NYC DOB record · M01402846-I1

39 East 79 Street

39 East 79 Street, Manhattan, NY 10075

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

ApprovedAlteration filing

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NYC DOB RECORD · M01402846-I1

39 East 79 Street

Manhattan, NY 10075

Alteration filing · status dated Oct 7, 2026

Current record
Approved
Proposed scale
14 stories
Dwelling units
16
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 M01402846-I1 as a alteration filing at 39 East 79 Street, Manhattan, NY 10075. Its latest published status category is Approved, dated Oct 7, 2026. The filing records 14 proposed stories and 16 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
Oct 7, 2026
Proposed scale
14 proposed stories and 16 proposed dwelling units
The building, not the filingopen housing violations, what it sold for, apartment sizes and every filing at BIN 1046437Applicant of recordSee the 18 filings that name Walter B. Melvin Architects, LLC
FiledAug 25, 2026
Current recordApproved
Proposed scale14 stories
Recorded cost$31,472

What the filing says

A public-record reading of the proposed work.

Facade exterior repairs as per drawings. No change in use, egress or occupancy is involved under this application.

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 14-story elevator apartment building built in 1925, with 20 homes, on a 7,120 sq ft lot.

Built
1925
Last altered
1987
Floors
14
Residential units
20
Building type
Elevator apartment building
Land use
Elevator apartments
Zoning district
C5-1
Lot area
7,120 sq ft
Building area
69,585 sq ft

Lot facts come from NYC Department of City Planning, Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) (64uk-42ks), accessed Oct 10, 2026. They describe the tax lot, not this filing.

Violation record

Are there open violations here?

No open violations are recorded for this building. 28 notices are on file, all with a recorded resolution.

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 Oct 10, 2026.

Recorded timeline

Dates published by the Department of Buildings.

  1. Application filed

    DOB received filing M01402846-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 78,679 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
M01402846-I1
BBL
1014910023
Review type
Standard Plan Examination
Existing stories
14
Proposed stories
14
Existing dwelling units
16
Proposed dwelling units
16
General construction