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Number of Certificates of Occupancy granted in recent fiscal years
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Constadino Sirakis provides data on the number of Certificates of Occupancy (COs) granted in recent fiscal years and discusses the challenges in tracking COs for older buildings.
- Fiscal year 2022: 13,958 COs granted
- Fiscal year 2023: 15,412 COs granted
- Fiscal year 2024: 15,007 COs granted
- Fiscal year 2025 (to date): 5,378 COs granted
- Sirakis explains that buildings built before 1938 are not required to have COs unless significant changes are made
- The department is working on digitizing CO records to improve data accessibility and analysis
Joann Ariola
0:27:15
Right, so that becomes all digitalized and then it goes to the DOB and then you decide if if so so there is that interaction.
0:27:24
So how many certificate of occupancies were granted during the past three fiscal years and if you can break it down by borough and building type.
Constadino (Gus) Sirakis
0:27:42
Okay.
0:27:43
So I'll give you the last three full fiscal years and then what we have.
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I'm I'm Okay.
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Great.
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Numbers to date.
Joann Ariola
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Thank you.
Constadino (Gus) Sirakis
0:27:52
Sure.
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Fiscal year twenty two, thirteen thousand nine hundred fifty eight.
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Fiscal fiscal year twenty three, fifteen thousand four hundred twelve.
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Fiscal year '20 '4, '15 thousand '7.
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And fiscal year twenty five, '5 thousand '3 hundred '70 '8.
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Okay.
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And
Joann Ariola
0:28:23
how many buildings currently have COs and how many currently have TCOs?
Constadino (Gus) Sirakis
0:28:31
I I can get you the breakdown of what we issued for those years.
0:28:36
The how many buildings have final COs and TCOs citywide is bigger question.
0:28:43
That's as I explained earlier, I think buildings built before 1938 are not required to have a CO unless they make any substantive change to their egress or change the use occupancy of the building.
0:28:59
So for instance, a single family home in Queens that built 1925 may never need a C of O from the buildings department unless they do something significant.
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Our CFO records are largely, even though they are digitized by property, are largely still paper.
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They are unintelligent PDFs that you have to open and look at individually, and it is sometimes a legal debate as to what is the last issued final CO for for a particular property.
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So citywide, we don't have that information yet, but we are that's part of the purpose of our digitizing our our C of O process.