How the Desk Works

How the Desk reads the city.

Gotham Parcels maintains one ledger across every tax lot in the five boroughs — roughly 860,000 parcels. The ledger is rebuilt from the city's own records, refreshed on a nightly cycle, and read by an analyst before anything reaches a member.

The sources

PLUTO (parcel identity) · ACRIS (deeds, mortgages, parties) · DOB violations, permits, and filings · ECB/OATH hearings, penalties and balances · HPD violations, litigation, and emergency repairs · DOF tax-lien sale lists · FISP facade filings · LL84/LL97 energy · 311 complaint patterns. All public records of the City and State of New York.

The clock

City agencies publish on business days; our pipeline collects nightly. The Desk tier receives the week's intelligence Monday 7 a.m.; Bureau members Wednesday 7 a.m.; Façade Desk alerts run daily or weekly by tier. Every document is stamped with its data-as-of date.

Honest denominators

Housing-court and emergency-repair signals attach mostly to registered rental buildings — a quiet co-op isn't “clean,” it's simply not in that denominator. The Desk's assessments carry these caveats in the text, not the footnotes.

What we are not

We are not a consumer reporting agency. Reports are parcel- and entity-centric intelligence on buildings, never on private individuals' creditworthiness, employment, insurance, or tenancy. Records contain agency entry errors; verify independently before transacting.

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Compiled exclusively from public records of the City and State of New York. Not a consumer reporting agency; reports are not consumer reports and may not be used to determine eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, or tenancy.