What this site publishes

What is published

Pages are organised around buildings, companies and places, never around people. A building page carries its deed record, its assessed value, its open HPD violations, its 311 complaint counts, its DOB permits and any executed evictions recorded at that address. A company page carries the deeds that company is named on. A neighborhood page carries counts and rates for the ZIP.

Company names are published in full. A limited liability company, a corporation, a trust, a bank or a housing development fund corporation is named wherever it appears in the record, including where that name is the only answer to who owns a building.

What is withheld, and why

Four things are in the public record and are not on this site.

• The names of private individuals. ACRIS names every party to a deed, and most of them are people buying a home rather than companies building a portfolio. Where a deed party is a person, pages read “a private individual” instead of the name. The transfer, the date and the price are still shown, because those describe the transaction rather than the buyer.
• Apartment numbers. HPD writes the unit an inspector stood in into the violation text, and the eviction file appends it to the street address. A street address plus a unit plus a date describes one household. The instruction to the landlord is kept; the unit is removed.
• Tenant names, and any name attached to an eviction. The city does not publish who was evicted and neither does this site. Eviction records here carry an address, a date and a marshal docket number.
• A private person’s home address. A company’s registered agent is a public role and is named, but where that agent is a person, the page shows the city and state rather than the street.

Search follows the same line. Company and LLC names are searchable; individuals are not. Deeds held by a private person still count toward every total on the site, and cannot be looked up by name, because a name-searchable index of private homeowners is a different product than this one.

A record is not a finding

A violation is an inspector’s observation, a complaint is something a resident reported, and an eviction is an action a court authorised and a marshal carried out. None of them is a finding about anyone’s conduct, and this site does not present them as one. A displacement score describes where pressure is concentrated relative to the rest of the city. It is not evidence that a specific owner has broken a law.

Where a page shows an eviction and a later sale at the same building, it is describing the order of two dated records. A recorded sequence is not a claim about cause.

What is collected from you

Page analytics run on Plausible, which is cookieless and stores no personal data and no cross-site identifier. There is no advertising network on this site and nothing here is sold or shared with one.

If you subscribe to an alert, your email address is stored so the alert can be sent, along with the building, block or company you asked to watch. It is used for that and for nothing else. Every email carries a one-click unsubscribe, and unsubscribing deletes the subscription.

Corrections and removals

City records contain errors, and this site inherits them. If something here is wrong, or if a page names you as an individual anywhere, write to nycdisplacement@gmail.com with the address or the page and what is wrong with it. Corrections that can be verified against the city record are made, and a page that names a private individual is a defect on this site whether or not the record is accurate.

Where the underlying city record itself is wrong, the correction has to be made at the source, since this site re-reads those feeds nightly and would otherwise restore the error. The methodology page lists every source and links to it.