NYC DOB record · M01443593-S2

500 West 120 Street

500 West 120 Street, Manhattan, NY 10027

Alteration filing in Morningside Heights, 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 · M01443593-S2

500 West 120 Street

Manhattan, NY 10027

Alteration filing · status dated Oct 8, 2026

Current record
Approved
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-S2 as a alteration filing at 500 West 120 Street, Manhattan, NY 10027. Its latest published status category is Approved, dated Oct 8, 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
Approved
Latest status date
Oct 8, 2026
Proposed scale
13 proposed stories
The building, not the filingopen housing violations, the owner of record and every filing at BIN 1089910Applicant of recordSee the 2 filings that name Bruns-Pak
FiledSep 10, 2026
Current recordApproved
Proposed scale13 stories
Recorded costNot published

What the filing says

A public-record reading of the proposed work.

Plumbing work as per plans filed herewith.

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 Oct 12, 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 Oct 12, 2026.

Recorded timeline

Dates published by the Department of Buildings.

  1. Application filed

    DOB received filing M01443593-S2.

    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 79,351 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-S2
BBL
1019730001
Review type
Standard Plan Examination
Existing stories
13
Proposed stories
13
Existing dwelling units
0
Proposed dwelling units
0