SERVICE AREA · THE BRONX
Façade restoration and Local Law 11 repairs in the Bronx, including buildings behind on FISP
The Bronx has about 2,500 buildings in New York's façade inspection program: Art Deco apartment houses on the Grand Concourse, the planned communities of Parkchester and Co-op City, and Riverdale's post-war towers. Last cycle, 27.5% of initial Bronx reports were filed Unsafe, and about one in four FISP buildings ended the cycle with no report on file. If your building has fallen behind, we get the repairs done and give your QEWI the records they need to file.
If your building is behind on FISP
628 Bronx FISP buildings ended Cycle 9 with "No Report Filed" as their latest status in DOB's data. That's about one in four, the highest share of the four largest boroughs. Some have filed since. If yours hasn't, work in this order:
- Get a QEWI on the building now. Late-filing and failure-to-file penalties keep growing while you wait.
- Use the early-filing path. A building with no report on file can file Safe or SWARMP before its Cycle 10 window, which stops penalties from accruing. Penalties already owed must be paid within 10 business days of DOB's provisional acceptance.
- If the inspection finds Unsafe conditions, protection goes up and the 90-day repair clock starts. That's our part of the job. Unsafe repairs →
- Fix SWARMP items before your next inspection, so they don't come back as Unsafe. SWARMP repairs →
The Bronx by the numbers
- FISP buildings, Cycle 9
- 2,483
- Initial reports filed Unsafe
- 27.5%
- Latest Cycle 9 status "No Report Filed"
- 25%
- Buildings reporting terra cotta
- 11%, second only to Manhattan
- Buildings with an active shed permit (Oct 1, 2026)
- 1,184
Source: NYC Open Data, as of October 2, 2026. Method and full data →
The Grand Concourse and the sloped-site rule
The Grand Concourse Historic District, designated in 2011, covers about 78 buildings between 153rd and 167th Streets. They're Revival-style apartment houses from the 1920s and Art Deco and Moderne buildings from the 1930s, finished in polychrome brick, glass block, mosaics and terra cotta ornament. Many look like six-story buildings from the street. On the Bronx's hills, though, a partial story more than half above grade counts toward FISP's height, which is how some Concourse buildings end up in FISP.
Repairs here center on ornamental terra cotta and cast stone and on patterned brick that has to be matched, along with parapets and the steel lintels over the wide Deco windows.
Parkchester and Co-op City: repairs at the scale of a town
Parkchester's two condominiums account for about 166 buildings in the FISP data. MetLife started building them in 1938, and they're known for the hundreds of terra cotta figures set into their walls. Co-op City has 35 high-rise towers in the FISP data, all under one owner. Work at that scale needs one repair standard across every building and a phasing plan the board can follow, with reporting that rolls up across the whole complex.
Riverdale's post-war towers
Riverdale and Spuyten Duyvil hold the Bronx's largest group of post-war high-rises, many of them co-ops along the Henry Hudson Parkway. Their reports tend to list the same conditions: balcony slabs and railings, white and buff brick, parapets and window sealant. Balcony repairs →
Across the Bronx
- Grand Concourse and Concourse Village: Art Deco buildings, a historic district, and the sloped-site rule on the hills.
- Parkchester: About 166 FISP buildings across two condominiums.
- Co-op City: 35 towers, one owner.
- Riverdale and Spuyten Duyvil: Post-war co-op towers along the Henry Hudson Parkway.
- Pelham Parkway: About 86 FISP buildings on just five streets: Cruger, Holland, Olinville and Wallace Avenues and Bronx Park East.
- Mott Haven and the Lower Concourse: New towers since the 2009 rezoning, going up beside older industrial and apartment buildings.
Bronx questions
Our building looks six stories from the street. Why are we in FISP?
Most likely the sloped-site rule. DOB counts a partial story toward the height when more than half of it is above grade, so six full stories plus a raised basement on a hillside can add up to 'greater than six stories' for FISP. A lot of the Bronx is built on slopes. If DOB lists your building, treat the rule as applying and talk to your QEWI.
Our building has no Cycle 9 report on file. What do we do now?
Get a QEWI on it right away, because the penalties for not filing keep accruing by the month and by the year. DOB's early-filing path lets a building with no report on file submit a Safe or SWARMP report ahead of its Cycle 10 window, which stops the penalties from growing. If the inspection turns up Unsafe conditions, the repair clock starts, and that's where we come in.
Does the Grand Concourse historic district affect our repairs?
It does if your building is one of the roughly 78 inside the district, between 153rd and 167th Streets. Exterior work there needs an LPC permit first, and the Art Deco details (polychrome brick, glass block, mosaic and terra cotta ornament) have to be repaired or replaced to match.
Can you work on a large complex like Parkchester or Co-op City?
Yes. At that size we phase the work building by building and plan the whole program before the first drop.
Our services in the Bronx
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Tell us about your Bronx building
Even if it's behind on FISP, send us the address and whatever DOB shows for it, and we'll start from there.
