Twelve thousand four hundred seventy-two. That's the rolling 30-day count of NYC Department of Buildings job filings as of today — applications filed with DOB NOW, not permits issued and not shovels in the ground. Yesterday the same rolling window held 12,529. Overnight, the total moved down by 57.

That's a small number against a big one, less than half a percent of the window. But it's the first drop The RFI Wire's own tracking of this count has logged after a stretch of readings that held dead flat or crept up. A rolling 30-day total only moves this way for one of two reasons: a slower day of new filings rolled in, or a comparably slow day from a month ago rolled out of the window. Either way, the count went the other direction today.

“A 57-filing dip in a 12,000-plus rolling window is not a market signal yet. It's one data point.”

Split by borough, the movement is almost all arithmetic noise rather than a borough-specific slowdown. Manhattan still leads with 4,595 filings in the window, Brooklyn 3,302, Queens 2,536, the Bronx 1,374, and Staten Island 665 — ranks that haven't shuffled in weeks. The dollar side moved more than the count side: the ten biggest filings in the window are unchanged in substance, led by a $350 million Queens alteration on 31 Avenue tied to an owner listed only as "PR," and a $135.2 million new building on 55 Street in Brooklyn for Teri Nichols IFM LLC.

Here's what this means for you if you're pricing estimating hours this week: a 57-filing dip in a 12,000-plus rolling window is not a market signal yet. It's one data point. If the count keeps sliding over the next several days — rather than bouncing back the way these rolling totals usually do — that's when it's worth asking whether something slowed at DOB's intake desk or in the pipeline of plans getting ready to file. Right now, treat it as a number to watch, not a trend to act on.

The open-bid board, for what it's worth, told a completely different story today: not one number moved. All 475 open postings, the same agency breakdown, the same trade mix, and the bid-results aggregates — 9.1 average bidders, a 16.1% average spread between low and second bid, low bids running 4.7% under the engineer's estimate on average — are identical to yesterday's reading. If you're chasing work, the pipeline isn't drying up or flooding; it's just sitting still for a second straight day.