{"id":56326,"date":"2011-05-25T11:36:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T11:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=56326"},"modified":"2013-09-20T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T14:44:58","slug":"building-histor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/05\/building-histor\/","title":{"rendered":"Building History Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw information a few weeks ago on how to get access to ancient New York City records of housing inspections long before the Department of Buildings even existed and successfully viewed a pdf image of a  1922 report on the tenement building I live in, complete with hand-drawn plan. But now I cannot find the directions. Does anyone know how to do this? It was not the standard Building Information Service, which is useful, but does not go back far enough. 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