My Neighborhood Dataset

The Boston Archive

Dataset

My Neighborhood Dataset

Using the [My Neighborhood](https://www.boston.gov/my-neighborhood) tool on Boston.gov, residents can search an address and find city resources closest to them, including City Councilor information, the nearest public library and park, early voting information, and more. This is the underlying…

Dataset

Publisher: DoIT Data & Analytics
Spatial coverage: all
Fields: 51
Keywords: address, city council, city services, neighborhood, parks, representation, resource, voting
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/my-neighborhood-dataset

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

Format	Preservation	Size	Digest	Source
CSV	unavailable	477466108	`—`	source
XLSX	referenced	53705	`f2af981e926966c7a5a0e0df66d5d6b875b86d877b9a30eaa67ab280c1a95e3f`	source

Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

Column	Type	Description
`sam_address_id`	text
`full_address`	text
`geom_2249`	text
`city_council_district`	text
`city_council_councilor`	text
`city_council_image`	text
`city_council_webpage`	text
`ons_liaison_ons`	text
`ons_liaison_name`	text
`ons_liaison_pic_url`	text
`ons_liaison_neighborhood`	text
`ons_liaison_webpage`	text
`public_libraries_branch`	text
`public_libraries_address`	text
`public_libraries_district`	text
`public_libraries_zipcode`	text
`community_centers_name`	text
`community_centers_address`	text
`bcyf_pool_centers_name`	text
`bcyf_pool_centers_address`	text
`fire_dept_name`	text
`fire_dept_address`	text
`fire_dept_neighborhood`	text
`parks_name`	text
`parks_ownership`	text
`parks_district`	text
`parks_type`	text
`police_dept_police_station`	text
`police_dept_address`	text
`police_dept_neighborhood`	text
`police_dept_zip`	text
`police_district`	text
`ward_name`	text
`precincts_name`	text
`early_voting_location`	text
`early_voting_address`	text
`early_voting_neighborhood`	text
`early_voting_date_and_time`	text
`snow_parking_lots_name`	text
`snow_parking_lots_address`	text
`snow_parking_lots_fee`	text
`snow_parking_lots_comments`	text
`snow_routes_name`	text
`snow_routes_responsibility`	text
`tot_sprays_address`	text
`tot_sprays_name`	text
`historic_districts_name`	text
`historic_districts_place_name`	text
`historic_districts_year`	text
`historic_districts_status`	text
`historic_districts_use_type`	text

Identity

Identifier: urn:lemay:boston:dataset:my-neighborhood-dataset
Canonical URL: https://boston.fyi/dataset/my-neighborhood-dataset
As JSON: https://boston.fyi/dataset/my-neighborhood-dataset.json
Version: 1 · last changed 2 September 2026

Provenance

Source: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
Licence: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved: 2 September 2026
Source identifier: my-neighborhood-dataset
Attribution: City of Boston
Rights as stated: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#	Operation	Description	Tool
1	`fetch`	retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`
2	`normalize`	mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`