This is great: NY City Council passed yesterday the Intro29A measure that requires all city agencies to make their public data available on NYCOpenData portal:
"Intro 29 would phase in over the next six years, starting with a technical manual to be released by DoITT this summer guiding city agencies on how to format and upload their data. Agencies would have until early next year to upload all public datasets currently on the internet to the new portal. By 2018, all public data would have to be posted. For the time being, DoITT is planning to power the new data portal with Socrata, the service that currently hosts NYC OpenData."