NYC DOB record · M01178215-P2

659 West 162 Street

659 West 162 Street, Manhattan, NY 10032

Alteration filing in Washington Heights (South), 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 · M01178215-P2

659 West 162 Street

Manhattan, NY 10032

Alteration filing · status dated Oct 15, 2026

Current record
Approved
Proposed scale
Not stated
Dwelling units
53
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 M01178215-P2 as a alteration filing at 659 West 162 Street, Manhattan, NY 10032. Its latest published status category is Approved, dated Oct 15, 2026. The filing records 53 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 15, 2026
Proposed scale
53 proposed dwelling units
The building, not the filingopen housing violations, what it sold for, apartment sizes and every filing at BIN 1063341Applicant of recordSee the 916 filings that name Kz Engineering, P.C
FiledOct 14, 2026
Current recordApproved
Proposed scale53 units
Recorded cost$5,000

What the filing says

A public-record reading of the proposed work.

Installation of temporary heavy duty sidewalk shed with storage of material (less than 25psf)& supported scaffold per plan submitted. Work shall comply with 2022 building codes chapter 33. No change in use, egress and/or occupancy with 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 elevator apartment building built in 1922, with 53 homes, on a 13,739 sq ft lot.

Built
1922
Last altered
1987
Floors
6
Residential units
53
Building type
Elevator apartment building
Land use
Elevator apartments
Zoning district
R8
Lot area
13,739 sq ft
Building area
59,274 sq ft

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

Violation record

Are there open violations here?

The Department of Buildings has 4 open notices on record for this building, out of 19 notices on file; the most recent was issued May 16, 2019.

  • Fail to certify class

    Issued May 16, 2019 — FAILURE TO CERTIFY CORRECTION ON IMMEDIATELY HAZARDOUS (CLASS 1) ECB VIOLATION

  • No report and / or late filing (facade)

    Issued May 31, 2018 — FAILED TO FILE FISP CYCLE 8A TECHNICAL REPORT BY 02/21/2017

  • Low pressure boiler

    Issued May 15, 2014 — VIOLATION ISSUED FOR FAILURE TO FILE ANNUAL BOILER 2012 INSPECTION REPORT

  • 1 further open notice is 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 17, 2026.

Recorded timeline

Dates published by the Department of Buildings.

  1. Application filed

    DOB received filing M01178215-P2.

    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 22 days of being filed and a quarter take longer than 4 months, measured across 82,285 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
M01178215-P2
BBL
1021360200
Review type
Professional Certification
Existing stories
Empty in the source
Proposed stories
Empty in the source
Existing dwelling units
53
Proposed dwelling units
53
Sidewalk shedScaffolding