Welcome to the Department of Buildings online query system. You can search for general information on a property in the city including recorded complaints and violations, actions, applications, and inspections. You can also search for information about tradespeople licensed by the Department.The information provided here comes directly from the Department's Building Information System. Look for additional functionality to be added in the future. If you have any questions please review these Frequently Asked Questions, the Glossary, or call the 311 Citizen Service Center by dialing 311 or (212) NEW YORK outside of New York City.

BIS Web Internet Security Policy: In order to provide the best BIS (Building Information System) experience for all users and to ensure there is no degradation in system performance, the Department closely monitors user traffic. System devices are installed to monitor bandwidth utilization and high traffic volume and are set to restrict the daily bandwidth utilization to 400 MB, effective August 18, 2008. The Department will deny future access to those IP addresses in violation of this policy. In addition, the Department restricts access to users of robots, web crawlers, automatic scripts and other methods that consume excessive bandwidth to download information from BIS.

Using the BIS search features: When entering information in most queries, it is important to data enter complete information for fields such as Address, License Number and Job Number. Wildcard searches in most queries will not result in the retrieval of information unless specifically noted.