What can readers NOT find on EveryBlock?
• We only publish news that’s relevant to the block or neighborhood level. Anything that applies to a larger area (e.g., the entire city, or a New York City borough) is outside the scope of our site. • We focus on news, as opposed to static data. On EveryBlock, you’ll find a list of recent restaurant inspections near you, but you won’t find a list of the train stations or schools near you. We’re a news site, not a city directory. Roughly speaking, we’re interested in local data that has a date and a specific location. • Our policy is to avoid publishing data that identifies addresses of people, for privacy reasons. Hence, we don’t publish sex offender data, divorce records, etc. The exception to this policy is mainstream news articles; if a newspaper publishes a person’s address, our system will detect the address in the article and link to it.
