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Digital City: There's an App for Everything!

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The newest crop of mobile applications helps you navigate and participate in the city's best offerings.

It's likely that you don't have enough fingers to count the number of applications available for your mobile device. Subway system maps help you navigate your route and lifestyle apps like restaurant guide Urbanspoon and Foursquare help you to get the most out of the city's bars, restaurants and nightspots. NYC Exit Strategy tells you which subway car will best get you to your exact location. Even 311—the city's non-emergency problem-solving hotline—has a mobile app that allows you to report an unwanted friend in your apartment or a construction serenade at 3am.

The Mayor's office has even gotten into the game. Part of the NY Future Initiative (NYFI), the NYC Big Apps contest invites developers to create mobile apps that make use of the huge amount of data that will be made available from various city agencies. The intent is to "reward the developers of the most useful, inventive, appealing, effective, and commercially viable applications for delivering information from the City of New York's NYC.gov Data Mine to interested users."

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