Reserve studies in Brooklyn and Queens

Garden co-ops are many buildings on one budget

Large garden-apartment co-ops in Queens and southern Brooklyn often hold dozens of low buildings, each with its own roof, boiler room and gas service. A reserve study for one of them is closer to a small campus survey than a building survey. Expect the provider to sample components and say how they sampled.

Where buildings are six stories or lower, FISP does not apply; roofs, parapets, pointing and walkways take its place in the plan.

Garages under the courtyard

Parking under courtyards and plazas falls under Local Law 126, with a full condition assessment every six years by a Qualified Parking Structure Inspector and an annual observation in between. Slab and waterproofing repairs here are often the single largest item a garden co-op carries.

Gas piping years differ across the two boroughs

Brooklyn's eighteen community districts and Queens' fourteen fall across all four Local Law 152 year groups. Neighboring buildings can be on different years.

The fee for a study here turns on the facade, the plant and the garage, not the neighborhood; see what moves the price. Also: Manhattan and Westchester and Long Island.