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Everything the city files about your building, and beside it.
You hear about a notice when it matters least — after the deadline, in escrow, or from a tenant's lawyer. The report reads your parcel's full record on demand, and the weekly building watch tells you what was filed on or near it while you were doing something else.
The questions it answers
- What is outstanding against my building?
- Which violations do the two agencies hold open against me?
- What will a buyer's agent see first?
- How much of my allowed floor area is unbuilt?
- Which of my permits are still open?
- What does my building's permit and violation record show?
The sections that earn their keep
Watched buildingsA Monday email when a permit, complaint, violation or nearby eviction notice is filed. A quiet week sends nothing.
Complaints and violationsWhat stands against the parcel, what was abated, and what is still live.
What the record will show a buyerEvery permit on the lot and every violation from both agencies. New York issues no single document at sale the way San Francisco and Cleveland do; what a building is lawfully allowed to be used as is a separate Department of Buildings record, asked of them directly.
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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