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Independent research · New York City · DCWP Home Improvement Contractor · no borough pages
Official NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection Home Improvement Contractor licenses, plus same-DCWP complaint, inspection, and charge observations joined only by exact Business Unique ID or license number, and a separate DOB permit / PLUTO property layer joined only by exact BBL or BIN. This is not a ranking, recommendation, Trust Score, or statewide NYSDOL public-work roster. A permit is not contractor quality.
Snapshot contractor-nyc-dcwp-intel-v1 · licenses as of 2026-08-20 · complaints 2026-09-02 · charges 2026-09-02 · inspections 2026-09-04
NYC requires a Home Improvement Contractor license for defined remodeling or repair work costing more than $200 on residential buildings. Official guidance says this does not include new home construction, plumbing, or purely electrical work. Confirm current status on DCWP Search Business (license-check landing) and the official hiring tips. A frozen Open Data status is not live verification at the instant you view this page.
13,385
Source-native Active NYC DCWP HIC license IDs
Active license_status rows in the Home Improvement Contractor slice. Not unique companies. Frozen Open Data is not live verification.
18,684
Distinct DCWP Business Unique IDs in the HIC slice
Business Unique ID is the preferred same-DCWP evidence bridge. It is not a ContractorTrustHub canonical organization.
497
HIC businesses with exact BUID complaint observations
Complaint observations are not violations or a quality score.
51
HIC businesses with exact BUID inspection observations
An inspection is not a violation. Unable to Locate is not unlicensed.
18,931 Issued Licenses rows in the official Home Improvement Contractor category.18,931 distinct license numbers. 18,684 distinct Business Unique IDs. 13,385 have source-native license_status Active. Status is taken from the source; expiration date was not used to manufacture Active.
One business may have multiple license rows (247 extra rows on reused Business Unique IDs). Active license IDs are not unique companies. Borough on the business address is not service territory. Absence from this slice does not mean illegal contractor for every type of construction work.
Preferred identities are NYC-DCWP-LICENSE:{license_nbr} and NYC-DCWP-BUSINESS:{business_unique_id}. Exact Business Unique ID is the bridge for same-DCWP research association. It does not create a ContractorTrustHub canonical organization or public profile. Name-only matching is unsafe.
Exact BUID research associations across complaints, inspections, or charges: 559. Exact license-number inspection associations: 63. Public profile attachments: 0.
3,341 DCWP Consumer Complaints observations in the Home Improvement Contractor category (2023-03-31 to 2026-07-23). 497 of those businesses also appear in the current HIC license slice by exact Business Unique ID. A complaint is not a violation, not a substantiated finding, and not company quality. No complaint row is not a clean history.
102 DCWP Inspections observations in Home Improvement Contractor category variants. 100 include BBL and 100 include BIN; those parcels are not the business identity. Inspection is not a violation. Closed is not business closure. Unable to Locate is not unlicensed.
558 DCWP Charges observations in the Home Improvement Contractor category. Outcomes are preserved separately (including blank, default decision, hearing decision, and settlement). A charge is not a violation finding and not a conviction. An investigation is not guilt.
Bounded 2024-09-12 to 2026-09-12 DOB NOW: Build – Approved Permits activity, complementary legacy DOB Permit Issuance rows in the same window, and PLUTO 26v2 tax-lot context matched by exact BBL. PLUTO has no BIN column. Confirm current permits in DOB NOW. Frozen Open Data is not live verification.
337,613
DOB NOW approved-permit observations (24-month issued window)
Issued-date rows in DOB NOW: Build – Approved Permits. Not unique contractors and not completed jobs.
64,375
Distinct DOB NOW BBLs with permit activity
BBL is a tax lot. It is not a building and not a contractor.
70,797
Distinct DOB NOW BINs with permit activity
BIN is a building identity from DOB. It is not a tax lot.
66,525
PLUTO tax lots matched by exact BBL
PLUTO 26v2 lot context. Not title, ownership, or contractor identity. PLUTO has no BIN column.
NYC-BBL is the tax lot. NYC-BIN is the building. A condo can have one building and many lots. 3,443 matched PLUTO rows have a condo number. 166 matched addresses map to more than one BBL and stay NEEDS_CLARIFICATION. Address-only auto-attachment is rejected.
Applicant is not contractor. Filing representative is not permittee. Owner is not contractor. PE/RA is not a general contractor. DOB GC license numbers are not DCWP HIC licenses. 5 legacy rows carry an HIC license number that exactly matches a DCWP HIC license core; those are research associations only. Public profile attachments remain 0. A permit at a property does not prove who performed the work, that the work was completed, or that it was code-compliant.
30 DCWP inspection BBLs also appear in the DOB permit window. That is a property-level research association. It does not mean the DCWP business pulled every permit at that lot.
Do not add DOB NOW rows, legacy rows, jobs, BBLs, BINs, and PLUTO lots into one records total. Legacy 18,858 rows share 3,716 BBLs with DOB NOW and are not summed.
Bounded 2024-09-12 to 2026-08-31 ACRIS Real Property Master documents joined to lots through ACRIS Legals borough/block/lot. Confirm current recordings in official ACRIS search. This is not a title search, title insurance, chain of title, or current-ownership guarantee.
581,566
ACRIS Master document observations (recorded in 24-month window)
Recorded/filed documents. Not sales, not current owners, not a title search.
580,444
Distinct ACRIS document IDs
Document identity is not a property, person, or company.
258,026
Distinct exact BBLs on ACRIS legal rows
Exact 10-digit BBL from legal borough/block/lot. Address-only attachment is rejected.
25,792
Exact BBL overlap with NYC permit/property spine
Recent ACRIS documents do not prove a construction-related transaction or contractor relationship.
139,675
Deed-type document observations
A deed-type document is not automatically an arm’s-length sale or current ownership.
90,438
Mortgage-type document observations
A recorded mortgage document is not current balance, holder, or NMLS identity.
536,285 documents map to one BBL. 41,578 map to more than one BBL (max 1,241). 45,842 documents have more than one legal row (max 1,318). One document is not one property. ACRIS has no source-native condo flag; 229,652 documents have at least one legal row with a unit field (410,466 unit-populated legal rows). 9,826 street addresses (borough + street number + street name) attach to more than one BBL (max 740). Condo/unit BBLs are not collapsed.
A deed-type document is not an arm’s-length sale. Recorded amount is not market value. Party names were not acquired and are not owners, lenders, or contractors. ACRIS is not ACRIS+permits one records total.
ACRIS recording coverage in this window is PARTIAL. No documents used recorded_borough 5 (Richmond County Clerk). 18,658 legal rows reference borough 5 property identifiers recorded elsewhere. This is not a Richmond County Clerk extract. Missing older history is not proof that older documents do not exist.
Confirm a contractor on DCWP Search Business before relying on this snapshot. Search Business is updated daily. This research page is a frozen Open Data capture.
Statewide New York public-work registration is NYSDOL Article 8 evidence. NYC DCWP HIC is residential home-improvement licensing. A contractor may appear in both, one, or neither. Do not merge NY-DOL-PW certificate numbers with NYC-DCWP license numbers by name.
Official Wall of Shame is an HTML warning list (as of 2026-09-01, 19 names). It is not a TrustHub blacklist and is not name-matched into licensed-business records. Historical archives, HPD/DOB violations, and suburban counties were not acquired in this ticket.