# How to read a NYC DCWP license record

> License numbers, categories, statuses, and what the City file leaves out.

## How to read these records

### The license

One record per license number. A business with several activities holds several licenses; the record lists the
others, joined on the City's business identifier.

### Status

The City's own words: active, ready for renewal, expired, surrendered, failed to renew, voided, suspended,
revoked. Borough and category pages list active and ready-for-renewal licenses only. The file does not say why a
license was suspended or revoked.

### Address

Some home improvement contractors have no street address in the City file; they appear without one.

### What is not here

Licenses issued to individuals, phone numbers, complaints, violations, and a licensee's legal name when it is a
person's name — the trade name is shown instead.

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Página: https://nyc-business-license-records.pages.dev/how-to-read/
Fonte: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/w7w3-xahh
Recolha: 2026-08-20