NYC DOB record · M01418934-S1

5 West 16 Street

5 West 16 Street, Manhattan, NY 10011

Alteration filing in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, 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 · M01418934-S1

5 West 16 Street

Manhattan, NY 10011

Alteration filing · status dated Sep 14, 2026

Current record
Approved
Proposed scale
5 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 M01418934-S1 as a alteration filing at 5 West 16 Street, Manhattan, NY 10011. Its latest published status category is Approved, dated Sep 14, 2026. The filing records 5 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
Sep 14, 2026
Proposed scale
5 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 1015391Applicant of recordSee the 78 filings that name Neville Engineering Group
FiledSep 3, 2026
Current recordApproved
Proposed scale5 stories
Recorded cost$36,000

What the filing says

A public-record reading of the proposed work.

Proposed installation of plumbing fixtures as per plans. No change to use, occupancy or egress 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 4-story walk-up apartment building built in 1846, with 12 homes, on a 3,066 sq ft lot.

Built
1846
Last altered
1987
Floors
4
Residential units
12
Building type
Walk-up apartment building
Land use
Walk-up apartments
Zoning district
C6-2M
Lot area
3,066 sq ft
Building area
8,469 sq ft

Lot facts come from NYC Department of City Planning, Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) (64uk-42ks), accessed Sep 17, 2026. They describe the tax lot, not this filing.

Violation record

Are there open violations here?

The Department of Buildings has 1 open notice on record for this building, out of 24 notices on file; the most recent was issued May 21, 2010.

  • Elevator

    Issued May 21, 2010

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 16, 2026.

Recorded timeline

Dates published by the Department of Buildings.

  1. Application filed

    DOB received filing M01418934-S1.

    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 66,747 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
M01418934-S1
BBL
1008180037
Review type
Standard Plan Examination
Existing stories
5
Proposed stories
5
Existing dwelling units
16
Proposed dwelling units
16