Data Sources

Data: Legislation, votes, sponsors, bill status

The Legistar Web API is queried daily to fetch recent legislative introductions and council votes. Data is stored in our database and displayed on the Track Legislation page.

Legistar is the official legislative management system used by the NYC Council. All bill text, vote records, and sponsor information come directly from this system.

Data: Real-time subway and bus alerts

Transit alerts are fetched live from the MTA's GTFS-RT service alerts feed, filtered to routes serving District 40 (2, 5, B, Q, B41, B44, B49).

Alert text is provided by the MTA as-is and is not translated.

Data: AI-generated legislation summaries and page translations

The Claude claude-sonnet-4-20250514 model is used to generate plain-language summaries of legislation and to translate content into Spanish, Haitian Creole, and Bengali.

AI-generated content is a convenience feature. It is not an official interpretation of any legislation.

Data: Council Member contact information

Representative contact details for Council Member Rita Joseph are sourced from the official NYC Council website and manually maintained.

Data: State and federal representative lookup

Rather than maintaining a database of state and federal representatives, the site links directly to the official NYS Senate lookup tool and Vote.gov for finding elected officials by address.

Data: Community resources and city services directory

The Local Resources and City Services pages are hand-curated lists of organizations, programs, and services known to serve District 40 residents. Information is sourced from each organization's own website.

If you notice outdated or incorrect information, please report it via GitHub.

Data: Capital investments and commitments in District 40

The CPDB is maintained by NYC's Department of City Planning (DCP) and tracks capital projects across all five boroughs. The Budget Tracker page queries this dataset for capital commitments relevant to District 40, supplemented by curated FY2026 project data when live results are unavailable. NYC's fiscal year runs July 1–June 30; FY2026 data became available with the September 2025 Capital Commitment Plan.

The CPDB does not include a direct council district or community board column — filtering by district requires spatial analysis. Dollar amounts in the raw dataset are reported in thousands.