New York City Buildings By Height

I live between Philadelphia and New York City. Every time I drive I-95 to New York City I look forward to seeing the skyline. The map below shows exactly where in New York City all of the tallest building are located.

I gathered the data for this map from New York City Open Data.

Building Height is calculated as the difference from the building elevation from the Elevation point feature class and the elevation in the interpolated TIN model. This is the height of the roof above the ground elevation, NOT its height above sea level. Records where this is zero or NULL mean that this information was not available. So for example this is why you may see One World Trade Center as being advertised as 1,776 feet tall but on this map it is listed as 1,408 feet tall. For advertising purposes the largest number will be used.

It is also important to note the units of measurement are based on the coordinate reference system used, which for all Planimetrics is New York State Plane Coordinates, Long Island East Zone, NAD83, US foot. All measurements in the attribute tables are in US foot. The building height information is updated through our planimetric updates every 4 years. In between those 4-year update cycles, DoITT manually updates building height information from a variety of sources -- (1) Final as-built heights as shown in plan drawings posted on Department of Buildings BIS website (2) EagleView Oblique imagery, direct measurements taken on photogrammetrically controlled aerial imagery (3) Cyclomedia imagery, direct measurements were taken on photogrammetrically controlled terrestrial imagery (for buildings less than 60’ tall, only)

If you want to see the full sized image you can download it here.