Adding your first building

Adding a building to LLDesk is one of the few things in NYC compliance that should take 60 seconds. This article walks through the happy path and the small handful of edge cases.

The happy path

From the dashboard, click Add building. Type the address — exactly as it would appear on a piece of mail (e.g., 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271). As you type, LLDesk auto-completes against NYC's geocoding service.

When you select an address, LLDesk pulls:

• The BIN (Building Identification Number) — the unique ID for the physical structure.
• The BBL (Borough-Block-Lot) — the tax lot identifier. One BBL can have multiple BINs.
• Year built, gross floor area, number of stories, and primary use type from PLUTO.
• Community board and council district.
• Any open ECB violations, HPD complaints, and recent OATH hearings from the open data feeds.

The applicable-law engine then runs against this data and produces your compliance map.

When the address doesn't auto-resolve

A handful of buildings — especially new construction, recently subdivided lots, and a few stubborn historic districts — don't auto-resolve. If that happens, click Enter BIN manually.

You can find a BIN three ways:

1. DOB BIS lookup — go to a1868bis.nyc.gov and search by address. The 7-digit BIN is at the top of the property profile.
2. DOB NOW Public Portal — search by address; the BIN is in the property header.
3. NYC ZoLa — zola.planning.nyc.gov, click the lot, and the BIN appears in the building details panel.

We require BIN-level resolution because NYC compliance is BIN-level. A single tax lot with two buildings has two compliance maps, not one.

Multi-BIN lots

If a single BBL has multiple BINs (common for assemblage properties, large developments, and some condo arrangements), add each BIN as its own building. They'll roll up under the same workspace, but they'll have independent compliance maps, deadlines, and document vaults.

Buildings outside NYC

LLDesk is NYC-only by design. We won't accept addresses from outside the five boroughs, because the compliance regime we model — local laws specific to NYC — doesn't apply.

What happens after you add it

Within seconds of adding the building, LLDesk:

1. Generates the compliance map (every applicable law and its next deadline).
2. Begins the daily violation sync from HPD, DOB, and OATH.
3. Schedules reminders for upcoming deadlines (60/30/7/1-day cadence by default).
4. Creates an empty document vault you can drag-and-drop existing inspection PDFs into.

You can edit any of the auto-pulled fields if the city's data is wrong (it occasionally is — we're not making it up; we're surfacing what they published). Edits are logged in the audit trail.