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How to Access NYC ACRIS Real Property Master via SODA2

How do we access NYC ACRIS Real Property Master via SODA2?

To recreate the issue:

go to: (step 1)

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/ACRIS-Real-Property-Master/bnx9-e6tj

Navigate to Export -> SODA API - API Docs

you will end up here: (step 2)

https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/#/data.cityofnewyork.us/bnx9-e6tj

We see this authorization screen and even after allow'ing the same screen appears again and again, it seems to be in a loop. Can you help? This works for tiny files but not the ACRIS Master File, it appears.

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Here's a picture of step 2 above:

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Solution

  • Unfortunately the ACRIS Real Property Master filtered view is a bit of a weird case that the City of New York has set up for their data.

    That filtered view (denoted by the blue "funnel" icon you see at the upper left) is actually a limited access version of a dataset that has been made private, hence the page asking you to authenticate before viewing the API docs for the base dataset.

    You can make a limited class of queries through the API endpoint for the filtered view itself:

    https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/bnx9-e6tj.json

    What are you looking to do?