Vol. 01  ·  No. 20 · Wednesday, June 10, 2026
CivicByte.
An independent NYC civic data project · Open source · MIT

Public data,
made usable.

The records your city already publishes — turned into tools a tenant, a parent, or a grandmother can actually use. Free. No logins. No spreadsheets.

Browse the tools Five live · One in development
The Index

Five tools, in the field.

06 · Listings, this edition
  1. 01 NYC Building Report Enter any address to pull HPD violations — class breakdown, registration, owner. Updated daily from NYC Open Data. Live1.1M addresses
  2. 02 NYC Landlord Watch Search any landlord or LLC to see violation history, portfolio size, and risk score across every property they own. Live36k owners
  3. 03 NYC School Budget Tracker Per-pupil spending, Title I funding, and PTA contributions across 1,800+ public schools. Live1,800 schools
  4. 04 NYC Eviction Records Look up executed marshal evictions for any address across all five boroughs. Know before you sign. Live100k records
  5. 05 NYC 311 Complaint Lookup Every 311 request filed at an address — noise, heat, pests, plumbing — with agency assignments and resolutions. Live35M complaints
  6. 06 Community Resource Finder Searchable directory of free and low-cost services — food pantries, legal aid, after-school — indexed by neighborhood. In devQ3 2026