Every year, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) provides programmers, designers and entrepreneurs with access to municipal data sets that they can use to build programmes for the NYC BigApps competition to solve issues affecting city residents. Among the winners last year were JustFix.nyc, which helps tenants build their case for getting adversarial landlords to fix things in their apartments and Treasures, which won the “zero waste” challenge for its mobile app that allows users to share unwanted household items such as furniture with someone who wants them, instead of throwing them away.
