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NYC DOB Permits: Approved Permits with Contractor & Owner

We turn NYC's DOB NOW approved-permits feed into one clean record per permit issuance: the licensed contractor with licence type and number, the building owner, the work type and job description, and the address, BIN, block and lot, plus approval, issue and expiry dates. One record is one permit issued for one work type on one job filing, published daily by the City itself, not scraped from the DOB NOW portal.

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Size
988,641 rows
Refresh
Daily
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Who uses this

Building-material, equipment and dumpster suppliers

Call the general contractor on every new permit in their delivery area the week it is issued.

Subcontractors (plumbing, electrical, scaffold, demolition, roofing)

Find general contractors that just pulled a permit for a job that needs their trade.

Construction lead-generation and data vendors

Build NYC-wide lists of active contractors and owners, refreshed daily.

Insurers, surety and lien services

Watch which contractors are active, where, and on what size of job.

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Property investors, brokers and neighbors

Track permits on a specific building by BIN, or on a block.

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Put this data to work

NYC property acquisition intelligence

Add approved-permit context to documented New York City property and acquisition research.

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Sample records

Real records from the source, shown with a subset of the fields. Ask us which fields and delivery options are available.

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workPermitboroughworkTypepermitteeBusinessNameownerBusinessNameissuedDate
B01412211-I1-GCBrooklynGeneral ConstructionONPOINT CONTRACTING NYCNot Applicable2026-08-21
Q01443088-S1-PLQueensPlumbingKISHAN PLUMBING INCMOON CONSTRUCTION INC2026-08-21
M01366311-I1-EW-SPManhattanPlumbingPREFERRED SPKLR AND MECHOAC 550 OWNER LLC2026-06-18

Sample rows taken from the actor's own committed test fixture of 30 real, unaltered rows fetched from the live NYC Open Data endpoint on 2026-08-23, run through the actor's own normalizer.

Fields

The most used fields in each record. Contact us to confirm the available fields and delivery format.

jobFilingNumber
DOB's filing number for the permit application, for example B00925894-S3
workPermit
The permit number for this specific work type, unique per line
workType
One of 21 DOB NOW work types on this permit line, for example Plumbing or Sidewalk Shed
permitteeBusinessName
The licensed contractor's (permittee's) business name
permitteeLicenseNumber
The permittee's DOB licence number; permitteeLicenseType gives the licence class (GC general contractor is about 72% of rows, P plumber, and others)
ownerBusinessName
The building owner's business name, or the City's literal Not Applicable when the owner filed as an individual
bin
Seven-digit NYC Building Identification Number of the job site
issuedDate
Date the Department of Buildings issued the permit

How it works

1

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2

Filter to what you need

  • •issuedFrom: permits issued on or after this ISO date, defaults with issuedTo blank to today minus 7 days
  • •issuedTo: permits issued on or before this ISO date, no default
  • •borough: one of the five boroughs, defaults to any
  • •workType: one of the 21 DOB NOW work types, defaults to any
  • •filingReason: Initial Permit, Renewal Permit Without Changes, Renewal Permit with Changes, or No Work Permit, defaults to any
  • •permitStatus: Permit Issued or Signed-off, defaults to any
  • •zip: five-digit ZIP of the job site, no default
  • •bin: seven-digit Building Identification Number, returns every permit on that building, no default
  • •permitteeBusinessContains: case-insensitive substring on the contractor's business name, no default
  • •ownerBusinessContains: case-insensitive substring on the owner's business name, no default
  • •maxResults: how many records to deliver, newest issue date first, and your cost cap, defaults to 100, up to 50000
  • •includeRaw: attach a raw object with the source row under the City's column names, defaults to false

3

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Pricing

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Source, refresh, and licence

Source
NYC Department of Buildings (DOB): DOB NOW: Build - Approved Permits
Size
988,641 rows back to June 2016 (2016-06-23), with 14,892 permits issued in the previous 30 days and 2,951 in the previous 7, counted 2026-08-23. 988,012 of the 988,641 are distinct on the dedupe key (work permit, sequence, work type, tracking number); the remaining 629 are exact repeats and are dropped.
Refresh
Daily
Licence
The dataset's metadata carries no licence field. Use is governed by the NYC Open Data Terms of Use, which state that public data sets on NYC Open Data are provided for informational purposes and that by accessing them the user agrees to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy of NYC.gov. The City does not warrant completeness or accuracy.
Attribution
NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) via NYC Open Data

Questions buyers ask

How do I get NYC building permits issued this week with the contractor's name?

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Can I search NYC DOB permits by address or building?

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How often is NYC DOB permit data updated?

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