Deep-dive interactive stories mapping New York City’s 125-year housing evolution, the $112.4 billion municipal budget, foundational Golden Era hip-hop lyric taxonomies, and 28,450 commercial storefront leases across 20 corridors.
Scroll through six transformative chapters of New York City housing—from 1901 walk-up tenements and 1920s subway-boom apartments to modern waterfront towers—or jump straight into the interactive 3D Neighborhood Explorer.
From Lower East Side walk-up tenements to waterfront glass towers—an interactive 3D map charting 850,000 building footprints across all five boroughs, 125 years of zoning history, and the real affordability squeeze for everyday New Yorkers.
Where do city tax dollars actually go? Follow the money across New York City's $112.4 billion FY2026 budget—from 6 revenue streams and the $100 taxpayer waffle to true pension/overtime costs and your personal itemized tax receipt.
Mapping the lineage of 25 foundational New York City Golden Era bedrock bars across multi-generational citation trees, word-level diff tagging, and borough-by-borough linguistic migration.
Tracking 28,450 NYC storefront permits, the 46.8% five-year survival cliff, and real rent-to-ticket break-even math across 20 commercial corridors in all five boroughs.
