Thirteen filing types worth a morning, each one a real query against the city's own feeds. Counts below are the last thirty days.
What is being built, and what is coming down
- New buildings filed - 157. A new building applied for anywhere in the five boroughs.
- Demolition permits - 1. The smallest of these lists and usually the first sign a site is about to change.
- Major alterations - 99. Filings that change use, egress or occupancy: one kind of building becoming another.
The four trades this city files separately
- Plumbing - 99.
- Equipment work - 111, the largest single permit type the city files.
- Boilers and fixed plant - 32.
- Fuel oil and storage - 35, including the oil-tank filings a buyer asks about.
What stands against a building
- Building violations issued - 384, from the Department of Buildings.
- Immediately hazardous housing violations - 16,494 class C.
- Heat and hot water - 177 class I.
What residents are reporting
- Illegal conversion complaints - 1,753. A building divided or occupied in a way the city did not permit.
- Illegal hotel rooms - 124. New York polices short-term letting through complaints rather than a licence register, so the complaint is the record: there is no list of who is doing it legally.
- Water leaks - 4,706, the complaint that most often precedes a violation.
Counts run 12 September 2026.