Every violation, every deed, every distress signal — across all 860,000 New York City parcels — read by an analyst and delivered to a small circle of members each week.
Request a Seat Read a Dossier“The records are public. The reading of them is not.”
City agencies publish millions of filings a year — deeds, violations, hearings, liens, facade reports, litigation. The information is free. The meaning is buried. The Desk maintains a single ledger across every parcel in the five boroughs, scores what changed each week, and tells members plainly: which buildings are slipping, which owners are preparing to sell, which facades just went UNSAFE, and where the leverage sits.
No membership required
100 seats, ever · founding 25 at $500 for life
For engineers & contractors
Funds and portfolios: The Desk tier ($5,000/mo, ten seats) includes all boroughs, custom screens, and data feeds — write to the Desk.
| Solo$99/mo | Pro$299/mo | Enterprise$2,499/mo | Bureau$1,000/mo | The Desk$5,000/mo | Dossier$495 one-off | |
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| Audience | Contractors & façade engineers | Contractor firms covering all NYC | Large GCs & engineering firms | Investors, brokers & owners | Funds & family offices | Anyone with one building — buyers, agents, attorneys, lenders |
| Geography | 1 borough | All NYC | All NYC | All NYC | All NYC | 1 building |
| Cadence | Weekly | Daily | Daily + feed | Weekly brief | Weekly + on request | On demand |
| Delivery | Weekly roundup | Next business morning | Same morning | Wednesday 7 a.m. | Monday 7 a.m. — two business days ahead | Within 24 hours |
| Façade / FISP status | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| DOB / ECB violations | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| OATH penalties & balances | — | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Deeds & ownership (ACRIS) | — | — | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Litigation · liens · repairs | — | — | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Owner & agent contacts | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Likely-seller & distress watchlists | — | — | — | ● | ● | — |
| Dossiers included | — | — | White-label | 4 / month | 20 / month | — |
| The analyst's layer | Alerts | Alerts + balances | Raw feed | Brief + watchlists | Custom screens, written | Written assessment |
| Written desk correspondence | — | — | Quarterly review | 1 business day | Same day | — |
| Seats | — | — | — | 100, ever | 10, ever | — |
Every $495 dossier credits in full toward a first month of Bureau membership within thirty days. The desk corresponds in writing only.
A Lenox Hill condominium, facade classified UNSAFE, forty-two open violations, five figures in unpaid city penalties. Members saw it in the weekly brief. This is what the Desk's work looks like — read the specimen dossier.