Motley NYC — Neighborhoods, Schools & Admissions

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• Connection: Runs in the cloud
• Transport: Streamable HTTP
• Category: Games, sports, food & learning

Install

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You need

• Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http motley https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "motley": {
      "url": "https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "motley": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp"
    }
  }
}

https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp

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What it can do

Tool names and descriptions exactly as the server reported them on Nov 6, 2026. The maker wrote them, not us; we show them as plain text.

• 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 what a family wants nearby ('near the water', 'brownstones and big parks'). Returns NTA codes, names, boroughs, and centroid coordinates; with a

• get-neighborhood

  Get full details for a single NYC neighborhood including demographics, raw 0-100 scores, location, and a family-readable interpretation (labeled score bands + cached editorial blurbs). Use the nta_code from search-neighborhoods.

• get-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 its Family Fit scores (`tradeoffs`), labeled score bands (e.g. 'Peace of Mind: strong (78/100)'), and cached editorial blurbs — with raw sco

• get-schools

  Get schools within a neighborhood — public, charter, and private. Includes each school's Motley ratings out of 100 (elementary and middle schools on grades 3-8 state tests, high schools on graduation and Regents results; ratings_note says how each is built), grade levels, contact

• browse-schools

  Find NYC schools citywide by what a family wants — borough, community school district (1-32), grade band (pre-K/elementary/middle/high), school type (public/charter/private), admissions method (zoned, zone priority, unscreened, limited unscreened, screened, language criteria, ed-

• find-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. Returns candidate schools with their district, neighborhood, admission method, Motley ratings out of 100 (ratings_note says how each is built)

• get-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 draws school zones building by building, so pass the street address exactly as they typed it — building number and street, ideally with the bor

• get-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 limit/offset to page the full list (reports total/returned). Each place's last_refreshed is when we last confirmed it was still listed.

• get-safety

  Get safety and health environment indicators for a neighborhood: crime complaints, collisions, HPD violations, air quality, lead levels, asthma rates — plus a family-readable interpretation of the Peace of Mind and Air & Child Health scores.

• get-comparable

  Find neighborhoods most similar to a given one based on a 9-dimension score vector (family density, wealth, education, safety, transit, etc.). Returns similarity scores.

• 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 directory; include the borough when you know it) OR lat+lng. Returns the NTA code, name, borough, a link to the neighborhood's Motley page, and

• rank-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, most important first: families, schools, affordability, character, getting-around, safety, air-and-health (and synonyms such as crime, rent,

• compare-neighborhoods

  Compare 2–6 NYC neighborhoods side by side across the 9 family-fit metrics (Family Fit, Families, Affordability, Schools, Neighborhood Character, Transit, Safety, Health, Activities). Pass an array of NTA codes; returns a per-metric matrix with each neighborhood's band and the pe

• explain-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, Affordability, Getting Around, Neighborhood Character, Air & Child Health, Things to Do) or the school rating — or whether the scores are biased

• find-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 district while serving high-need students; high school programs with more seats per applicant; schools where no group is a majority and fami

• 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 bus stops, coffee, groceries, restaurants, things to do, family resources (rec centers, farmers markets), healthcare (pediatricians, urgent ca

• get-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 admission methods (SHSAT, audition, screened, language criteria, Ed-Opt, limited unscreened, unscreened, zone priority, zoned, charter lottery) —

• explain-admissions-method

  Explain one NYC admission entry point or method in full — the plain-English explainer, its typical deadline window, and, when the method asks a family for more than a ranked application, exactly what it requires (audition or portfolio, SHSAT registration, a demonstrated-interest

• get-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 full (what it asks of a family, and when), its programs with seats and who may apply, and — where NYC MySchools publishes them — seats vs. appli

• get-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, middle school, high school) they'll make, and when. Pass each child's current grade, or an age (0–5) for a child not in school yet. Returns ever

Basic checksi

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  Maker matches the repo

  The registry lists no source repo, so we cannot match the publisher (motley.nyc) to the code

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  Has a licence

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• ✓ Pass

  Endpoint responds

  Responded in 137 ms (HTTP 200)

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  Sign-in with OAuth

  No sign-in needed

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  No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

  Read 21 tool descriptions and found no hidden instructions to the AI

Compared with others in Games, sports, food & learningi

• More stars than 0% of the other 1320 servers in this category
• Published to the registry more recently than 82% of the other 1320 servers in this category
• Basic checks equal to or better than 48% of the other 1320 servers in this category

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