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Filed date

Permit issued date

Fixed date ranges, either end optional. Limits the map and Cadence to projects filed and/or permitted in them (same project when both are set). DOB NOW filings, Aug 2016 on.

Plan approved date

Permit closed (Completed only)

Inspected in last 120 days

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Community district

Neighborhood (NTA)

Activity

Opportunity (underbuilt)

▶Inspection result (most recent)

DOB's own result for the building's most recent inspection on file — only ~20% of buildings have any inspection record at all.

▶Filing status (most recent filing per building)

Raw DOB status of the building's own most-recently-updated filing — not every filing ever made on it.

▶Permit type

Initial Permit

Renewal Permit Without Changes

Renewal Permit with Changes

No Work Permit

DOB NOW's own permit-type field ("Filing Reason") — was this an initial permit pull or a renewal, independent of trade (Work Type, under Scope of Work) or filing status above.

Zoning

▶Land use

Zoning district

Special purpose district

Commercial overlay

Min unused air rights (sq ft)

▶Zoning challenge status

Open to Challenge

None Challenged

AR Changes Applied

Building

▶Building type

Year built

Floors

Building size (sq ft)

Min residential units

Exact class code

Plans & Documents

▶Discipline

▶Document type

Buildings with at least one of the picked types on file, from DOB's BIS and DOB NOW records.

Search plan text

Sheet title, sheet number, discipline and drawing type — the drawings themselves, not the paperwork filed alongside them.

Search document text

Form name, type and category of filed paperwork — separate from the drawings above.

Scope of Work

Sized by scope

▶Work Type (DOB NOW permit trade)

Trade

Raw permit trade category, independent of the OCR-derived scope chips above.

▶HVAC

System

Equipment

Manufacturer

▶Plumbing

System

Component

▶Electrical

System

▶Sprinkler

System

Number of Heads

▶Solar

Location

Roof Type

Number of Panels

▶Structural

System

Max Excavation Depth (ft)

Framing Material

Concrete & Foundation

▶Crane

System

From the foundation questionnaire (dobnow_scope_st) — was the foundation designed to carry a tower crane. Not a jobsite crane-notice or device registry: DOB NOW's own crane device/prototype registration data (which devices exist citywide, owner, capacity) has no building/BIN link, so it can't filter buildings on this map.

▶Earthwork

Site Conditions

Material

Support-of-excavation and earthwork detail from DOB NOW's earthwork questionnaire, separate from the Structural sub-section above.

▶Geotech

Subsurface Risk

From the subsurface record — bedrock, groundwater, fill, and liquefaction data already on each building's Geotech profile, not DOB NOW filings.

▶Scaffold/Shed

System

Min Shed Length on Public Row (ft)

Filing & land use

▶Renovation type

New Building

Interior / exterior renovation

Major renovation (change in occupancy)

Demolition (partial)

Full demolition

✕ Demolition marks (display only)

Professionals

Design professionals

Firm or person name

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Contractors

▶Contractor type (active permittee)

Contractor / permittee name

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Special inspectors

Inspector or agency name

Licensed special inspectors, separate from the architect or engineer of record.

Compliance & flags

FISP (Local Law 11) status

Flags

Historic filing

Has open objections

Rent stabilized (DHCR)

Has open violations

▶HPD violation class

Class A (non-hazardous)

Class B (hazardous)

Class C (immediately hazardous)

Class I (vacate order)

▶DOB violation type

Matches a building with an open DOB violation in ANY selected subject category (e.g. Elevator covers annual inspection failures, affirmations of correction, and Local Law 10/16/81 elevator violations alike).

▶ECB violation category

Matches a building with an open ECB (Environmental Control Board) violation in ANY selected category.

▶Union labor (by trade)

Matches a building if a permit in ANY selected trade was filed by a UNION contractor (is_union) — one building can carry both union and non-union permits in the same trade over time.

▶Non-union labor (by trade)

Matches a building if a permit in ANY selected trade was filed non-union (false or unclassified — see is_union convention).

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The digital record is deepest for DOB NOW filings (2016 onward) and patchier for older, legacy BIS-era work; base-building systems and original filings can predate what's digitized. When an answer says something isn't on file, that means not in the digital record, not that it doesn't exist.