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 records352
Active-status filings286
New-building filings112
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 352 DOB records in Jamaica with mapped addresses, dated status fields and official record IDs. 112 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, 283 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 Jamaica.
Of the 97 addresses here checked against the city’s open-violation extract, 28 carry at least one — 29% — and 20 carry at least one the city calls immediately hazardous.
Open violations
528
Immediately hazardous
100
Addresses checked
97
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 Jamaica.
Ordered by the latest status date published in the source snapshot.
