About NYCuriosity
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I write about how New York City actually works, and how it could work better. Each post starts with public data: the City budget, every fiscal impact statement and standing mandate the Council has handed agencies since 2014, DOT’s street and bike lane commitments, MTA ridership, parks, or the resolutions of the city’s 59 community boards. I pull the data myself, chart it, and publish the numbers and methods behind every piece at data.nycuriosity.com, where tools like the NYC Council Legislation Trackers and the CB Member Tracker live.
I also write from inside the process. As a member of Manhattan Community Board 3, I publish a report after every full board meeting on what was voted, what was promised, and what to watch next month. And since early 2026, a growing share of the newsletter covers state capacity: the people and tools trying to make government deliver, in New York and beyond, including the State Capacity Ecosystem I help organize.
NYCuriosity is for readers who believe good policy starts with good information. Subscribe for data-driven writing on transit, streets, the budget, community boards, and the machinery of city government, from someone who lives in it and sits in the meetings.
About Me
I’m Tal Roded, a data scientist and economic researcher.
I live on the Lower East Side and serve as an appointed member of Manhattan Community Board 3 on the Parks Committee. I contribute to Block Party, which makes community board resolutions and meeting transcripts searchable across NYC, and I co-organize the State Capacity Ecosystem with other passionate civic technologists. My work has run in Streetsblog NYC, Vital City, Searchlight, and Reboot Democracy.
See more on my personal site: talroded.nycuriosity.com.
Beyond NYCuriosity, I take on a limited number of paid commissions through NYCuriosity Studio: independent, rigorous data analysis, dashboards, research reports, and writing for organizations that need the numbers to hold up. It is kept strictly separate from what I publish here: analytical, nonpartisan work only, and never anything that conflicts with my reporting or my Community Board seat.
Details at talroded.nycuriosity.com/services.
