| Introduction
This 2003 edition of Selected
Facilities and Program Sites in New York City
updates and expands a database originally developed
by the Department of City Planning in 1995. The
five borough reports are designed to give agencies
and communities easy access to the data needed
for site planning, assessing service delivery
patterns, or preparing neighborhood land use plans.
Although
the database may have a wide range of useful applications,
its primary purpose is to assist in selecting
sites for new or expanded facilities in accordance
with the Criteria for the Location of City
Facilities, commonly called the Fair Share
Criteria. Adopted by the City Planning Commission
pursuant to City Charter Section 203, the Criteria
encourage agencies to inform and consult communities
early in the site planning process, and to balance
the traditional considerations of need, cost effectiveness
and efficiency with attention to the effects of
facility concentrations on neighborhoods. Complete
and up-to-date information about the location
of existing facilities enables agencies to assess
the suitability of proposed sites that may pose
compatibility or concentration issues.
This edition updates information on all types
of facilities included in prior reports. Most
of the information is as of 2002. However, field
surveys can be a useful complement to the data
since the inventory changes constantly.
Contents and Organization
of Report
The facilities contained in the database are,
with few exceptions, either operated, funded,
licensed or certified by a government agency.
The exceptions are commercial SRO's to which the
Department of Homeless Services refers clients
and soup kitchens/food pantries operated by non-profit
organizations. The following facility categories
are included in the database.
- Schools:
public and private elementary and secondary
schools, colleges, universities and other institutions
granting post-secondary degrees.
Recreational
and Cultural Facilities: New York City
Department of Parks and Recreation properties,
including parks, playgrounds, malls and sitting
areas, pools and other facilities; federal
monuments and parklands under National Park
Service jurisdiction; state parks managed
by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation
and Historic Preservation; environmental conservation
areas under the jurisdiction of the New York
State Department of Environmental Conservation;
central and branch public libraries operated
by the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn
Public Library and the Queens Borough Public
Library; and major cultural institutions receiving
city capital and operating support through
the Department of Cultural Affairs.
Public
Safety and Criminal Justice Facilities:
New York City Fire Department fire houses,
ambulance stations, and training facilities;
New York City Police Department station houses,
and other facilities including New York City
Housing Authority police service areas; city,
state and federal correction facilities, including
jails, secure and non-secure adult and juvenile
detention facilities and group homes; and
state and federal court buildings.
Health Facilities:
public and private hospitals, nursing homes
and ambulatory general health care services
certified by the New York State Department
of Health and/or administered by the New York
City Health and Hospitals Corporation.
Alcoholism
and Substance Abuse Facilities: community-based
and institutional residential facilities;
non-residential programs including drug-free,
detox and methadone substance abuse services,
and outpatient alcoholism clinics. All programs
included are certified by the New York State
Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services
(OASAS) and/or under contract with the NYC
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH).
Mental
Health Facilities and Programs: community-based
residences with varying levels of on-site
support services; hospital-based inpatient
care; non-residential clinics, day treatment,
intensive psychiatric rehabilitation, emergency
room and crisis intervention, and vocational/social
training and rehabilitation programs. All
facilities listed are operated or certified
by the New York State Office of Mental Health
and/or under contract with DMHMRAS
Mental Retardation
and Developmental Disabilities Facilities
and Programs: community residences,
residential Intermediate Care Facilities,
and hospital-based inpatient programs; non-residential
clinic, day treatment, sheltered workshop,
and preschool programs. All facilities listed
are certified by the New York State Department
of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
and/or under contract with DOHMH.
Residential
and Day Care Facilities for Children:
foster institutions, group residences, group
homes and agency-operated boarding homes under
the jurisdiction of the New York City Administration
for Childrens Services; public and private
group day care and Head Start centers licensed
by the NYC Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene.
Residential
Facilities and Day Programs for Adults and
Families: city-operated or contracted
shelters for homeless adults or families;
transitional facilities and not-for-profit
supportive housing for adults or families
under contract with the NYC Department of
Homeless Services (DHS) and/or developed with
funding provided by the NYC Department of
Housing Preservation and Development (HPD);
private establishments to which DHS refers
clients; homes for adults licensed by the
New York State Department of Health, non-residential
drop-in centers for homeless adults, emergency
assistance units for families, and soup kitchens/food
programs operated by not-for-profit organizations.
Facilities
for Seniors: senior centers under the
jurisdiction of the New York City Department
for the Aging.
Where
applicable, the major facility types are divided
into residential and non-residential categories.
Residential facilities include only temporary,
transitional or supportive facilities with four
or more beds. Permanent housing, for the formerly
homeless for example, is not included. Non-residential
facilities do not include offices providing purely
administrative or referral services.
The
report is organized by community district and
by the ten main facility categories in the order
listed above. Major parks and cultural institutions
in Joint Interest Areas are listed in all adjacent
community districts. The following information
is provided for each facility listed.
| Data
Field |
Exceptions/Comments |
| Tax Block and Lot |
Omitted for parks
and recreation facilities. |
| Facility Name /
Address |
|
| Facility
Type |
Certain facility
type codes assigned by the oversight agency
are consolidated for purposes of this report. |
| Facility
Capacity |
Where available
and applicable, an indicator of facility
size or level of service, e.g., number of
beds, annual visits, certified caseload,
total enrollment, acreage. |
| Oversight
Agency |
The government agency
responsible for operating the facility or
contracting for its operation, or for licensing,
certifying or funding the facility. In cases
where a facility is operated by one agency
and licensed by another, the operating agency
is generally listed. |
Program sites co-located in the same building
are listed separately where they are discrete
programs of differing types or they are certified
by the state as separate programs. In cases where
the same program is funded and/or certified by
more than one source, it is listed only once.
Download the Selected Facilities and Program
Sites Data
The information presented in this report is also
available for free download as part of the BYTES
of the BIG APPLE family of sofware, data and
geographic base map files for the City of New
York. The data files include a data dictionary
and contain additional geographic information.
In addition to borough and community district,
each facility is geo-coded for police precinct,
city council district, community school district,
census tract, zip code, and health area. The
data also contain more precise facility types
and capacity data, such as school enrollment
by grade level, as well as block and lot numbers
for city, state and federal parks.
The data are provided in both ASCII delimited
and Microsoft Access formats. The data can be
sorted easily by facility type and geographic
area for analytic purposes. To assess distributional
patterns, the data can also be imported into
PC mapping programs with appropriate software
and geographic base files.
Please visit the BYTES
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Acknowledgments
This database was prepared with the invaluable
cooperation and assistance of numerous city and
state agencies, and several not-for-profit organizations.
The Department of City Planning is grateful for
their assistance and accepts full responsibility
for any inaccuracies or omissions in the database.
Users are urged to let us know of any errors or
omissions, or suggestions for improving the scope
or format of the data, so that revisions can be
incorporated in the next update of the database
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