American Signcrafters
American Signcrafters is the permittee on 1,325 permits in NYC Department of Buildings Permit Issuance records, issued between 1995 and Apr 12, 2011, 37% of them in Manhattan.
Compiled from 8 public recordsChecked Sep 15, 2026Sources & method
Filed with DOB under 11 spellings
Merged into one profile after normalizing punctuation, legal suffixes, common abbreviations and DOB's fixed-width name truncation. Spellings that could be a different business are never merged.
- AMERICAN SIGNCRAFTERS · 578
- AMERICAN SIGNCRAFTERS INC · 540
- AMERICAN SIGNCRAFTERS INC. · 144
- AMERICAN SIGNCRAFTERS, · 18
- AMERICAN SIGNCRAFTERS, INC · 15
- AMERICAN SIGNCRAFTERS,INC. · 9
- AMERICAN SIGNCRAFTERS INC · 8
- AMERICAN SIGNCRAFTERS, INC. · 7
- AMERICAN SIGNCRAFTERS · 2
- AMERICAN SIGNCRAFTERS. · 2
- AMERICAN SIGNCRAFTERS,INC · 2
- Active Permitsi
- 0
- Permits On File
- 1,325
- Boroughs Active
- Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island
- First Activity
- 1995-07-27
- Last Activity
- 2011-04-12
- Phone on Filei
- (800) 394-8574
Leadership
No executive publicly disclosed by the company or reputable press that we could verify. NYC's public DOB/DOS records don't include company officers or ownership at all, so we only show a name here when the company's own site or a named press source discloses one directly — most small subcontractors don't publish one anywhere findable. See Official Record Lookups below to search yourself.
Business Registration
- Registered Name
- American Signcrafters Llc
- Entity Type
- Domestic Limited Liability Company
- Jurisdiction
- New York
- Initial NY Filing
- 2012-04-03
- Registered Agent Address
- 171 Freeman Ave, Islip, NE, 11751
Live from the NYS Department of State's own Corporation & Business Entity filing record — a real government registration, not a marketing data broker. Source: data.ny.gov
Locations
Job-site addresses from this company's own DOB permit filings — no headquarters address is publicly disclosed by American Signcrafters that we could verify.
Licensed Professionals of Record(3)
The individual license holders DOB has on file as pulling permits under this business name — a second, permit-level real "key employee" data point NYC's public records provide, alongside Leadership above.
- American SigncraftersSI · License #0000179
- American SigncraftersGC · License #0002269
- American SigncraftersSI · License #0000165
Current Permits
Unexpired permits in DOB's older Permit Issuance records, which most new work no longer goes through.
No unexpired permits in the older Permit Issuance records.
Recent Permit History(10)
- 186-01 73 Avenue, QueensJul 11, 2005
SG permit · Issued · — · Est. —
- 186-01 73 Avenue, QueensJul 11, 2005
SG permit · Issued · — · Est. —
- 186-01 73 Avenue, QueensJul 11, 2005
SG permit · Issued · — · Est. —
- 83-33 Langdale Street, QueensJun 10, 2005
SG permit · Issued · — · Est. —
- 663 Fifth Avenue, ManhattanOct 7, 2003
SG permit · Issued · — · Est. —
- 200 Lafayette Street, ManhattanOct 3, 2003
SG permit · Issued · — · Est. —
- 200 Lafayette Street, ManhattanOct 3, 2003
SG permit · Issued · — · Est. —
- 663 5 Avenue, ManhattanOct 3, 2003
SG permit · Issued · — · Est. —
- 7A Arden Avenue, Staten IslandMar 13, 2002
AL permit · Issued · — · Est. $3K
- 70-30 Austin Street, QueensSep 21, 2000
SG permit · Issued · — · Est. —
Developers & Owners Worked With(1)
From DOB's own owner-of-record field on each notable job's filing, above — ranked by how many of American Signcrafters's own projects that owner appears on. A real, sourced client relationship, not an inferred one.
- Manager Self Storage1 project
NYC Contract Awards Won
Cross-referenced against the city's own "Recent Contract Awards" dataset by vendor name — a DOB permit-pulling contractor and a procurement-awarded vendor are two different city record systems, joined here by an exact match after normalizing punctuation, legal suffixes, and common abbreviations. A real business can legitimately win contracts under a slightly different legal name than the one on its DOB permits, so an empty result here doesn't mean American Signcrafters has never won a city contract — only that no exact name match was found.
No exact name match found in NYC's awarded-contracts records. Browse Contract Awards →
Public Safety & Compliance Records(66)
These are citywide building-equipment compliance filings (including elevator and boiler safety compliance), ECB violations, and DOB complaints recorded at the same addresses as this company's projects above — not violations or complaints attributed to or caused by American Signcrafters. NYC's public data does not link any of these records to specific contractors (ECB violations in particular are almost always filed against the property owner), so no company safety score is shown or implied.
- DOB Complaint04 · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2026-03-21
- Boiler ComplianceInitial · DOB NOW: Safety Boiler filing — no defects noted on inspection.Accepted · 2025-12-10
- Boiler ComplianceInitial · DOB NOW: Safety Boiler filing — no defects noted on inspection.Accepted · 2025-12-10
- DOB SafetyBoiler · LBLVIODismissed · 2025-11-14
- DOB SafetyBoiler · LBLVIODismissed · 2025-11-14
- DOB SafetyGas Piping - LL152 · FTF-PL-PERActive · 2025-10-31
- DOB SafetyElevators · FTC-VT-CAT1-COActive · 2025-10-10
- DOB SafetyElevators · FTC-VT-CAT1-COActive · 2025-10-10
- DOB SafetyElevators · FTC-VT-PER-COActive · 2025-10-10
- DOB SafetyElevators · FTC-VT-CAT1-COActive · 2025-10-10
- DOB SafetyElevators · FTC-VT-CAT1-COActive · 2025-10-10
- DOB Complaint7G · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2025-09-25
- DOB SafetyGas Piping - LL152 · FTF-PL-PERActive · 2025-09-18
- DOB Complaint94 · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2025-06-16
- DOB Complaint94 · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2025-06-16
- DOB SafetyAEUHAZ · FTC-AEU-HAZDismissed · 2023-12-13
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · 28-302.1 FAILURE TO MAINTAIN BLDG WALL(S) OR APPURTENANCESDefault · 2023-11-16
- DOB SafetyFacades · FISPFCSDismissed · 2023-11-01
- DOB SafetyElevators · FTC-VT-PER-COActive · 2023-10-02
- DOB SafetyElevators · FTC-VT-PER-COActive · 2023-10-02
- DOB Complaint73 · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2023-09-22
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 1 · 28-302.1 FAILURE TO MAINTAIN BLDG WALL(S) OR APPURTENANCESIn Violation · 2023-09-20
- DOB SafetyElevators · FTF-VT-CAT1-COActive · 2023-08-11
- DOB Complaint04 · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2023-06-29
- Boiler ComplianceInitial · DOB NOW: Safety Boiler filing — no defects noted on inspection.Accepted · 2023-05-15
- Boiler ComplianceInitial · DOB NOW: Safety Boiler filing — no defects noted on inspection.Accepted · 2023-05-15
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2023-03-30
- DOB SafetyFacades · FISPHAZDismissed · 2023-02-21
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · 28-104.2.2 FAIL TO PROVIDE APPRV/ACCEPTED PLANS ST JOB SITE AT TIME OF INSPCured/in-vio · 2022-12-19
- Boiler ComplianceInitial · DOB NOW: Safety Boiler filing — no defects noted on inspection.Accepted · 2022-11-11
- Elevator ComplianceDumbwaiter · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Dumbwaiter at this address.Dismantled · 2022-10-13
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · AC 28-204.4 FAIL TO COMPLY W/COMMISSIONER ORDER TO FILE CERT OF CORRECTION W/DOBDismissed · 2021-03-08
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2020-09-14
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2020-09-14
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2020-09-14
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2020-08-10
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2020-08-10
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2020-08-10
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · AC 28-204.4 FAIL TO COMPLY W/COMMISSIONER ORDER TO FILE CERT OF CORRECTION W/DOBDismissed · 2020-06-29
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 1 · 28-301.1 FAILURE TO MAINTAIN BUILDING IN CODE COMPLIANT MANNER: SERVICE EQUIPMEIn Violation · 2020-04-11
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 1 · 28-301.1 FAILURE TO MAINTAIN BUILDING IN CODE COMPLIANT MANNER: SERVICE EQUIPMEIn Violation · 2020-04-11
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · 27-/28-/BC-MISC MISCELLANEOUS VIOLATIONSCured/in-vio · 2019-11-15
- DOB SafetySprinklers · FTF-SP-FINALDismissed · 2019-09-03
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · 28-301.1 FAILURE TO MAINTAIN BUILDING IN CODE-COMPLIANT MANNER: ILLUMINATION FCured/in-vio · 2018-03-14
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · 27-371, BC 715.3.7 (2008 CODE) & BC 715.4.8 (2014 CODE) EXIT DOOR NOT SELF-CLOSING.Cured/in-vio · 2018-03-14
- DOB SafetyBenchmarking - LL84 · FTF-EN-BENCHDismissed · 2015-11-02
- DOB SafetyBenchmarking - LL84 · FTF-EN-BENCHDismissed · 2015-08-02
- DOB SafetyBenchmarking - LL84 · FTF-EN-BENCHDismissed · 2015-05-02
- DOB Complaint76 · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2011-10-24
- DOB Complaint4B · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2010-05-27
- DOB Complaint65 · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2009-09-29
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · 28-301.1 FAIL TO MAINTAIN BUILDING IN CODE-COMPLIANT MANNER RE:INSTALLATION/MAIIn Violation · 2009-09-22
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Removed · 2009-07-07
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · BC 105.8.2 TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT ON SITE-EXPIRED PERMITCured/in-vio · 2009-04-24
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · BC 3301.9,27-10009(C) FAIL TO PROVIDE/POST SIGN(S) AT JB SITE PURSUANT TO SUBSECCured/in-vio · 2009-04-24
- DOB Complaint59 · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2008-09-03
- DOB SafetyEmergency Power · FTF-EL-ENRFDismissed · 2008-03-31
- DOB Complaint05 · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2007-11-05
- DOB Complaint37 · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2006-05-24
- ECB ViolationNon-Hazardous · 27-987 FAILURE TO MAINTAIN ELEVATORCured/in-vio · 2003-09-24
- DOB Complaint49 · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2003-02-24
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2001-04-05
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2001-04-05
- ECB ViolationNon-Hazardous · 27-147 PLUMBING WORK WITHOUT A PERMITStipulation/in-vio · 2001-02-09
- ECB ViolationNon-Hazardous · 27-987 FAILURE TO MAINTAIN ELEVATORCured/in-vio · 2000-03-10
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Removed · 1998-03-11
Stop Work Orders(0)
DOB Stop Work Orders issued at this company's project addresses. A minority reference a job number in their text — when that job number matches one of American Signcrafters's own permits, it's marked directly linked below. The rest are address-level only (same building, different or unspecified job) and are shown as context, not attributed to this company.
No Stop Work Orders on record at these addresses.
Layoff & Closure Notices (WARN)(0)
Matched by business name against NYS DOL's official WARN Dashboard (layoffs/closures affecting 50+ employees). This is an approximate name match, not verified — WARN notices are filed under whatever legal entity operated the site, which can be a parent company, subsidiary, or DBA different from the name on a DOB permit. Confirm at the source link below before treating a match as confirmed. As of 2026-08-04, no NYC-area construction company appeared on the current WARN list — an empty result here is the norm, not a bug.
No matching WARN notices on file for this business name.
Companies Ranked Near American Signcrafters
Citywide, by permits on file with NYC DOB. This measures volume, not quality. Ranking counts cover each firm's main spellings, so they can sit below the all-spellings total quoted above.
- #296I'll Go Inc1,127
- #297Nadkos Inc1,119
- #298Tj Signs Unlimited Inc1,118
- #299American Signcrafters1,118
- #300Cc Controlled Plbg Co Inc1,112
About American Signcrafters: Common Questions
- How many NYC building permits does American Signcrafters have?
- American Signcrafters is the permittee on 1,325 permits in NYC Department of Buildings Permit Issuance records, issued between 1995 and Apr 12, 2011, 37% of them in Manhattan.
- Which boroughs does American Signcrafters work in?
- By permits on file with the NYC Department of Buildings: Manhattan (493), Queens (377), Brooklyn (270), Bronx (101) and Staten Island (84).
Official Record Lookups
For company ownership, executives, or safety-inspection history beyond what DOB publishes, search the primary government sources directly:
- NY Dept. of State — Corporation & Business Entity Search
Official state registration record — registered agent, entity status, and filing history.
- OSHA Establishment Search
Federal workplace-safety inspection and citation history, searchable by company name.
- NYS DOL WARN Dashboard
Official statewide layoff/closure notice filings (WARN Act), searchable by employer.
- Better Business Bureau — Search This Company
BBB accreditation status, customer rating, and complaint history, pre-searched by this company's name near New York, NY.
Sources & Method
Every figure on this profile comes from the records below, read live on Sep 15, 2026. DOB spellings of a business name are merged only after normalizing punctuation, legal suffixes, common abbreviations and DOB's fixed-width truncation; spellings that could belong to a different business stay separate. Constructel publishes no quality ratings or composite scores for companies — the rank shown is permit volume and nothing else. Every dataset this site uses →
- [1]DOB Permit Issuance — NYC Department of Buildings
- [2]Active Corporations: Beginning 1800 — New York State Department of State
- [3]Recent Contract Awards — NYC Mayor's Office of Contract Services
- [4]DOB Safety Violations — NYC Department of Buildings
- [5]DOB ECB Violations — NYC Department of Buildings / Environmental Control Board
- [6]DOB Complaints Received — NYC Department of Buildings
- [7]Stop Work Orders in NYC — NYC Department of Buildings
- [8]WARN Dashboard — NYS Department of Labor
Cite this profile
Constructel NYC. "American Signcrafters — NYC Permits, Projects & Licenses." Data retrieved September 15, 2026. https://constructelnyc.com/companies/american-signcrafters