Motley MCP Server

If you already use Motley, the motley mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. Live NYC family data: neighborhoods, schools, admissions, safety, health, and resources.

What the server does

Motley exposes the same sourced NYC family-data behind https://motley.nyc as MCP tools. Assistants can query structured data for NYC neighborhoods, schools, admissions, safety, health, family resources, kids' activities, and neighborhood comparisons.

Installation

Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.

Available tools

The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:

• search-neighborhoods — Search and filter NYC neighborhoods by borough or name. Returns NTA codes, names, boroughs, and centroid coordinates
• get-neighborhood — Get full details for a single NYC neighborhood including demographics, raw 0-100 scores, location, and a family-readable interpretation (labeled
• get-neighborhood-summary — Get a decision-ready, family-readable summary of one NYC neighborhood: a one-paragraph fit verdict, labeled score bands (e.g. 'Peace of Mind: strong
• get-schools — Get schools within a neighborhood — public, charter, and private. Includes quality ratings, grade levels, contact info. Use count_only for a quick
• get-resources — Get family resource counts for a neighborhood: recreation centers, playgrounds, libraries, hospitals, farmers markets, ADA subway stations
• get-activities — Get kids' activities and businesses in a neighborhood — classes, sports, arts, tutoring, etc. from Foursquare data. Use count_only for category
• get-safety — Get safety and health environment indicators for a neighborhood: crime complaints, collisions, HPD violations, air quality, lead levels, asthma rates
• get-comparable — Find neighborhoods most similar to a given one based on a 9-dimension score vector (family density, wealth, education, safety, transit, etc.)
• find-neighborhood — Find which NYC neighborhood (NTA) an address or coordinate is in. Pass a NYC address (geocoded via OpenStreetMap) OR lat+lng. Returns the NTA code
• rank-neighborhoods — Rank NYC neighborhoods by what a family cares about. Pass per-metric weights (family density, schools, affordability, neighborhood character
• compare-neighborhoods — Compare 2–6 NYC neighborhoods side by side across the 9 family-fit metrics (Family Fit, Families, Affordability, Schools, Neighborhood Character
• get-admissions-methods — 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

Worth knowing first

• Your data travels to the provider's service, so the usual questions apply about what you send and what they retain.
• With 14 tools registered it takes up a noticeable share of the context window; turn it off in projects that never touch Motley.
• Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Where it fits

Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Motley's toolset — search-neighborhoods, get-neighborhood, get-neighborhood-summary and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by HypnoLabs-io; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.