Multifamily ground-up
27%18,420 active
485-x (the post-421-a successor) restarted the high-density rental pipeline in Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.
New York, New York
New York construction projects, live from the permit feed.
120,000+ active projects across the five boroughs — Manhattan high-rise, Brooklyn and Queens multifamily, Bronx infill, and Staten Island residential. Filter by trade, value, and stage — pursue before bid award.
120,640
Active projects across the five boroughs
9,820
Permits issued in the last 30 days
486
Commercial $5M+ permits this month
Market snapshot
What's actually happening in NYC construction in 2026
New York City is the most fragmented, highest-stakes construction market in North America. NYC DOB filings live across 22 different filing types (Alt-1, Alt-2, NB, DM, and the rest) plus separate paths for HPD, DOT, FDNY, and Landmarks; the City Planning Commission, BSA, and each Community Board's ULURP agenda layer on top. "New York City" on a sales pipeline is functionally 50 sub-markets — five boroughs × ten neighbourhood-grain submarkets — stitched together by union jurisdictions and building-type expertise more than by geography.
What's changing in 2026: 485-x has restarted the high-density rental pipeline that died with 421-a; Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx are now permitting at a pace not seen since 2018. Local Law 97 is, quietly, the most important commercial construction story in the country — every 25,000+ sf building in the city owes a decarbonisation pathway in 2030, and the MEP / envelope retrofit pipeline that creates is a decade-long persistent backlog. Office-to-residential conversions in Midtown South and FiDi are the highest-profile commercial work; healthcare campus expansions (Mt. Sinai, NYU Langone, Northwell, HSS) carry a steady backlog in the $50M–$300M project size.
The sales teams winning in NYC right now are tuned to a specific filing type, neighbourhood, and trade. "Manhattan + Brooklyn Alt-1s over $5M filed in the last 30 days" is the kind of saved feed that drives a calendar. The teams losing are still chasing the DOB BIS database every morning, missing a large share of relevant filings because they don't know which filing type their scope lives under.
Trade mix
Where the permitted value sits in NYC
Trade mix across all five boroughs over the last 12 months, weighted by permitted value above $1M.
Tenant improvement (commercial)
21%24,180 active
Office-to-residential conversions in Midtown South and FiDi drive an outsized TI volume vs. ground-up office.
Local Law 97 retrofits
12%8,640 active
Building decarbonisation deadlines force MEP + envelope work on every 25,000+ sf property; a brand-new persistent pipeline.
Healthcare + medical office
11%3,920 active
Mt. Sinai, NYU Langone, Northwell, and HSS continue multi-billion-dollar campus expansions.
Infrastructure + transit
9%1,840 active
Gateway, IBX, Penn reconstruction, and Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 keep heavy-civil scope steady.
Hospitality + retail
8%2,260 active
Hotel conversions in Midtown and a flagship-retail rebound on Madison and Fifth read as a confident 2026 narrative.
Pursuit playbook
The NYC pursuit playbook
How the top construction sales teams in New York actually operate in 2026.
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Pick your filing type before your borough
In NYC the filing type matters more than the borough. New Building (NB) filings, Alt-1s (substantial alterations), Alt-2s (minor alterations), and the Plumbing / Sprinkler / Place-of-Assembly streams attract completely different sub-trades. Lock the filing types your scope serves before you even look at a map.
- 2
Save the filter, not the search
A saved feed on "Manhattan + Brooklyn Alt-1s over $5M in the last 30 days" is the single highest-leverage object on a NYC sales calendar. The DOB BIS database is not designed for outbound — let the feed push new filings to you as they hit, with the filing type, owner, and architect already parsed.
- 3
Profile the architect, not just the GC
In NYC the architect of record drives the bid list at least as much as the GC does. SHoP, COOKFOX, Adamson Associates, Handel, FXCollaborative — knowing which firm filed the application tells you who the sub-trades will be invited to bid before the GC has even been selected.
- 4
Time outreach to ULURP + BSA milestones
Most $30M+ NYC projects appear in a Community Board / ULURP agenda 6–14 months before the building permit issues. If you sell sub-trade scope and you're showing up at permit, you're already late — be on the project at ULURP certification.
- 5
Tier the boroughs by union geography
Manhattan and the dense Brooklyn neighbourhoods are essentially fully-union jurisdictions for commercial work above the $20M mark. Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island carry a mixed open/union split. Bias your outreach to the borough mix your bonding and union relationships can actually serve.
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Drop everything into the CRM the same day
Pipedrive sync, project → owner → GC → architect linkage, and a filing-type-tagged note for every interaction. The teams scaling fastest treat the CRM as the source of truth, not a graveyard of stale Alt-1 leads.
FAQ
New York construction FAQ
The NYC feed refreshes continuously across all five boroughs and every city agency that touches construction. New filings typically appear in the live feed within hours of being posted, and inspection events refresh nightly.
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