NYC DOB record · M01444291-I1

408 East 78 Street

408 East 78 Street, Manhattan, NY 10075

Alteration filing in Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, Manhattan. The latest DOB status is permit entire.

DOB has issued the permit covering the full scope of this filing, so the work is cleared to proceed. What every status means

ApprovedAlteration filing

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NYC DOB RECORD · M01444291-I1

408 East 78 Street

Manhattan, NY 10075

Alteration filing · status dated Aug 28, 2026

Current record
Approved
Proposed scale
Not stated
Dwelling units
17
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 M01444291-I1 as a alteration filing at 408 East 78 Street, Manhattan, NY 10075. Its latest published status category is Approved, dated Aug 28, 2026. The filing records 17 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
Aug 28, 2026
Proposed scale
17 proposed dwelling units
The building, not the filingopen housing violations, what it sold for, the owner of record and every filing at BIN 1046004Applicant of recordSee the 350 filings that name New York Engineering ASSOC., P.C.
FiledAug 19, 2026
Current recordApproved
Proposed scale17 units
Recorded cost$61,800

What the filing says

A public-record reading of the proposed work.

Replace boiler and oil burner. filed in conjunction with emergency laa no. m01440892.

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 4-story walk-up apartment building built in 1910, with 17 homes, on a 2,682 sq ft lot.

Built
1910
Last altered
1961
Floors
4
Residential units
17
Building type
Walk-up apartment building
Land use
Walk-up apartments
Zoning district
R8B
Lot area
2,682 sq ft
Building area
7,000 sq ft

Lot facts come from NYC Department of City Planning, Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) (64uk-42ks), accessed Sep 20, 2026. They describe the tax lot, not this filing.

Violation record

Are there open violations here?

The Department of Buildings has 4 open notices on record for this building, out of 10 notices on file; the most recent was issued Jul 15, 2025.

  • Construction

    Issued Jul 15, 2025 — EMERGENCY WORK-ON 6/12/25 DOB OBSVD INWARDLY AREA OF MASONRY ROOF PARAPET WALL W/CHIMNEY @ EXP4 REPORT ISSUED ON 7/14/25 & SIGNED & STAMPED BY SCOTT. J PROFETA,R.A INDICATED MASONRY CHASE REMOVED FROM BELOW THE ROOF LEAVING THE CHIMNEY ONLU PARTIALL SUPPORTED. COMPLY W/ CODE IMMED RETAIN NYSPE&GC TO EVAL&STAB/DEMO THE LEANING MASONRY

  • Construction

    Issued Jun 12, 2025 — CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN REQ'D. OBSVD DISLODGE COPPING STONE ON PARAPET WALL & OVER PUBLIC SIDEWALK LEANING PARAPET WALL 16X6 FT(L+H)2 EXP4 CRACKED MORTAR AROUND CHIMNEY # EXP3 PLUS OTHER BRICKS IN DISREPAIR @ ROOF LEVEL. OWNER TO IMMED RETAIN REG DESIGN PROF TO EVAL THE ENTIRE BLDG & SUBMIT CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN BLDG T/BE REPAIRED UNDER PERMIT

  • Construction

    Issued Jun 12, 2025 — FTM BLDG IN CODE COMPLIANT MANNER-OBSVD DISLODGE AND CRACKED COPPING STONE ABOVE PARAPET WALL OF EXP1,LEANING PORTION OF PARAPET WALL AT EXP4 APPROX 16FT BY 6FT,CRACKED MORTAR AROUND THE CHIMNEY AT ROOF LEVEL. AN ANNUAL PARAPET OBSERVATION REPORT IS REQ'D TO BE COMPLETED FOR ENDING YEAR 2025

  • 1 further open notice is 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 19, 2026.

Recorded timeline

Dates published by the Department of Buildings.

  1. Application filed

    DOB received filing M01444291-I1.

    01
  2. Application approved

    The application reached an approved status in the DOB record.

    02
  3. First permit date recorded

    DOB lists a first permit date. This does not by itself confirm current construction activity.

    03
  4. Current status updated

    The latest recorded filing status is “Permit Entire.”

    04

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
M01444291-I1
BBL
1014720044
Review type
Professional Certification
Existing stories
Empty in the source
Proposed stories
Empty in the source
Existing dwelling units
17
Proposed dwelling units
17