Guides
Owner & manager guides
Plain-English starting points for staying compliant in NYC. Begin with your own building, then go deep on the laws and deadlines that apply to it.
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What does my building owe the City?
The fastest way to orient: enter your address and get every obligation, deadline, and open violation for your specific building.
Run your building →Estimate your Local Law 97 penalty
See your carbon cap and potential $268/ton exposure for 2024–2029 and the stricter 2030 limits.
Open the calculator →Look up your violations
Pull DOB, ECB/OATH, and HPD violations for any building in one search.
Search violations →Understand the big laws
Local Law 97: carbon caps
Who’s covered, the penalty math, and why 2030 matters now.
Read the guide →FISP / Local Law 11: facades
The 5-year facade inspection, Safe/SWARMP/Unsafe, and your Cycle 10 sub-cycle.
Read the guide →Energy benchmarking (LL84)
The annual energy/water report that feeds your LL97 number and public grade.
Read the guide →Every NYC Local Law
The full landscape — registration, lead, gas, elevators, boilers and more — in one place.
Browse all laws →Never miss a deadline again.
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