Neighborhood record · Brooklyn

What's changing in South Williamsburg.

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.

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NEIGHBORHOOD RECORD · BROOKLYN

South Williamsburg

A current reading of mapped NYC DOB records

Source-qualified records · updated Oct 1, 2026

Included records
1,042
Active-status
568
New buildings
111
Neighborhood data portrait

A neighborhood-level summary of source-qualified DOB records in the current published snapshot.

Qualified records1042
Active-status filings568
New-building filings111
Latest status changeOct 1, 2026

Reading the current snapshot

The strongest visible signal is in the filing mix—not a forecast.

Street Futures currently identifies 1042 DOB records in South Williamsburg with mapped addresses, dated status fields and official record IDs. 111 are classified as new buildings, while 0 carry a full demolition signal. The remainder primarily describe alterations to existing buildings.

Of the records in this snapshot, 567 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 South Williamsburg.

Of the 29 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 14 carry at least one — 48% — and 9 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.

Open violations
608
Immediately hazardous
155
Addresses checked
29

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 3, 2026.

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Streets with multiple included filings.

Source snapshot: DOB NOW: Build – Job Application Filings (w9ak-ipjd), accessed Oct 3, 2026.