ChatGPT Plugin

Motley NYC

NYC schools + neighborhoods

Brand: Motley NYC

Category: Education
Primary Subcategory: University & Study-Abroad Discovery

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Description

Find the right New York City school, and the neighborhood around it. Motley NYC answers families' questions from Motley's data on all 262 NYC neighborhoods and on public, charter and private K-12 schools across the five boroughs. What you can ask: - Which neighborhoods fit what matters to your family, ranked by your priorities (playgrounds near home can count too) or compared side by side - How each neighborhood score is computed, and lists of neighborhoods and schools picked by a stated rule - A plain-language fit summary for any neighborhood, with safety and health indicators, playgrounds, libraries, accessible subway stations and kids' activities nearby - Which elementary school is zoned for an address - Schools by borough, district, grade level, type, admission method or program focus, or a specific school by name - How NYC admissions works from 3-K through high school (zoned, screened, audition, SHSAT, lotteries and more) and what each method asks of a family - How a specific school admits students: its method, programs, seats, and applicant counts where NYC publishes them - Which applications are coming for each child's grade, and when What to know: - New York City only. - No account or sign-in. Every tool only reads; nothing is saved or changed. - To find a zoned school or place an address, the address you type is sent to NYC Planning's GeoSearch to locate it. - At elementary level, in-zone students get a guaranteed seat. Some areas, like all of District 1, have no zoned school. - We never estimate a family's odds of admission. Seats and applicant counts come from NYC MySchools; the competitiveness band beside them is Motley's own reading, not a DOE rating. Most middle schools, and all charter and private schools, have no published applicant counts. - Neighborhood scores carry the date they were computed. Admission dates are the city's published dates where it has announced them; otherwise we give the usual window and say so. - Answers link to each neighborhood's and school's page on motley.nyc.

Integration type: Plugin
Verification status: Not applicable
Platform: ChatGPT
Category: Education
Primary Subcategory: University & Study-Abroad Discovery
Secondary Subcategories: None listed
Brand: Motley NYC
Access: No account required
First tracked: 2026-10-21
Tool count: 21
Market: US

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Tools

21 tools agents can invoke

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 per-metric leader, plus weekday-morning transit minutes from each to the city's main job centers. Non-residential areas aren't scored and are dropped.
compare-neighborhoods
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 sign-in, a private school's own test/interview track) plus the extra paperwork that comes with it. Pass a method key (shsat, audition, screened, ed_opt, limited_unscreened, unscreened, zoned, charter_lottery, private_admissions, prek_universal) or an early entry point (three-k, pre-k, kindergarten, gifted-talented).
explain-admissions-method
Get family resource counts for a neighborhood: recreation centers, playgrounds, libraries, hospitals, farmers markets, ADA subway stations.
get-resources
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 a decision-ready family-fit summary. Use this to turn a real-world location into a neighborhood you can pass to the other tools.
find-neighborhood
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, screened, unscreened, limited unscreened, ed-opt, audition, SHSAT, charter lottery, private, universal pre-K), and program focus (arts, sports, STEM, language, academic, clubs). Use this when the family describes the KIND of school they want; use get-schools when you already have an nta_code and want everything in that neighborhood. For what the filters can't say — a program or approach like 'Spanish dual language', 'Montessori' or 'a strong music program' — pass the family's words as query: results come best match first, each with the line it matched on (match_reason). Pass only the filters actually stated — at least one (a query counts) is required, and an invented one returns nothing. Program focus is tagged on public and charter schools only. Each school carries its Motley ratings out of 100 (ratings_note says how each is built), and url opens the same browse on motley.nyc. New York City only: for schools in any other city, don't call this; say Motley NYC covers New York City.
browse-schools
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.
get-comparable
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 borough — never the device's location. Returns the zoned K-5 school, the neighborhood, and how zoned admission works; some areas, like all of District 1, have no zoned school.
get-zoned-school
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. applicants per program with a competitiveness band that is Motley's own, not a DOE rating. Most middle schools, and all charter and private schools, have no applicant counts. The counts describe the whole applicant pool: never turn them into a family's odds, chance or percentage, even when asked for one. Needs a DBN; resolve a name with find-school first.
get-admissions-demand
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 toward wealthier areas. Returns what the score measures, its inputs and weights, how they combine, its share of Family Fit, its known limits, its sources, and how it moves with neighborhood income (Spearman's ρ with median household income). Relay the income figure plainly; don't reassure past it.
explain-score
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-activities
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 families rate them highly (kind 'schools'); or affordable family neighborhoods with such a school, and family neighborhoods where no single group is a majority (kind 'neighborhoods'). Optionally one borough. Each list carries its rule, its true count and its first members. State the rule; don't call members 'best' or 'hidden gems'.
find-collections
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) and Motley page; pick the one that matches and pass its dbn to get-admissions-demand. Never guess a DBN. K-12 schools only (public, charter, private).
find-school
Get the full NYC school-admissions reference: every entry point from 3-K and Pre-K through Kindergarten, Gifted & Talented, and the 8 middle/high admission methods (SHSAT, audition, screened, Ed-Opt, limited unscreened, unscreened, zoned, charter lottery) — each with its typical application window. The methods carry a live program count plus a special_badge naming any extra ask beyond the standard application (an audition, a test, an open-house sign-in), null when there is none; optional band/governance filters narrow the count. Knowledge only.
get-admissions-methods
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
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 scores still available, weekday-morning transit minutes to the city's main job centers, and a link to the neighborhood's Motley page. The interpretation-first front door; start here when a family wants an answer, not a data dump. A non-residential area (park, cemetery, airport, institution) isn't scored, and the summary says so.
get-neighborhood-summary
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 care, hospitals, dentists) or public, charter and private schools. Searches every place we map inside the neighborhood's boundary by name, street or kind (query), or lists every place of one kind (kind); with neither, returns what kinds of places are there, with counts. Results are grouped by category, with a link to each school's page and to the neighborhood's page, which lists every place. Use the nta_code from search-neighborhoods or find-neighborhood.
find-places
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, transit, commute, kids), plus two factors — parks or playgrounds (the share of homes within a 10-minute walk of an NYC Parks playground) and diversity (how evenly residents spread across five census groups). Or pass per-metric weights for the seven scores. To rank by ONE score alone ('safest in Queens', 'rate Brooklyn by things to do'), pass sort_by instead — Family Fit and Things to Do included — and relay what sort_by.measures says the score counts. Optionally scope to one borough. Returns the top neighborhoods with a fit score and the score breakdown, which factors counted, any priority words we don't measure (relay them — they added nothing), and a best_fit_url that opens the same ranking on motley.nyc. A deterministic weighted sort over neighborhood-level data, not a per-child school match.
rank-neighborhoods
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-safety
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 info. Use count_only for a quick summary, or limit/offset to page the full list (the response reports total/returned).
get-schools
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 query, name matches come first and each result says what it matched on (match_reason). For ranking by a score, use rank-neighborhoods instead.
search-neighborhoods
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 every transition in the next two years with the city's published dates where it has announced them, and the typical window where it hasn't. Never present a typical window as a date.
get-admissions-timeline

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