NYC DOB record · M01456165-I1

21 East 87 Street

21 East 87 Street, Manhattan, NY 10128

Alteration filing in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, 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

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NYC DOB RECORD · M01456165-I1

21 East 87 Street

Manhattan, NY 10128

Alteration filing · status dated Sep 22, 2026

Current record
Approved
Proposed scale
12 stories
Dwelling units
74
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 M01456165-I1 as a alteration filing at 21 East 87 Street, Manhattan, NY 10128. Its latest published status category is Approved, dated Sep 22, 2026. The filing records 12 proposed stories and 74 proposed 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
Alteration filing
Latest status
Approved
Latest status date
Sep 22, 2026
Proposed scale
12 proposed stories and 74 proposed dwelling units
The building, not the filingopen housing violations, what it sold for, apartment sizes and every filing at BIN 1046915Applicant of recordSee the 10 filings that name Plan Architecture PLLC
FiledSep 16, 2026
Current recordApproved
Proposed scale12 stories
Recorded cost$187,125

What the filing says

A public-record reading of the proposed work.

Renovation of apartment 11a to include removal and installation of partitions, doors, ceiling, and finishes. replacement and installation of plumbing fixtures. no change in use, egress, or occupancy is involved.

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 13-story elevator apartment building built in 1927, with 72 homes, on a 19,134 sq ft lot.

Built
1927
Last altered
1988
Floors
13
Residential units
72
Building type
Elevator apartment building
Land use
Elevator apartments
Zoning district
R10
Lot area
19,134 sq ft
Building area
204,195 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 82 notices on file; the most recent was issued Mar 28, 2001.

  • Elevator

    Issued Mar 28, 2001 — 1P15941

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 24, 2026.

Recorded timeline

Dates published by the Department of Buildings.

  1. Application filed

    DOB received filing M01456165-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 21 days of being filed and a quarter take longer than 4 months, measured across 68,520 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
M01456165-I1
BBL
1014990014
Review type
Standard Plan Examination
Existing stories
12
Proposed stories
12
Existing dwelling units
74
Proposed dwelling units
74
General construction