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The public record, citable, with the source on every line.
The filing record on a lot, year by year: every permit the Department of Buildings issued against the square, suffix and lot, each carrying the zoning district of the day, read across every one of the District's per-year files with any year that did not answer named.
The questions it answers
- What exactly does each source say?
- How current is each figure?
- Can I cite this in a filing?
- What is deliberately excluded, and why?
- Where does the city publish this?
- Is this a consumer report?
The sections that earn their keep
The building's permitsEvery permit issued against the square, suffix and lot, with the zoning district each one carries and the year layer it came from.
Complaints and violationsAllegations and findings, counted separately and dated — with abatement status.
The filing record on the lotEvery permit issued against it and when, each with the zoning district of the day, read across every year the District publishes.
Every caveatThe report's refusals are documented, which is what makes the rest of it quotable.
Nothing here needs a compliance read.
The report contains no scores, grades or rankings — no safety rating, no school grade, no
neighborhood letter. Those are the classic proxies for what the Fair Housing Act protects,
and this product refuses them by design: you get counts, comparisons and sources. It names
no person, and it is not a consumer report.
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