Time flies. It's been a quarter of a century since the enactment of New York City's first facade inspection law, Local Law 10 of 1980. During five periodic cycles, the law's periodic inspection requirements have become business as usual for experienced owners and managers, most of whom responded nimbly when Local Law 11 of 1998 tightened the inspection and reporting requirements of the original Local Law 10.
But beware the upcoming Cycle 6, which opens on February 21, 2005, and ...