NYC DOB Building Permits Scraper: Contractors & Owners

Extract current New York City Department of Buildings permit records, with contractor licenses, applicant and filing-representative details plus property owner contacts, from the live DOB NOW: Build feed of nearly 1 million approved permits across all five boroughs.

37 fields per permit

5 boroughs coverage

JSON / CSV / Excel output formats

Updated daily

What you get

Each record is one NYC DOB NOW: Build permit with the building, the work authorized, the applicant who pulled the permit and the property owner, including their contact details.

• permitNumber: DOB NOW work permit number, for example M01402179-S1-PL
• jobFilingNumber: DOB NOW job filing number
• permitType: permit work-type code parsed from the permit number, for example PL, EW-SP
• workType: type of work, for example General Construction, Plumbing, Sidewalk Shed, Mechanical Systems
• permitStatus: Permit Issued or Signed-off
• filingReason: Initial Permit, Renewal Permit Without Changes, Renewal Permit with Changes or No Work Permit
• sequenceNumber: permit sequence number within the filing
• trackingNumber: DOB tracking number
• buildingProfileUrl: link to the building's profile in the NYC Buildings Information System (by BIN)
• bin: 7-digit Building Identification Number
• borough: Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens or Staten Island
• address: full street address of the work site
• houseNumber: house number of the work site
• street: street name of the work site
• zip: property ZIP code
• block: tax block
• lot: tax lot
• bbl: Borough-Block-Lot identifier
• workOnFloor: floors covered by the work
• approvedDate: date the permit was approved
• issuedDate: date the permit was issued
• expiredDate: date the permit expires
• jobDescription: description of the work
• estimatedJobCost: estimated cost of the work in US dollars
• applicantBusinessName: applicant (contractor / permittee) business name
• applicantName: individual applicant name
• applicantBusinessAddress: applicant business address
• applicantLicenseType: applicant license type, for example GC, P, F, S
• applicantLicenseNumber: applicant license number
• filingRepresentativeName: filing representative (expediter) name when present
• filingRepresentativeBusinessName: filing representative business name when present
• ownerName: property owner name
• ownerBusinessName: owner business or entity name
• communityBoard: NYC community board
• councilDistrict: city council district
• censusTract: census tract
• neighborhood: neighborhood tabulation area name
• latitude: latitude of the work site
• longitude: longitude of the work site
• observedAt: when this permit was last seen by the scraper

Who is it for

Use case	Who benefits
Build lead lists of active contractors with phone and license	Material suppliers, subcontractors, B2B sales teams
Reach property owners doing construction work	Insurance, financing and home-service providers
Track new building and demolition activity by borough	Real estate analysts and developers
Verify a contractor's permit history and license	Property managers and homeowners
Monitor permit volume and trends across NYC	Market researchers and journalists

Frequently Asked Questions

What data does the NYC DOB building permits scraper cover?
It covers the New York City Department of Buildings DOB NOW: Build approved-permits feed for all five boroughs: Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. The underlying NYC Open Data set holds nearly 1 million approved permits, each with the work site, applicant (contractor) and property owner details.

Is the data current?
Yes. This is the live DOB NOW: Build feed, refreshed daily by NYC Open Data, with permits issued within the last few days. Results are sorted newest issued first, so a run gives you this week's permit activity, not a stale archive.

How many permits can I scrape in one run?
There is no fixed cap beyond the Max Items value you set. The scraper pages through the data in batches and returns the most recently issued permits first, so a small run gives you the latest activity and a large run can pull tens of thousands of records.

Can I filter permits by borough, work type or date?
Yes. You can filter by borough, work type, filing reason, permittee license type, permit status and an issuance date range, and you can target a specific building by BIN, a street, a ZIP code, a contractor business name or an owner name. Filters combine, so you can narrow to, for example, Brooklyn plumbing permits issued this month.

Does it include contractor and owner contact information?
Yes. Each permit includes the applicant (contractor / permittee) business name and address, license type and license number, the filing representative when present, plus the property owner name and business name. This is what makes the data useful for lead generation.

Example use cases

Ready-to-run example tasks, each preconfigured for a common scenario. Open one and press run, or use it as a template:

• NYC Bronx Mechanical Systems Permits Scraper: Export NYC DOB mechanical systems permits issued in the Bronx. Get property addresses, HVAC contractors, owners, job numbers and issuance dates as CSV or JSON.
• NYC Bronx Sign Permits Scraper: Export NYC DOB sign permits issued in the Bronx. Get addresses, contractor names, owner details, job numbers and issuance dates as JSON, CSV or Excel.
• NYC Brooklyn Boiler Permits Scraper: Export NYC DOB boiler equipment permits issued in Brooklyn. Get property addresses, contractor names, owners, job numbers and issuance dates as CSV or JSON.
• NYC Manhattan Demolition Permits Scraper: Scrape NYC DOB full demolition permits issued in Manhattan. Get building addresses, contractors, owners, BIN, job numbers and issuance dates in CSV or JSON.
• NYC Manhattan Sidewalk Shed Permits Scraper: Scrape NYC DOB sidewalk shed permits issued in Manhattan. Get building addresses, contractors, owners, BIN, job numbers and issuance dates in CSV or JSON.
• NYC Queens Sprinkler Permits Scraper: Scrape NYC DOB sprinkler permits issued in Queens. Get building addresses, fire suppression contractors, owners, job numbers and issuance dates in CSV or JSON.
• NYC Staten Island Solar Permits Scraper: Export NYC DOB solar permits issued in Staten Island. Get property addresses, solar contractors, owner details, job numbers and issuance dates as CSV or JSON.
• NYC Brooklyn Plumbing Permits: NYC Brooklyn Plumbing Permits
• NYC Manhattan Building Permits: NYC Manhattan Building Permits
• NYC Queens Construction Permits: NYC Queens Construction Permits

Export, API and AI agents (x402 + MCP)

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This actor is an independent tool and has no affiliation with the New York City Department of Buildings or NYC Open Data. It only accesses data that is publicly available on the platform. Use it in accordance with NYC Open Data's terms of service.