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Angi

How Much Does Roof Replacement Cost?, New York, New York page, 2026. Lead-generation marketing data: no methodology and no job scope are published with the figures. Cited only as a named secondary source in the cost article, alongside the figure it contradicts. angi.com — returns 403 to automated clients.

ANSI, SPRI and FM Approvals

ANSI/SPRI/FM 4435 ES-1, test methods RE-1, RE-2 and RE-3. Named at § 1504.5 of the 2022 New York City Building Code as the test standard for metal edge securement on low-slope roofs. Sold, not published; no link.

Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association

Ponding Water Basics: Proper Drainage Design and Low-Slope Roofs. The source of the 48-hour ponding definition and of the quarter-inch-per-foot slope recommendation. An industry recommendation, not a New York City requirement. asphaltroofing.org

ASTM International

ASTM standards are sold rather than published, so no link is given. Each designation is listed with the section of the 2022 New York City Building Code that names it, which is the form in which it reaches a homeowner: printed on a bundle wrapper or on a roll of underlayment.

ASTM D226 Type I, ASTM D4869 Type I and ASTM D6757 — underlayment for asphalt shingles, § 1507.2.3.
ASTM D1970 — self-adhering polymer modified bitumen sheet, § 1507.2.4. The material specification behind the ice barrier at § 1507.2.8.1.
ASTM D225 and ASTM D3462 — asphalt shingles, § 1507.2.5.
ASTM F1667 — roofing nails, § 1507.2.6.
ASTM D3161 and ASTM D7158 — the wind-resistance classifications for asphalt shingles, § 1504.1.1 and Table 1504.1.1. The same section requires the classification to be printed on the packaging.
ASTM D3909 and ASTM D6380 — mineral-surfaced and smooth roll roofing, used for open and closed valley linings, § 1507.2.9.2.
ASTM D4434, ASTM D6754 and ASTM D6878 — single-ply thermoplastic membranes, § 1507.13.
ASTM C1549, ASTM E1918, ASTM C1371, ASTM E408 and ASTM E1980 — solar reflectance, thermal emittance and solar reflectance index, the test methods behind the cool-roof thresholds at § 1504.9.

CertainTeed Corporation

Asphalt Shingle Residential Products, 2026 Limited Warranty. The warranty document read in full for the warranty article, including the definition of "lifetime", the SureStart period, the proration formula, the unventilated-deck clause and the conditions on the wind upgrade. buildsite.com PDF

City of New York — NYC Open Data

Legally Operating Businesses, dataset w7w3-xahh. The dataset in which a Home Improvement Contractor licence can be checked by name or number, and the only licence-lookup route that does not block automated clients. Counts on this site are taken from the dataset refresh of 2026-04-24. data.cityofnewyork.us
311 Service Requests from 2010 to Present, dataset erm2-nwe9. The source of the borough complaint counts, queried for the period 2023-01-01 to 2026-08-05. data.cityofnewyork.us · Retrieved 2026-08-05

FM Approvals

FM 4474 — one of the three uplift test standards named at § 1504.3.1 of the 2022 New York City Building Code for built-up and modified bitumen systems. Sold, not published; no link.
FM 4473 — named in the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety's roofing primer among the standards a roof covering can be tested to. Sold, not published; no link.

HomeBlue

Staten Island, NY Roof Replacement Cost. Lead-generation marketing data with no published methodology, cited only as a named secondary source in the cost article. homeblue.com

Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety

Roof 101. Names the roofing test standards — including ASTM D3161, ASTM D7158, UL 580, UL 1897, UL 2218 and FM 4473 — and states in one clause what each test physically does. ibhs.org
Asphalt Shingle Durability. The published statement that sealant strength governs wind resistance, particularly after hail impact, and that wind and hail performance falls as shingles age. ibhs.org
FORTIFIED Roof program requirements: ring-shank fastening patterns, the sealed roof deck, and the shingle classes the program requires. fortifiedhome.org · technical documents · prescriptive requirements PDF, the copy opened being the one hosted by the Louisiana Department of Insurance.

National Association of Home Builders

Study of Life Expectancy of Home Components, February 2007, § 21 Roofing. The source of the service-life years by covering material. The study is from 2007, is national with no coastal or New York adjustment, names manufacturers and trade associations as its own sources, and omits several materials now in common use; every page that uses it says so. The copy opened is a third-party mirror. mirror PDF

National Roofing Contractors Association

Selecting a contractor. The vetting vocabulary used on this site: permanent place of business, certificates of liability and workers' compensation insurance verified in effect for the duration of the job, a written proposal with a complete work description, and a named project supervisor. nrca.net
Guidance for homeowners, Professional Roofing, 2020-10-01. professionalroofing.net
News item on the New York bill that became General Business Law § 771-b, published 2020-01-22. nrca.net

New York City Department of Buildings

2022 New York City Construction Codes, effective 2022-11-07. The index to every code chapter cited on this site. nyc.gov
2022 New York City Building Code, Chapter 15 — Roof Assemblies and Rooftop Structures, as amended by Local Law 77 of 2023, effective 2023-06-10. The source for reroofing, recover, the ice barrier, underlayment, fasteners, flashing, valleys, crickets, drip edge, parapet coping, gutters, minimum slope by covering, cool roofs, aggregate surfacing, the wind classification table and the sustainable roofing zone. nyc.gov PDF
2022 New York City Building Code, Chapter 16 — Structural Design. The source for the basic design wind speed and Table 1609.3, the exposure categories at § 1609.4, Figure 1609.4.3 sheet (5) "New York City Wind Exposure: Staten Island Shoreline", the ground snow load at § 1608.2 and the ponding provision at § 1608.3. nyc.gov PDF
2022 New York City Building Code, Chapter 12 — Interior Environment. The source for attic ventilation at § 1203.2, including the net free ventilating area ratio and the one-inch airspace above the insulation. nyc.gov PDF
2022 New York City Building Code, Chapter 33 — Construction and Demolition Safety. The source for when a sidewalk shed is and is not required, and for the party-wall and adjoining-owner provisions that apply to attached houses. nyc.gov PDF
2014 New York City Building Code, Chapter 15 — Roof Assemblies and Rooftop Structures. Held in the register because the section numbers moved: reroofing is § 1510 in the 2014 code and § 1511 in the 2022 code, and the solar and sustainable roofing zone provisions are § 1511 in 2014 and § 1512 in 2022. Cited only to show which edition a number belongs to. nyc.gov PDF
2022 General Administrative Provisions, Chapter 1 — Administration. The Administrative Code text for permits: § 28-105.4 and § 28-105.4.2 on minor alterations and ordinary repairs, § 28-105.4.2.1 on work that can never be an ordinary repair, §§ 28-105.8.1 and 28-105.9 on permit term and lapse, § 28-105.11 on posting, and §§ 28-105.12.7 and 28-105.12.7.1 on insurance and adjoining owners. nyc.gov PDF
2022 General Administrative Provisions, Chapter 2 — Enforcement. The Administrative Code text for the penalty for work done without a required permit, § 28-213.1.1 and following, including who pays it and what follows the building afterwards. nyc.gov PDF
2022 General Administrative Provisions, Chapter 4 — Licensing. Administrative Code § 28-401.9, the commercial general liability, workers' compensation and disability benefits evidence a licensed or registered contractor must carry. nyc.gov PDF
1 RCNY § 101-14, the rule listing the work the Department treats as a minor alteration or an ordinary repair. Table 2 items IV.1 and IV.2 draw the permit line at the deck; subdivision (c) preserves every other agency's filing requirement notwithstanding the exemption. Original rule effective 2011-10-02; most recent amendment effective 2026-06-10, which did not change the roofing rows. nyc.gov PDF
1 RCNY § 101-14 promulgation details, the rule's amendment history and effective dates. nyc.gov PDF
1 RCNY § 103-15, the parapet observation rule implementing Administrative Code § 28-301.1.1, added by Local Law 126 of 2021; rule effective 2023-09-28, observations required from 2024-01-01. It exempts detached one- and two-family houses and does not exempt attached ones. Listed without a link: this register holds no URL for a copy of the rule that was opened.
Buildings Bulletin 2019-010, issued 2019-10-24. The Department's interpretation of the sustainable roofing zone: what triggers it, the definitions of roof assembly and roof deck, the high-slope rule, and what documents an exemption. nyc.gov PDF
Service Notice: Green Roof and Solar Requirements, Local Laws 92 and 94 of 2019, October 2019. The verbatim statement of what triggers the requirement. nyc.gov PDF
Local Laws 92/94 of 2019 Solar and Green Roof Systems compliance form, filed to certify compliance or exemption. nyc.gov PDF
Find Building Data. The page that explains the two record systems — the Buildings Information System for filings made before DOB NOW, and the DOB NOW public portal for filings made in it — neither of which alone is complete. nyc.gov. The lookups themselves sit at a810-bisweb.nyc.gov and a810-dobnow.nyc.gov, which return 403 to automated clients and open normally in a browser.
Project requirements: registrant, alteration of 1- and 2-family buildings. The Department's own statement that an alteration to a one- to four-family dwelling requires a Home Improvement Contractor licence from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. nyc.gov
New York City Energy Conservation Code, Chapter C3, the chapter that assigns the city, including Richmond County, to Climate Zone 4A. The copy opened sits under a 2025 path while the edition known to be in force is the 2020 code; the zone assignment is stable across editions, so the fact is used and the edition label on the citation is not asserted. nyc.gov PDF · earlier edition for comparison, 2011 ECC Chapter 3 PDF

New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection

License Checklist: Home Improvement Contractor, updated 2025-07-23. The application requirements, the examination, the bond or trust fund alternative, and the insurance evidence the Department accepts. nyc.gov
Home Improvement Sample Estimate. The model estimate an estimate handed to a homeowner can be read against, line by line. nyc.gov PDF
Home Improvement Contract and Notice of Cancellation. The model contract, including the itemised materials clause, the progress-payment schedule, the subcontractor clause and the separate cancellation notice. nyc.gov PDF
Home Improvement Change Order Form. The model form for work added after signing. nyc.gov PDF
Home Improvement Contractor Permit Disclosure. The written disclosure a contractor must give before a contract is signed, naming each permit, who obtains it and the estimated fee. nyc.gov PDF
Home Improvement Contractor Tips, revised 06/2026. The Department's consumer guidance, including the deposit guidance, the statement that home improvement contractors may not arrange financing, and the Trust Fund eligibility rule. nyc.gov PDF · Retrieved 2026-08-05
Home Improvement Contractor Trust Fund Enrollment form. nyc.gov PDF
6 RCNY § 2-224, the Home Improvement Contractor Trust Fund rule. The current recovery caps took effect 2025-07-18. Published on the City's rules site. rules.cityofnewyork.us · rulemaking record
Check License Status. The Department's licence lookup. nyc.gov · the search portal itself is at a866-dcwpbp.nyc.gov/search.
File a Complaint. The complaint route, the mailing address, and the statement that the Department resolves complaints through mediation. nyc.gov
Wall of Shame: Unlicensed Home Improvement Contractors, launched 2024-09-04 and updated monthly, with the news release announcing it. news release · list page, which returns 403 to automated clients; no count is taken from it.
New York City Administrative Code, Title 20, Chapter 2, Subchapter 22 — Home Improvement Business. The licensing statute itself: § 20-386 definitions, § 20-387(a) the licence requirement, § 20-393 prohibited acts, § 20-394 the anti-waiver provision, § 20-394.1 the three-day cancellation right, § 20-395 the estimate disclosure, § 20-396 false representations, § 20-397(5) the two-hundred-dollar exemption and its anti-evasion clause, and § 20-401 penalties. The copy opened is an unofficial mirror of the Administrative Code, and section numbering is cross-checked against the City's own text before anything is quoted. nycadmincode.readthedocs.io

New York City Fire Department

Certificate of Fitness for Torch Use of Flammable Gases (G-60) study material, cover revised January 2026. § 1.4.3 carries the Department's published position on torch application over combustible construction; the booklet also carries the permit requirement, the separation distances, the pre-work check and the fire-watch requirement, and the Department's own account of the 1999 fire that drove the rules. nyc.gov PDF
Certificate of Fitness for Fire Guard for Torch Operations (F-60) study material. § 1.3.3 repeats the same prohibition; the booklet sets out the fire watch required on any rooftop torch-applied roofing operation. nyc.gov PDF
Certificate of Fitness pages for G-60 and F-60, which state who must hold each certificate. Both return 403 to automated clients.

New York City Mayor's Office of Operations

Preliminary Mayor's Management Report, Fiscal 2026, Department of Consumer and Worker Protection chapter. The source for licence-category size, complaint volumes, mediation outcomes and median days to close a complaint. nyc.gov PDF

New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board

Filing R.C. 2633, dated 2025-07-15, approved by the Department of Financial Services, effective 2025-10-01. The loss cost for residential sloped-roof roofing work and the classification codes New York uses. The Board's own caveat is printed wherever a figure from it appears: the published values are not rates, because an insurer applies its approved multiplier and then the employer's experience modification. nycirb.org PDF

New York State Department of Financial Services

Approved Independent Mandatory Hurricane Deductibles, revised 2019-12-13. The filed deductible structures naming Richmond County by carrier, and the trigger each carrier uses. dfs.ny.gov PDF
Homeowners Insurance: Basic Coverage. The Department's consumer page: that hurricane and windstorm deductibles are a percentage of the dwelling limit rather than a flat amount, that the deductible must be expressed in dollars on the declarations page, that a windstorm deductible needs no hurricane declaration, and that flood is not covered. dfs.ny.gov
11 NYCRR Part 216, Regulation 64, §§ 216.4 and 216.6 — the claim acknowledgement and determination clocks. The copies opened are third-party reproductions. Cornell LII, § 216.6 · Justia, § 216.4
Office of General Counsel opinion 11-08-03, on what requires a public adjuster's licence. dfs.ny.gov
Office of General Counsel opinion of 2006-08-17, on the three-year required policy period in a New York homeowners policy. dfs.ny.gov

New York State Department of State, Division of Consumer Protection

Consumer alert on hiring a contractor, including the Division's published line that most good contractors are too busy to seek business at the front door, and its description of the leftover-materials pitch. dos.ny.gov
Division of Consumer Protection, the complaint route for work outside New York City. dos.ny.gov

New York State Office of the Attorney General

Press release announcing the action against Attyx LLC, its principals and two lenders, filed 2026-03-17, over roof replacements sold as free and funded through inflated solar financing. ag.ny.gov
The complaint itself, New York v. Attyx LLC, 2026. Every figure taken from it is an allegation and is attributed as one. ag.ny.gov PDF

New York State Senate

The consolidated laws of New York, in the copy published on the Senate's website, which is the text that was opened for each section below.

General Business Law § 770, Article 36-A definitions: the five-hundred-dollar threshold for a home improvement contract, and the express inclusion of roofing. nysenate.gov
General Business Law § 771, what a written home improvement contract must contain, including the licence number, the progress-payment schedule tied to stages of completion, the lien notices and the three-business-day cancellation notice. nysenate.gov
General Business Law § 771-b, the roofing-contractor statute: the written contract requirement, the prohibition on advertising or promising to pay or rebate an insurance deductible, the cancellation right that runs from the insurer's written denial, the insurance minimums, and the prohibition on reporting, adjusting or negotiating a claim on the owner's behalf. nysenate.gov
Personal Property Law §§ 427 and 428, Article 10-A — the door-to-door cancellation right, the form and type size of the notice, and the refund period. This is the correct statute for a door-to-door sale; General Business Law § 425 is a different subject and is a common miscitation. § 427 · § 428
Labor Law §§ 240 and 241, including the exemption for owners of one- and two-family dwellings who contract for but do not direct or control the work. § 240 · § 241
Insurance Law § 2108, the public adjuster licence, and Insurance Law § 3425, the notice a homeowners insurer must give before declining to renew or conditioning renewal. § 2108 · § 3425
Penal Law Article 176, the fraudulent insurance act and its degrees. nysenate.gov

New York State Unified Court System

B & F Building Corp. v. Liebig, 76 N.Y.2d 689 (1990). The rule that an unlicensed home improvement contractor forfeits recovery both on the contract and in quantum meruit. Listed without a link: this register holds no URL for a copy of the opinion that was opened.
Brightside Home Improvements, Inc. v. Northeast Home Security, LLC, 2022 NY Slip Op 04785, Appellate Division, Second Department, the department that covers Richmond County. nycourts.gov
Appellate Division, Second Department, hand-down decision D60713 (2019), on the strict construction of the licensing requirement. nycourts.gov PDF
New York City Small Claims Court, the monetary limit and the procedure, with the Richmond County Civil Court small claims part. nycourts.gov · Richmond County part

New York State Workers' Compensation Board

Required Proof of Workers' Compensation and Disability Benefits Coverage for Businesses Applying for Government Permits, Licenses or Contracts fact sheet. The document that states that ACORD forms are not acceptable proof of New York State workers' compensation coverage, and names the forms that are: C-105.2, U-26.3, SI-12, SIG-105.2 and CE-200 for compensation, DB-120.1 and DB-155 for disability benefits. wcb.ny.gov PDF
Permits, Licenses and Contracts, the Board's page on Workers' Compensation Law § 57 and § 220(8), which impose the proof requirement on the government entity issuing the permit or licence. wcb.ny.gov

SquareDash

Staten Island, NY roof replacement cost page, 2026. Lead-generation marketing data with no published methodology or job scope. It differs from the Angi figure by roughly two times for the same metropolitan area in the same year; the cost article publishes the spread and adopts neither. squaredash.com

UL

UL 580 and UL 1897 — two of the three uplift test standards named at § 1504.3.1 of the 2022 New York City Building Code for built-up and modified bitumen systems. UL 2218 — the impact standard named in the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety's roofing primer. Sold, not published; no link.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Producer Price Index by Industry: Asphalt Shingle and Coating Materials Manufacturing, series PCU324122324122. The index behind every statement on this site about the direction of roofing material prices. The copy opened is the series as republished by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, because bls.gov returns 403 to automated clients. fred.stlouisfed.org CSV · Retrieved 2026-08-05
Producer Price Index by Commodity: Prepared Asphalt, Tar Roofing and Siding Products, series WPU1361, through the same channel. fred.stlouisfed.org CSV · Retrieved 2026-08-05

U.S. Census Bureau

American Community Survey, 2024 one-year estimates, Richmond County, New York (FIPS 36085), tables B25003, B25024, B25034 and B25037. The source for every housing-stock figure on this site: units in structure, tenure, year built and median year built. Retrieved through the Census Reporter API. censusreporter.org · Retrieved 2026-08-06

U.S. Federal Trade Commission

16 CFR Part 465, the Consumer Reviews and Testimonials Rule, effective 2024-10-21. The rule behind this site carrying no testimonial, no review and no first-person account of work. eCFR · Commission questions and answers · Federal Register, 2024-08-22
16 CFR Part 429, the Cooling-Off Rule for sales made away from the seller's permanent place of business. eCFR

Documents that are named on this site but are not in this register

A document is in the register only if it was opened. Four documents are named in the prose of this site and are deliberately absent from the list above, because no copy of them was read:

ASCE 7, Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures. The Building Code hands snow load, ponding and wind velocity pressure to it by reference. It is sold, and no copy was opened, so no value from it appears anywhere on this site — in particular no comparison of wind pressure between exposure categories, which is exactly what its Table 26.10-1 would settle.
The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety's 2020 asphalt shingle durability report. It is available to members only. The Institute's public pages are cited instead, and no figure from the report appears here.
The Department of Buildings' current published alteration permit fee schedule. Incompatible per-thousand-dollar rates appear in the material consulted, so no permit fee figure is published on this site at all.
The National Roofing Contractors Association's published caution that the ASTM D7158 classifications exclude Ground Roughness D — the category the city's own exposure map assigns to parts of this borough's shoreline. The statement is attributed to the Association in the research behind this site, but the document carrying it has not been identified to a title and a URL, so it is not listed above and any page using it must name that document first.

Anything found to be wrong in this register after publication is recorded, dated, at Corrections.