Citywide DCWP / City Council · Delivery Protection Act · High
Mayor Mamdani backs the Delivery Protection Act, a new DCWP license for last-mile delivery warehouses
Mayor Mamdani publicly threw his support behind the Delivery Protection Act on Monday, August 10, the same day hundreds of Teamsters, elected officials, and delivery workers rallied at City Hall to push the bill toward a vote. The bill would require operators of last-mile warehouses and storage facilities to obtain a license from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and would generally bar those facilities from using third-party subcontractors for core delivery and warehouse work after a phase-in period.
Sponsored by Queens Council Member Tiffany Caban as Int. 0518-2026, the bill has reached a supermajority of 35 Council co-sponsors plus the Public Advocate and the Brooklyn Borough President. It targets an industry the Council says has roughly doubled its daily package volume in the city since 2017, with injury rates around three times the national private sector average at nearby facilities. A 2025 Comptroller's report cited in the bill's supporting materials found that 78 percent of areas near last-mile facilities saw an increase in injury-causing crashes after the facility opened, with spikes as high as 53 percent near some Maspeth warehouses.
The licensing requirement would apply to operators of warehouses and storage facilities from which goods are delivered to consumers in the city, a definition aimed squarely at large-scale operations like Amazon's delivery network but written broadly enough that any business running or leasing space in a qualifying last-mile facility should review whether it would be covered. License conditions would include safety, training, and employment standards set by DCWP.
The more consequential provision for affected businesses is the direct-employment requirement: facility operators would generally be barred from using third-party subcontractors for core delivery and warehouse services, instead having to employ those workers directly. Opposition has been organized and broad, including Amazon, FedEx, trucking and logistics groups, all five borough chambers of commerce, and the National Federation of Independent Businesses, who argue the licensing and employment mandate would raise costs and disrupt existing delivery arrangements.
The bill was first introduced in September 2025 and carried over into 2026 without a vote last year. With a supermajority of sponsors now in place, Caban and allied Council members are pressing for a floor vote, though no vote date has been scheduled as of this week.
For last-mile warehouse and delivery operators
If your business operates or contracts with a warehouse or storage facility used for last-mile delivery in the city, review the bill's facility definition against your operation now. If the definition would cover you, factor a DCWP licensing process and a shift away from third-party subcontracted delivery labor into your planning, since the bill has real momentum with a veto-proof sponsor count.
Citywide DOB · LL97, 3 Weeks Out · Critical
LL97 extension deadline moves inside three weeks, and this year there is no further extension coming
Buildings that filed a Local Law 97 extension by the June 30 deadline now have under three weeks before their August 29 filing deadline. Unlike the 2025 filing cycle, when DOB pushed the deadline further out to December 31 for extension holders, DOB has stated that the extensions and further relief issued by service notice in 2025 do not apply to filing year 2026.
In the law's first enforcement year, DOB responded to widespread industry confusion by granting extension holders a further push to December 31, 2025, well beyond the original August 29 date. Building owners and their consultants who lived through that cycle should not assume the same relief is coming this year. DOB has been explicit that filing year 2026 extension holders face the August 29 date as a hard deadline, with no signaled further extension.
The substance of the filing has not changed: a certified emissions report reviewed and stamped by a Registered Design Professional, submitted through the BEAM portal, covering calendar year 2025 energy and water use. Owners still finalizing their RDP review should treat the next two weeks as the real deadline, not August 29 itself, since RDP sign-off takes time and availability tightens as more buildings converge on the same pool of engineers and architects in the final stretch.
Missing August 29 without an approved extension puts a building on the same penalty clock that has applied to non-extension filers since July 1: $0.50 per square foot per month, minimum $1,250, with no cap on accrual until the report is filed. For a mid-sized commercial building, that penalty compounds quickly and is not waived by later compliance.
With under three weeks left
Confirm with your Registered Design Professional that a complete draft is under review now, not still being assembled. Do not plan around a further extension this year, since DOB has said the 2025 relief does not carry over to filing year 2026. If your building exceeded its emissions cap, use the remaining weeks to document any retrofit progress that will help your 2026 calendar-year emissions basis for the next filing cycle.
Sources:
DOB LL97 Reporting ·
NYC Accelerator · Local Law 97 of 2019, NYC Admin Code Article 320.
Manhattan / Staten Island DSNY · CWZ, Final 2 Weeks · High
Midtown South and Staten Island waste zone enrollment has two weeks left before auto-assignment
Businesses in the Midtown South and Staten Island Commercial Waste Zones have two weeks left to sign with an authorized carter before the August 31 enrollment close. Carter capacity in both zones is now at its tightest point of the window, the stretch where prior zones saw the sharpest jump in new sign-ups and the steepest drop in negotiating leverage.
Businesses that have not yet requested quotes should expect real delay now, not the faster turnaround available when the window opened in July. Carters serving both zones are managing their heaviest pipeline of active negotiations of the enrollment period, and a fresh quote request sent this week is likely to take longer to return than it would have a month ago.
For Midtown South, the combination of high commercial density and a compact footprint means the capacity constraint is most acute here of any zone DSNY has activated so far. Businesses in multi-tenant office buildings should confirm with property management whether waste service is being negotiated centrally, since individual tenants may not need to contract separately.
Businesses that reach September 1 without a signed agreement are auto-assigned at the maximum allowable rate, binding for the full initial contract term. DSNY and carters serving both zones continue to say the two weeks remaining are the last real window to negotiate terms rather than accept them.
With two weeks left
If you have not signed, request quotes from all three of your zone's authorized carters immediately and expect a slower response than earlier in the summer. Aim to have a signed agreement in hand by August 24 to leave a buffer before the August 31 close and avoid the September 1 auto-assignment premium.
Sources:
DSNY Commercial Waste Zones · Local Law 199 of 2019.
Citywide DOB · Fall Scheduling Window · Standard
The low-traffic scheduling window for fall building compliance work is closing with Labor Day three weeks out
With Labor Day three weeks away, the remaining calm before the September through December compliance crunch is narrowing. FISP Cycle 10B facade filings, Local Law 152 gas piping inspections, and the Local Law 87 ten-year energy audit cycle all converge on the same pool of licensed inspectors this fall, and the buildings that schedule now avoid the worst of the bottleneck.
FISP Cycle 10B, covering buildings with tax block numbers ending in 0, 7, or 8, remains open through December 15, but Registered Design Professionals who perform these inspections are already fielding requests for October and November slots. Filing by October 31 continues to be the practical target for avoiding the year-end scramble.
Local Law 152 gas piping inspections for Community Districts 4, 6, 8, 9, and 16 carry a December 31 completion deadline, and the binding constraint is the limited pool of Licensed Master Plumbers qualified to perform them. DOB has been issuing formal Notices of Violation rather than warnings for missed inspections since January, which raises the cost of waiting until the pool is fully booked.
Buildings on the Local Law 87 ten-year energy audit cycle this year, those with a tax block number ending in 5, share the same December 15 deadline as the facade program and the same category of qualified auditor, an NYC-registered energy auditor, whose availability tightens on the same fall timeline.
This month
If your building falls into FISP Cycle 10B, an LL152-covered community district, or the LL87 ten-year audit cycle, schedule your inspection or audit in the next two weeks rather than after Labor Day. September through December is when every covered building in the city is competing for the same licensed inspectors and auditors.