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3,962 development cases, 404 upcoming public meetings and 1 open comment windows across 77 covered cities - all from official records. Enter your address to see what’s near you.
City scores weighted by the records behind each, from the 41 of 77 covered cities with a full record base. How it’s measured
Share of scored cities in each band - a distribution, not a ranking.
404 public meetings are on New York calendars right now, across 77 covered cities - 1,071 were held or scheduled in the last 90 days.
10+ are coming up this week, 1 with a public hearing.
3,962 land-use and permit cases are on record across New York's covered cities.
Each case names the government record it came from.
1 comment windows are open right now - projects and proposals still taking public input.
Every agenda and project page shows how to take part when the record says so.
77 cities are covered; 70 have enough records for a number - 0 Good, 70 Limited.
A city appears as soon as its meeting portal or permit records can be read.
City government finances summed across the 48 covered cities with Census finance data - not every government in the area, and county/state/school spending is not included. Read from the Census Bureau government-finance file.
Reported by 25 city police agencies to the FBI (NIBRS) and read from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Offenses reported to the FBI by the covered cities' own police agencies, summed - not sheriff or state patrol activity, and not every city reports every year; reporting practices differ between agencies.
The next one on the calendars is September 8, 2026 Town Board Meeting (Bedford) on Tuesday, September 8 - one of 404 meetings currently scheduled across New York's covered cities. Each meeting page links to the city's own agenda.
Common Council Regular Meeting, Sept. 8, 2026 (Glens Falls) on Tuesday, September 8 carries a public hearing. Hearings are the formal moments to speak on the record.
Cities set their own rules - sign-up forms, comment periods and time limits differ - so every agenda page here shows that city's own participation instructions when the record includes them, and 1 written-comment windows are open right now.
3,962 land-use and permit cases are on record across New York's covered cities, each mapped from official records and linked to the city page it belongs to. Enter an address to see what's within a mile of you.
Most of New York's covered cities rate Good on community safety: 16 Good, 3 Fair, 7 Low of 26 scored cities, by reported crime against similar-size communities. In 2025, police agencies across New York's covered cities reported 61,533 violent offenses (about 1 for every 160 residents) and 222,752 property offenses (about 1 for every 44 residents) to the FBI. Counts are what agencies reported; practices differ between agencies and years.
Violent offenses are up 1100% since 2021 and property offenses are up 1082% since 2021, by the rates the covered cities' police agencies reported to the FBI (population-adjusted, complete reporting years only).
In FY2022, New York's covered cities spent $12,147 per resident. The biggest shares went to education (29%), general government & administration (20%), health & welfare (17%). Figures are the Census Bureau's own survey of local government finances, summed across the covered cities.
In FY2022, New York's covered cities raised $11,425 per resident, mostly from sales & other taxes (31%), state & federal aid (26%), property tax (24%).
42 (Limited) - city scores weighted by the records behind each, from the 41 cities with a full record base. It describes what official records show about responsiveness, safety and spending; it never ranks governments or predicts anything.
70 of 77 covered cities have enough official records for a number: 0 Good and 70 Limited. A Limited band means the records show gaps or there are not yet enough records to say - never a judgement.
From the governments themselves: city meeting portals and agenda documents, city and statewide land-use records, reported crime and government finance files. Every item names its official source, and pages refresh every 12 hours.
Bands describe what the records show; nothing here ranks a government. Computed Sep 5, 2026, 1:16 AM, refreshed every 12 hours. How it’s measured