NYC Council MCP Server

by betanyc Your server? Claim it

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NYC Council runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 79 installs a week from npm. Last commit 9 Nov 2026.

NYC Council legislation: bills, hearings, votes and members, from a local index or live Legistar

Installs per day peak 192 · avg 13 · +114% w/w

a month agotoday

Installs / week

npm · @betanyc/nyc-council-mcp

Stars

13 open issues

9 Nov 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

MIT

License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check NYC Council 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-council-mcp -- npx -y @betanyc/nyc-council-mcp

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

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

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

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

.vscode/mcp.json

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

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: LEGISTAR_TOKEN (Free Legistar API token for the live tools. Set this, LEGISTAR_DB_PATH, or both), LEGISTAR_DB_PATH (Path to a legistar.db built with the index subcommand, for the fast local tools).

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NYC Council — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for NYC Council?

NYC Council 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-council-mcp was installed 79 times last week.

How do I connect NYC Council?

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-council-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use NYC Council?

The npm package @betanyc/nyc-council-mcp was installed 79 times in the last week. Week over week that is +114%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is NYC Council open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 7 stars on GitHub and 13 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.