About The Civic Stoop

The Civic Stoop helps New York City residents follow their local government. Enter your ZIP code to find who represents you, your City Council member plus your state senator and Assembly member, then track upcoming meetings and legislation, see how your representatives vote, and learn how to testify at public hearings. The Explore section maps the wider picture: profiles for elected officials and the organizations around them, with the lobbying, campaign contributions, and city contracts that are on the public record.

Everything here comes from official public records, rebuilt from those sources every night.

Questions, corrections, or something that looks wrong? We want to hear it. Reach James at [email protected] or Jordan at [email protected]. For anything else, [email protected].

Meetings, legislation, votes, contracts, lobbying, and campaign finance are pulled from the official sources below. Most refresh nightly; slower-moving records like city contracts update less often. Pages read from those snapshots, so the site stays fast and keeps working when a source is briefly down.

• NYC City Council (Legistar)
  Meetings, hearings, legislation, votes, council members.
• NY State Legislature
  Senate and Assembly bills, calendars, and committee activity.
• Congress.gov
  Federal bills and committee activity.
• NYC Campaign Finance Board
  Contributions and PAC spending.
• NYC City Clerk
  Lobbyist filings: who is paid to lobby, on what, for how much.
• Checkbook NYC
  Registered city contracts and spending by vendor.
• NYC OpenData and Geoclient
  District boundaries and ZIP-to-district mapping.
• Community board calendars
  From the boards that publish a machine-readable feed. The rest link out to their own sites.