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EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY

The Board of Standards and Appeals has recently promulgated rules to enable it to maintain its application records as digital documents without paper copies. Filings and submissions are no longer required to be submitted in person at the Board's office. Read Notice

Do you want BSA to know what you think about an application?

Please submit your comments here.

To view the Board's hearing live stream please visit our YouTube channel. Members of the public are welcome to participate in the live streamed hearings.

Details to join the hearings is located on the right of our webpage banner. You can find out when your related calendar number will be called in the hearing calendar.

Combined Public Hearing Calendar

To accommodate teleconferencing, the Board has modified its upcoming hearing calendars. All interested parties should review these draft calendars to see the applications scheduled for the coming months.

These draft hearing calendars are subject to change with updates posted regularly. The final hearing calendars for the following week (including final date and time) will be posted the Friday before.

Applicants should contact the respective Project Managers for additional information.

The Board's 2022 Public Hearing Calendar is now available.

Teleconference Hearing Guide

Teleconference Hearing Guide for Applicants

Because of COVID-19, the Board of Standards and Appeals is holding review sessions and public hearings by teleconference. The review session and public hearings are viewable online in real time on the Board's website and YouTube channel

Members of the public are welcome to participate. See the Board's Teleconference Hearing Guideand Applicant Guide for instructions.

Office Closed: Because of COVID-19, the Board's office is closed until further notice. Please direct questions to (212) 386-0009 or emjones@bsa.nyc.gov

Covid-19 Notice on Precautions for Application Filings, Submissions, and Record Inspections(revised March 17, 2020)

Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests are now available through the City's Open Records Portal, which allows you to track the status of your request and view relevant records.

The Board is pleased to announce its participation in NYC Open Data, which includes a dataset of applications filed since 1998 and a searchable decisions map.