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Browse by borough

Five different patterns of change.

Begin at the borough level, then follow verified records into neighborhoods, streets, buildings and individual filings.

Manhattan37 neighborhood record groups

8,029177 new building 02

Brooklyn63 neighborhood record groups

45,0501473 new building 03

Queens65 neighborhood record groups

3,602657 new building 04

Bronx42 neighborhood record groups

2,114517 new building 05

Staten Island18 neighborhood record groups

1,020334 new building

Ways in

59,815 filings, and six ways to walk into them.

The catalog is not a list. It is a street, a building, a height, a trade and a month, all describing the same records from different sides.

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8,464Streetsstreets with a filing

Every street in the city carrying building work, borough by borough.

12,554Buildingsbuildings with a history

Addresses where more than one filing has landed over time.

212Neighborhoodsneighborhoods

The city’s own tabulation areas, ranked by how much is filed in them.

185ZIP codespostal codes

The geography most people actually know their own address by.

2,066Firmsfiling businesses

Who files the paperwork, and how often.

107Archivemonths on record

What was submitted, month by month, newest first.

By height

All bands

How tall is the New York being filed?

Band	Storeys	Filings
Towers	21+	1,789
Mid-rise	7–20	4,205
Low-mid	4–6	4,478
Low-rise	0–3	5,696

By work

All categories

What is actually being done?

Kind of work	Filings
Alteration filing	56,287
New building	3,158
Full demolition	370
General construction	6,373
Structural work	3,778
Earthwork and excavation	998
Foundation work	947

A filing can carry several kinds of work at once, so these counts overlap rather than divide.

Busiest streets

Street directory

Where the most is happening.

Fulton StreetBrooklyn678
Bedford AvenueBrooklyn512
Flatbush AvenueBrooklyn507
BroadwayManhattan467
Fifth AvenueManhattan410
Madison AvenueManhattan299
Queens BoulevardQueens91
Northern BoulevardQueens62
Grand ConcourseBronx45
35 AvenueQueens44

Most-filed buildings

Building directory

Addresses that keep coming back.

Recent months

Full archive

September 20262,033August 20264,688July 20261,419June 20261,187May 2026807April 2026646March 2026878February 2026510January 2026493December 2025510

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The city changesbefore it looks different.

What moved through the city's systems.

1250 Waters Place

210 Joralemon Street

115 55 Street

Read the block in context, not in isolation.

Five different patterns of change.

59,815 filings, and six ways to walk into them.

How tall is the New York being filed?

What is actually being done?

Where the most is happening.

Addresses that keep coming back.

The city changes
before it looks different.