The New York car dealer database,keyed to the accounts you already have
1,113 New York dealership rooftops, downstate and up, each with a stable Hermes dealer ID and website key so the file matches cleanly against the dealer accounts already sitting in your CRM. 1 credit per rooftop, and you never pay for the same one twice.
What is the New York car dealer database?
The New York car dealer database is the rooftop file for 1,113 dealerships in the state, and it is built to be joined rather than just read. Two columns exist for that purpose: dealer_id, a stable Hermes identifier for the rooftop, and dealer_website_id, the store's primary domain as a host key - both far more reliable than matching on a dealership name string, which changes every time a store rebrands or a group renames a point. Around those keys sit the fields a CRM record usually lacks: legal business name, department phone lines, OEM franchise mix, live inventory, founded year and years in business, employee and decision-maker counts, social profiles and website technographics. New York is a market of two halves, a dense downstate metro and a wide upstate footprint, and the same keys work across both.
Match on keys, not on name strings
Every rooftop carries dealer_id and dealer_website_id alongside the website URL itself. Match your existing accounts on the domain and you get a clean one-to-one join; match on the display name and you inherit every 'Inc', 'Auto Group' and rebrand your records have accumulated.
Two markets, one state
The five boroughs, Long Island and Westchester run at metro density, while the corridor through Albany, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo is a wide upstate footprint with different store economics. City and ZIP filters let one rep own downstate and another own upstate without splitting the data model.
Your account list decays, the file does not
Ownership churns: Kerrigan Advisors counted 478 dealership buy/sell transactions in the twelve months ending March 2026, a record and 114% above the pre-pandemic norm. The underlying export rebuilds daily, so re-pulling a rooftop you own refreshes its inventory, headcount and website tech at no charge.
Dodge leads a franchise-heavy state
New York skews toward franchised points, and Dodge carries more of its rooftops than any other brand. If your CRM only holds the accounts a rep has personally touched, filtering the state by franchise usually surfaces a meaningful set of stores that were never entered in the first place.
New York regions we cover
Compliance & sourcing
The question that comes up on enrichment work is not privacy but licensing, because a rooftop record names no individual. The terms let you use these records inside your own business - enrich your CRM, route accounts, score territories, build reports for your own team. They do not let you resell, relicense, republish or redistribute the data to a third party, in any form, fee or no fee. So if you are an agency planning to enrich a client's system with this file, or a platform planning to expose it to your customers, ask us first: that is a licensing conversation, not a technical one, and it is easier to have before the integration than after.
Industry context
Independent research on this segment, from the primary sources. We don't publish these figures — we read them off the publisher's own page, and last checked every one on .
Kerrigan Advisors · Q1 2026
Blue Sky Report — buy/sell market data
The dealership buy/sell market completed 478 transactions in the twelve months ending March 2026 — a record, and 114% above the pre-pandemic norm — with Q1 franchise sales up 21% year over year.
Read it at Kerrigan AdvisorsUrban Science · Year-end 2025 review
Automotive Franchise Activity Report
The U.S. ended 2025 with 18,398 franchised dealership rooftops, essentially flat against 18,374 a year earlier.
Counts franchised rooftops; NADA's ~16,990 counts reporting franchised dealerships. Different methodologies — not interchangeable.
Read it at Urban Science
Frequently asked questions
How many New York dealership rooftops are in the database?
1,113, spanning the five boroughs, Long Island, Westchester and the Hudson Valley plus the upstate markets around Albany, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo. Dodge appears on more New York rooftops than any other brand. Franchised stores and independent lots share one schema, so a statewide account universe needs no reconciliation.
How do I match these rooftops to dealer accounts already in my CRM?
Join on dealer_website_id, the rooftop's primary domain host key, or on dealer_id, the stable Hermes identifier for the store. Both are more durable than the dealership name, which changes with rebrands and ownership transfers. The website URL and full address are on the record too, which is what most CRMs fall back to when a domain is missing.
Does a New York rooftop record say which dealer group owns the store?
No, and that is deliberate. Parent-group affiliation is exclusive to the Dealer Groups product, which covers 1,432 groups at 5 credits each and ships each group's member roster - including the dealer IDs that join straight back to these rooftop records. The join runs group to rooftops, not the other way around.
Will I be charged again for a New York rooftop I already bought?
No. Ownership is tracked per rooftop on your account, so a store you already unlocked is skipped at order time rather than re-charged, and re-downloading it later is free. Buying 400 New York rooftops when you already own 90 of them costs 310 credits.
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