NYC Property Values: Block by Block

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Walking around a Brooklyn neighborhood a while back, I kept noticing how much you can read a block just from street level: how well the stoops are kept up, whether people have flower boxes, what cars are parked out front. I got curious whether any of that was actually measurable. NYC’s Department of Finance publishes assessed values for every one of the city’s ~850,000 tax lots through the MapPLUTO dataset on NYC Open Data. It’s not quite the same as sale prices, but it’s a reasonable proxy and the data is public and granular. I wanted to see what it looked like on a map.

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NYC Property Values: Block by Block

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