New York City's Department of Buildings logged 12,268 job filings over the trailing 30 days, down from 12,193 the cycle before, and the total dollar value behind those filings jumped around more than the count did.
Queens filings fell from 2,521 to 2,568 -- wait, Queens actually rose in count, from 2,521 to 2,568, a gain of 47 filings. But the total cost attached to those Queens filings dropped from $1,178,504,968 to $820,602,017, a fall of more than $357 million overnight. A single outsized filing can move a borough total by that much, and one did: the prior cycle's biggest filing citywide was a $350 million Alteration CO on 31st Avenue in Queens filed to "PR." That filing isn't on the new top-ten list at all.
“One filing can move a borough's total by more than the entire increase in every other borough combined.”
Take that one filing out of the picture and Queens' underlying activity looks steadier than the headline swing suggests -- more filings, not fewer, just without the one number that was carrying the borough's total. Manhattan held almost flat, 4,387 filings worth $1,443,842,798 in the prior cycle to 4,399 filings worth $1,445,975,161 now -- a dozen more filings and a trivial change in value. Brooklyn ticked up from 3,327 to 3,343 filings, with total value basically flat near $789-826 million across the two reads. The Bronx and Staten Island both moved by single digits in count.
Brooklyn's own top-ten list still carries three School Construction Authority filings -- $49.94 million on Bedford Avenue, $46.9 million on Pennsylvania Avenue, and $45.6 million on Avenue X -- which didn't move between cycles. Those are the kind of filings that anchor a borough's total without needing a market shift to explain them; they were already in the record a day earlier.
Nationally there's no federal contract data to compare against this cycle -- the SAM.gov pull came back empty, so this read is NYC Department of Buildings filings only, via NYC Open Data.
What this means for you: Watch the direction over the next few days before you change how you staff or price a bid. One day's move is a signal to check, not a trend. How we count: Figures cover NYC Department of Buildings job filings (applications, not issued permits or started work) over the trailing 30 days, compared across two consecutive daily pulls, via NYC Open Data.