Permit stats · NYC

Alt-3 permits in NYC: real approval times

Alteration Type 3 (minor work) filings in NYC, measured across every DOB filing on record. These are the real numbers, not the published targets.

471,420
filings on record
1 days
median to approval
80 days
worst case (p90)
4.0%
of all filings disapproved
60.9%
professionally certified
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Methodology: computed from DOB Job Application Filings (ic3t-wcy2) via NYC Open Data, refreshed with each data build. Median and p90 measure pre-filing date to approval on approved jobs. Full methodology on the Intelligence page.

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