11-12T02:00:04.0… NYPD   New York C… Noise - Resid… Loud Musi…
## 6 66803537   2025-11-12T01:59:25.0… NYPD   New York C… Illegal Parki… Blocked H…
## # ℹ 29 more variables: location_type <chr>, incident_zip <chr>,
## #   incident_address <chr>, street_name <chr>, cross_street_1 <chr>,
## #   cross_street_2 <chr>, intersection_street_1 <chr>,
## #   intersection_street_2 <chr>, address_type <chr>, city <chr>,
## #   landmark <chr>, status <chr>, community_board <chr>, bbl <chr>,
## #   borough <chr>, x_coordinate_state_plane <chr>,
## #   y_coordinate_state_plane <chr>, open_data_channel_type <chr>, …

About

nycOpenData makes New York City’s civic datasets accessible to students,
educators, analysts, and researchers through a unified and user-friendly R interface.
Developed to support reproducible research, open-data literacy, and real-world analysis.

Author

Christian A. Martinez
c.martinez0@outlook.com
GitHub: https://github.com/martinezc1

Developed as part of
PSYC 7750G – Reproducible Psychological Research
Brooklyn College, City University of New York

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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