Our Data
Every answer has a source.
Our scores and answers are built on official city, state and federal records, plus a few commercial listings for the things that change weekly. Here's what we can tell you about a neighborhood — and where the answers come from.
262
Neighborhoods197 residential
2,900+
K-12 schools
20+
Public Agencies
Neighborhood scores computed October 28, 2026 · State tests 2025 · NYC School Survey 2025 · Census 2018–2022
01 — Schools & Zones
Schools your kids will actually attend.
Locations, quality ratings, class sizes, parent satisfaction, student demographics, and zone boundaries for public, charter, and private schools across the city.
Drawn from official NYC schools and U.S. Census records.
Questions we answer
Is the zoned school actually any good?
Public, charter, or private — what fits?
How big are the classes, and are parents happy?
02 — Safety & Health
Is it safe? Straight answers.
Crime reports, traffic collisions, housing violations, air quality, lead testing, and asthma data — so you see the full picture, not just a number.
Drawn from NYC public-safety, health, and housing records.
Questions we answer
How safe is this block, really?
Is the air okay for a kid with asthma?
Anything I should know before I sign a lease?
03 — Demographics
Who lives here, really.
Income, education, homeownership, diversity, and child population — the facts behind the feel of a neighborhood.
Drawn from the U.S. Census and NYC Planning.
Questions we answer
Who would my neighbors be?
Is this a family neighborhood?
Can families like ours afford to stay?
04 — Transportation & Bikes
Getting around with a stroller.
Subway stations, bus stops, bike lanes, and Citi Bike docks — plus wheelchair accessibility for every station, and weekday-morning transit times from each residential neighborhood to the city’s main job centers.
Drawn from the MTA and NYC transportation records. Commute times are computed from MTA, NYC DOT and NYC Ferry schedules, leaving 7:30–9:00 on a weekday; streets © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Questions we answer
How close is the subway, and which lines stop there?
Is the station stroller- and wheelchair-friendly?
Where can the kids ride?
How long is the weekday-morning commute to the main job centers?
05 — Family Resources
The stuff that makes a neighborhood work.
After-school programs, pre-K seats, playgrounds, libraries, parks, hospitals, and kids’ activities — the infrastructure families depend on.
Drawn from official city records — plus live commercial listings for the things that change weekly.
Questions we answer
Where’s the nearest pre-K seat?
What is there to do on a Saturday?
Playgrounds, libraries, after-school — close by?
06 — Quality of Life
What the neighbors are complaining about.
Noise, rodents, sanitation, graffiti, and parking — the everyday complaints, mapped by neighborhood so you know what to expect.
Drawn from the city’s 311 service-request records.
Questions we answer
Is it loud at night?
Rats, trash, parking — what’s the daily friction?
07 — Real Estate & Buildings
What the buildings tell you.
Tax lots and building footprints — the physical DNA of each neighborhood.
Drawn from NYC Planning’s land and building records.
Questions we answer
What’s actually built here — and what could be?
How dense is the block?
08 — Neighborhoods & Boundaries
The map under the map.
How we know where one neighborhood ends and another begins — 262 distinct areas and 71 community districts, not just borough labels.
Drawn from NYC Planning and the U.S. Census.
Questions we answer
Where does one neighborhood really end?
Why 262 neighborhoods instead of five boroughs?
Programmatic access
Query it from your AI assistant.
The same data powers our MCP server — a set of tools any MCP-compatible assistant can call to pull neighborhood, school, safety, and family-resource answers directly.
Sourced from the city. Answered for your family.
Our scores are built on public records — the same ones the city uses — and this page names the sources behind them. No dashboards to decode.