---
title: "NYC deed and mortgage recording history"
method: POST
path: "/api/locus_nyc_recording_history"
tags: ["nyc", "acris", "deed", "mortgage", "recording", "bbl", "parcel", "title-research", "read-only", "free", "free"]
---

# NYC deed and mortgage recording history

`POST /api/locus_nyc_recording_history`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.locus.report`
- URL: `https://api.locus.report/api/locus_nyc_recording_history`
- Auth: none required

Returns NYC ACRIS Legals and Master deed and mortgage rows for one borough-block-lot or a resolved NYC address. Includes document id, type, date, source-published amount, query limits, and citations. Party names and units are never queried. Not a title, lien, payoff, ownership, priority, validity, or insurability conclusion.
Use this when you can call Locus free tools (REST tools/call or MCP).
Use locus-nyc-recording-history instead when your client can only call paid x402 routes; it returns the same records. Direct flat-body route for this one free resource; no API key, payment, or catalog wrapper. Return only the cited bounded evidence described here; this route never produces a paid brief or full report.

## Request body

- object
  - `address` string: Exact New York City street address. Locus resolves it to a PAD BBL before querying ACRIS.
  - `bbl` string: Exact 10-digit New York City Borough-Block-Lot identifier.
  - `limit` integer

## Response `200`

Free cited evidence response.

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid request body.
- `429`: Rate limited.

---

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