A new property research platform and app for New York City

Submitted by algonyc t3_122pqwb in nyc

Hi r/nyc

I think some members of the community would be interested in a tool I've been developing called AlgoNYC. It's a web & mobile platform that centralizes various sources of New York City's open data—land use, construction permits, 311 complaints, zoning, ACRIS, and much more.

The goal is to make NYC property and market research easy for anyone, not just real estate professionals, as well as to enhance mobile accessibility for data sources that are generally cumbersome.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how I could make the platform better?

The website is www.algonyc.com and the iPhone app is available at https://apple.co/3CCc9Ft. Both are 100% free.

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BallBreakerBot t1_jdt6sfx wrote

Map is nice. Properties are a little slow to load. I bet that doesn't matter much though for people who'd use this. You could probably make the page load a lot faster if you moved some data queries to separate AJAX requests.

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drecklia t1_jdto5o1 wrote

Are you loading the data straight form open data or store them locally?

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SassafrasBebe t1_jdu5232 wrote

Thanks for this! I have to pull city data on properties all the time for my job (ie., residential vs commercial sqft, assessed value, etc.) this platform is nice to have all the data in one place as the city’s Zola platform only has use data and we have to look up tax info separately through DOF. Might I suggest being able to look up properties by their BBL and also export data in excel format? I know others in my industry would be interested in testing this further.

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dboggny t1_jdtbwpx wrote

It’s a nice app. I looked up my house. Cool beans.

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rdugz t1_jdttdhy wrote

What differentiates this from https://whoownswhat.justfix.org and the work that Justfix has done in general around transparency /accessibility of city data?

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algonyc OP t1_jdwrle4 wrote

Thanks for the link. I hadn't heard of that site before and it's definitely awesome. At first glance, they appear to focus on HPD data specifically for the purpose of examining housing and landlords as well as piercing LLCs. We pull a wider array of data in an attempt to cover various types of properties—residential, commercial, condos, etc.—and to enable different types of analyses such as via our explorer map. We also have a native iOS app that's quite useful when you're on the street.

They have some really cool features though. I'm going to dig around.

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Thinkingguy5 t1_jdturxv wrote

Are you familiar with Regrid? If not, check out Regrid site and app

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smallint t1_jdyj1nr wrote

This already exists…

And the data is not real time

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