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NYC zoning & architect reports

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An architect-grade zoning study for any NYC lot — every legal scenario modeled, every floor drawn, every constraint cited to the Zoning Resolution. The study your architect quotes weeks for, in minutes.

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An actual report, page by page

Sample zoning report — Cover

61 pages, on one NYC lot.

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What you get

One report. Everything in it.

Not a summary and not a screening tool — the full study, drawn and cited, that an architect would hand you in week two of schematic design. Every report contains all of this. There is no cut-down version.

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Scenarios

Every legal path for the lot, modeled as an actual building — not a list of options. As-of-right, City of Yes, IH, Tower-on-Base, SRO.

Drawings module illustration

Drawings

The plates. Every floor drawn — unit footprints, corridor and core placement, stair geometry, room dimensions — plus the massing they sit in.

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Citations

Every constraint that drove the envelope, cited to the section that imposed it — the table you hand counsel, a lender, or a DOB examiner.

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Delivery

It arrives as a document you can forward. Your logo, your colors, your name — hosted for two years and free to re-run as the design changes.

The zoning engine is genuinely world-class. Split-zone detection with weighted envelopes, anisotropic yard geometry, full Zoning Resolution and special-district interpretation, sky-exposure plane calculations, dormer allowances, PBA detection. An architect-level computation.

— NYC senior architect

Envelope / Zoning Report001 / 012

The report

The zoning analysis your architect charges thousands for, on demand.

An architect-grade feasibility study delivered as a live, interactive web report — the same analysis an architect spends weeks producing. Hand it to your architect as a starting point and save yourself the upfront engagement.

Handles the edge cases too — irregular lots, split-zoned parcels, and special zoning districts. The engine does the per-edge yard classification and overlay FAR overrides automatically.

  • Full ZR envelope — FAR, height, yards, setbacks, sky-exposure plane
  • Every scenario: Max Res, UAP / City of Yes, IH, CF, SRO, Tower-on-Base, Shared Housing
  • 3D massing + floor-by-floor area breakdown (F.A. / W.A. / V.A.)
  • Floorplan sketch generation — room layouts, core, corridors, unit mix
  • Irregular-lot, split-zone, and special-district handling
  • Unit mix, core sizing, parking layout, loading berths
  • Tax program eligibility (421-a, J-51, ICAP, 485-x)
  • ZR citations on every claim — defensible with any architect or DOB examiner
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  1. Full Zoning Resolution citations in each report.
  2. ZR §23-153 base FAR, §23-154 UAP, §23-90 MIH bonuses evaluated.
  3. Special-district and overlay FAR overrides applied automatically.

Try a scenario

Will it hold up?

Checked against what actually got built.

Anyone can generate a number. The question that matters is whether it survives your architect, your lender, and a DOB examiner.

So we grade ourselves against reality. The engine's output is compared to real filed DOB jobs — job number, filed floor area, filed unit count — across thousands of NYC lots. When it drifts from what examiners actually approved, we find out before you do.

  • ✓Every constraint in the report cites the Zoning Resolution section that imposed it — any number can be traced back.
  • ✓Building Code analysis, Chapter 5: egress, occupancy, construction type, height and area limits.
  • ✓Special-district and overlay overrides applied automatically, not left to a footnote.
  • ✓A golden regression suite runs on every engine change before it reaches a report.

4,179

Filings compared

engine output vs. real filed DOB jobs

3,905

NYC lots

every borough, checked continuously

1,415

Golden cases

regression suite run on every change

100%

ZR-cited

every constraint traced to its section

The Advanced Suite

The human owner behind the LLC.

Not sold separately. Clients who work with us get the Advanced Suite — owner intelligence, comparables, violations, monitors and the deal pipeline.

Most NYC commercial buildings are held in single-purpose LLCs. The deed reads “HOUSE 19 LLC” — and PropertyShark, Compstak, ZoLa, and CoStar all stop there. You don't have a name, a number, or a way in.

We pierce it. Four-source pipeline, run in parallel:

  • ✓Vision AI reads the actual recorded deed AND mortgage signatures — when the deed is illegible, the mortgage cracks it.
  • ✓Co-buyer propagation: when a JV uses five sister-LLCs, one pierce attributes all five.
  • ✓Reverse-address skip-trace fallback: pull the LLC's mailing address from the deed body, reverse-trace it, surface the family living there.
  • ✓Related contacts: spouse, siblings, business partners — also pulled, also reachable.
Sample LLC pierce
Illustrative — not a live lookup
ACQUIRED BY · GRAMERCY 252 OWNER LLC
victor haim sigoura
Authorized Signatory · Legion Investment Group
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cell+1-212-XXX-•••7
emailg***********@yahoo.com
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christy martin
Authorized Signatory · Randstad USA
high
linkedinprofile

The full owner report adds direct cell phones, personal email, related LLCs across the borough, the full deed + mortgage history for every property they touch, and the family network behind the entity. Every NYC LLC pierced to the human signer.

See a sample owner report

Trusted by professionals

reports generated

tax lots covered

programs evaluated

Built for everyone who does the deal.

Same report. Different questions. Brokers price and pitch it. Owners test what their site is worth building. Developers underwrite before they bid.

Illustration: brokers

Brokers

Win listings with architect-grade reports under your logo. Source cold leads by piercing the LLC. Track every client, target, and active deal in one pipeline.

See the workflow
The NYC defaults on the valuation tool are scary good. I was plugging in Class 2 tax rates by hand before this.

Managing Broker

Manhattan investment sales

Illustration: owners

Owners

Understand your portfolio without hiring an analyst. Value every building, model a what-if rezoning, get alerts when a violation lands or a new-build files nearby.

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I watch six buildings in my neighborhood for violations and new-build activity. I get an alert before the block does.

Multi-family owner

Upper East Side

Illustration: developers

Developers

Screen ten sites in the time it used to take to screen one. Stack every zoning scenario, run the assemblage, value the deal, track every target — without leaving the platform.

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Saved us weeks of preliminary zoning analysis on a 12-lot assemblage in East New York.

Development Director

Brooklyn-based developer

Pricing

Pay per report. Or unlock everything.

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Unlimited Reports

Unlimited zoning reports on any NYC lot. Every scenario, drawn and cited. Free re-runs.

$4,990/year

$416/month effective · $649 month to month

In every report

  • Every legal scenario, modeled
  • Per-floor sketch plans + room layouts
  • 3D massing + cross-sections
  • Full ZR citation table
  • Building Code analysis
  • Flood, parking and tax programs
  • Split zoning, assemblage, TDR
  • Affordability + 421-a / J-51

And with the subscription

  • Unlimited reports, any NYC lot
  • Free re-runs as the design changes
  • White-label PDF + web view
  • Two years of hosted history
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Just need one report?

One-time purchase, no subscription

Up to 6,999 SF$149
7,000 – 69,999 SF$349
70,000+ SF$499

The full architect-grade study — the same artifact a subscriber gets, every time. NYC architects charge $1,500–$10,000 for this depending on property size.

  • Per-floor sketch plans + rooms
  • Every legal scenario modeled
  • 3D massing + cross-sections
  • Full ZR citation table + code analysis
  • Single lot or assemblage
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