NYC Block Score
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NYC Block Score - New Yorkers don't pick neighborhoods. They pick blocks.

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NYC Block Score scores any NYC block across 5 dimensions pulled live from NYC Open Data — noise, green space, restaurants & bars, safety, and construction. Type an address, get a 1–10 score with plain-English labels so you know what you're looking at, not just a number. Beta launch. Data is real, scoring is live, I'm actively iterating. Some outer borough tree coverage is patchy. I'd rather ship honest than wait for perfect. Try your block. Send it to your landlord. Or your enemies.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Elushika — senior product designer by day, obsessive New Yorker always. I built NYC Block Score because I kept making apartment decisions based on vibes and regretting it. Turns out NYC Open Data has five live APIs covering exactly what you actually care about — noise, trees, bars, safety, construction — and nobody had turned them into something a normal person could use in 30 seconds. So I did. The design challenge was harder than the data challenge. A number without context is useless. Getting "Chaotic" to feel more useful than "3/10" took more iterations than I expected — and it's still evolving. This is a genuine beta. I'm here all day to answer questions, hear what's broken, and find out what your block scored. Drop it below — I'm especially curious about outer borough results where the tree data gets thin. Thanks for checking it out. 🌳
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Hey everyone — quick update from the maker 👋

Score axis clarity — a few of you correctly flagged that "higher is better" isn't intuitive when you're looking at noise or construction. A high noise score means less noise. That's getting clearer labeling in the next update.

Outer borough tree data — the street tree inventory has real gaps outside Manhattan and I'm not papering over it. You'll see it reflected honestly in the scores until the underlying data improves.

Safety dimension — the most thoughtful critique I've gotten is that NYPD complaint data captures who gets policed, not who feels safe. That's a real limitation and I'm thinking carefully about how to weight and contextualize it better.

What's working: the plain-English labels (Quiet, Leafy, Chaotic) are landing the way I hoped. And the compare feature is getting used more than anything else — turns out New Yorkers really do want to settle block arguments with data.

Still very much in beta. Still very much listening.

Drop your block below if you haven't yet — I'm reading every single one. 🌳

Pulled up my block in Astoria and the noise score nailed it. Cool that the data is live and the labels actually tell you what's behind the number instead of just throwing a 6.4 at you.

Typed in my block in Astoria and the noise score nailed it. Love that the labels explain what each number actually means instead of just leaving you guessing.

honestly love that you ship with the tree coverage caveat out in the open, that kind of honesty is rare. one thing that would make this way more useful for me though, adding a "change over time" layer so you can see if construction noise or safety scores have gotten better or worse in the last year would be huge. helps separate a block that's just always loud from one that's actively getting worse.

pulled up my block in astoria and the noise score nailed it. cool to see the breakdown instead of just one number.

Looked up my block in Astoria and the noise score nailed it, basically a nonstop construction zone over here. Wish the tree data was better out this way but appreciate that you flagged it instead of pretending otherwise.

the plain-English labels alongside the 1-10 score is genuinely smart UX, way more useful than another dashboard that just throws a number at you. love the honesty about patchy tree coverage too.

Love this idea, especially the plain English labels. One thing that would make it way more useful for me as a renter: let me weight the dimensions myself. Noise matters way more to me than restaurants, but right now the overall score treats everything equally. Maybe let me pick what matters most and see the block re-score in real time.