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NYC DOB record · M01443593-I1

500 West 120 Street

500 West 120 Street, Manhattan, NY 10027

Alteration filing in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. The latest DOB status is plan examiner review.

A DOB plan examiner is reviewing the application. Nothing has been approved yet. What every status means

Under reviewAlteration filing

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NYC DOB RECORD · M01443593-I1

500 West 120 Street

Manhattan, NY 10027

Alteration filing · status dated Sep 11, 2026

Current record
Under review
Proposed scale
13 stories
Dwelling units
Not stated
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 M01443593-I1 as a alteration filing at 500 West 120 Street, Manhattan, NY 10027. Its latest published status category is Under review, dated Sep 11, 2026. The filing records 13 proposed stories.

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
Under review
Latest status date
Sep 11, 2026
Proposed scale
13 proposed stories
FiledSep 10, 2026
Current recordUnder review
Proposed scale13 stories
Recorded cost$1.5M

What the filing says

A public-record reading of the proposed work.

Interior renovations and finishes as per plans filed herewith. no change in use, egress or occupancy.

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 7-story educational building built in 1901, on a 734,180 sq ft lot.

Built
1901
Last altered
2009
Floors
7
Residential units
0
Building type
Educational building
Land use
Public facilities and institutions
Zoning district
R8
Lot area
734,180 sq ft
Building area
1,368,870 sq ft

Lot facts come from NYC Department of City Planning, Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) (64uk-42ks), accessed Sep 19, 2026. They describe the tax lot, not this filing.

Violation record

Are there open violations here?

The Department of Buildings has 3 open notices on record for this building, out of 4 notices on file; the most recent was issued Feb 22, 2024.

  • No report and / or late filing (facade)

    Issued Feb 22, 2024 — FAILED TO FILE FISP CYCLE 9C TECHNICAL REPORT BY 2/21/2024

  • Emergency

    Issued Mar 31, 2008

  • Photoluminescent

    Issued Nov 1, 2006

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 15, 2026.

Recorded timeline

Dates published by the Department of Buildings.

  1. Application filed

    DOB received filing M01443593-I1.

    01
  2. Current status updated

    The latest recorded filing status is “Plan Examiner Review.”

    02

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
M01443593-I1
BIN
1089910
BBL
1019730001
Review type
Standard Plan Examination
Existing stories
13
Proposed stories
13
Existing dwelling units
0
Proposed dwelling units
0
General construction

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