NYC DOB record · M01438954-I1

159 East 126 Street

159 East 126 Street, Manhattan, NY 10035

Full demolition filing in East Harlem (North), Manhattan. The latest DOB status is plan examiner review.

A DOB plan examiner is reviewing the application. Nothing has been approved yet. What every status means

Under reviewFull demolition

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NYC DOB RECORD · M01438954-I1

159 East 126 Street

Manhattan, NY 10035

Full demolition · status dated Sep 21, 2026

Current record
Under review
Proposed scale
Not stated
Dwelling units
Not stated
Filing data portrait

A page-specific reading of the filing status, location and stated scale. Values are drawn from the cited DOB record.

Address record at a glance

What is filed at this address?

NYC DOB lists filing M01438954-I1 as a full demolition at 159 East 126 Street, Manhattan, NY 10035. Its latest published status category is Under review, dated Sep 21, 2026. The published record does not state proposed stories or dwelling units.

A filing or approval does not by itself confirm that work is underway. Proposed details may change in later DOB records.
Filing type
Full demolition
Latest status
Under review
Latest status date
Sep 21, 2026
Proposed scale
Not stated in this filing
Applicant of recordSee the 377 filings that name H & O Engineering, DPC
FiledSep 17, 2026
Current recordUnder review
Proposed scaleNot specified
Recorded cost$495,035

What the filing says

A public-record reading of the proposed work.

Full demolition of 5 story structure, using hand held and partial mechanical means to assist.

Street Futures classifies this record as a full demolition 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 5-story warehouse built in 1905, on a 12,490 sq ft lot.

Built
1905
Last altered
1987
Floors
5
Residential units
0
Building type
Warehouse
Land use
Industrial and manufacturing
Zoning district
R7-2
Lot area
12,490 sq ft
Building area
25,870 sq ft

Lot facts come from NYC Department of City Planning, Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) (64uk-42ks), accessed Sep 24, 2026. They describe the tax lot, not this filing.

Violation record

Are there open violations here?

The Department of Buildings has 1 open notice on record for this building, out of 17 notices on file; the most recent was issued May 26, 2026.

  • Construction

    Issued May 26, 2026 — FAILURE TO MAINTAIN BUILDING IN CODE COMPLIANT MANNER. NOTE: OBSERVED DEFECTIVE CONDITIONS. EXPOSURE 1 DEFECTIVE CORNICE CRACKED & LOOSE WINDOW PANES,CRACK ON OPEN STONE JOINT MANY LOCS. SPALLING. EXP2,3,4 ROOF DAMAGE @ PARAPET, CRACK AT BULKHEAD & CHIMNEY. REMEDY: REPAIR AND/OR REPLACE

Open means the agency has not recorded a resolution, which is not the same as the problem still existing. What a violation is, and what it is not. From NYC Department of Buildings, DOB Violations (3h2n-5cm9), accessed Sep 23, 2026.

Recorded timeline

Dates published by the Department of Buildings.

  1. Application filed

    DOB received filing M01438954-I1.

    01
  2. Current status updated

    The latest recorded filing status is “Plan Examiner Review.”

    02

For scale: half of DOB filings are permitted within 21 days of being filed and a quarter take longer than 4 months, measured across 76,126 filings that carry both dates. How long a permit takes, by work type and borough

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
M01438954-I1
BIN
1081564
BBL
1017750028
Review type
Standard Plan Examination
Existing stories
5
Proposed stories
Empty in the source
Existing dwelling units
0
Proposed dwelling units
Empty in the source