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Permits Central is not currently monitoring New York City permit data in production. The official source is connected and being validated for reliable daily updates.
Official source identified. Expected daily update capability documented. Production validation is in progress; subscriptions are not open.
New York City construction records span multiple Department of Buildings systems. Our initial connection focuses on DOB NOW: Build — Approved Permits, bringing job descriptions, work types and permit milestones together for contractor review. This connection is being production-validated; paid daily monitoring is not yet available.
The NYC Open Data catalog describes this feed as daily. We are testing pagination, stable permit identities, historical loading and incremental detection before offering subscriptions. Approved Date, Issued Date and Permit Status are separate fields: approval alone is not proof that a permit has been issued.
A NYC job filing can have several work permits and sequences. Following the scope and status together helps a contractor distinguish an approved filing from work authorized by an issued permit, avoid treating related records as unrelated projects, and research whether their services fit the published work.
Published work types and descriptions may identify general construction, plumbing, demolition, structural and other alteration work. Evaluate the specific scope and permit status before deciding which trade could benefit. A listed applicant or permittee may already be engaged, and a permit is not a homeowner request for quotes.
This initial DOB NOW feed excludes the separate Electrical, Elevator and Limited Alteration Application datasets. It is not complete coverage of all NYC construction or legacy BIS records. Borough and published ZIP fields help locate records, but a ZIP search is not a guarantee that every project in that area is included.
Official government datasetTrade relevance depends on the actual scope, not a promise that work is unassigned.
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Real market activity replaces this example after activation. Contractor reports exclude records without a published project address.
The agency publishes public records. Permits Central's service collects and normalizes them, removes duplicates, identifies newly detected activity, matches project descriptions to trades, builds searchable history and delivers market reports. You pay for monitoring and organization, not ownership of government records.
The official connection for New York City is being validated; subscription monitoring is not yet available.
See how Permits Central worksBased on trade matches in permits we have indexed for New York City.
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