Tag: New York City Department of Buildings

Board Operations Board Resource Guide
2016 August Board Resource Guide

Most board members can use all the help they can get when it comes to understanding the rules, laws, and other factors that guide how they will help govern their community. Senior board members are a terrific source of information, as is a …

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Law & Legislation The Airbnb Crackdown
The Airbnb Crackdown

On January 22, Airbnb listed New York City as the third-most travelled to city for business trips on its new “Airbnb for Business” platform. The announcement comes a month after the company released data showing that 55 percent of Airbnb us…

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Board Operations The ABCs of Municipal Government
2015 February The ABCs of Municipal Government

You may live in the most well-run and self-sufficient building in the city, but no building is an island, not even in developments from the sprawling Stuyvesant Town- Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan to Co-op City in the Bronx to the smal…

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Exterior Understanding Local Law 11
2014 March Understanding Local Law 11

It’s not hard to imagine the dire danger posed to life and limb, should debris or material of any kind fall from the facade of any of New York City’s thousands of buildings. Indeed, pedestrians have been injured and killed by bricks, stone…

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Law & Legislation The ABCs of City Resources
2011 June The ABCs of City Resources

 You may live in the most well-run and self-sufficient building in the city, but  even in Gotham, no building is an island. Developments from Penn South in  Manhattan to Co-op City in the Bronx to the small six-story condo building in  the…

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