Open records, never resold.
Every tool is free, open-source, and designed for community members — not other developers. No PDFs, no logins, no spreadsheets.
Enter any address to pull HPD violations — severity breakdown, registration, owner info. Updated daily.
Search any landlord or LLC to see violation history, portfolio size, and risk score across every property.
Per-pupil spending, Title I funding, and PTA contributions across 1,800+ public schools.
Look up executed marshal evictions for any address across all five boroughs. Know before you sign.
Every 311 request filed at an address — noise, heat, pests, plumbing — with agency assignments and resolutions.
Searchable directory of free and low-cost services — food pantries, legal aid, after-school — by neighborhood.
Overdue fees. Penalties stacked on penalties. Charges no one could explain — addressed to a man who wasn't there to read them.
My grandmother tried to figure out why the city was billing him. She couldn't. The records technically existed on NYC's open data portal — you just had to know which dataset to pull, how to filter it, and what the codes meant. Public, but not usable.
CivicByte lives in that gap. We turn the data the city already publishes into tools a tenant, a parent, or a grandmother can actually use — and we treat the work like it matters, because for someone out there, it does.
— Founding note · NYC, 2025Anyone can contribute a tool. Every submission is reviewed against four standards before being listed — then we help communities find it.
Developers, students, and nonprofits build tools on top of public data — free, open-source, and focused on a real civic need.
Tools are submitted to CivicByte, then checked against four standards: solves a real problem, free & open, usable by non-technical people, actively maintained.
Listed tools appear in the directory, indexed by topic and borough, so the communities who need them can actually find them.