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Find, compare, and rank NYC neighborhoods and schools, plus how NYC school admissions works.
Remote server: your requests and data go to mcp.motley.nyc. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http motley-nyc-neighborhoods-schools-admissi https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search-neighborhoods — Search and filter NYC neighborhoods by borough, by name (typos and nicknames like 'Bed-Stuy' or 'UWS' included), or by a description of whatget-neighborhood — Get full details for a single NYC neighborhood including demographics, raw 0-100 scores, location, and a family-readable interpretation (labget-neighborhood-summary — Get a decision-ready, family-readable summary of one NYC neighborhood: a one-paragraph fit verdict, what stands out and what to weigh among get-schools — Get schools within a neighborhood — public, charter, and private. Includes each school's Motley ratings out of 100 (elementary and middle scbrowse-schools — Find NYC schools citywide by what a family wants — borough, community school district (1-32), grade band (pre-K/elementary/middle/high), schfind-school — Use this to turn a school's name into its DBN — the official name, a common short form ('Brooklyn Tech', 'PS 321'), or a DBN to confirm. Retget-zoned-school — Use this when a family asks which elementary school is zoned for a specific NYC address, such as an apartment or building they name. NYC draget-resources — Get family resource counts for a neighborhood: recreation centers, playgrounds, libraries, hospitals, farmers markets, ADA subway stations.get-activities — Get kids' activities and businesses in a neighborhood — classes, sports, arts, tutoring, etc. Use count_only for category breakdown, or limiget-safety — Get safety and health environment indicators for a neighborhood: crime complaints, collisions, HPD violations, air quality, lead levels, astget-comparable — Find neighborhoods most similar to a given one based on a 9-dimension score vector (family density, wealth, education, safety, transit, etc.find-neighborhood — Find which NYC neighborhood (NTA) an address or coordinate is in. Pass a NYC address the family gave (placed with NYC's official address dirrank-neighborhoods — Rank NYC's residential neighborhoods by what a family cares about — the same ranking as Best fit on motley.nyc. Pass ranked priority words, compare-neighborhoods — Compare 2–6 NYC neighborhoods side by side across the 9 family-fit metrics (Family Fit, Families, Affordability, Schools, Neighborhood Charaexplain-score — Use this when a family asks how one of Motley's scores is computed — a neighborhood score (Family Fit, Schools, Safety / Peace of Mind, Affofind-collections — Use this when a family asks for lists of NYC schools or neighborhoods picked by a rule rather than a ranking: zoned schools that beat their find-places — Use this when a family asks what's in one NYC neighborhood, or where a kind of place is in it: a library, playgrounds, subway stations or buget-admissions-methods — Get the full NYC school-admissions reference: every entry point from 3-K and Pre-K through Kindergarten, Gifted & Talented, and the 10 admisexplain-admissions-method — Explain one NYC admission entry point or method in full — the plain-English explainer, its typical deadline window, and, when the method askget-admissions-demand — Use this when a family asks how a specific school admits students or how hard it is to get in. Returns the school's admission method in fullget-admissions-timeline — Use this when a family asks what's coming for their child — which NYC school applications (3-K, Pre-K, Kindergarten, Gifted & Talented, middNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.