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Scan the Block · for renting

The building's record, before you sign for a year of it.

A listing shows you the flat on its best day. The city's records show the building on every other day: every housing violation found inside it and how serious the city judged each one, what the Department of Buildings has cited on the structure, and whether anyone has reported the building being divided in a way the city never permitted. Rent stabilisation is not a register anyone publishes here, so this report makes no finding about it.

The questions it answers

The sections that earn their keep

Housing violations inside the buildingEvery condition Housing Preservation and Development recorded, graded A non-hazardous, B hazardous, C immediately hazardous, and I for no heat or no hot water — the category the city treats as its own emergency.
Complaints and violationsWhat has been reported wrong here and whether it was fixed — allegations and findings, counted separately.
Illegal conversions reported nearbyReports to 311 that a building has been divided or occupied in a way the city did not permit, counted around the address.
The last 90 daysWhat this block has been like lately, against its own usual.
Licensed for entertainment nearbyWhich places around the address hold a live permit to put on amplified sound, and under which class. You cannot hear a nine o'clock bar at a Tuesday afternoon viewing, and the listing will not mention it.
Work permitted in the street outsideStreet-use permits in force nearby, grouped by job, with the window each runs for — whether the street is being dug up for the six months after you move in.
Before you sign, freeThe building's card — what both agencies have cited on it and what its block reports to 311 — free at /check, shareable with a roommate before anyone pays for anything.

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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