SERVICE AREAS
Façade and Local Law 11 work in all five boroughs
The rules are the same in every borough. The buildings aren't.
New York has one façade program, but it plays out differently in each borough. Pre-war terra cotta in Manhattan fails in its own way, and so does new EIFS in Brooklyn. Queens co-op campuses, Bronx Art Deco and Staten Island storefront parapets each bring their own problems. Here is what we tend to find in each.
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Manhattan
More than half of the city's FISP buildings are here. Most are pre-war masonry with terra cotta and stone, and about one in five tall buildings sits inside a historic district.
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Brooklyn
Old brick and new towers share the same blocks. Last cycle, Brooklyn had the highest initial Unsafe rate of the four largest boroughs.
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Queens
Post-war brick co-ops are laid out as campuses along Queens Boulevard and in Flushing, and Long Island City has a newer generation of towers.
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The Bronx
Art Deco on the Grand Concourse, plus Parkchester, Co-op City and Riverdale. Of the four largest boroughs, it has the largest share of buildings behind on FISP filings.
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Staten Island
About 140 FISP buildings, most of them on the North Shore. The annual parapet rule reaches far more, all the way down to the storefronts.