Row Houses NYC: How Many Row Houses are There in New York City?

Data, expanding design practices, Middle Density, Territory and mobility, Urban Omnibus, Urban Omnibus

Architect’s role, Buildings, Data, Dataviz & simulation, Drone-technology, Drones, Empowering society, Housing, Mapping, Maps, New York, New York City, Research, Residential, Urban research, USA

Neil Freeman is an urban planner and artist. His work has appeared on the internet and in exhibitions in Chicago, London, New York, and Cambridge. He studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Oberlin College. He lives in Brooklyn.

The past decade of urban cartography has given us dozens of new ways to see New York City: by Census statistics, by Airbnb rentals, by cab rides, and by incarceration costs, to name just a few. Google’s three-dimensional satellite view offers a drone’s dreamlike perspective on the city.
This week, we add a survey of New York’s row houses to the mix. Artist and urban planner Neil Freeman has mined the city’s tax lot data to identify row houses — a category of building we all know well, but one the city doesn’t officially recognize — to finally put a count on the number of row houses in New York.