INVESTIGATE NYC
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  • INVESTIGATE NYC HOME
  • Look Up Your Local (and State and Federal) Elected Officials
  • What Do Your Elected Officials Do?
  • Find Your Districts
  • Community Boards: What They Are, Find Yours
  • How Old Is Your Building? And Who Owns It? (And Alternatively, Who Owns That Boarded-Up Rat Trap or Vacant Lot Down The Street?)
  • Look Up Your Building's Open Violations
  • Visualize 311 Data: Citywide, Borough-Wide, In Your District & On Your Block
  • Look Up Neighborhood Crime Stats (For This Week/This Year/From 1990) + Map Neighborhood Crime + Find Amazing Vinatge Crime Pics
  • Who's Actually in Charge of the LLC that Owns Your Building? (Also: Locate a Scan of the Actual Deed)
  • Look Up Neighborhood Air Quality... If You Dare
  • Locate Nearby Superfunds, Brownfields, Toxic Release Sites, Significant Sources of Air Pollution, More
  • Chart STD & Communicable Disease Rates by Borough, Neighborhood
  • New Yorkers On Their Own Health, Mental Health, Sexual Activity and Bad Habits
  • Find a Photo of Your Home From the Big Bad '80s
  • Look Up Capital Projects Near You (Or: the Strange Case of the Rampant Remediations)
  • Map The "Green Infrastructure" Projects In Your Neighborhood
  • Who Lived in Your Building & On Your Block Back in 1940? Where Were They From? What Did They Do?
  • Birth Rates, Death Trends in Your Neighborhood, Borough
  • Census Data: Neighborhood Population Broken Down by Age, Sex, Ethnicity, More, 2010 & 2000
  • Look Up Neighborhood Income, Poverty Rates, Educational Profile, More
  • See James Baldwin & Family in the 1940 Census
  • Rat Inspections: Your Building, Neighborhood
  • About This Site, Contact
  • Neighborhood Joint Assignment
FIND A PHOTO OF YOUR HOME FROM THE 1980s
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Between 1939-41 & again in the mid-80s, for the purposes of appraising property for taxes, NYC’s Department of Finance photographed every house & building in the five boroughs. The photos taken in the 80s are online. To find your building/home, you’ll need your borough number (5= Staten Island, 4 = Queens, 3 = Brooklyn, 2 = Bronx, 1= Manhattan) and your tax block/tax lot numbers. (To find your block & lot numbers, input your address here.) 

Once you have those, you’ll need to put together a kind of code that looks like this: dof_1_02031_0020. (That’s the code for my apartment building.) To break it down:

dof is for department of finance
1 is my borough number
02031 is my block number (technically, my block # is 2031. I added one zero because a block number needs to be five numerals for search purposes. So if your block number is, say, 800, you’d change it to 00800, etc.)
0020 is my lot number. (Again, my lot number is technically 20–but for this search a lot number needs to be four numerals; hence “0020.”)

I put all the above together like so, dof_1_02031_0020, & searched for that here, in the NYC Municipal Archives Gallery. (I just used their regular search box, top right corner. )

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