NYC DOB record · M01470171-I1

508 East 78 Street

508 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 · M01470171-I1

508 East 78 Street

Manhattan, NY 10075

Alteration filing · status dated Oct 16, 2026

Current record
Approved
Proposed scale
6 stories
Dwelling units
192
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 M01470171-I1 as a alteration filing at 508 East 78 Street, Manhattan, NY 10075. Its latest published status category is Approved, dated Oct 16, 2026. The filing records 6 proposed stories and 192 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
Oct 16, 2026
Proposed scale
6 proposed stories and 192 proposed dwelling units
The building, not the filingopen housing violations, what it sold for, the owner of record and every filing at BIN 1046412Applicant of recordSee the 218 filings that name Asr Engineering PC
FiledOct 15, 2026
Current recordApproved
Proposed scale6 stories
Recorded cost$9,000

What the filing says

A public-record reading of the proposed work.

Installation of 300psf sidewalk shed and pipe scaffolding as per plans. all equipment shall comply with ch #33 of the NYC code 2022. no change in 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 6-story walk-up apartment building built in 1911, with 192 homes, on a 22,987 sq ft lot.

Built
1911
Floors
6
Residential units
192
Building type
Walk-up apartment building
Land use
Walk-up apartments
Zoning district
R8B
Lot area
22,987 sq ft
Building area
98,580 sq ft

Lot facts come from NYC Department of City Planning, Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) (64uk-42ks), accessed Oct 18, 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 12 notices on file; the most recent was issued Jan 1, 2012.

  • Failure to

    Issued Jan 1, 2012 — FAILURE TO FILE BENCHMARKING REPORT OF ENERGY USE AS PER AD. CODE SEC. 28-309.4

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 18, 2026.

Recorded timeline

Dates published by the Department of Buildings.

  1. Application filed

    DOB received filing M01470171-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 “Permit Entire.”

    03

For scale: half of DOB filings are permitted within 22 days of being filed and a quarter take longer than 4 months, measured across 83,050 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
M01470171-I1
BBL
1014890037
Review type
Professional Certification
Existing stories
6
Proposed stories
6
Existing dwelling units
192
Proposed dwelling units
192
Sidewalk shedScaffolding