Boston Startup: BlockAvenue Officially The New Kid On The Block

We got a sneak peak at a great freshly launched Boston starutp in August, BlockAvenue. This unique startup has been described as a yelp for neighborhoods, and to some extent it is, but it actually offers a whole lot more.

While BlockAvenue is a bit of a discovery, and recommendation startup, it’s also a big data startup wrapped up in a really sexy frame. To that end, BlockAvenue, in it’s current form, touches over 50 million data points of neighborhood information. BlockAvenue helps you discover, and research neighborhoods any way you want.

Picture this, you’re thinking about moving to a new neighborhood. You want to find out about crime, schools,restaurants, transits and sex offenders. These are the typical things people research online before moving somewhere. Before BlockAvenue that would be five different websites and of course if you didn’t go to the right site you may be out of luck with outdated data and searching even more.  BlockAvenue lays it all out for you.

“Until now, location-based information, has not been aggregated in an easy and useful way for people to understand and consume,” said BlockAvenue Founder Anthony Longo. “By providing an intuitive platform powered by both geo-data and social conversation, we can help people understand what the makeup is or where the trend is heading at virtually any location throughout the U.S.”

BlockAvenue lays everything out for you across a map. It aggregates a ton of data to give you a “block score” this block score is an A-F grade based on some of the information about like crime, sex offenders, schools, transit and crowdsourced reviews. As you can see from checking out DuPont Circle, a trendy neighborhood in Washington DC, there are already a few user reviews in the neighborhood.

The hope is that more people will join in the conversation to add to the data sets provided by BlockAvenue.  As more and more people add their block reviews the platform will grow exponentially. This is another case where most of these resources have already been online but never aggregated in such an easy to use way.

BlockAvenue was built in DogPatch Labs at the Microsoft building in Boston Massachusetts.

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Check out our interview with BlockAvenue here

Check out BlockAvenue for yourself here

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