Twelve thousand one hundred ninety-three building-department job filings sit on the rolling 30-day count as of October 28, and the boroughs are no longer moving together. Manhattan and Queens both added filings overnight — Manhattan up to 4,387 from 4,442 a day earlier is actually a dip, but Queens climbed to 2,521 from 2,540, also a step down, while the dollar totals tell a different story entirely.

Here's the split worth watching: Queens' filed construction cost jumped to $1.18 billion from $1.13 billion even as its filing count fell by 19. Manhattan's cost dropped to $1.44 billion from $1.49 billion while its count also fell. Brooklyn's filing count held almost flat at 3,327 (from 3,335) but its dollar value rose to $826.5 million from $814.3 million. The Bronx and Staten Island both lost filings and lost dollars — the Bronx down to $295.5 million from $288.2 million is actually a rise, but its filing count slid to 1,361 from 1,358, essentially flat, while Staten Island fell on both counts, to 597 filings worth $64.6 million from 611 filings worth $65.2 million.

“Fewer total applications are coming in, but the ones landing in Queens and Brooklyn are getting bigger.”

Translation: fewer total applications are coming in, but the ones that are landing in Queens and Brooklyn are getting bigger. That matches the biggest-filings list, where Queens holds three of the ten largest applications on the books, including a $350 million alteration at 31 Avenue and a $124.3 million Roosevelt Avenue job for NYC Economic Development Corp. Brooklyn holds three more, all School Construction Authority work — Avenue S at $58.1 million, Bedford Avenue at $49.9 million, and Pennsylvania Avenue at $46.9 million.

Citywide, Alteration filings still dominate the mix at 8,956 of the 12,193 total, with New Building applications at 1,341. Neither category moved by more than a few dozen filings overnight, which means the borough-level cost swings are coming from a handful of large jobs entering or aging out of the 30-day window, not from a broad shift in building activity.

What this means for you: Estimators chasing alteration and new-building work should weight business development toward Queens and Brooklyn right now — that's where the big-ticket filings are clustering, even though Manhattan still has more total paper moving. How we count: These figures come from the public bid postings and agency bid results on The RFI Wire's board and, where filings are cited, NYC Department of Buildings job filings via NYC Open Data. Read them as the market's direction, not an official total.