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Building Departments
Building Codes
New York City Agencies and offices
New York State Information
Federal Offices
For Homeowners
Publications

Building Departments

New York City Department of Buildings
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/dob/home.html

New York City DOB Office Locations:

BRONX: 1932 Arthur Ave., 5th Floor
Bronx, NY 10457-6306
Tel: (718) 579-6920 • TTY: (718) 579-6903

BROOKLYN: 210 Joralemon St., 8th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201-3715
Tel: (718) 802-3675 • TTY: (718) 803-4330

QUEENS: 120-55 Queens Blvd., 1st Fl.
Kew Gardens, NY 11415-1554
Tel: (718) 286-0600

STATEN ISLAND: 10 Richmond Terrace
Borough Hall, 2nd Floor, Staten Island, NY 10301-1903
Tel: (718) 816-2315 • TTY: (718) 816-2164

MANHATTAN: 280 Broadway, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10007-1801
Tel: (212) 566-5000 • TTY: (212) 566-4769

Selected New York State Local Building Departments:
http://www.gorr.state.ny.us/GORR/Permits_City_Links.htm

Other NYC Department of Building resources, including Information services, PC filing, alerts, directories, and more:
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/dob/html/resources.html

Catalog of DOB "fill-in" Forms:
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/dob/html/forms/forms.shtml

New Jersey DOB Office Locations:

Union City Building Department:
3715 Palisade Ave, Union City, NJ 07087
Tel: (201) 348-5710

Jersey City Building Permits:
30 Montgomery St # 411, Jersey City, NJ 07302
Tel:(201) 547-5055

Hoboken Building Permits:
94 Washington St, Hoboken, NJ 07030
Tel: (201) 420-2066

Newark Building Permits:
920 Broad St # B13, Newark, NJ 07102
Tel: (973) 733-3957

Hudson County Offices:
http://www.hudsoncountynj.org/

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Building Codes and Permits

Building Codes of the City of New York:

http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/dob/html/code.html

About Local Laws 10 and 11
http://www.locallaw11.com/index2.html

Permits: selected New York State Local Building Departments:
http://www.gorr.state.ny.us/GORR/Permits_City_Links.htm

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New York City Offices and Agencies

Department of Housing Preservation and Development:
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/hpd/home.html

New York City Government:
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/portal/site/nycgov/

NYC Department of Small Business Services
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/sbs/home.html

Minority and Women Owned Business (M/WBE) NYC Department of Small Business Services
www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/sbs/html/mwbe.html

General Information for Vendors in New York City:
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/selltonyc/html/new_vendors.html

Bureau of Electrical Control
2322 Municipal Building, New York, NY 10007
Tel: (212) 669-8353 • TTY: (212) 669-8352

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State Information

New York State website:
http://www.state.ny.us

New Jersey State website:
http://www.state.nj.us

Nassau County Official website information for individual towns.
http://www.co.nassau.ny.us/

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Federal Offices

DOE's Building Energy Codes Program:
http://www.energycodes.gov/

US Department of Labor:
http://www.dol.gov

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For Homeowners

Your Complete Home.com:
http://www.yourcompletehome.com/newyork/NYpermit.htm

Sound Home Resource Center:
http://www.soundhome.com/index.htm

The Cooperator/The Coop and Condo Monthly:
http://www.cooperator.com/

Hometime
http://www.hometime.com/

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Publications

Construction Plus:
http://www.constructionplus.net/

McGraw Hill Construction:
http://www.construction.com

ENR:
http://enr.construction.com/people/default.asp

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