If you're into that, you might like Every Block, In an interview on fimoculous the founder, Adrian Holovaty comes up with these gems:

* San Francisco public housing listings by accessibility status. Just over 90% of the public housing listings posted to the San Francisco city site are not accessible.

* Chicago has a special business license type of "Wrigley Field," which applies to the famous rooftop decks across the street from the park.

* Many elevator violations are reported in New York -- more than any other type of building violation that we tabulate.

* Building permits for bath houses in San Francisco. You know, just because.

Also, more generally, it's fascinating to follow address-specific breaking news/events on our site. For example, a couple of weeks ago, a water main broke on the north side of Chicago. Afterward, on the relevant EveryBlock pages -- for example, Ravenswood or the 1800 block of W. Montrose -- you could see a bunch of assorted news items about the incident: newspaper articles from the Trib and Sun-Times, TV station reports and Flickr photos of the torn-up street that were taken by some people who happen to live nearby. Each of those "raw" chunks of information was displayed in the timeline of news for that block.

We've seen a similar thing happen with trendy new restaurants. First you see the business license, then (possibly) the liquor license application a few days later, then the restaurant inspection, then a Yelp review or two, then a writeup by the newspaper's dining critic. The story slowly unfolds over time.

Thanks for the site PsyArch, I'll check it out.

Things I like most about city-data:
- apt./housing info
- demographics background
- the fact that they have info on every single incorporated place, including townships
- another place to blog/ find out info about places

I'm big into statistics though; most be those early years of collecting and looking at the back of baseball cards!