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by CPLX 3917 days ago
I wonder if that's accurate. One of the big differences between Queens vs the rest of NYC is in the way postal addresses are handled.

In Manhattan every single address ends with "New York NY" and in Brooklyn every address ends in "Brooklyn NY", but in Queens the addresses correspond to the individual "cities" or rather neighborhoods that comprise the borough. So instead of "Queens NY" addresses end with "Long Island City NY" or "Flushing NY" or "Jamaica NY" despite being in the city of NYC.

So maybe this side project, which presumably is based on scraping the data from the New Yorker site, doesn't have all the various areas of Queens coded into it.

Or maybe it does, I'm just speculating wildly without actually looking into the matter.

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I used the Google Maps Geocoding API to convert street addresses into lat/lng. It seems to handle the idiosyncrasies of Queens addresses well. That said, if you see something that looks out of place, please let me know and I'll correct the data.