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Data behind the stories

Interactive charts, searchable tables, and standalone civic tools behind NYCuriosity's data-driven analysis of NYC transit, streets, housing, and how the city governs itself.

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Flagship tool NYC Council Legislation Trackers What every Council law costs, and what it makes city agencies do. Explore → Flagship tool CB Member Tracker Who runs all 59 community boards, and whose terms expire in 2027. Explore → Flagship tool State Capacity Ecosystem 329 organizations working on government effectiveness, mapped and searchable. Explore → Newest post hub What the Council Asks of NYC Agencies 8,194 obligations extracted from every local law since 2014. Explore →
Tools

Trackers and explorers I keep up to date

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CB Member Tracker: who runs all 59 community boards
Chairs, district managers, committee leadership, and published rosters on a clickable district map, joined with the term-limit clock that forces the first citywide turnover wave in spring 2027. Members can set email alerts for boards they watch.
59 boards · 2,100+ members Explore →
Term-limit openings Email alerts Methodology
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How to Be an Effective Community Board Member
A presentation deck distilling NYCuriosity's Complete Guide to Community Boards: how a board works, Robert's Rules, resolutions, the District Needs Statement, and the three levers of real influence. Includes speaker notes and a printable one-page cheat sheet.
36 slides · field guide Explore →
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NYC Council Legislation Trackers
What Council legislation costs, and what it makes city agencies do. Two interactive trackers built from every fiscal impact statement since 2014 and every enacted local law since 2014, plus a legislation profile for every council member, browsable by district map.
2 trackers · member profiles · district map Explore →
Implementation tracker Fiscal impacts tracker Council members
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NYC Government Bodies Explorer
Browse 61 New York City government bodies with FY2027 budget and headcount data. Searchable card grid with inline detail panels, plus a D3 treemap sized by budget or headcount.
61 bodies · $103B Explore →
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NYC Community Board Tools
Working tools for better community board meetings: a Robert's Rules helper, an AI meeting review, a Manhattan board scorecard, and the Block Party resolutions archive with AI summarization and advanced search.
4 tools · 32,092 resolutions Explore →
Block Party archive Robert's Rules helper AI meeting review Board scorecard
State Capacity Ecosystem

A standalone project mapping the government-effectiveness field

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State Capacity Ecosystem
A directory of 300+ organizations working to make American government more effective, research, advocacy, GovTech, philanthropy, fellowships, digital services, and ecosystem-builders. Plus an affinity network with natural-language search: type "where should I work on procurement in NYC?" and the map ranks orgs by relevance.
329 orgs · 11 segments · 36 problem topics Explore →
Substack Posts

Every data-driven post leaves its charts here

City Council
What the Council Asks of NYC Agencies
Every local law hands agencies work. The standing stack of recurring obligations, up 45-fold since 2014, the 871 reports due at least once a year, and the tracker that extracts all 8,194 obligations from the law text.
3 charts + tracker · 2014–2026 Explore →
Governance
Suggestions to Improve NYC Community Boards
The data behind fixing community boards: all 59 board budgets ranked, a decade of underfunding versus City Hall, and a 14-point reform table for the CEC's Better Public Meetings study.
3 visuals · FY17–FY27 Explore →
Transit
West 4th St Station Deep Dive
The only station where the IND's two Manhattan trunk lines meet: 94 years of history, the ridership recovery, the station's late-night rhythm, and what subway construction cost then versus now.
4 visuals · 1932–2026 Explore →
Health & Budget
Medicaid's Check Register Is Public
238 million federal claim records for NY, TX, and CA, a searchable provider payment lookup, and a replication of the billing behind New York's $9M EyePic fraud indictment.
238M records · 8 visuals Explore →
Government & Technology
State Capacity Has a New Toolkit
How AI is already changing what government can do, with the data behind public service delivery, procurement, and federal regulation, each paired with real examples.
June 2026 · 3 charts Explore →
Transit & Housing
New York Needs to Grow
Why NYC builds so little and pays so much: subway costs vs. the world, the MTA's expansion wishlist ranked, and the rezonings that could change it.
June 2026 · 4 charts Explore →
Transit
QueensWay vs QueensLink
Side-by-side comparison of the QueensLink M-train extension proposal and the MTA's 2018 Rockaway Beach Branch feasibility study, capital cost, ridership projections, service design, and economic impact across 22 metrics.
April 2026 · 1 table Explore →
Mamdani Administration
Lessons from Mamdani's First 100 Days
Federal funding changes, AI driving uncertainty, and cultural shifts creating opportunities, data from the April 2026 transition team panel covering Rikers, subway expansion, school funding, and DOT.
April 2026 · 4 charts Explore →
MCB3 History Analysis
What Has MCB3 Focused On Over Time?
Annual breakdown of 7,134 MCB3 resolutions across 10 topic categories from 2004 to 2025, plus a comparison to 377,536 CB3 311 complaints revealing where board attention diverges from resident concerns.
22 years · 2 charts Explore →
CSO Reports 2026
Chief Savings Officer Reports
Agency-by-agency breakdown of NYC's Chief Savings Officer savings plans for FY26 and FY27, with FY25 budget context and sortable table.
16 agencies Explore →
Streets Plan 2026
Local Law 195 Data
Fiscal impact, compliance tracking, and program-level cost breakdowns from NYC's 10-year streets plan. Includes CSV downloads and methodology.
4 datasets Explore →

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