In 2022, the number of passengers who entered the New York City Subway system amounted to almost 1.2 billion, a year-over-year increase of around 14 percent. During the same year, the busiest station of the subway network, serving 54.3 million passengers, was Time Square-42nd Street, located under Times Square and the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is the corporation responsible for public transit in the New York City metropolitan area and is the largest transit authority in the United States. The MTA operates a commuter rail service combined with local and express bus lines, a bus rapid transit system, and the NYC Subway. Prior to the pandemic, the MTA transported approximately 2.6 billion passengers, of which around 66 percent traveled on the underground network. In 2020, MTA ridership suffered a considerable decrease of almost 63 percent compared to the previous year, falling to 960 million paid passengers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Passenger numbers rose to 1.3 billion in 2022, but ridership remained low compared to pre-pandemic figures. U.S. public transportation From coast to coast, the public transit networks in the United States move billions of passengers every year. In 2020 alone, the number of people transported by public transportation amounted to 9.9 billion. A year later, transit ridership dropped sharply to 4.6 billion passengers, a year-on-year decrease of 53.2 percent directly corresponding with the movement and travel restrictions imposed by the federal and state governments. By 2023, the number of passenger trips had recovered to 7.11 billion, which was still 28 percent below levels in 2019.

A range of indicators for a selection of cities from the New York City Global City database.

Dataset includes the following:

Geography

City Area (km2)

Metro Area (km2)

People

City Population (millions)

Metro Population (millions)

Foreign Born

Annual Population Growth

Economy

GDP Per Capita (thousands $, PPP rates, per resident)

Primary Industry

Secondary Industry

Share of Global 500 Companies (%)

Unemployment Rate

Poverty Rate

Transportation

Public Transportation

Mass Transit Commuters

Major Airports

Major Ports

Education

Students Enrolled in Higher Education

Percent of Population with Higher Education (%)

Higher Education Institutions

Tourism

Total Tourists Annually (millions)

Foreign Tourists Annually (millions)

Domestic Tourists Annually (millions)

Annual Tourism Revenue ($US billions)

Hotel Rooms (thousands)

Health

Infant Mortality (Deaths per 1,000 Births)

Life Expectancy in Years (Male)

Life Expectancy in Years (Female)

Physicians per 100,000 People

Number of Hospitals

Anti-Smoking Legislation

Culture

Number of Museums

Number of Cultural and Arts Organizations

Environment

Green Spaces (km2)

Air Quality

Laws or Regulations to Improve Energy Efficiency

Retrofitted City Vehicle Fleet

Bike Share Program

A dataset listing New York cities by population for 2024.

This dataset provides subway ridership estimates on an hourly basis by subway station complex and class of fare payment.

This dataset provides the load percentage for each express bus route at its maximum load point (the bus stop where the highest number of passengers are on the bus) by direction, hour, day type (weekday, weekends and holidays), aggregated by week.

The City-based Optimization Model for Energy Technologies (COMET-NYC) is an energy system modeling tool developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. COMET is applied to New York City to support long-term, metropolitan-scale air, climate, and energy planning. Built on the internationally recognized TIMES modeling framework, COMET-NYC identifies the least-cost mix of technologies and fuels required to meet projected energy demands from 2010 to 2055 across NYC’s buildings, transportation, and electricity sectors. COMET-NYC uses a scenario-based optimization approach to simulate the deployment of energy technologies under various assumptions, policies, and constraints. It incorporates local data sources to estimate and calibrate energy consumption and emissions at the borough level. It tracks both greenhouse gases (GHGs) and criteria air pollutants, supporting city-level climate and air quality policy evaluation. The model includes detailed modules for the residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation sectors, accounting for current and future technology costs, fuel types, and efficiency parameters. It uses linear programming to minimize system-wide costs while meeting energy service demands and emissions targets. COMET-NYC supports both retrospective analysis (e.g., calibration to 2010, 2015, and 2020) and future scenario exploration, such as electrification strategies. Two versions of the model are included in this dataset: v15.0.9, which underpinned emissions reduction planning during the 2023–2024 NYC budgeting cycle, and v16.0.1, which includes updated buildings data and improved calibration. The documentation included various appendices for background data to build COMET-NYC. Appendix A through F are included in this dataset. Appendix A provides time slice documentation; Appendix B provides PLUTO 2010 data; Appendix C provides original 2014 building end-use demand splits for NYC; Appendix D provides EIA 2023 building technology data; APPENDIX E provides 2015 NYMTC SEDS population and employment forecasts; and APPENDIX F provides Documentation of Transportation Sector Emission Factors Updates and related input datasets for MOVES model. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Kaplan, O., Z. Carroll, M. Pied, R. Chaffanjon, and K. Vaillancourt. Documentation for application of City-based Optimization Model for Energy Technologies (COMET) to New York City to support metropolitan-scale air, climate, and energy planning. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA, 2025.

Data extracted from records of tickets on file with NYS DMV. The tickets were issued to motorists for violations of: NYS Vehicle & Traffic Law (VTL), Thruway Rules and Regulations, Tax Law, Transportation Law, Parks and Recreation Regulations, Local New York City Traffic Ordinances, and NYS Penal Law pertaining to the involvement of a motor vehicle in acts of assault, homicide, manslaughter and criminal negligence resulting in injury or death.

Parking Permits for People with Disabilities (PPPD- City) are issued to people who have a disability that severely and permanently impairs mobility and requires the use of a private automobile for transportation. Non-drivers, such as children with qualifying disabilities, are also eligible for consideration.

In 2020, NYC DOT conducted a panel survey of respondents who completed the 2019 CMS. The three surveys allowed the agency to better understand how residents traveled and used public spaces during the stay-at-home period and reopening phases of the pandemic. This is the first panel survey that was fielded from May 4 – May 8, 2020.