Fiscal Impacts Tracker

Costs vs. Revenue

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Diverging Bar Chart

The bills that cost the city the most, next to the few that raise revenue

Most bills cost the city money; a few bring in net revenue. This chart puts both sides next to each other. Charts show enacted laws and adopted resolutions by default; use the Bill status filter to include pending or lapsed bills.

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Bills in filtered set
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Bills with net cost
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Bills generating revenue
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Total net cost (all cost bills)
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Total net revenue (all revenue bills)

Net Fiscal Impact: Biggest Costs vs. Revenue Generators

Bars extending left = net cost to the city. Bars extending right = net revenue gain. Only the top 5 bills per side are shown; use filters to narrow the dataset. Net counts capital, a one-time outlay, alongside yearly costs.

Net cost (bars extend left)
Net revenue (bars extend right)
Net fiscal impact of NYC Council legislation. Net = total revenue − operational expense − capital expense. Negative values are net costs; positive values are net revenue gains. Source: NYC Council Legistar fiscal impact statements, processed by NYCuriosity. Created by Tal Roded · NYCuriosity

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Methodology

  • Net fiscal impact = total revenue − total operational expense − total capital expense. Negative = net cost to the city. Positive = net revenue gain.
  • Net shows the largest net costs and the largest net revenue gains, the chosen number on each side. Operational expense, capital expense and revenue show the largest bills by that figure. Use the "Top 5 / 10 / 15" selector to adjust. The stat pills above always reflect the full filtered dataset.
  • The revenue bills include tax amnesties and extensions, a wireless surcharge and a cut to a tax credit.
  • Bills assessed as part of a legislative package (e.g., the 2022 and 2023 DSS rental assistance package) are shown with the cost attributed to the primary bill only, to avoid double-counting. See bill table for package details.
  • Source: NYC Council Legistar fiscal impact statement documents, extracted and structured by NYCuriosity using the Legistar REST API and Claude AI.