NYC Open Data / Read one dataset's columns and metadata

Metadata for one dataset on data.cityofnewyork.us: name, description, owner, licence and attribution, row and data update times, and every column with its field name (use these names in SoQL), data type and description. Call it before the query route to learn the column names. An unknown dataset id is a miss ($0). Free: the Socrata SODA API on data.cityofnewyork.us needs no key. Anonymous calls share an IP rate limit, so a burst can answer 429 (rate_limited, $0). This data has been modified for use from its original source, NYC Open Data (the City of New York). The City of New York cannot vouch for the accuracy or completeness of the data.