The open-bid board added 37 packages overnight — 436 yesterday, 473 today. That's not a rounding blip; that's a real batch of new work landing on the street in about 24 hours, and it's worth asking where it landed.

Most of it landed exactly where you'd expect it not to: in the dark. Of the 473 open packages tracked right now, 248 still carry no trade tag at all — better than half the board. That's up from 250 out of 436 a day ago, so the untagged share held roughly steady even as the raw count grew. Whatever's driving the growth, it's arriving the same way most of this board always has: thin on detail, heavy on volume.

“More than half of what just landed won't show up in a trade filter. You have to open it.”

Where the growth IS labeled, it clusters. NYCHA jumped from 17 open packages to 27 in a single day — the single biggest agency move on the board. NYC Health + Hospitals held flat at 7. MTA NYC Transit ticked up to 15 from 15 — no change there, still one of the bigger active posters. And a batch of smaller agencies — NJDOT, NJ Treasury's DPMC, State University Construction Fund, OPWDD — kept doing what they've been doing: posting steadily, none of them spiking, all of them present.

Here's the thing about a 37-job jump you can't fully see into: it's not useless, it's just unfinished. If you're an estimator scanning the board for HVAC or electrical work this week, more than half of what just landed won't show up in a trade filter. You have to open it. NYCHA's ten new packages are worth a manual look precisely because the agency count spiked hard enough to notice — that's usually a program pushing a batch out the door at once, not ten unrelated one-offs.

The takeaway for anyone estimating off this board right now: don't trust the trade filter to catch everything. Pull the raw agency list, especially NYCHA, and read the untagged rows yourself. The count went up. The tagging didn't catch up with it — and that gap is exactly where a competitor who reads past the headline number picks off work you never saw.