NYC DOB record · M00785688-P8

252 East 72 Street

252 East 72 Street, Manhattan, NY 10021

New building filing in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, 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

ApprovedNew building

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NYC DOB RECORD · M00785688-P8

252 East 72 Street

Manhattan, NY 10021

New building · status dated Sep 18, 2026

Current record
Approved
Proposed scale
20 stories
Dwelling units
60
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 M00785688-P8 as a new building at 252 East 72 Street, Manhattan, NY 10021. Its latest published status category is Approved, dated Sep 18, 2026. The filing records 20 proposed stories and 60 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
New building
Latest status
Approved
Latest status date
Sep 18, 2026
Proposed scale
20 proposed stories and 60 proposed dwelling units
The building, not the filingopen housing violations, what it sold for, the owner of record and every filing at BIN 1091813Applicant of recordSee the 14 filings that name Hill West Architects
FiledSep 18, 2026
Current recordApproved
Proposed scale20 stories
Recorded cost$1,000

What the filing says

A public-record reading of the proposed work.

Proposed twenty (20) story mixed use development.

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 18-story elevator apartment building built in 2025, with 52 homes, on a 6,069 sq ft lot.

Built
2025
Last altered
2025
Floors
18
Residential units
52
Building type
Elevator apartment building
Land use
Mixed residential and commercial
Zoning district
R10A
Lot area
6,069 sq ft
Building area
99,142 sq ft

Lot facts come from NYC Department of City Planning, Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) (64uk-42ks), accessed Sep 22, 2026. They describe the tax lot, not this filing.

Violation record

Are there open violations here?

The Department of Buildings has 8 open notices on record for this building, out of 28 notices on file; the most recent was issued Nov 14, 2025.

  • Low pressure boiler

    Issued Nov 14, 2025 — VIOLATION ISSUED-FAILURE TO FILE 2024 EXTERNAL LOW PRESSURE INSPECTION

  • Low pressure boiler

    Issued Sep 23, 2024 — VIOLATION ISSUED-FAILURE TO FILE 2023 EXTERNAL LOW PRESSURE INSPECTION

  • Low pressure boiler

    Issued Jun 20, 2023 — VIOLATION ISSUED-FAILURE TO FILE 2019 EXTERNAL LOW PRESSURE INSPECTION

  • 5 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 22, 2026.

Recorded timeline

Dates published by the Department of Buildings.

  1. Application filed

    DOB received filing M00785688-P8.

    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 66,798 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
M00785688-P8
BBL
1014260025
Review type
Standard Plan Examination
Existing stories
Empty in the source
Proposed stories
20
Existing dwelling units
Empty in the source
Proposed dwelling units
60
General construction