When is the FISP Cycle 10 Sub-Cycle A deadline?

February 21, 2027. The Department of Buildings service notice for Cycle 10 sets three filing windows by the last digit of the tax block. Sub-Cycle A covers blocks ending in 4, 5, 6 or 9 and runs February 21, 2025 to February 21, 2027. Sub-Cycle B covers 0, 7 and 8 and runs February 21, 2026 to February 21, 2028. Sub-Cycle C covers 1, 2 and 3 and runs February 21, 2027 to February 21, 2029. Report requirements sit at 1 RCNY 103-04.

Can a building file its FISP report earlier than its sub-cycle?

Yes, and this is the part most coverage skips. Starting in Cycle 10, an owner whose building's most recent status is No Report Filed, and who is filing as Safe or SWARMP, may file an initial report before their designated window opens in order to stop civil penalties accruing. The route runs through a Sub-Cycle Override in DOB NOW: Safety, which reassigns the building to Sub-Cycle A for Cycle 10 only. Once the report is found acceptable, related civil penalties must be paid within 10 business days or the report may be deemed incomplete.

Why does February 21, 2027 matter more than the other dates?

Because two things happen on it. Sub-Cycle A closes and Sub-Cycle C opens on the same day. Sub-Cycle A carries four of the ten possible block-ending digits, which makes it the largest of the three groups, and Sub-Cycle C carries three more. The city's qualified exterior wall inspectors and facade contractors face the end of the biggest sub-cycle and the start of the next one in the same week, against a pool of firms that does not grow to meet the date.

Can permit data tell you which buildings are in Sub-Cycle A?

No, and any vendor claiming otherwise is selling something it does not have. Our New York City file carries no tax block or lot column, so a territory cannot be sorted by block digit. What the file does carry is the downstream trail: 394,425 permits across all five boroughs with a contractor name on effectively every record, current to within about two days, which is where the repair work becomes visible after the inspection is done.

FISP Sub-Cycle A Closes February 21, 2027

Q: Which buildings have to file a FISP report?

Buildings taller than six stories. The Cycle 10 service notice states that starting February 21, 2025, owners of buildings taller than six stories are required to file an acceptable Cycle 10 report of critical examination of the facades and appurtenances of the building within the applicable window. Height is the test, not use, so co-ops, condos, rentals, offices and institutional buildings are all captured once they clear six stories.

By the permits.llc team · Last reviewed September 3, 2026 · Optimal window: Weeks 1–8

New York City's Facades Inspection and Safety Program runs on a five-year cycle split into three staggered sub-cycles, and Cycle 10 Sub-Cycle A closes on February 21, 2027. That window covers blocks ending in 4, 5, 6 or 9, which is four of the ten possible digits and the largest of the three groups. The date matters for a reason almost nobody states: Sub-Cycle C opens on exactly the same day.

TL;DR

FISP Cycle 10 Sub-Cycle A closes February 21, 2027, for blocks ending 4, 5, 6, 9.
Sub-Cycle C opens the same day, so one date ends and starts a window.
Buildings on No Report Filed status can move themselves into Sub-Cycle A early.
Our file holds no block or lot column, so block-digit targeting is not available.

What is FISP Cycle 10, and who has to file?

It is the periodic facade inspection every tall building in the five boroughs has to pass, and the threshold is height.

The Department of Buildings service notice for Cycle 10 states that starting February 21, 2025, owners of buildings taller than six stories are required to file an acceptable Cycle 10 report of critical examination of the facades and appurtenances of the building within the applicable time frame. Report requirements sit at 1 RCNY 103-04. The programme is the operating form of Local Law 11, and it is the reason so much of the city spends so much of its life under scaffolding.

Height is the whole test. Use is not. A pre-war co-op in Brooklyn, a Manhattan office tower and an institutional building in the Bronx are all inside the programme once they clear six stories, which is why the buyer set for this work is so wide. Engineers and registered design professionals do the examination. Facade and restoration contractors do the repairs. Shed erectors put up the protection. Managing agents and boards sign the cheques.

When does each sub-cycle actually close?

On three dates that are easy to look up and surprisingly often quoted wrong.

Block number ending in	Sub-Cycle	Filing window
4, 5, 6, 9	A	February 21, 2025 to February 21, 2027
0, 7, 8	B	February 21, 2026 to February 21, 2028
1, 2, 3	C	February 21, 2027 to February 21, 2029

Read the digit column rather than the dates and something jumps out. Sub-Cycle A holds four digits. B and C hold three each. If tax blocks distribute roughly evenly across their last digit, and there is no reason they would not, Sub-Cycle A is about 40% of every building over six stories in the city and the other two are about 30% apiece.

The largest group is also the one on the earliest deadline. That is a design choice with consequences, and it is the first thing to understand about the next six months.

Why is February 21, 2027 a handover rather than a deadline?

Because two windows change state on the same morning.

Sub-Cycle A closes. Sub-Cycle C opens. Sub-Cycle B, which opened in February 2026, keeps running until 2028. So the city goes from two live windows to two live windows, but the composition changes completely: the 40% group stops being able to file late without penalty, and the 30% group starts filing for the first time in five years.

Every qualified exterior wall inspector in the city faces that transition at once. So does every facade contractor holding a repair backlog. The pool of firms able to do this work does not expand to meet a date on a service notice, and the date has been fixed since February 2025.

The practical read for an operator is simple. Work that has to be inspected, reported and repaired against Sub-Cycle A is competing for the same capacity as work that is about to enter Sub-Cycle C. Anyone quoting in January 2027 is quoting into the tightest week of the five-year cycle. Anyone quoting now is not.

Can a building move itself into an earlier sub-cycle?

Yes, and this is the mechanism that makes the block digit an unreliable map.

Starting in Cycle 10, owners whose building's most recent status is No Report Filed, and who are filing as Safe or SWARMP (safe with a repair and maintenance programme), may file an initial report before their designated window opens, in order to stop civil penalties accruing. The route is a Sub-Cycle Override filed in DOB NOW: Safety, which assigns the building to Sub-Cycle A for Cycle 10 only. After the override is approved the report is filed, and once it is found acceptable the applicant and owner are instructed to pay all related civil penalties within 10 business days. Miss that payment and the report may be deemed incomplete, with penalties continuing to accumulate.

Read that as a sales signal rather than a compliance footnote. It says that the owners with the strongest financial reason to act right now are precisely the ones who have not acted for five years. They are not waiting for their window. They are trying to stop a meter.

It also means a territory built purely on the sub-cycle calendar will be wrong at the edges, because a share of Sub-Cycle B and C buildings have pulled themselves into A. Account-based prospecting in New York City sets out why filing behaviour is a better sort key than geography here, and this is another instance of the same point.

How much lead time does the repair work need?

More than the deadline suggests, and the permit record measures part of it.

An acceptable report is not the end of the job. A finding of unsafe or SWARMP starts a repair programme, and on a building over six stories that repair almost always needs a sidewalk shed before anything else happens. The shed permit hits the public record first. Our measurement of shed addresses across the five boroughs put the median gap at 81 days from the shed permit to the facade repair permit at the same address, with the borough-by-borough conversion detail set out in the sidewalk shed permit analysis.

Eighty-one days is a median, not a promise, and it is the gap between two filings rather than the length of the job. But it is the honest scale of the sequencing problem. Work back from February 2027 through report acceptance, engineering, bidding, shed erection and permit issue, and the decisions that produce spring 2027 revenue are being made this autumn.

The shed also carries its own statutory clock once it goes up, with milestones running from the permit date. The Local Law 51 repair clock covers those, and they compound with the FISP date rather than replacing it.

What this data cannot tell you

The limits here are sharp, and on a compliance topic vagueness is worse than silence.

Our New York City file carries no tax block and no lot column. None. That means we cannot sort, filter or segment a territory by block-ending digit, and no amount of address matching inside our data substitutes for it. The sub-cycle calendar in this article is a timing framework you apply to a building list you already have. It is not a filter we can run for you, and the foundational five-borough permit guide carries an explicit correction on exactly this point.

We do not hold FISP reports, inspection statuses, or the No Report Filed flag. Those live in DOB NOW: Safety, not in the permit record. What we hold is what happens afterwards: the shed, the repair, the electrical filing for the shed lighting.

We also hold no building height, no storey count and no square footage in the New York City file, so the six-story test cannot be applied inside the data either.

And the owner name field, though populated on most records, records the party that commissioned the work rather than the deed holder. On facade jobs that is frequently a managing agent or a shed company, which is useful for finding accounts and useless as a title search.

How permits.llc fits in

We hold 394,425 New York City permits across all five boroughs, current to September 1, 2026, which is a two-day lag. Manhattan carries 139,338 of them and filed 68,404 in 2025 alone. Brooklyn holds 104,533, Queens 83,262, the Bronx 41,456 and Staten Island 25,836. Depth is uneven by borough: Manhattan reaches back to April 2003 and Brooklyn to August 2003, but Queens starts in July 2009, the Bronx in November 2007, and Staten Island only in November 2017.

A permit is a signal about the property owner, not the contractor. Against a fixed deadline like February 21, 2027 it is also a signal about sequence, because the shed permit, the repair permit and the shed lighting permit arrive in a known order with measurable gaps between them. The calendar tells you when the pressure lands. The filings tell you which buildings have started responding to it, and which have not.

Borough coverage and record counts are laid out at New York City coverage by borough. To pull the facade and shed trail for your own building list, start with the free New York City permit download.