Permit stats · NYC

New building permits in NYC: real approval times

New Building filings in NYC, measured across every DOB filing on record. These are the real numbers, not the published targets.

199,888
filings on record
67 days
median to approval
403 days
worst case (p90)
7.2%
of all filings disapproved
36.7%
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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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