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Everything we manage for a New York City building.

Compliance is how most clients meet us. Verification, supply where the market allows it, solar screening and bill auditing are why they stay.

No obligation. We will tell you if you do not need us.
What we run in New York City
Compliance Benchmarking and Local Law 97 25,000 sq ft and up, filed with the New York City Department of Buildings.
Deadline May 1, annual Violations are issued per BIN, and the cure window closes in early August.
Verification Required New York puts the professional stamp on the Local Law 97 emissions report, not on the benchmark.
Energy supply and procurement Deregulated New York has retail access, so supply can be competitively bid through licensed ESCOs.

Dates and thresholds change. We confirm the current requirement for your specific building before anyone acts on it.

How the pieces fit together in New York City.

A covered building in New York City is dealing with an annual filing, a set of local rules that change more often than anyone expects, and a capital plan that has to satisfy an owner or a board. Handled separately, those generate vendors who do not talk to each other.

We are the accountable partner across all of it. We are not engineers and we do not pretend to be. We make sense of the rules, verify the data, bring in the right specialists, and give the building a plan it can act on.

The practical benefit is that the data gets built once. The same verified floor area and clean utility record that drives your compliance position also drives a supply bid, an incentive application, or a solar screening.

Local detail that changes the answer
BBL and BIN are mandatory
Filings are tied to the Building Identification Number, and violations are issued per BIN. Get the identifiers wrong and the filing does not land where you think.
The cure window closes in August
Missed filings carry a quarterly penalty ladder, and there is a defined window to cure before it escalates. That window is the whole ballgame.
A public letter grade
Grades are posted publicly each autumn and non-filers receive an F on the front door of the building. Tenants and buyers see it.
The services behind this page

How we start

Deadline work first. Everything else on your schedule.

1
Position review
Coverage, current data, floor area, and what is outstanding.
2
Close the compliance gap
Filings, verification where it applies, and any notice response.
3
Review energy supply and procurement
Rate class, contract end dates, and whether competitively bidding your energy supply makes sense this year.
4
Screen the opportunities
Incentives, solar, audits, and measures that also improve the compliance position.
5
Manage it forward
One point of contact, one set of numbers, and reminders that arrive before the deadline.
Why now

Per-BIN violations, a quarterly ladder, and a public grade.

New York issues violations per Building Identification Number and escalates on a quarterly cycle. Filing inside the cure window is dramatically cheaper than dealing with it afterwards, which is why we triage New York buildings by window rather than by size.

The public letter grade is the part clients feel. An F posted at the entrance because nobody filed is a conversation with tenants, brokers and buyers that no owner wants to have.

Received a letter?

What a Department of Buildings violation usually means.

New York issues violations per Building Identification Number and escalates quarterly.

Send us the letter
LL84 benchmarking violation
A $500 charge for the quarter, repeating until the filing is made. Filing inside the cure window before August is dramatically cheaper than dealing with it afterwards.
LL97 correspondence
About the emissions report or your position against the cap. Before spending capital, we check whether the gross floor area and the benchmarking data behind the number are right.

Send us the letter itself, not a summary. We read it for the six things that decide the response: who sent it, which building and identifier it names, what period it covers, what it says you failed to do, the cure date, and whether it is a first notice or an escalation. We never quote a running penalty total, and we cure first, then talk to the regulator.

Why Honeydew in New York City

One relationship across twenty-six jurisdictions, with local rules tracked rather than assumed.

One accountable partner
We are not engineers and we do not pretend to be. We manage the process, coordinate the right vendors, and own the outcome.
We read the primary sources
Twenty-six jurisdictions, each with its own portal, deadline and enforcement style. We work from the ordinance, the regulator’s FAQ and the covered building list, not from last year’s memory.
Credentialed
Certified Energy Manager on staff, Portfolio Manager specialists, and the credentials the verification work requires.
Built for boards
Most of our clients are condo and co-op boards and the managers who serve them. We present in plain English, on your meeting schedule.
Owners and managers we work with
FirstService Residential Legum & Norman EJF Real Estate Services Comsource Management Barkan Management Howard University Regency Centers Montgomery County Green Bank

Questions about each of these services

With whatever has a date on it. Usually that is the filing or the standard, and the supply and advisory work follows once the compliance position is clean. We would rather earn the second engagement than bundle it.

Yes, and we do it constantly. A clear thirty-minute presentation is often what unlocks a decision.

LL84 is annual benchmarking. LL87 is an energy audit and retro-commissioning every ten years for buildings over 50,000 sq ft. LL88 covers lighting upgrades and sub-metering. LL33 is the public letter grade posted on the building. They are separate obligations, and LL97 mitigation depends on being current with the first three.

That is the LL84 ladder, which runs quarterly up to two thousand dollars a year. It is the small one. LL97 exposure is priced per ton over your cap and is a different order of magnitude.

For this period, probably. For 2030, probably not. City analysis of 2024 data indicates fewer than one in ten buildings exceeded the first-period cap while a majority are projected to exceed the 2030 limits, so the planning horizon is the next period rather than this one.

A structured mitigation path, not a loophole. It requires you to be current with the other laws, LL84 benchmarking, LL87 audits and retro-commissioning, and LL88 lighting and sub-metering, plus a documented decarbonisation plan and evidence that implementation has begun.

Because the problem was usually the sales process rather than the market. When multiple suppliers bid on matched terms and someone independent reads the contract, the outcome looks different.

Keep reading

The pages that usually matter next for a New York City building.

Annual filing Benchmarking in New York City The annual filing, what is reported, and how we keep the record clean. Performance standard BEPS in New York City The performance standard, the pathways, and what the exposure really is. The LL97 stamp Verification in New York City Third-party data verification and the square footage work that moves every number. Supply strategy Procurement in New York City Where competitive supply is actually available, and where it is not.
What is BEPS? All Honeydew services Every region we serve Latest rule changes on the blog

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