Maintained by BPD Consultants as a courtesy resource for clients and colleagues navigating NYC code compliance.
NYC Code & Compliance Tools
Free tools built by BPD Consultants to help architects, building boards, contractors, and developers navigate NYC building code, zoning, and NYCHA and NYCSCA standards.
BuildingWhat is on record, what is required, and what is outstanding
Building Profile
Dept. of Buildings · MapPLUTO · LPC
Enter an address for a preliminary read of one building’s public record, pulled live from NYC Open Data: BIN, BBL, zoning district, permits, filings, landmark status, facade compliance and Certificates of Occupancy, plus an enforcement summary and the connections between records.
Inspection Matrix
NYC Building Code Ch. 17 · DOB NOW
Maps a project’s scope of work to the special and progress inspections it triggers under Chapter 17 of the NYC Building Code and the DOB NOW Technical Reports schedule, with code sections, inspector qualifications and agency class notes.
Violation Explorer
DOB · HPD · OATH · FDNY · LPC · 311
Enforcement history for a single building across City agencies: DOB violations, ECB and OATH cases, complaints, HPD and NYCHA maintenance code items, facade filings, elevator devices and landmarks violations, with outstanding matters separated from closed ones and hazard class called out.
Record Web
DOB · City Planning · Open Data sets
Every record the City holds for a building, drawn as one connected picture rather than as separate tables: permits, filings, limited alteration applications, violations, ECB and safety cases, facade cycles, Certificates of Occupancy, and the firms and licensed professionals that appear across them, charted by year back to the earliest record on file.
PlanningWhat governs a site, how DOB reads it, and everything filed against it
Zoning Map
Dept. of City Planning · DOF ACRIS · LPC
Interactive zoning and land use mapping for any address: zoning districts, commercial overlays, special purpose, limited height and MIH areas, flood and landmarks, plus maximum permitted floor area, a tax lot plan, recent ACRIS sales and a reference massing study.
Local Law Index
Dept. of Buildings · DOB NOW · PLUTO
Enter an address and see which local laws apply to that building, each with the threshold that triggered it and its compliance cycle: benchmarking, emissions caps, energy audits, gas piping, parapets, boilers, elevators and the current facade cycle. Or browse all 162 by keyword, year, category and applicability.
Guidance Library
Dept. of Buildings · DCAS · DOHMH · DOI
What the City publishes to explain the codes rather than to state them: Buildings Bulletins carrying DOB’s official interpretations and acceptance criteria, Code Notes setting out the requirements job type by job type, and selected agency reports, each with its status and, where cited, its code sections.
Code Reference
Dept. of Buildings
Every numbered provision of the New York City Construction Codes in one place, searchable by citation, by title, or across the full text of every section. Three editions side by side: the 2022 code in force, the 2014 code that still governs jobs filed in its window, and the Existing Building Code that takes effect in 2027. Each provision names the local law that amended it and its effective date, shows what cites it and what it cites, and opens the official PDF at the right page.
DesignPublished standards to draw and specify against, and your own
NYCHA Standards
NYC Housing Authority
A searchable, filterable index of NYCHA’s published Design Guidelines: 594 standard details and 524 specification sections in one place, with CAD-only drawings flagged and multi-document sections called out.
NYCSCA Standards
NYC School Construction Authority
A searchable, filterable index of NYCSCA’s public Standard Details, Standard Specifications and Room Layouts in one place, cross-referenced by CSI section. Compare across divisions and open any detail or specification directly.
Create Your Own
BPD Consultants
Have your firm’s own proprietary standard details and specifications turned into a searchable, filterable reference like the two above, scoped to your firm.