About civhood Beta

Politicians say a lot. Votes are the part that is written down. civhood puts the written-down part where a neighbor can check it in a minute.

The goal

Most of us know the president and maybe our mayor. Few of us can name the five or six other people who vote in our name, from the City Council to the US Senate, and fewer still know how they voted last month. civhood exists to close that gap for New Yorkers: one place that shows who represents your address and what they actually did with the vote you gave them, so you can judge them by the record rather than the speech.

How it works

1. Type your address. We work out which districts it sits in and show every elected official for those districts. The address is used for that lookup and then discarded.
2. See the record. For each official, the votes they cast, newest first, with a link to the official record for every one.
3. Coming next: your profile. Pick the issues you care about and see how each official's votes line up with them. Stored under a nickname, never your name.

What civhood will not do

• Tell you how to vote. It shows records. What you make of them is yours.
• Count statements, promises or press releases as votes. Only recorded votes count here.
• Ask for your name, or keep the address you look up.

Beta: take it with a grain of salt

This is an early version built from several official government sources, each with its own quirks. We strive to get every figure right, but gaps and mistakes are possible. Every figure links to its source, so check the record yourself. If something is missing or wrong, contact us and we will check it against the official record and fix it.

Built with AI tools

civhood is designed and built by one New Yorker with the help of AI tools. Votes are copied from the official record as published; no AI decides what a vote means or writes anything about an official.

Sources

Everything here comes from public, official records. Nothing comes from news coverage, interest-group scorecards or campaign material.

• NYC Council Legislative Research Center

  Council bills and votes

• New York State Senate Open Legislation

  State bills and Senate votes

• New York State Assembly

  Assembly votes

• Congress.gov (Library of Congress)

  US House votes and federal bills

• United States Senate

  US Senate votes

• NYC Open Data: Address Points

  Where each NYC address sits (used to find districts without an outside lookup)

• NYS GIS and NYC Planning district boundaries

  Assembly, Senate, Congressional and Council district lines

• NYC Department of City Planning Geosupport

  Which districts an NYC address is in, when it is not in the address points

• US Census Bureau Geocoder

  Which districts an address outside NYC is in

Records last updated 2026-10-03.

Corrections log

Every fix made because someone reported it will be listed here with the date and what changed. Nothing yet.

Who runs it

An independent New York City resident. Not affiliated with any party, campaign, elected official, government body or interest group, and funded by none of them.