Tools live
Records searchable
Public datasets
Cost to use
| Dataset | What it answers | Scale | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| HPD violations · wvxf-dwi5 | Housing maintenance code violations for any building — roughly 880,000 issued in FY2025 alone. | Millions of records | Daily |
| HPD registrations · tesw-yqqr + feu5-w2e2 | Who is registered as owning and managing residential buildings — about 170,000 properties are required to register. | ~170K buildings · ~800K contacts | Ongoing |
| DOI evictions · 6z8x-wfk4 | Marshal evictions across the five boroughs, 2017 to present. | 100K+ records | Daily |
| 311 requests · erm2-nwe9 + 76ig-c548 | Every 311 service request since 2010, across the current dataset and the city's 2010–2019 archive. | 40M+ requests | Daily |
| NYSED school expenditures · SRC | Reported per-school spending for every NYC public school — total, per-pupil, federal vs. state & local — under ESSA financial transparency. | ~1,800 schools | Annual |
The records are already public. A tenant facing eviction can legally read their building's violation history — if they can find the right dataset, filter forty million rows, and decode the column names. That gap is the whole problem.
Every CivicByte tool collapses that gap to one search box: type an address or a landlord's name, get the city's own records back in plain language, with the source dataset named and linked so anyone can check our work.
This page is new and so are we — CivicByte launched in June 2026. As real outcomes happen — a record used in housing court, a budget cited at a hearing — we'll document them here, verified with the people involved, and never invented. If one of these tools helped you, tell us.
The tools need no accounts and keep none. Your searches go straight from your browser to the public APIs — or, for school budgets, never leave the page at all. They never pass through a CivicByte server. What we do count: aggregate, non-identifying page views, so we know which tools get used, and field reports people send us directly.
Anything we ever publish here as a case, hearing, or filing will be verified with the person involved first. The full measurement setup is described in our privacy note.
Method note · July 2026
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