NYC Building Report Card Violations, complaints, taxes, owners & schools — for any address
A row of brownstone houses on a residential street in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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Before you rent, buy, or move in — see what the city knows about the building.

Type any New York City address and get a report card: housing violations, tenant complaints, tax assessment history, the owner of record, and the schools that serve it.

  • Free — no account, no email
  • Every figure linked to its NYC Open Data source
  • Facts only — no ratings, no opinions

See a sample report card A Brooklyn walk-up with 121 open violations.

Photo: Ajay Suresh, cropped — CC BY 2.0

Moving to New York City A New York City street with brick walk-ups, a parked moving truck and stacked cardboard boxes, with a building report card showing a checklist of violations, taxes and zoned schools being read before signing a lease. MOVING DAY BEFORE YOU SIGN Housing violations on record What the taxes look like Zoned schools & owner
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The lease says nothing about the building’s history. The city does.

Landlords are not required to hand you a violation record, and a good listing photo tells you nothing about the pipes. All of it is public — it is just spread across six city datasets that were never meant to be read together.

  • Check the building before the viewing Open housing violations, and which of them the city classes as immediately hazardous.
  • See how the city values it The assessed-value history over the years, next to the Department of Finance market estimate.
  • Find the zoned schools Elementary and middle school boundaries follow the address — the report shows which ones cover it.
  • Know who is behind it The owner of record, the managing agent, and the registration contacts the city has on file.

What’s in a report card

Six sections, every one from free public records, in a single page.

Violations

Open HPD violations by class, with Class C flagged separately. HPD regulates housing, so a non-residential building legitimately shows none.

Complaints

Recent tenant complaints against the building, newest first.

Tax trajectory

Assessed value over the years beside DOF’s own market estimate — never presented as a sale price.

Ownership

Owner of record, managing agent, and the contacts the city has on file.

Building facts

Year built, unit counts and building class, from PLUTO.

Zoned schools

The elementary and middle schools that cover the address, with ELA and Math figures. Numbers only.

Who it’s for

Renters

Read the building’s record before you sign a lease.

People moving to NYC

Check the address now, and again the week you move in.

Buyers

Diligence on a co-op, condo or small building before you commit.

Journalists & organizers

Look up conditions and owners fast, with every figure cited.

How it works

1

Your address becomes a BBL

NYC Geoclient converts it into the borough-block-lot id every city dataset is keyed by.

2

We query the city live

Violations, complaints, valuation, ownership, building facts and school zones, straight from NYC Open Data.

3

You get one report card

Cited, printable, and cached so the same building opens instantly next time.

Questions

What can I find out about a building?

Open housing violations and whether any are Class C (immediately hazardous), recent tenant complaints, the Department of Finance assessed-value history, who is registered as the owner and managing agent, and the elementary and middle schools zoned for the address.

Where does the data come from?

NYC Open Data — HPD for violations, complaints and registrations, DOF for property valuation, DCP/PLUTO for building facts, and NYC DOE for school zones and state test results. Addresses are converted to a BBL with NYC Geoclient.

Is the assessed value the market value?

No. Assessed value is the figure the city taxes against. DOF also publishes its own market estimate, shown separately. Neither is a sale price or an appraisal, and the two are never combined.

Does this cover high schools?

No, because NYC high schools are mostly choice-based rather than zoned. Zoning applies to elementary and middle schools, which is what the schools section reports.

Can I save or print a report?

Yes. Every report has a “Download report card (PDF)” button that uses your browser’s print dialog, and the data itself is available as JSON from /api/report/{BBL}.json.

Is it free?

Yes. Every source dataset is free and public. There is no account and no payment.

How current is the information?

Each building report is assembled live from the city datasets and then cached for 7 days. Source datasets themselves update on their own schedules.

For developers and AI assistants

The data is available as JSON so assistants and tools can read it directly: /api/lookup?address=… resolves an address to a BBL, and /api/report/{BBL}.json returns the full report. See llms.txt for a machine-readable summary of this site.