NYC DOB record · M01138841-I1

5 East 78 Street

5 East 78 Street, Manhattan, NY 10075

Alteration filing in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Manhattan. The latest DOB status is loc issued.

DOB has issued a Letter of Completion, which records that the work in this filing is finished. What every status means

Recorded as completedAlteration filing

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NYC DOB RECORD · M01138841-I1

5 East 78 Street

Manhattan, NY 10075

Alteration filing · status dated Sep 23, 2026

Current record
Recorded as completed
Proposed scale
Not stated
Dwelling units
7
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 M01138841-I1 as a alteration filing at 5 East 78 Street, Manhattan, NY 10075. Its latest published status category is Recorded as completed, dated Sep 23, 2026. The filing records 7 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
Recorded as completed
Latest status date
Sep 23, 2026
Proposed scale
7 proposed dwelling units
The building, not the filingwhat it sold for, apartment sizes, the owner of record and every filing at BIN 1041858Applicant of recordSee the 135 filings that name Black Sheep Engineering Group
FiledNov 7, 2024
Current recordRecorded as completed
Proposed scale7 units
Recorded cost$1

What the filing says

A public-record reading of the proposed work.

Installation of temporary supported scaffold per plan submitted. Work shall comply with 2022 building codes chapter 33. No change in use, egress and/or occupancy with 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 6-story elevator apartment building built in 1904, with 7 homes, on a 2,554 sq ft lot.

Built
1904
Floors
6
Residential units
7
Building type
Elevator apartment building
Land use
Elevator apartments
Zoning district
R8B
Lot area
2,554 sq ft
Building area
13,095 sq ft
Historic district
Metropolitan Museum Historic District

Lot facts come from NYC Department of City Planning, Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) (64uk-42ks), accessed Sep 26, 2026. They describe the tax lot, not this filing.

Recorded timeline

Dates published by the Department of Buildings.

  1. Application filed

    DOB received filing M01138841-I1.

    01
  2. First permit date recorded

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

    02
  3. Current status updated

    The latest recorded filing status is “LOC Issued.”

    03
  4. Sign-off date recorded

    DOB lists a sign-off date for this filing.

    04

For scale: half of DOB filings are permitted within 21 days of being filed and a quarter take longer than 4 months, measured across 73,707 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
M01138841-I1
BBL
1013930008
Review type
Professional Certification
Existing stories
Empty in the source
Proposed stories
Empty in the source
Existing dwelling units
7
Proposed dwelling units
7
Scaffolding