NYC Food & Sanitation Inspections

NYC Food & Sanitation Inspections MCP Connector for Claude

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Keyless NYC food-safety data: restaurant health inspections and A/B/C grades by CA#, rodent inspection results, school cafeteria inspection findings, and food scrap drop-off sites — no API key.

5 tools Official Updated Oct 1, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner

The Department of Health & Mental Hygiene and DSNY food-safety datasets, keyless.

What you can do

  • Search restaurant inspections — by CA# (health certificate), business name, borough, grade (A/B/C) or date window
  • Get one restaurant's grade — the most recent inspection of a CA#: score, grade, type and date
  • Rodent inspections — DSNY property inspections and abatements, with result and any letter issued
  • School cafeteria findings — inspection codes and violation descriptions per school
  • Food scrap drop-off sites — the city's compost drop-off locations with open months and hours

Who is this for

Food-safety research, restaurant due diligence, public-health analysis and local-jurisdiction comparisons.

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5 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

get_restaurant_grade

If the establishment has never been graded, the grade field is empty. The current grade and latest inspection of one restaurant by CA#

list_food_scrap_dropoffs

Filter by borough (title case) or council district. List NYC food scrap drop-off sites (composting locations)

search_cafeteria_inspections

Filter by school name, borough or inspection date window. Search school cafeteria health inspections (violations and codes)

search_restaurant_inspections

Boro values are title case (Manhattan, Brooklyn, ...); dba is the business (legal) name. Dates are ISO "YYYY-MM-DD". Search NYC restaurant health inspections and grades

search_rodent_inspections

) and any letter issued. Filter by borough, zip, street/house number or inspection date window. Search DSNY rodent infestation inspections and abatements

See how to talk to your AI agent using NYC Food & Sanitation Inspections.

What grade does this restaurant (CA# 50155931) have?

get_restaurant_grade("50155931") returns the most recent inspection: name, address, current grade, score, inspection type and date.

Which Queens neighborhoods have the most rodent problems?

search_rodent_inspections with borough "Queens" and result "Rodent Activity" over a date window shows the affected properties; the open-data MCP's grouped stats can rank by community board.

Where can I drop off food scraps in Manhattan?

list_food_scrap_dropoffs with borough "Manhattan" returns the compost drop-off sites with open months, operating days and hours.

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.

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