Put NYC family data inside your assistant.

The tools

Twenty-one ways to ask.

• search-neighborhoodsSearch NYC neighborhoods by borough, by name (typos and nicknames like "Bed-Stuy" included), or by what a family wants nearby ("near the water"). Returns NTA codes, names, boroughs, and centroids, each match with what it matched on.
• get-neighborhoodFull profile for one neighborhood — demographics, raw scores, location, plus a family-readable interpretation (labeled score bands + cached blurbs).
• get-neighborhood-summaryDecision-ready summary of one neighborhood — a one-paragraph fit verdict, labeled score bands, cached blurbs, and weekday-morning commute times to the main job centers, with raw scores still available.
• get-schoolsSchools within a neighborhood — public, charter, and private — with quality ratings and grade levels.
• browse-schoolsFind schools citywide by what a family wants — borough, school district, grade band, school type, admissions method, program focus (arts, STEM, language, sports), or the family's own words ("Spanish dual language", "Montessori") — each with its Motley rating, and for words, what it matched on.
• find-schoolLook up a school by name — its official name, a common short form like "Brooklyn Tech", a misspelling ("Stuyvesent"), or its DBN — and get the matching schools with their district, neighborhood, admission method, and Motley rating.
• get-zoned-schoolThe zoned elementary school for an NYC address — a street address in, the zoned K-5 school and its neighborhood out.
• get-resourcesFamily resource counts — playgrounds, libraries, hospitals, recreation centers, farmers markets, ADA subway stations.
• get-activitiesKids' activities and businesses — classes, sports, arts, tutoring.
• get-safetySafety and health indicators — crime, collisions, housing violations, air quality, lead, asthma.
• get-comparableNeighborhoods most similar to a given one, by a 9-dimension score vector.
• find-neighborhoodWhich neighborhood an address or coordinate is in — pass a NYC address or lat/lng and get the neighborhood plus a family-fit summary.
• rank-neighborhoodsRank neighborhoods by what your family cares about — safety, schools, affordability, playgrounds near home, and more, optionally within one borough — the same ranking as Best fit on our Neighborhoods page. Or sort by one score alone, like the safest in Queens or Brooklyn by things to do.
• compare-neighborhoodsCompare two to six neighborhoods side by side across the nine family-fit metrics, with the leader called out on each, plus commute times from each.
• explain-scoreHow one of our scores, or the school rating, is computed — its inputs and weights, its limits, its sources, and how it moves with neighborhood income.
• find-collectionsLists of schools or neighborhoods picked by a stated rule — like zoned schools that beat their district while serving high-need students — citywide or in one borough.
• find-placesThe places inside one neighborhood — a library, playgrounds, subway stations, coffee, a pediatrician, its public schools — found by name, street or kind, grouped by category.
• get-admissions-methodsEvery NYC admission entry point — 3-K and Pre-K, Kindergarten, Gifted & Talented, and the 8 middle/high methods — each with its typical application window.
• explain-admissions-methodOne NYC admission entry point or method in full — the plain-English explainer, its typical deadline window, and what the method actually asks of a family: an audition or portfolio, SHSAT registration, an open-house sign-in, a private school's own test and interview.
• get-admissions-demandHow one school admits students — its admission method in full, its programs with seats and who may apply, and, where the city publishes them, seats vs. applicants with a competitiveness band.
• get-admissions-timelineWhat's coming for a child, by grade — every NYC school application in the next two years, with the city's published dates where it has announced them.