Web start-up EveryBlock and The New York Times have teamed up to expand political news offerings on EveryBlock's New York site, Journalism.co.uk reported Thursday.

EveryBlock, created by Adrian Holovaty and funded by a grant from the Knight News Challenge, is a data-driven site that maps out news and information by city block. The new section on EveryBlock's New York site will notify users when one of their local officials is mentioned in The New York Times, according to Journalism.co.uk.

EveryBlock will use data from the Times' Represent site, which is searchable and catalogues news coverage by elected official, according to a posting by Holovaty on EveryBlock.

The new section on EveryBlock will be called "political news items." Terms of the agreement were not discussed.