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.

Manhattan34 neighborhood record groups

5,487118 new building 02

Brooklyn56 neighborhood record groups

7,6111273 new building 03

Queens61 neighborhood record groups

2,466445 new building 04

Bronx39 neighborhood record groups

1,423342 new building 05

Staten Island16 neighborhood record groups

700242 new building

Ways in

17,687 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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1,490Streetsstreets with a filing

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

3,802Buildingsbuildings with a history

Addresses where more than one filing has landed over time.

206Neighborhoodsneighborhoods

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

174ZIP codespostal codes

The geography most people actually know their own address by.

794Firmsfiling businesses

Who files the paperwork, and how often.

41Archivemonths 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+	1,268
Mid-rise	7–20	2,842
Low-mid	4–6	2,519
Low-rise	0–3	3,409

By work

All categories

What is actually being done?

Kind of work	Filings
Alteration filing	15,004
New building	2,420
Full demolition	263
General construction	4,610
Structural work	1,580
Earthwork and excavation	747
Foundation work	710

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.

BroadwayManhattan308
Fifth AvenueManhattan304
Madison AvenueManhattan215
Fulton StreetBrooklyn113
Atlantic AvenueBrooklyn81
Bedford AvenueBrooklyn77
Queens BoulevardQueens52
Northern BoulevardQueens45
Hillside AvenueQueens31
Bruckner BoulevardBronx30

Most-filed buildings

Building directory

Addresses that keep coming back.

Recent months

Full archive

September 2026545August 20264,000July 20261,051June 2026857May 2026593April 2026447March 2026626February 2026366January 2026397December 2025371

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The city changesbefore it looks different.

What moved through the city's systems.

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71 Prince Street

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