PermitBeam is a private review desk for NYC and Lower Westchester property records. It watches official public records, ranks each week's changes into a review queue, and turns the records you save into a source-cited report. When a building you care about pulls a permit, draws a violation, or changes hands on the public record, it shows up in your queue.
Desk access is by approved account.
Changes in your territory arrive as a ranked queue: permits, complaints, violations, vacate orders, enforcement actions. You work top down. Select any row to focus that property on the map and open its Record.
Selecting a row opens the Record: the property behind the change, the records connected to it, and the official source behind each one. One click opens the property's full recorded history, with records back to the 1960s. Where HPD registration data supports it, the Record also connects to the owner's other registered buildings.
The Report holds only the records you saved, each with its citation attached. Copy it, print it, or export Markdown, JSON, or CSV for a matter, account review, property file, or follow-up research.
Every record on the desk comes from a government source and keeps its link back to that source.
Refreshed daily from official feeds. Deed and mortgage records follow the city's own publishing schedule, so they can trail other record types by days or weeks.
One click opens everything recorded against a property on one screen, with records back to the 1960s. Permits, enforcement, ownership transfers, and certificates read as one timeline instead of five separate databases.
Where HPD registration data supports it, the desk connects a property to the owner's other registered buildings. The connections are public-record based and the matching method is documented, so you can see why two buildings are linked.
Complaints, violations, vacate orders, and construction incidents appear in the same story as the permits they relate to. One record tells you what was filed and what the city did about it.
The desk searches the full record set, not just your territory view. Type an address, an owner name, or a property ID and open that building's records — anywhere in the city.
A map view shades where enforcement-type records are concentrating in your territory and window — complaints, violations, vacate orders, incidents — so a week's pattern reads in one look.
Every report exports as clean Markdown and structured JSON with the citation on every record. Paste it into ChatGPT or Claude and ask it anything. The format carries its own instructions: keep citations intact, and add no conclusions the official records don't state.
Reports are written to be handed to someone else. Each record in a Report carries its official source, record ID, and the most specific verified source link available, so anything you quote can be checked against the public record.
The desk frames records for professional review. It does not make determinations, and it does not add claims the public record cannot support.
Open the queue each week, check what changed at the properties you hold, and file the source-cited Report with the account.
Pull a property's full recorded history for a matter, save the relevant records, and print a memo with every citation attached.
Read the week's activity in your territory: what was filed, what was issued, and what changed hands on the public record.
Tell us where you work. We reply with a sample brief for your exact territory: a source-cited review of recent public-record changes there, usually within two business days after we confirm the territory.