The NYC BigApps3.0 competition, a city-run contest that encourages developers to play with government data, recently held its award ceremony in New York City. Ninety-six apps were submitted, four of which used CartoDB, including Scene Near Me, which was awarded second place in the Popular Choice Award. Scene Near Me is an example of how CartoDB can help store and query geospatial data in real-time, using NYC Open Data initiative's public film locations data. Another notable app, Taxono.my, developed by Alastair Coote, uses CartoDB to store and query street intersections for any address in the city. The competition provides access to over 700 city data sets, with several projects partnering with CartoDB as a partner API.