NYC Property & Venue Intelligence API
Official NYC property, building, and venue intelligence for AI agents.
What it can do
- Resolve Property Identifier: Normalize and validate a NYC property identifier. Pass a partial address, BBL, or BIN and get back the normalized address, BBL, BIN, borough, and a confidence score. Use t
- Get Property Intelligence: Get a full property intelligence profile for a NYC property. Returns owner, zoning, assessment, and violation counts. Optionally include sales history, liens detail, and ren
- Get Building Violations: Get building violation records for a NYC property. Returns DOB violations, OATH/ECB violations (fines & penalties), HPD violations, DOB complaints, and summary counts. Optiona
What data it sees
Do you need an account
An API key from the service settings is required
Official NYC property, building, and venue intelligence for AI agents. Use when the user is asking about a specific NYC address, landlord or building risk, open violations or complaints, or restaurant/venue safety and quality in a neighborhood.
Example user requests:
- "Is this a bad landlord?"
- "Are there open violations on this building?"
- "How safe and clean is this restaurant?"
The NYC API exposes four tools:
- resolve_property_identifier — Normalize and validate any NYC address, BBL, or BIN to a canonical address, BBL, BIN, borough, and confidence score. Use this first for property/building queries, especially when the user provides partial, messy, or ambiguous addresses or only a street/building reference.
- get_property_intelligence — Full property profile: ownership, tax class, zoning, lot dimensions, assessed values, sales history, lien status, and rent stabilization flags. Use after successful resolution when the user needs to understand who owns a building, how it is zoned, how it is valued or leveraged, or whether it is likely rent-stabilized.
- get_building_violations — DOB, HPD, and OATH/ECB violation and complaint history with severity and risk indicators. Use when the user asks about "bad landlords," "unsafe buildings," "open violations," fines, eviction or harassment patterns, or general building safety at a given NYC address or building.
- get_restaurant_venue_intel — DOHMH health inspection grades and scores, violation details, and related permits (e.g., sidewalk cafe, liquor license). Use when the user is evaluating restaurants or venues in NYC by name or address, comparing options on health and safety, or checking if a place is likely to be a problem.
Typical use cases include real estate due diligence, portfolio and lender risk assessment, building compliance audits, tenant advocacy and "should I move here?" checks, landlord and neighborhood background research, and restaurant/venue discovery and comparison. Get your API key at nycapi.app.
How to connect
How to connect NYC Property & Venue Intelligence API to Claude
The server address to paste into Claude settings:
https://nyc-property-venue--matchuplabs.run.tools
- Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
- Go to Settings → Connectors.
- Click Add custom connector.
- Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
- In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.
Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.
Authorization
After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.
How to connect NYC Property & Venue Intelligence API to ChatGPT
The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:
https://nyc-property-venue--matchuplabs.run.tools
- Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
- Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
- Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
- Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
- Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
- In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.
OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.
Authorization
On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.
How to connect NYC Property & Venue Intelligence API to Cursor
The server address to paste into Cursor settings:
https://nyc-property-venue--matchuplabs.run.tools
Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.
Manually:
- In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
- Paste the JSON copied below into
~/.cursor/mcp.json(per project:.cursor/mcp.jsonin the repo root). - Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.
Authorization
If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.
Server tool list (4)
Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.
| resolve_property_identifier | Normalize and validate a NYC property identifier. Pass a partial address, BBL, or BIN and get back the normalized address, BBL, BIN, borough, and a confidence score. Use this BEFORE calling get_property_intelligence or get_building_violations to ensure you have the correct property. Returns multiple candidates if the input is ambiguous. Free or near-free — always resolve first. |
| get_property_intelligence | Get a full property intelligence profile for a NYC property. Returns owner, zoning, assessment, and violation counts. Optionally include sales history, liens detail, and rent stabilization status via flags. Costs 1 credit per call. Always call resolve_property_identifier first to validate the address. Summary response by default — set include flags to true for additional detail. |
| get_building_violations | Get building violation records for a NYC property. Returns DOB violations, OATH/ECB violations (fines & penalties), HPD violations, DOB complaints, and summary counts. Optionally include 311 complaint history. Costs 1 credit. Call resolve_property_identifier first. Summary by default. |
| get_restaurant_venue_intel | Get health inspection and compliance data for a NYC restaurant or venue. Returns current health grade, inspection score, and last inspection date. Optionally include sidewalk cafe permits and business license detail. Costs 1 credit. For name-only searches, provide borough to improve match accuracy. |