NYC DOB record · B00486866-P2

157 Douglass Street

157 Douglass Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217

New building filing in Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, Brooklyn. The latest DOB status is approved.

A plan examiner has approved the application. A permit still has to be issued before work can begin.

ApprovedNew building

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157 Douglass Street record graphic showing the DOB filing status and stated proposal scale
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Address record at a glance

What is filed at this address?

NYC DOB lists filing B00486866-P2 as a new building at 157 Douglass Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217. Its latest published status category is Approved, dated Dec 10, 2025. The filing records 1 proposed story.

A filing or approval does not by itself confirm that work is underway. Proposed details may change in later DOB records.
Filing type
New building
Latest status
Approved
Latest status date
Dec 10, 2025
Proposed scale
1 proposed story
Complete building dossierView all 16 filings associated with BIN 3811113
FiledNov 25, 2025
Current recordApproved
Proposed scale1 stories
Recorded cost$21.8M

What the filing says

A public-record reading of the proposed work.

New 1 story building for mechanical boiler room.

Street Futures classifies this record as a new building based on the filing type and work flags published by the Department of Buildings. This classification helps organize the map; it does not add scope that is absent from the DOB record.

The lot this filing sits on

What is already here?

The lot holds a 9-story elevator apartment building built in 1965, with 796 homes, on a 273,460 sq ft lot.

Built
1965
Floors
9
Residential units
796
Building type
Elevator apartment building
Land use
Elevator apartments
Zoning district
R6
Lot area
273,460 sq ft
Building area
482,780 sq ft

Lot facts come from NYC Department of City Planning, Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) (64uk-42ks), accessed Sep 2, 2026. They describe the tax lot, not this filing.

Recorded timeline

Dates published by the Department of Buildings.

  1. Application filed

    DOB received filing B00486866-P2.

    01
  2. Application approved

    The application reached an approved status in the DOB record.

    02
  3. Current status updated

    The latest recorded filing status is “Approved.”

    03

Scope and identifiers

The details used to match this filing.

Where a field reads “empty in the source”, the city published this filing without that value. It is not an omission on our side, and nothing here is inferred to fill a gap.

DOB filing number
B00486866-P2
BBL
Empty in the source
Review type
Standard Plan Examination
Existing stories
Empty in the source
Proposed stories
1
Existing dwelling units
Empty in the source
Proposed dwelling units
0
General construction