Building safety
Including fire, gas, electrical and structural issues.
The failures that make a building dangerous rather than annoying.
How it works
You search. We read. You decide.
From one search to the whole record, in plain English.
Start with what you have
An address gets you the building. A landlord or agent, everything they run. A neighborhood, how it compares.
You get a verdict, not a dump
What the records add up to, in plain English. Tap a highlighted problem to open it, or switch to Direct.
Read it your way, down to the record
Sort by priority or category. Open any concern for what it means, how it compares, and every record behind it.
Check the block around it
Noise, crime and construction nearby, on a map and next to the rest of the borough.
Trace every fact to its source
Dozens of scattered sources, read at once. Every fact shows where it came from and how current it is.
Sample report. The address, borough, names, map and reviews are made up. The records, priorities and verdict are based on a real NYC building’s, with dates, counts and details changed so it can’t be identified.
What's in a report
What a report actually covers.
Five areas, read the same way on every building – so two reports are comparable even when the buildings are not – plus what people say about the place.
Health hazards
Including lead, mold, pests and bedbugs.
What you cannot see on a viewing and cannot easily undo once you have signed.
Living comfort
Including heat and hot water, plumbing and noise.
The day-to-day of actually living there, in February as well as June.
Legal & financial
Including evictions, harassment, court cases and liens.
How the landlord behaves when something breaks – across every building they hold.
Area context
Including crime, street noise and construction nearby.
Context, benchmarked against the borough rather than left as a raw count.
What people say
Google reviews, unedited and unranked.
Most NYC buildings have none. When there are none the report says so, rather than inventing a signal – and none of it ever reaches the verdict.
The verdict
How the verdict is made.
We don’t grade buildings. One number can’t hold an open hazard, a lawsuit and a noisy block, so you get what’s flagged, how serious it is, and what it means.
Every concern gets a priority
Same rules on every building. High: several open fix-it-now violations, or city action like a vacate order. Medium: anything still open. Low: complaints, past violations and problems that keep coming back.
A status sums them up
One flag, a few flags or multiple concerns, by how many are flagged. Severe conditions when high-priority problems stack up or span the building, or an active vacate order affects a large part of it.
The block sits beside it
The neighborhood is shown alongside and never changes the status.
Then, what it means
A plain-English take on what matters most, written by AI from public records only – no names, address or reviews. It doesn’t change the status.
Questions
Before you search.
- Can't I just look up this information myself for free?
- Yes. Every record we use is public, and you can look it up yourself at no cost. What VeriCrib adds is the assembly and the translation: one search across 30+ data sources, records turned into plain English, size-adjusted comparisons against similar buildings, and a verdict that tells you what it all adds up to. Most renters don't know where to look, what to look for, or how to read what they find. That's the gap we close.
- How current is the data?
- We sync with city databases regularly. Most datasets update daily or weekly at the source. Each report shows the exact "last updated" date for every data source so you know exactly how fresh the information is.
- Is VeriCrib affiliated with the City of New York?
- No. VeriCrib is an independent service. Reports are built from official public records published by city agencies, but we're not endorsed by or connected to any government agency.