NYC DOB record · M01440876-I1

162 West 56 Street

162 West 56 Street, Manhattan, NY 10019

Alteration filing in Midtown-Times Square, Manhattan. The latest DOB status is approved.

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

ApprovedAlteration filing

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NYC DOB RECORD · M01440876-I1

162 West 56 Street

Manhattan, NY 10019

Alteration filing · status dated Sep 16, 2026

Current record
Approved
Proposed scale
15 stories
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 M01440876-I1 as a alteration filing at 162 West 56 Street, Manhattan, NY 10019. Its latest published status category is Approved, dated Sep 16, 2026. The filing records 15 proposed stories.

A filing or approval does not by itself confirm that work is underway. Proposed details may change in later DOB records.
Filing type
Alteration filing
Latest status
Approved
Latest status date
Sep 16, 2026
Proposed scale
15 proposed stories
Applicant of recordSee the 163 filings that name Ancora Engineering, PLLC
FiledSep 14, 2026
Current recordApproved
Proposed scale15 stories
Recorded cost$250,000

What the filing says

A public-record reading of the proposed work.

Install new exterior 2-hour fire-rated CFS shaft wall with gypsum sheathing, firestopping, flashing, and Sto Powerwall finish along exposed lot-line wall to support adjacent building demolition.

Street Futures classifies this record as a alteration filing 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 15-story condominium built in 1926, with 65 homes, on a 7,541 sq ft lot.

Built
1926
Floors
15
Residential units
65
Building type
Condominium
Land use
Mixed residential and commercial
Zoning district
C6-6
Lot area
7,541 sq ft
Building area
76,364 sq ft

Lot facts come from NYC Department of City Planning, Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) (64uk-42ks), accessed Sep 18, 2026. They describe the tax lot, not this filing.

Violation record

Are there open violations here?

The Department of Buildings has 19 open notices on record for this building, out of 65 notices on file; the most recent was issued Jun 23, 2024.

  • Failure to submit

    Issued Jun 23, 2024 — FAILURE TO SUBMIT AN EER PER AD. CODE SEC. 28-308.4 - MULTIPLE YEARS (2023)

  • Failure to submit

    Issued Apr 22, 2023 — FAILURE TO SUBMIT AN EER PER AD. CODE SEC. 28-308.4 - MULTIPLE YEARS (2022)

  • No report and / or late filing (facade)

    Issued Feb 22, 2023 — FAILED TO FILE FISP CYCLE 9B TECHNICAL REPORT BY 2/21/2023

  • 16 further open notices are on file. Open the source dataset for the full list.

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 18, 2026.

Recorded timeline

Dates published by the Department of Buildings.

  1. Application filed

    DOB received filing M01440876-I1.

    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

For scale: half of DOB filings are permitted within 20 days of being filed and a quarter take longer than 4 months, measured across 66,747 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
M01440876-I1
BIN
1076178
BBL
1010087502
Review type
Professional Certification
Existing stories
15
Proposed stories
15
Existing dwelling units
65
Proposed dwelling units
0
General constructionStructural work