Maintained by BPD Consultants as a courtesy resource for clients and colleagues navigating NYC code compliance.
Help us keep it accurate — .
DOB · RECORDS · CONNECTIONS
Record Web
Enter an address to draw every record the city holds for that building as one connected picture rather than as separate tables: permits, job filings, limited alteration applications, violations, ECB cases, facade cycles, certificates of occupancy, and the firms and licensed professionals that appear across them, with an activity chart back to the earliest record on file.
Works best with a house number + street. Borough helps disambiguate common street names.
Record Web 3D
No building
You are in
····
isolated
—
—
Fly the record
Every permit, violation, filing and certificate on this building, placed in space by the year it happened. The building is at the front. The further back you fly, the further back in time you go.
DragLook around
PinchMove nearer or further
TapInspect what you touched
Double tapFly to it and lock on
Iso and PlanFixed views. Press Iso again to turn it
A year ringOpen that year into a calendar
W A S DMove through the web
MouseLook around
ShiftSprint
Space / CRise and drop
E / QRise and drop, same as Space and C
[ and ]Step through an open year
ClickInspect what is on the crosshair
EscRelease the mouse
FIsolate what you selected
TabStep to the next thing it touches
Click a year ringOpen that year out, click again to pack it back
No pointer lock? Drag to look, and the keys still work.
Sources and limitations
Sources: NYC Department of Buildings (Permit Issuance and Job Application Filings from BIS, DOB NOW Build Approved Permits and Job Application Filings, DOB NOW Electrical Permit Applications, DOB NOW Limited Alteration Applications, DOB Violations, DOB Safety Violations, DOB/ECB Violations adjudicated at OATH, Facades Compliance Filings under Local Law 11, Certificates of Occupancy pre-2021 and DOB NOW, and DOB License Info), NYC Department of City Planning (Building Footprints), and NYC Planning Labs GeoSearch, via NYC Open Data. Records are provided as-is and may lag official City systems (DOB NOW / BIS WEB) by several days. The connections drawn between records are derived by this tool from shared licence and job numbers; they are not relationships published by the Department. This tool does not constitute a legal or code determination. © BPD Consultants.
Help us keep it accurate — .