INVESTIGATE NYC
.
  • 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
RAT INSPECTIONS: IN YOUR BUILDING & NEIGHBORHOOD
Important note about rat inspections: in late 2014, the city comptoller's office completed an audit of The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's response to rat infestation, and the results were unfavorable. According to the audit, while infestation has increased at least 10% since 2012, a significant number of 311 rat complaints will result in no inspections, with unresolved infestation complaints often being marked "closed." (So keep that in mind while searching your own building's rat inspection data; data may be unreliable.)
Find rat inspection data for your building & neighborhood via The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's "Rat Inspection Portal." Simply input your address and a map of "initial inspections" will come up. "Initial inspections" are the inspections done as a result of a 311 call, or as part of the DOHMH's "rat indexing" program in the Bronx and Manhattan. Dark orange = active rat signs,  orange = problem area, yellow = passed. To the right, you'll find history specific to your building. Scroll down to see dates for both initial inspections & compliance inspections. (A "compliance inspection" is a follow up inspection.)
Picture
To see a map with compliance inspections highlighted instead of initial inspections, click "Show Rat inspections on the Map," then in the box that comes up, click "compliance inspections." Click any highlighted building for information. What you may find, as I did, are compliance inspections from years ago that indicate "active rat signs," with no follow-up inspections listed (date of retrieval, 3/2015):
Picture

Also, just an FYI. The worst year in rats was officially 1979.
Picture


Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.