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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 16 kiosks
Best kiosks in New York City
The 10 most notable kiosks in New York City, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange57 1st Avenue
57 1st Ave NE
226 m from First Street, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 3.182, percentile 100 of 16
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange377 Flatbush Ave
377 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238
240 m from Grand Army Plaza, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.577, percentile 93.33 of 16
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange208 Rivington St
208 Rivington St, New York, NY 10002, United States
384 m from Essex Street, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.577, percentile 86.67 of 16
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange102 W 79th St New York
102 W 79th St New York, NY 10024 United States
165 m from 81st Street, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.577, percentile 80 of 16
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange109 Franklin St
109 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY 11222
282 m from Greenpoint Avenue, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.577, percentile 73.33 of 16
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange97 Stanton St
97 Stanton St, New York, NY 10002, United States
177 m from Rivington Street, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.577, percentile 66.67 of 16
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange810 Grand St
810 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11206
207 m from Grand Street, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.577, percentile 60 of 16
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange248 Kingston Ave
248 Kingston Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213, United States
178 m from Kingston Avenue station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.577, percentile 53.33 of 16
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KeyNest - Smart Key Exchange300 East 86th St
300 E 86th St, New York, NY 10028, United States
27 m from 86th Street, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.577, percentile 46.67 of 16
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10
Prosperity Pos Solutions
226 Front St
187 m from Fulton Street, metro
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 2.577, percentile 40 of 16
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).