NYC Department of Buildings job filings over the trailing 30 days now total 12,440 applications, down slightly from 12,462 the day before — a small overnight dip, not a trend. But the dollars tell a sharper story than the count does. Manhattan alone carries $1.45 billion of filed construction value across 4,509 applications, and Queens — with little more than half of Manhattan's filing count at 2,583 — still carries $1.16 billion, nearly matching the borough with almost twice as many filings.
That's because Queens is home to the single largest filing on the board: a $350 million alteration with a certificate of occupancy on 31 Avenue, filed under the owner name "PR." It's the biggest number in either cycle's top-ten list, and it alone explains why Queens punches so far above its filing count. Brooklyn, by contrast, logged more filings than Queens — 3,355 — but just $828 million in total value, less than three-quarters of what Queens pulled from under a thousand fewer applications.
“Queens has nearly a thousand fewer filings than Brooklyn and almost double the dollars.”
The Bronx and Staten Island remain where they've been: the Bronx with 1,377 filings worth $286 million, Staten Island with 616 filings worth $64 million. Neither moved meaningfully day over day. The citywide filing mix is still dominated by alterations — 9,131 of the 12,440 filings, versus just 1,398 new buildings — which is the normal shape of this dataset and hasn't shifted.
Brooklyn's second-biggest filing, a $135 million new building on 55 Street for Teri Nichols IFM LLC, and Queens' third-biggest, a $124 million Roosevelt Avenue alteration for NYC Economic Development Corp, both carried over unchanged from the prior cycle — they're sitting in the same rolling 30-day window, not new filings.
What this means for you: If you're chasing filed work by borough, don't rank by filing count alone — a handful of outsized jobs can carry a borough's whole dollar total, and Queens right now is a one-job story. 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.