City of New York

Issued Licenses

Name: Issued Licenses
Creator: City of New York

Business licenses issued by the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP). Each record includes the primary and secondary business names, street address, city, state, zip code, and phone number.

Example records

Namebrand	Street Addressaddress	Phonephone number	Cityaddress	Stateaddress	ZIP Codeaddress	Alternate Namelegal entity

Use cases

KYB Address and Name Verification

A fintech lender onboarding a small business applicant checks whether the business name and address on the loan application match an active DCWP license, confirming the business operates at the stated location and is recognized by a city regulator.

NameAlternate NameStreet AddressZIP Code

Fraud Signal Detection via Shared Contact Information

A fraud analyst investigating a cluster of suspicious merchant accounts checks whether multiple business names share the same phone number or street address in the license registry, which can indicate shell entities or identity reuse across applications.

PhoneStreet AddressNameAlternate Name

Sales Territory Mapping for B2B Vendors

A payments processor or point-of-sale vendor uses the licensed business locations to estimate the number of active consumer-facing businesses by ZIP code, prioritizing outreach to dense commercial corridors where license concentration is highest.

ZIP CodeStreet AddressNameCity