What’s inside
BoroBeacon covers two kinds of work. There’s what the city sends you, and there’s what your buildings generate on their own. Here is all of it.
If the city posts it, you hear about it.
We poll NYC Open Data for your buildings every weekday, so a new filing reaches you well before the city's mailed copy does. Forwarded agency emails get ingested too, in case a notice reaches your inbox before it reaches the dataset.
- ✓Daily syncs across HPD, DOB, FDNY, ECB / OATH, DSNY, DOT, DEP
- ✓Real-time ingestion from forwarded agency emails
- ✓One alert per event, dedup baked in
- ✓Historical backfill on day one, so the picture is complete from the start
The full history on every permit.
DOB NOW Build and Electrical, synced daily. Each filing carries the full status history, so you can read the chronology without bouncing between portals or chasing your expediter for an update.
- ✓DOB NOW Build and Electrical
- ✓Status timeline on every permit
- ✓Expiration reminders at 30, 7, and 1 day
- ✓Direct lookup to BIS or DOB NOW for the source filing
Compliance you can read at a glance.
Cat 1, Cat 5, and Periodic for elevators. Annual for boilers. The pies show where the portfolio stands today. A click drills to the device list and the next-due date for the work that actually needs scheduling.
- ✓Elevator Cat 1, Cat 5, Periodic
- ✓Boiler annual
- ✓Cat 5 scoped to devices actually due this year
- ✓Drill from any slice into the device-by-device view
Where the work happens.
A shareable intake URL for tenants. Work orders for the team. Walkthroughs for the building. The same dashboard, so nothing has to be remembered twice.
- ✓Per-building intake URLs with photo upload
- ✓Work orders against any unit or device
- ✓Vacant-apartment, weekly, and monthly inspection workflows
- ✓PDF exports for records
The filing calendar, per building.
Fourteen recurring NYC requirements tracked against each property: FISP facade reports, LL152 gas piping, LL84 benchmarking, LL97 emissions, HPD registration, boiler and elevator inspections, backflow tests, and the rest. Mark one complete and the next cycle's date is computed for you.
- ✓Next-due date on every requirement, for every building
- ✓Group the calendar by building, due month, or law
- ✓Reminders at 90, 60, 30, and 7 days
- ✓Completions roll the deadline to the next cycle automatically
One notice, tracked to every door.
Write it once and send it to a whole building, a floor, a wing, or a single apartment line. Each tenant's delivery is tracked individually, and tenants confirm their own contact details so the list doesn't rot.
- ✓Audience by building, floor, wing, or line
- ✓Per-tenant delivery status
- ✓Attachments and reusable templates
- ✓Tenants confirm their own email, no login needed
Reach the right person at the right hour.
Routed to the agent on the building or to a custom address you set per property. Reminder cadences match the way NYC deadlines actually work. Quiet on weekends and evenings, unless something is genuinely on fire.
- ✓Per-building recipient routing
- ✓Reminders at 21, 14, 7, 3, 1 days before a deadline
- ✓OATH hearing reminders at 14, 7, 5, 1 days
- ✓After-hours only for tenant safety and same-day deadlines
- ✓A Monday morning digest of everything that moved
Plain English on every notice.
Agency language is dense and very few people enjoy parsing it. We rewrite each notice into one sentence on what happened and one on what to do, so the team can triage instead of decoding.
- ✓Plain-English summary on every alert
- ✓Simplify any notice from the dashboard
- ✓A triage tool, not a legal opinion
Certify from the email itself.
When the work is done, the reminder email itself can certify the violation. Scanner-safe, audited, and reversible if the agency ever reopens the case.
- ✓Certify from any reminder email
- ✓Confirms before mutating state
- ✓Full audit trail
- ✓Reverts on agency reopening
Built for the way property teams work.
Buildings to agents, violations to supers, alerts that follow the assignment. Roles keep each person looking at the slice of the portfolio that's actually theirs.
- ✓Admin, agent, superintendent roles
- ✓Row-level security per agent
- ✓Per-user alert preferences
Seven agencies, watched daily.
We monitor every NYC agency that can hand your building a fine or a deadline. If it's in NYC Open Data, we're watching it.
Housing Preservation & Development
Class A/B/C violations, 311 complaints, Notices of Violation, Emergency Repair Programs. Every new NOV becomes an alert within hours.
Department of Buildings
Building-code violations, DOB NOW work permits with the full status history, elevator inspections across Cat 1, Cat 5, and Periodic, boiler inspections, and ARA / LAA asbestos filings.
Fire Department
Fire-code violations, permit expirations, account renewals. Critical for high-rises, sprinkler systems, and commercial kitchens.
Environmental Control Board · Hearings
OATH summonses and hearings across every issuing agency. Track fine amounts, hearing dates, and dispositions in one place.
Sanitation
Trash/recycling violations, commercial waste zone infractions, litter-basket tickets. Catches the small fines that add up fast.
Transportation
Sidewalk repair notices, street-work permits, curb violations. Often overlooked and always time-sensitive.
Environmental Protection
Water quality, backflow prevention, boiler registrations, noise complaints. The agency most owners forget about until it's too late.
Why BoroBeacon
We don't claim to be the only NYC compliance tool. We claim to be the one that doesn't charge you rent.
| Feature | BoroBeacon | Incumbents |
|---|---|---|
| All 7 NYC agencies monitored | ✓ | ✓ |
| Daily automated syncs | ✓ | ✓ |
| DOB NOW work-permit status timelines | ✓ | — |
| Click-to-drill device compliance | ✓ | — |
| Tenant-facing maintenance intake | ✓ | — |
| Built-in work order tracking | ✓ | — |
| Local Law deadline calendar | ✓ | — |
| Tenant notices with delivery tracking | ✓ | — |
| Plain-English AI summaries | ✓ | — |
| One-click email certification | ✓ | — |
| Per-building alert routing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Published, transparent pricing | ✓ | — |
| Flat $1 per unit / month | ✓ | — |
| No annual contract required | ✓ | — |
| No tiered feature gates | ✓ | — |
| 15-minute self-serve setup | ✓ | — |
Comparison reflects publicly-listed features from leading NYC compliance-monitoring vendors as of 2026. BoroBeacon is not affiliated with any other vendor.
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