u/Kitchen_Cable6192

Hey guys,

I'm trying to redo my UIs and would like to get some feedback. First 3 screenshots is my proposed new design vs last pick with old. Can anyone tell which one looks better?

hey guys hear me out...

i’ve been working on this feature where instead of digging through clunky city portals or static maps, you can just speak or type a quick query to pull real live data for your specific block or neighborhood.

attached a quick screen recording showing how it works on my block. basically lets you speak/text to instantly pull stats like recent 311 noise complaints, local safety trends, transit updates, and general neighborhood awareness insights in real time.

wanted to post here and ask: would you actually find something like this useful for checking your own block, or when checking out a new area?

curious to hear your thoughts or what kind of local data you’d actually care to query fast. appreciate any feedback!

Hey guys,

Does anyone have any cool tips and tricks for in app event? I’m trying to get max use of it.

Hey guys,

If you live in NYC and want to have data driven self awareness. Try NYC Intel and check your block. It offers lots of useful data for daily use. I’m looking for a feedback what else can be added for everyday New Yorkers?

Hey everyone,

looking at bike route mapping UI and trying to figure out what riders actually need versus what existing maps clutter you with.

When you're planning a route or navigating mid ride, what information do you find yourself constantly wishing was clearer on the map? (dock availability at arrival, road smoothness, safest cross-town connectors, etc.)

Would love to hear your thoughts or pet peeves with current bike maps

The enforcement layer runs on the city's public ticket data, and building it for our neighborhood taught me things I couldn't unsee:

• On LIC's own streets — Vernon, Jackson, Center, 44th Dr, the numbered avenues — 32,229 tickets were written on parked cars in the last 12 months. $2.57 million, about 88 a day. (Camera and bus-lane tickets excluded.)
• The average ticket here is $80 — the highest of any neighborhood I've pulled. Astoria is $67, Flushing $71, the Bronx $79. We get fewer tickets than our neighbors and pay more for each one.
• Here's the part that surprised me most: alternate side is almost nothing here. 1,963 tickets — one every four and a half hours. In Astoria it's one every nine minutes. We're not really an ASP neighborhood.
• What we get instead is No Standing: 5,601 tickets, $644K — the single biggest dollar line, at $115 a pop. Then meters (5,658), hydrants (2,643), No Parking (3,701).
• Street by street: 47th Ave 3,276, Center Blvd 2,922, Jackson Ave 2,457, 2nd St 1,969, 48th Ave 1,874, 44th Dr 1,775, 27th St 1,762.
• Double parking barely registers — under 1,000 in the entire precinct, about one every nine hours. Wide streets do that.

Honest caveat on the geography: LIC sits in the 108th, which also covers Sunnyside and Woodside. The full precinct is 127,589 tickets and $9M, but three-quarters of that isn't us — the single biggest line in the whole precinct is the Sunnyside municipal lot at 10,036 tickets, almost all expired meters. So I pulled just the LIC streets for the numbers above.

What changed how I think about it: everywhere else in Queens the game is remembering which day your side gets swept. Here it's about which stretch of curb you're on. Fewer tickets, pricier ones, and almost none of them for the day of the week.

And honest question, since I built this around my own routine: would the green/red view actually change where you look first after 6pm, or is your spot strategy already muscle memory?

The enforcement layer runs on the city's public ticket data, and building it for our borough taught me things I couldn't unsee:

• 957,713 tickets were written on parked cars in the Bronx in the last 12 months — $76 million, about 2,624 a day. (Camera/bus-lane tickets excluded — this is purely tickets on parked cars.)
• Alternate side: 224,331 tickets, $14.6M — one every 2 minutes, all year. Nearly a quarter of every ticket in the borough.
• Hydrants: 104,194 tickets, $12M. One every 5 minutes.
• Here's the one that separates us from the rest of the city: 66,754 inspection-sticker and 35,610 registration-sticker tickets — $6.65M combined. Over 100,000 tickets that have nothing to do with where you parked. That's a ticket for being unable to afford to get right, not for taking someone's spot.
• Double parking: 65,800 tickets, $7.57M — one every 8 minutes.
• Grand Concourse alone: 23,363 tickets. Then White Plains Rd (21,246), Webster Ave (15,556), E Tremont (14,807), Jerome (13,964), Westchester (13,757). The 52nd Precinct (Fordham/Norwood) leads the borough at 127,770 — more tickets by itself than all of Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst combined.
• Average ticket here: $79.

That last one changed how I think about it — $76M pulled out of the borough with the lowest median income in the city, a fifth of it for stickers and cleaning schedules rather than anything to do with blocking traffic.

And honest question, since I built this around my own routine: would the green/red view actually change where you look first after 6pm, or is your spot strategy already muscle memory?

The enforcement layer runs on the city's public ticket data, and building it for our neighborhood taught me things I couldn't unsee:

• 225,656 tickets were written on parked cars in the 109th Precinct in the last 12 months — $16 million, about 618/day. That's more than double what Bensonhurst's precinct generated, and Flushing is the reason Queens drivers think the rules are different here. They are. (Camera/bus-lane tickets excluded.)
• It's not alternate side that gets you here — it's meters and No Standing. Meter tickets: 58,299 — one every 9 minutes, all year. No Standing: 26,670 tickets = $3.07 million, the single biggest line item.
• Main St alone: 20,704 tickets. One street. Add Northern Blvd (14,206), 37th Ave (11,729), College Point Blvd (9,212), Roosevelt and the 39th–41st Ave grid, and the downtown core around the 7 train is roughly one of every three tickets in the precinct.
• My favorite find: a municipal parking lot — "Flushing Lot #2" — got 4,908 tickets, which puts the parking lot in the precinct's top ten. Even the designated parking generates tickets here.
• The residential side streets east of downtown carry a fraction of the enforcement. Ten extra minutes of walking is worth about $71 a ticket around here.

That last one genuinely changed how I park — I stopped fighting for the downtown grid entirely.

And honest question, since I built this around my own routine: would the green/red view actually change where you look first, or have you already surrendered to the muni-meter?

The enforcement layer runs on the city's public ticket data, and building it for our neighborhood taught me things I couldn't unsee:

• 112,721 tickets were written on parked cars in the 62nd Precinct in the last 12 months — $8.88 million, about 309/day. (Camera/bus-lane tickets excluded.)
• Fire hydrants alone: 20,519 tickets, $2.36M — one every 26 minutes, around the clock, all year.
• Alternate side is a $1.97M line item by itself — 30,393 tickets, one every 17 minutes.
• 86th St (9,586), 18th Ave (5,096) and Bay Pkwy (~4,000) — the three shopping spines — are roughly one of every six tickets in the precinct. The streets everyone circles under the D train are exactly where the tickets happen.
• The side streets one block off the spines carry a fraction of the enforcement. Ten extra steps of walking is worth about $79 a ticket around here.

That last one genuinely changed how I park after work — I stopped fighting for the avenues.

And honest question, since I built this around my own routine: would the green/red view actually change where you look first after 6pm, or is your spot strategy already muscle memory?

The enforcement layer runs on the city's public ticket data and building it for our neighborhood 

taught me things I couldn't unsee:

• 85,670 tickets were written on parked cars in the 68th Precinct in the last 12 months — $6.53 million, about 235/day. (Camera/bus-lane tickets excluded.)
• Fire hydrants alone: 11,212 tickets, $1.29M — one every 47 minutes, all year.
• 5th Ave (9,532) and 3rd Ave (8,960) are over a fifth of the whole precinct by themselves. The avenues everyone circles are exactly where the tickets happen.
• The side streets one block off the spines carry a fraction of the enforcement. Ten extra steps of walking is worth about $76 a ticket around here.

That last one genuinely changed how I park after work — I stopped fighting for the avenues.

And honest question, since I built this around my own routine: would the green/red view actually change where you look first after 6pm, or is your spot strategy already muscle memory?

Hey everyone,

just wanted to pass along a study resource for anyone prepping for the upcoming Staff or Tech Sergeant WAPS cycles. 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/airmen-guide-pro-waps-prep/id6794659160

P.S let me know if you need offer codes

NYC Summer Streets returns to Manhattan this Saturday, August 1, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The route runs from the Brooklyn Bridge up Lafayette Street and Park Avenue, crosses to Broadway around 110th Street, and continues all the way to Dyckman.

I pulled the route together with the nearby active street closures and Open Streets because the information is normally scattered across several DOT pages. I’m especially curious whether the full route will be realistically runnable/rideable once the crowds and neighborhood events start building.

Is anyone attempting the entire Brooklyn Bridge to Dyckman route? If not, which section would you recommend?

Hey everyone,

I’m currently refining NYC Intel, an all in one data and utility app tailored specifically for folks living and working in New York City.

I’m looking for fellow NYC residents or anyone who loves breaking things to mess around with it and give me some brutal, honest feedback.

Essentially, it's designed to stream and organize critical city data and local info in one clean interface. If you've ever wanted a more streamlined, data rich way to navigate or track what's happening in the city this is what I'm aiming to solve.

Would appreciate if anyone wants to try (app has free trial)

if you’re down to test it out send me a DM and I'll share the link.

Appreciate any feedback, feature requests or UI roasts you've got for me

Hi everyone,

As a New York based developer, I’ve always found it incredibly frustrating to navigate the city’s ancient, non mobile friendly public data portals while out on the move. Trying to get a quick, seamless spot check on a phone wasn't the best experience. Multiple webs and no clean consolidation of quaility of life services.

I did dedicate last 4 months to my project. It hooks directly into live city and state API pipelines, ingests the raw data and streams it into mobile map layer.

The screenshot above shows my active "Cool Off" layer. NYC releases public data for outdoor relief, but it's wildly fractured across completely different agency datasets (Parks & Rec, DOHMH, DEP, etc.). I consolidated them into a single geospatial map to track real-time urban heat relief, mapping out pools, splash pads, water fountains, and misting stations, but there are way more (just didn't want to get it to picture heavy).

Data & Tech Stack

• Data Source: NYC Open Data / Socrata SODA API (live municipal datasets).
• Tools Used: Custom native mobile GIS mapping frameworks and Swift/Kotlin background polling architecture.

Looking for Data & Aggregation Feedback..

I wanted to build an engine that handles high density municipal data consumption sustainably without throwing massive payload stress onto the city's endpoints.

If you are a data engineer, GIS nerd or backend architecture enthusiast, I would love for you to tear into this from a data perspective. I'm really curious to get your feedback on:

1. Geospatial Data Density: When panning through high-volume areas like the Bronx or Brooklyn, does the point clustering and iconography feel informative or does it cross the line into visual noise?
2. Caching vs. Polling: Right now, I'm using an aggressive background caching layer on my servers for datasets like 311 spikes and housing violations to avoid hitting the Socrata API limits. How do you personally optimize the balance between real time accuracy and payload efficiency for mobile clients?

If you want to check it out and mess around with the data layers and break the aggregation engine, you can find it here:

• iOS App Store: NYC Intel

Would really appreciate any feedback.

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone in this community. It’s honestly one of the most engaged and fair reddits I’ve come across and I really appreciate all the discussions and engagements with my recent data posts.

I wanted to give anyone here pro month of NYC Intel for free.

If you feel like checking it out, I’d genuinely love to hear what you think. You can explore your block’s quality of life data, see recent 311 trends, check safety and neighborhood signals, plan your daily commute or just browse the live NYC map to discover what’s happening around the city.

If you find anything that could be improved or have ideas for new features, I’d really like to hear them.

Thanks again

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone in this community. It’s honestly one of the most engaged and fair reddits I’ve come across and I really appreciate all the discussions and engagements with my recent data posts.

I wanted to give anyone here pro month of NYC Intel for free.

If you feel like checking it out, I’d genuinely love to hear what you think. You can explore your block’s quality of life data, see recent 311 trends, check safety and neighborhood signals, plan your daily commute or just browse the live NYC map to discover what’s happening around the city.

If you find anything that could be improved or have ideas for new features, I’d really like to hear them.

Thanks again

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone in this community. It’s honestly one of the most engaged and fair reddits I’ve come across and I really appreciate all the discussions and engagements with my recent data posts.

I wanted to give anyone here pro month of NYC Intel for free.

If you feel like checking it out, I’d genuinely love to hear what you think. You can explore your block’s quality of life data, see recent 311 trends, check safety and neighborhood signals, plan your daily commute or just browse the live NYC map to discover what’s happening around the city.

If you find anything that could be improved or have ideas for new features, I’d really like to hear them.

Thanks again