What the filing says
A public-record reading of the proposed work.
New interior renovation for an existing lodging house (cubicles). use group v. no change in use or occupancy. no increase in bulk or far.
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 5-story hotel built in 1900, on a 3,765 sq ft lot.
- Built
- 1900
- Last altered
- 1989
- Floors
- 5
- Residential units
- 0
- Building type
- Hotel
- Land use
- Commercial and office
- Zoning district
- C6-1G
- Lot area
- 3,765 sq ft
- Building area
- 18,012 sq ft
Lot facts come from NYC Department of City Planning, Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) (64uk-42ks), accessed Sep 16, 2026. They describe the tax lot, not this filing.
Violation record
Are there open violations here?
The Department of Buildings has 24 open notices on record for this building, out of 25 notices on file; the most recent was issued Sep 18, 2026.
- Immediate
Issued Sep 18, 2026 — REMEDY: INSTALLATION OF SIDEWALK SHED AT EXPO 2 (LOCATED AT 237-241 GRAND.STREET) APPROXIMATELY 75 LINEAR FEET + ADDITIONAL.ADJACENT PROPERTY 5 LINEAR.FEET TOTAL = 80 LINEAR FEET
- Construction
Issued Sep 17, 2026 — OBSERVED PARAPET WALL AT ROOF CORNER OF EXPO 2/3 WITH LARGE CRACK AND ALSO MUTIPLE CHIMNEYS AT EXPO 2 WITH MISSING MORTAR. CONDTIONS ARE EXISITNG OVER PUBLIC SIDEWALK AND OVER STORES CAUSING OVERHEAD HAZARD. ENGINEERS REPORT FOR STRUCTURAL STABILITY REQUIRED.
- Low pressure boiler
Issued Nov 14, 2025 — VIOLATION ISSUED-FAILURE TO FILE 2024 EXTERNAL LOW PRESSURE INSPECTION
21 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 21, 2026.
Recorded timeline
Dates published by the Department of Buildings.
- Application filed01
DOB received filing M01280929-I1.
- Application approved02
The application reached an approved status in the DOB record.
- Current status updated03
The latest recorded filing status is “On Hold – Administrative Action.”
For scale: half of DOB filings are permitted within 21 days of being filed and a quarter take longer than 4 months, measured across 74,561 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
- M01280929-I1
- BIN
- 1003931
- BBL
- 1003040016
- Postal code
- 10002 · 274 filings
- Review type
- Standard Plan Examination
- Existing stories
- 5
- Proposed stories
- 5
- Existing dwelling units
- 224
- Proposed dwelling units
- 224