A current view of development filings with enough source detail to show a mapped address, dated status and source ID—not a count of every construction activity in the neighborhood.
A neighborhood-level summary of source-qualified DOB records in the current published snapshot.
Qualified records644
Active-status filings370
New-building filings20
Latest status changeOct 22, 2026
Reading the current snapshot
The strongest visible signal is in the filing mix—not a forecast.
Street Futures currently identifies 644 DOB records in Kensington with mapped addresses, dated status fields and official record IDs. 20 are classified as new buildings, while 4 carry a full demolition signal. The remainder primarily describe alterations to existing buildings.
Of the records in this snapshot, 370 publish an approved or permit-stage status. Approval is an administrative milestone; it does not confirm that work has started. Open each filing below for its dated status, identifiers and original source.
Living here
The housing record on Kensington.
Of the 41 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 16 carry at least one — 39% — and 11 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.
Open violations
701
Immediately hazardous
150
Addresses checked
41
The Housing Maintenance Code is about living in a building — heat, hot water, pests, paint — and is a different thing from the Department of Buildings violations elsewhere on this page, which are about building work. The two most common open violations in the whole city are both paperwork, so a high count is a reason to read the classes rather than a verdict. What each class means Counted from the extract accessed Oct 24, 2026.
Verified filings
Recent records for Kensington.
Ordered by the latest status date published in the source snapshot.
