How long does a permit take?
Half of filings are permitted within 18 days, measured across 50,115 of them. A new building takes a median of 8 months. Broken down by work type and borough, with the slowest quarter shown beside the median rather than hidden inside an average.
What does each filing status mean?
All 22 statuses that appear on the 74,888 filings on record, in plain language, with how many filings sit in each one right now. Filed, approved and permitted are three different things and only one of them means work can start.
Where the answers come from
Every number on these pages is a count of records in the current snapshot, not an estimate, a survey or an agency target. They change when the catalog changes. Built from DOB NOW: Build – Job Application Filings (w9ak-ipjd), accessed Sep 14, 2026.
The methodology covers how filings are selected and classified, and data sources names every dataset behind them.