New buildingOct 2
778 Elsmere Place
Tremont, Bronx
Approved6 proposed stories
View record Kind of work
What foundation work is filed in New York City?
2834 filings in the current snapshot record foundation work. Footings, underpinning and the work that happens before a building goes up. 134 changed status in the last 7 days.
A filing can record several kinds of work at once, so this count overlaps with the other categories rather than dividing the catalog into separate piles.
Filings2834
Boroughs5
Latest status changeOct 3, 2026
2,834 filings record foundation work, 2.5% of every filing published here, and 1,293 of them changed status in the last 90 days.
Share of the record2.5%of 113,468 filings with a page
Moved in 90 days1,293filings that changed status
Median height3storeys, where one is recorded
Homes proposed83,134across every filing counted
Staten Island holds 2% of everything on record but 10% of foundation filings — more than 5 times the citywide rate.
10% here · 2% citywide · Open Staten Island
Foundation work appears on new buildings and on underpinning beneath existing ones, and a single job can carry both, so this is a count of filings rather than of sites. The catalog is a rolling window over recent Department of Buildings activity rather than the city’s whole history, which is why the figures above are given as shares — a share survives the window, a count does not. How the record is built.
Where it is happening
Split by borough.
Other work
Look at a different trade.
Built from DOB NOW: Build – Job Application Filings (w9ak-ipjd), accessed Oct 6, 2026.