Construction tells only part of a neighborhood's story. Each layer is a named public dataset, drawn with its own mark so it never passes for a filing.

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Five different patterns of change.

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

Manhattan35 neighborhood record groups

6,554146 new building 02

Brooklyn56 neighborhood record groups

8,3241361 new building 03

Queens61 neighborhood record groups

3,004558 new building 04

Bronx39 neighborhood record groups

1,725427 new building 05

Staten Island16 neighborhood record groups

826271 new building

Ways in

20,433 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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1,646Streetsstreets with a filing

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

4,435Buildingsbuildings with a history

Addresses where more than one filing has landed over time.

207Neighborhoodsneighborhoods

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

181ZIP codespostal codes

The geography most people actually know their own address by.

972Firmsfiling businesses

Who files the paperwork, and how often.

46Archivemonths 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+	1,437
Mid-rise	7–20	3,312
Low-mid	4–6	2,881
Low-rise	0–3	4,000

By work

All categories

What is actually being done?

Kind of work	Filings
Alteration filing	17,353
New building	2,763
Full demolition	317
General construction	5,390
Structural work	1,819
Earthwork and excavation	857
Foundation work	816

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.

BroadwayManhattan385
Fifth AvenueManhattan352
Madison AvenueManhattan250
Fulton StreetBrooklyn117
Atlantic AvenueBrooklyn89
Bedford AvenueBrooklyn83
Queens BoulevardQueens71
Northern BoulevardQueens51
Grand ConcourseBronx35
Hillside AvenueQueens32

Most-filed buildings

Building directory

Addresses that keep coming back.

Recent months

Full archive

September 20261,162August 20264,326July 20261,209June 20261,001May 2026681April 2026529March 2026717February 2026422January 2026438December 2025432

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“Show what the record says. Explain what it may signal. Never confuse either one with a prediction.”

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The city changesbefore it looks different.

What moved through the city's systems.

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115 55 Street

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