New York City building owners filed 12,284 job applications with the Department of Buildings over the trailing 30 days, up from 11,722 a day earlier — a jump of 562 filings overnight, according to NYC Department of Buildings job filings, via NYC Open Data.
Manhattan and Queens did almost all of the moving. Manhattan filings rose from 4,245 to 4,438, and the declared cost tied to those jobs climbed from $1.40 billion to $1.49 billion. Queens filings rose from 2,425 to 2,535, with declared cost up from $1.06 billion to $1.13 billion. Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island all grew too, but by smaller amounts, and none of them moved the dollar figure the way Manhattan and Queens did.
“One filing is doing a lot of that work.”
One filing is doing a lot of that work. A $350 million alteration permit application at 31 Avenue in Queens, filed on behalf of an owner listed only as "PR," is the single largest job application on the board and has been for more than a day now — it topped the biggest-filings list in both the current pull and the one before it. Behind it sits a $124.3 million alteration on Roosevelt Avenue filed for the NYC Economic Development Corporation, and a $73 million alteration filed for Breaking Ground on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.
Alterations still make up the bulk of the citywide total — 9,021 of the 12,284 filings, versus 1,335 new-building applications. That ratio barely moved overnight (it was 8,652 alterations out of 11,722 the day before), which tells you this wasn't a shift in what kind of work is getting filed. It was more of the same kind of work, filed faster.
School Construction Authority jobs show up four times in the citywide top ten biggest filings — at Avenue S, Pennsylvania Avenue, Bedford Avenue and Avenue X, all in Brooklyn, totaling roughly $200 million in declared cost across those four filings alone. That's a heavier SCA presence in the city's biggest-filings list than in recent cycles, and worth tracking if it continues.
What this means for you: If you estimate alteration work in Queens or Manhattan, the filing pace says more applications are stacking up behind the big-ticket jobs — watch for the permits and bid packages that follow a filing like the 31 Avenue job in the coming weeks. How we count: Figures cover NYC Department of Buildings job applications filed in the trailing 30 days as of two consecutive daily pulls, one day apart; 'filed' means paperwork submitted, not permits issued or construction underway.