SWARMP
Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program
SWARMP stands for Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program. It's the middle of the three grades a QEWI can give an NYC facade under FISP (Local Law 11). A SWARMP building is safe to occupy right now, but the inspector flagged conditions that will turn it UNSAFE if they aren't repaired and kept up before the next inspection cycle.
What it means in NYC
Under FISP a facade gets graded SAFE, SWARMP, or UNSAFE. SWARMP is the warning shot. The owner has to finish the flagged repairs inside the program window. Miss it, and the building reclassifies to UNSAFE, the DOB writes violations, and the fines start.
Cycle 10A makes this concrete: unrepaired Cycle 9 SWARMP conditions flip to UNSAFE on February 21, 2027. That deadline is exactly why contractors treat the SWARMP list as a backlog of work that has to get done, and why owners who've been putting it off start taking calls.
How DeedGraph uses it
DeedGraph tracks each NYC building's current SWARMP or UNSAFE status and the cycle deadline attached to it, with the owner named when a public trail exists.
Common questions
- What happens if a SWARMP condition isn't repaired in time?
- The facade is reclassified UNSAFE at the next filing. The DOB issues violations, failure-to-correct fines start accruing per building per month, and a sidewalk shed usually has to go up until the work is done.
- Is a SWARMP building dangerous to be in right now?
- By the grade itself, no. SWARMP means the facade is currently safe. It's flagging conditions that get dangerous if nobody repairs and maintains them before the deadline.