NYC Budget MCP Server

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NYC Budget runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 62 installs a week from npm. Last commit 9 Nov 2026.

NYC Council budget data: discretionary awards, capital designations, Schedule C, OMB capital

Installs per day peak 215 · avg 33 · -78% w/w

a month agotoday

Installs / week

npm · @betanyc/nyc-budget-mcp

Stars

53 open issues

9 Nov 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

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License

Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check NYC Budget every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add nyc-budget-mcp -- npx -y @betanyc/nyc-budget-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nyc-budget-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@betanyc/nyc-budget-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.nyc-budget-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@betanyc/nyc-budget-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nyc-budget-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@betanyc/nyc-budget-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "nyc-budget-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@betanyc/nyc-budget-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: NYC_BUDGET_PDF_DATA (Set to on to download the checked PDF tables on start if none are installed, or pdfs to also fetch the PDFs), NYC_BUDGET_PDF_DATA_URL (Use another release's PDF-tables manifest instead of the newest release), NYC_BUDGET_DATA_DIR (Where the downloaded PDF tables go (default: a per-user data folder)).

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NYC Budget — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for NYC Budget?

NYC Budget runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package @betanyc/nyc-budget-mcp was installed 62 times last week.

How do I connect NYC Budget?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @betanyc/nyc-budget-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use NYC Budget?

The npm package @betanyc/nyc-budget-mcp was installed 62 times in the last week. Week over week that is -78%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is NYC Budget open source?

We cannot say either way: written in Python, 19 stars on GitHub and 53 open issues, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.