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What a New York report does not say

The sale price, the owner, the lease, and six years of 311. What is missing here and why, stated rather than left as an empty box.

What is missing, stated plainly. An empty box is never a clean bill.

No sale price

New York records transfers through ACRIS, a separate system from the open data this report reads, so no sale price appears here at all. That is an absence rather than a finding: it does not mean the building has not changed hands.

No owner, and no tenancy

By design. The feeds carry owner names, an owner's home address and a permittee's telephone number; none is read. Leases, mortgages and liens are not open data in this city.

311 begins in 2020

The city publishes 311 in two files and the current one starts in 2020. A ten-year report that read only that file would show six quiet years that were never quiet, so the card reports the window it actually covers and names the seam rather than implying the street was calm.

A complaint is not a finding, and a permit is not work

311 records what was reported before anyone looked. A permit filed is paperwork; a permit issued is work that may legally begin; neither is work that happened. The report counts these apart and never adds them.

Counts on very busy buildings are capped

A Midtown tower can carry thousands of permits. Where the report reaches its ceiling it says so on the card rather than presenting a capped number as a total.

Counts run 12 September 2026.

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