{"data":{"id":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-charter-198","jurisdiction":"us-nyc","citation":"N.Y.C. Charter § 198","heading":"Section 198. City map and street addresses.","body":"a. The city map is hereby continued.\n\nb. The director of city planning shall be the custodian of the city map, and it shall be his or her duty to complete and maintain the same and to register thereon all changes resulting from action authorized by law.\n\n1. No later than January 1, 2028, such director shall consolidate each component of the city map maintained by the topographical bureau for each borough into a single city map, which shall be the official city map, provided that, where the city planning commission determines that such consolidation of each such component into a single city map by such date is not practicable, the director of city planning shall consolidate each such component into a single city map by such date as such commission determines is feasible.\n\n2. No later than January 1, 2029, such director shall create a digital city map and file an application for review of such digital city map pursuant to sections one hundred ninety-seven-c and one hundred ninety-seven-d, provided that, upon finding that the creation of a digital map is not practicable by such date, the director of city planning shall create such digital map by such date as such director determines is feasible. Upon approval of such digital map pursuant to section one hundred ninety-seven-d, such digital map shall become the city map.\n\nc. The city map shall be on file in the office of the department of city planning, and certified copies thereof and of all changes thereto shall be filed in the offices of the corporation counsel, of the city clerk and of the borough president of the borough in which the land shown on the map is located and in the office in which conveyances of real estate are required to be recorded in the county in which the land shown on the map is located, provided that the upon adoption of the digital city map as the city map pursuant to paragraph two of subdivision b of this section, such map need not be on file.\n\nd. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this charter or the administrative code, the director of city planning shall assign street numbers of buildings. In all cases where a street shall have been numbered or renumbered, the director shall thereafter adjust and renumber such street as the same may be required from time to time. The director may enact rules relating to: (i) the display, size, form, visibility and location of street numbers; (ii) enforcement of the provisions of this section and any such rules; and (iii) civil penalties for violations of such provisions or rules.*","path":["New York City Charter","Chapter 8: City Planning"],"source_url":"https://files.amlegal.com/pdffiles/NewYorkCity/Charter/XML.zip","current_through":"Local Law 2026/135 (enacted August 31, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T02:48:59Z","sha256":"2c3e21b11e740a21239232dd9b5b5e5318a79cba2a5d62effe38b110376b78ae","source_id":"us-nyc","stale":true,"prev":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-charter-197-g","next":"us-nyc/n.y.c.-charter-199"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}