NYC DOB record · M01388280-S5

541 Lexington Avenue

541 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10022

Alteration filing in East Midtown-Turtle Bay, Manhattan. The latest DOB status is objections.

The examiner raised objections. The applicant has to resolve them before the filing can be approved. What every status means

Under reviewAlteration filing

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NYC DOB RECORD · M01388280-S5

541 Lexington Avenue

Manhattan, NY 10022

Alteration filing · status dated Oct 1, 2026

Current record
Under review
Proposed scale
18 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 M01388280-S5 as a alteration filing at 541 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10022. Its latest published status category is Under review, dated Oct 1, 2026. The filing records 18 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
Oct 1, 2026
Proposed scale
18 proposed stories
The building, not the filingopen housing violations, what it sold for, apartment sizes and every filing at BIN 1036441Applicant of recordSee the 38 filings that name DeSimone Consulting Engineering
FiledJul 21, 2026
Current recordUnder review
Proposed scale18 stories
Recorded cost$649,035

What the filing says

A public-record reading of the proposed work.

Structural work as shown on 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 15-story hotel built in 1929, on a 24,725 sq ft lot.

Built
1929
Last altered
2013
Floors
15
Residential units
0
Building type
Hotel
Land use
Commercial and office
Zoning district
C6-6
Lot area
24,725 sq ft
Building area
317,496 sq ft

Lot facts come from NYC Department of City Planning, Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) (64uk-42ks), accessed Oct 29, 2026. They describe the tax lot, not this filing.

Violation record

Are there open violations here?

The Department of Buildings has 6 open notices on record for this building, out of 190 notices on file; the most recent was issued Mar 27, 2026.

  • Construction

    Issued Mar 27, 2026 — FAILURE TO MAINTAIN BLDG IN CODE COMPLIANT MANNER. AT EXPOSURE 1, VERTICAL CRACK ALONG WITH MISSING BRICK & SPALLING AT DECORATIVE STONE EXP2:CRACKS ON THE BRICK & DECORATIVE STONE & CORRODED WINDOW LINTEL EXP3:DAMAGED & SPALLED BRICK AT MULTIPLE LOCATIONS.EXP4: SPALLING BRICK OBSERVED. REMEDY: REPAIR AND/OR REPLACE

  • Construction

    Issued Aug 11, 2025 — FAILURE TO MAINTAIN BUILDING IN A CODE COMPLIANT MANNER.AS NOTED AT TI ME OF INSPECTION,OBSERVED ON EXPS1,2,3,4 CORRODED METAL LINTELS ON MUL TIPLE FLOORS.EXP1 WEST:SPALLING,DEFECTIVE STUCCO AT MULTIPLE FLOORS.CR ACKS IN ARCH MASONRY ON 16TH FL.EXP2 NORTH ELEV:SPALLED BRICKS DEFECTI VE,CRACKED BRICKS ON MULTIPLE FLOORS.REMEDY:REPAIR AND/OR REPLACE

  • Hazardous condition (facade)

    Issued Jan 12, 2022 — CYCLE 9A UNSAFE REPORT FILED

  • 3 further open notices are on file. Open the source dataset for the full list.

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 28, 2026.

Recorded timeline

Dates published by the Department of Buildings.

  1. Application filed

    DOB received filing M01388280-S5.

    01
  2. Current status updated

    The latest recorded filing status is “Objections.”

    02

For scale: half of DOB filings are permitted within 22 days of being filed and a quarter take longer than 4 months, measured across 88,832 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
M01388280-S5
BBL
1013040020
Review type
Standard Plan Examination
Existing stories
18
Proposed stories
18
Existing dwelling units
0
Proposed dwelling units
0
Structural work