Results tagged “propertyshark”

There are toxic plots of land all over New York City, hello Greenpoint, but Queens Crap has some maps showing the toxic parts of Queens. The maps they show are from Property Shark, but they also link to a site where you can see maps for all the neighborhoods of Queens.

Sean from NYC Exposed sent in a link to this gallery of subway tunnel shots-- along with a note: "I revisited 2nd ave." Could this be the fabled section of the Second Avenue line that actually got built? If anyone is going to get down there, it's NYC Exposed-- they've got one of the best collections of subway/tunnel pictures we've seen so far.

Last night we were doing the usual: wandering around looking for one-story buildings for our amateur photography project. Sadly, we chose to hunt for our prey in the West Village, which has a dearth of short structures. If only we had consulted Property Shark before setting out! If you select their "stories on lot" overlay, it tells you how tall each building is-- and two seconds of inspection shows the lowest neighborhoods are Red Hook, Gowanus, and the area around the Newtown Creek. Hunt's Point is also pretty flat.

You've got to keep your on those wicked scamps over at Property Shark! When their not adding insane data layers to their property map, they are cooking up crazy demographic overlays. For instance, we just noticed that one of their overlays is "Single Men in NYC." The hot areas for high guy percentages: Chinatown, the West Side, Red Hook, and Gowanus, Throgs Neck, and North Shore of Staten Island. Who knew?!

We've been eagerly anticipating the beta launch of Zillow for weeks now-- rumors surrounded the project. Some of that had to do with the founder, Richard Barton; his previous project was Expedia, and many people expected Zillow to be similarly ground-breaking. The beta is fairly impressive: enter an address, and Zillow returns a list of sale prices for properties in the area. They also provide analysis of sale prices on a state or county level (Use New York county for Manhattan, or Kings county for Brooklyn, etc.) In other parts of the country, this information may be a little more useful than it is in New York-- here, prices can vary widely even in a single building, so their estimates can sometimes be off by a wide margin. Still, the more information, the better-- watch your back, Property Shark! [Related: BusinessWeek has an article today about the site.]

This is pretty amazing: Property Shark has added pictures of every building in Manhattan to their maps page. Instructions via their press release: