New Building Leads: NYC DOB Filings with Owners & Architects

Every new building job just filed with the NYC Department of Buildings, months before the permit is issued and the job breaks ground. Each comes with the owner, architect and expediter. About 2¢ a lead.

The Actor pulls brand-new job filings from DOB NOW: Build, NYC's official building application system. That's about 150 new buildings a month citywide, plus about 4,700 alterations if you want them. Only the initial filing of each job is returned. Subsequent filings, post-approval amendments and withdrawn jobs are excluded, so each lead is one new project. Every lead includes the owner's business and name, the architect/engineer applicant (firm, license, office address), the filing expediter, and the estimated cost, stories, dwelling units and floor area.

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Real sample leads (pulled October 2026)

Address	Borough	Units	Owner business	Owner	Architect / applicant	Filed
1316 85 Street	Brooklyn	2	(individual)	Yupei Huang	City Building NY Architect P.C.	2026-10-12
70-25 Queens Midtown Expressway	Queens	13	Always First Inc.	Fabio Salazar	EQEDSGN	2026-10-12
39-12 54 Street	Queens	2	Royal T&E LLC	Chee W Wong	Pirooz Engineering, P.C.	2026-10-12
146-26 176 Street	Queens	1	146-30 176th St LLC	Sukhwinder Singh	Fang Architect	2026-10-12
70-27 Queens Midtown Expressway	Queens	13	Always First Inc.	Fabio Salazar	EQEDSGN	2026-10-12

ROI: 1,000 new NYC projects cost $20. One GC contract, supply account or construction loan pays for that many times over.

Who uses it

General contractors & subcontractors · building material, window, elevator and MEP suppliers · construction lenders & builders risk insurance · architects, engineers, expediters & consultants · site safety, scaffolding, demolition and equipment rental · brokers, property managers & proptech.

Filters

• Boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island
• Job types: New Building (default), Alteration, Alteration CO, ALT-CO - New Building with Existing Elements to Remain
• Minimum estimated cost
• ZIP codes · neighborhoods (Williamsburg, Astoria, Harlem)
• Filing-date range

Set it up as a daily lead feed

1. Set your filters (or leave them empty for everything).
2. Keep Only new since last run on. Each run returns only leads you haven't seen.
3. Click Schedule → Daily, then connect Google Sheets, HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, Zapier or Make so fresh leads land in your tools automatically.

Runs with nothing new cost almost nothing, because you only pay for the leads you get.

Input

{"boroughs": ["Brooklyn", "Queens"], "jobTypes": ["New Building"], "dateFrom": "30 days", "onlyNew": true}

Output fields

jobFilingNumber, jobNumber, jobType, filingStatus, filingDate, approvedDate, firstPermitDate, address, borough, state, zip, neighborhood, block, lot, bin, bbl, initialCost, buildingType, proposedStories, proposedDwellingUnits, floorArea, jobDescription, ownerBusinessName, ownerName, ownerType, applicantName, applicantTitle, applicantLicense, applicantBusinessName, applicantAddress, filingRepName, filingRepBusinessName, filingRepAddress, latitude, longitude, source. Export as CSV, Excel or JSON, or pull it through the API.

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.02 per lead ($20 per 1,000). No subscription.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? The "DOB NOW: Build – Job Application Filings" dataset on data.cityofnewyork.us, published by the NYC Department of Buildings and updated daily. Why is the cost sometimes $0? New building filings often report cost later in the process. Leave the minimum-cost filter empty to see every new building. Does it include phone numbers or emails? DOB doesn't publish them. You do get the architect's and expediter's firm names and office addresses, which makes enrichment easy. How do I avoid duplicates? Keep "Only new since last run" on, and use a different dedupe store name for each separate feed.

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Last updated: October 14, 2026 · Built by LeadSignal: public-record lead feeds for B2B sales. Not affiliated with the NYC Department of Buildings or the City of New York.