curl -o nynta.zip "https://nycopendata.socrata.com/api/geospatial/cpf4-rkhq?method=export&format=Shapefile"
cd nynta_12c
ogr2ogr can't deal with the projection directly. Replace content of nynta.prj
with the following projection string:
PROJCS["NAD_1983_StatePlane_New_York_Long_Island_FIPS_3104_Feet",GEOGCS["GCS_North_American_1983",DATUM["D_North_American_1983",SPHEROID["GRS_1980",6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["lambert_conformal_conic_2sp"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",984250.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],PARAMETER["longitude_of_center",-74.0],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",40.66666666666666],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_2",41.03333333333333],PARAMETER["latitude_of_center",40.16666666666666],UNIT["Foot_US",0.3048006096012192]]