# NYC Climate and Emissions Data AI Agent Connect

> NYC Climate, Emissions & Environmental Data provides direct access to official municipal records. Your AI client can pull greenhouse gas inventories, heat vulnerability rankings by ZIP+4, rooftop solar locations, street-level flood sensor data, and air quality readings from the Queens pilot network. It works with any MCP-compatible client like Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf.

## Overview
- **Category:** government-public-data
- **Price:** Free
- **Endpoint:** https://edge.vinkius.com/vk_preview_FgKhfc87Cdek8GwwRJiSPN6u0DDbxMe7Cwi7O1rr/ai-agent-connect
- **Tags:** new-york, nyc, climate, emissions, heat, flood, air-quality, solar

## Description

You can use this MCP to pull official NYC environmental data directly into your AI agent for real-time verification and analysis. Instead of hunting through government portals, you can ask your agent to pull specific greenhouse gas inventories for the city or the municipal government from 2005 to 2024. If you are looking at neighborhood resilience, you can pull heat vulnerability rankings for specific ZIP+4 areas or check recent street flooding recorded by FloodNet sensors. It also provides access to the Queens air-quality sensor pilot for PM2.5 readings and data on rooftop solar sites across the boroughs. This is built for anyone who needs to cross-reference climate claims or environmental trends against actual city records without managing complex API keys.

## Tools

### get_climate_projections
This tool pulls NYC climate projection metrics for a specific future period. It returns temperature and precipitation scenarios based on selected percentile models.

### get_ghg_inventory
This tool retrieves NYC greenhouse gas inventory data for a specific year. You can choose between citywide emissions or the municipal government's footprint.

### list_flood_events
This tool accesses FloodNet sensor data to show recorded street flooding events. You can filter results by sensor name or a specific start time.

### rank_heat_vulnerability
This tool provides Heat Vulnerability Index rankings for ZIP+4 areas. You can request the top most vulnerable neighborhoods or the rank for a specific ZCTA.

### search_aq_sensor_readings
This tool pulls PM2.5 air quality readings from the Queens pilot sensor network. It provides mean mass concentrations and EPA nowcast AQI for specific time windows.

### search_solar_sites
This tool searches the NYC Solar Readiness project database. You can filter sites by borough, agency, council district, or project status.

## Prompt Examples

**Prompt:** 
```
How much CO2 does the city government emit in 2024?
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**Response:** 
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Using get_ghg_inventory with municipal scope for 2024, I can pull the government's specific footprint across different sectors.
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**Prompt:** 
```
Which ZIP codes face the most heat risk?
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**Response:** 
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I can use rank_heat_vulnerability to identify the top most exposed ZIP+4 areas across the city.
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**Prompt:** 
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Has this area flooded recently?
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**Response:** 
```
I can check list_flood_events using a start_after parameter to see recent sensor-recorded inundation and water depths.
```

## Capabilities

### Emissions Tracking
Your agent pulls year-by-year GHG inventories for the city or municipal government.

### Flood Monitoring
The AI checks sensor-recorded street flooding events and water depths.

### Heat Risk Assessment
Your agent ranks neighborhoods by their heat vulnerability index.

### Air Quality Checks
The AI retrieves PM2.5 readings from the Queens pilot sensor network.

### Solar Site Mapping
Your agent searches for rooftop solar project locations and statuses by borough.

## Use Cases

### Neighborhood Resilience Planning
An urban planner uses heat vulnerability rankings to decide where to deploy cooling resources.

### Emissions Auditing
An analyst compares municipal GHG inventories across different years to track government footprint changes.

### Flood Impact Verification
A researcher checks FloodNet sensor data to confirm specific street inundation events.

### Solar Energy Research
A developer searches for existing solar sites and agency-owned locations in specific boroughs.

## Benefits

- Access official NYC data without needing to manage your own API keys.
- Verify environmental claims using direct municipal records.
- Analyze neighborhood-level risks like heat and flooding through a single interface.
- Connect to the data once and use it across any MCP-compatible client.

## How It Works

Vinkius hosts the MCP so you can use it immediately in your preferred AI environment.

1. Subscribe to the NYC Climate MCP on Vinkius.
2. Connect your AI client like Claude or Cursor via the Vinkius interface.
3. Ask your agent to fetch specific data like GHG inventories or flood events.
4. The agent calls the tool and returns the official NYC data directly to your chat.

## Frequently Asked Questions

**Do I need an API key to use this NYC data?**
No. Vinkius hosts the MCP and manages all connections, so you can access the data keylessly.

**What kind of emissions data is available?**
You can access citywide greenhouse gas inventories and municipal government footprints from 2005 to 2024.

**Can I get data for specific neighborhoods?**
Yes. You can use the heat vulnerability tool to get rankings for specific ZIP+4 areas.

**Is the air quality data for the whole city?**
The air quality tool provides readings from a specific pilot sensor network in Queens, not the full citywide network.

**What AI tools can I use with this MCP?**
You can use this with any MCP-compatible client, including Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

**Do I need an API key?**
No. NYC Open Data serves all public datasets anonymously over its SODA API (data.cityofnewyork.us). This MCP defines no credentials and needs nothing configured.

**What does the GHG tool return?**
For one year you get the emissions split: citywide mode gives sector-by-sector tonnes of CO2-equivalent across the whole city; municipal mode gives the city government's own footprint by main sector. Years run from 2005 to 2024.

**How is heat vulnerability ranked?**
Each ZIP+4 area carries a heat-vulnerability index where the higher the value, the more exposed the residents are. With a ZIP+4 the tool returns that one area; without it, the top-N most vulnerable areas in the chosen borough.