The open-bid board picked up 14 net jobs overnight, going from 416 to 430. That's not a huge jump, but where the growth landed says more than the headcount does.

NYCHA held flat at 18 open jobs — still the single largest agency presence on the board outside the generic 'Unspecified' bucket, which itself grew from 262 to 276. MTA NYC Transit held at 15. Those two alone account for exactly a third of every open job on the board that carries a named agency at all.

“If you're scanning this board by trade, you're missing two out of every three live jobs.”

Here's the part worth flagging: 276 of 430 open bids — 64% of the entire board — still carry no trade classification. That's roughly the same ratio as yesterday's 262 of 416, so it's not getting worse, but it's not getting better either. If you're a sub scanning this board by trade to find your lane, you're missing about two out of every three live opportunities unless you're also reading agency and title by hand.

Where you can see real movement: General Construction held at 26 postings, still the largest single named trade category, while smaller specialty counts — Elevator, Plumbing, HVAC/Mechanical — barely shifted at all. The agencies that did move: NYS Office of General Services added a job (7 to 8), and several small municipalities — towns, villages, counties — layered in one or two postings apiece, the long tail that never makes a headline on its own but adds up to real volume across a week.

So if you're deciding where to spend estimating hours this week, the unglamorous truth is that the growth isn't concentrated in one dramatic new program. It's diffuse — a job here from a town DPW, a job there from a county water authority. That means the winning move isn't chasing the biggest new posting; it's making sure your trade filter actually catches the 64% of the board that the system hasn't tagged yet.