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What the city already knows, before you price the job.

What the city already knows about the building, before you price the job. Every permit filed against the tax lot and what each was for, whether it was filed or issued, and what both agencies have cited — so you can see your own work on a street rather than everybody's.

The questions it answers

What permits are already open on this building?
What equipment and plumbing permits have been filed on this building?
What has either agency opened against this building?
What has been filed on this lot, and what is still only filed?
Who pulled the last permit here, and what was it for?
What has been filed against this building in the last year?

The sections that earn their keep

Open permitsBuilding, electrical and plumbing, filed and not yet closed out — the obligation a job can quietly inherit.

Fire-suppression violationsSprinkler and standpipe citations specifically, split from alarms and exits — a customer an inspector already flagged.

Pest and infestation noticesRodent, cockroach and bedbug citations, split from general sanitation — the same signal, for a different trade.

What is filed but not issuedA filing is paperwork and an issued permit is work that may legally start. The two are counted apart, which is the difference between a job about to happen and a job that might.

The permit record, in fullEvery filing on the parcel, dated, with what it declared and whether it closed.

Written for you

How to read a New York reportFour agencies keep the record here and none of them keys it the same way. Which number comes from where, and why two of them are not supposed to agree.Why the borough is not optional350 Broadway is a real address in more than one borough, and they are different buildings. This is the one thing a New York lookup cannot guess.Assessed is not market, and here the gap is the pointNew York assesses most property at a fraction of what it would fetch and limits how fast that figure may climb. A $577m assessment is not an estimate of the price.Built against allowed: the floor area ratioThe single most useful number on a New York lot, and one no other city in this product publishes. The Empire State Building is at 308% of what its own zoning now allows.

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