This dataset contains historical air quality time series for New York City covering 2022-08-01 to 2026-02-18. It includes key air pollution indicators such as AQI indices and major pollutants, plus city metadata including coordinates, administrative areas, and population. Use this dataset to analyze long-run air quality trends in New York City, compare New York City with other cities, and build models that link air quality to urban characteristics. Air quality values are retrieved from the Open-Meteo Air Quality service using the cams_global domain, and city metadata is derived from the GeoNames city list. Nitiraj Kulkarni