Benchmark Builders Inc
Benchmark Builders Inc is the permittee on 1,980 permits in NYC Department of Buildings Permit Issuance records, issued between 2008 and Oct 16, 2023, 95% of them in Manhattan. Since 2021 it has been issued 659 DOB NOW permits carrying $1.01B in applicant-filed job costs, most often for general construction work. As of Sep 25, 2026 it holds 71 DOB NOW permits in force at 29 buildings.
Compiled from 9 public recordsChecked Sep 25, 2026Sources & method
Filed with DOB under 7 spellings
Merged into one profile after normalizing punctuation, legal suffixes, common abbreviations and DOB's fixed-width name truncation. Spellings that could be a different business are never merged.
- BENCHMARK BUILDERS INC · 1,920
- BENCHMARK BUILDERS LLC · 39
- BENCHMARK BUILDERS,INC · 6
- BENCHMARK BUILDERS, INC · 5
- BENCHMARK BUILDERS · 4
- BENCHMARK BUILDERS, INC. · 3
- BENCHMARK BUILDERS INC. · 3
- Active Permitsi
- 71
- Permits On File
- 1,980
- Boroughs Active
- Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens
- First Activity
- Feb 21, 2008
- Last Activity
- Oct 16, 2023
- Phone on Filei
- (212) 293-1166
at 29 job sites
Activity Since 2021
659 approved DOB NOW permits since 2021, carrying $1.01B in applicant-filed job costs.
2026 is year to date (the lighter bar), so it isn't a full year's total.
View by year as a table
| Year | Permits | Filed cost |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 135 | $186.1M |
| 2022 | 139 | $210.9M |
| 2023 | 116 | $164.4M |
| 2024 | 102 | $205.1M |
| 2025 | 100 | $134.0M |
| 2026 (to date) | 67 | $113.1M |
- General Construction435
- Structural108
- Mechanical Systems100
- Support of Excavation5
- Foundation5
- Earth Work2
- Construction Fence2
- Protection and Mechanical Methods1
permits since 2021
- Manhattan583
- Brooklyn44
- Queens27
- Bronx5
permits since 2021
Most frequent owners of record
- 1Solow Management Corporation31 permits
- 2Vornado Realty Trust21 permits
- 3Nbcuniversal19 permits
- 4Brookfield Properties19 permits
- 5140 Bw Llc18 permits
- 61211 6th Avenue Property Owner, Llc17 permits
- 7Tishman Speyer17 permits
- 8Cushman & Wakefield17 permits
Counted from DOB NOW: Build – Approved Permits, grouped by the City's own servers, so these are totals rather than a sample. Rows are matched to Benchmark Builders Inc by business name after normalizing punctuation, legal suffixes, abbreviations and DOB's fixed-width truncation — never by a looser prefix, which would pull in different firms with similar names. Job costs are the applicant's filed estimate, not a contract value, and some permits carry none. A permit is one approval, not one project: a single building can need dozens. Owners are the owner of record on the permit, often a single-purpose entity rather than the developer brand.
Active Job Sites
71 DOB NOW permits in force at 29 buildings as of Sep 25, 2026, carrying $125.8M in applicant-filed job costs. Issued and not yet expired — a permit lapses at its expiry date unless renewed.
- 1211 Avenue Of The Americas8 permits
Midtown-Times Square, Manhattan · $17.3M filed · in force to Sep 24, 2027
General Construction
- 1 Liberty Plaza6 permits
Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan · $12.2M filed · in force to Sep 24, 2027
General ConstructionMechanical SystemsStructural
- 55 Water Street4 permits
Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan · $8.2M filed · in force to Sep 23, 2027
General ConstructionStructural
- 93 Saint Edwards Street4 permits
Fort Greene, Brooklyn · $2.6M filed · in force to Sep 23, 2027
Earth WorkFoundationGeneral ConstructionStructural
- 111 Eighth Avenue4 permits
Chelsea-Hudson Yards, Manhattan · $3.8M filed · in force to Jul 20, 2027
General ConstructionMechanical Systems
- 1540 Broadway4 permits
Midtown-Times Square, Manhattan · $1.3M filed · in force to May 13, 2027
General ConstructionStructural
- 101 Park Avenue4 permits
Murray Hill-Kips Bay, Manhattan · $6.5M filed · in force to Apr 6, 2027
General ConstructionMechanical Systems
- 747 Washington Street3 permits
West Village, Manhattan · $1.5M filed · in force to Sep 24, 2027
General ConstructionStructuralSupport of Excavation
Recent Jobs
Approved DOB NOW permits, most recent first.
- 1 Liberty Plaza
Sep 24, 2026 · Structural · Manhattan · Owner: Brookfield Operated By Cbre · in force to Sep 24, 2027
- 747 Washington Street
Sep 24, 2026 · Structural · Manhattan · Owner: Pggl Llc · in force to Sep 24, 2027
- 1211 Avenue Of The Americas$2.7M
Sep 24, 2026 · General Construction · Manhattan · Owner: 1211 6th Avenue Property Owner Llc · in force to Sep 24, 2027
- 55 Water Street$130K
Sep 23, 2026 · Structural · Manhattan · Owner: New Water Street Corp · in force to Sep 23, 2027
- 93 Saint Edwards Street$1.8M
Sep 23, 2026 · General Construction · Brooklyn · Owner: Brooklyn Public Library · in force to Sep 23, 2027
- 55 Water Street$4.0M
Sep 23, 2026 · General Construction · Manhattan · Owner: New Water Street Corp · in force to Sep 23, 2027
- 65 East 55 Street$180K
Sep 22, 2026 · General Construction · Manhattan · in force to Sep 22, 2027
- 609 West 51 Street$75K
Sep 21, 2026 · Structural · Manhattan · Owner: Prada Usa Corp. · in force to Sep 21, 2027
Leadership
No executive publicly disclosed by the company or reputable press that we could verify. NYC's public DOB/DOS records don't include company officers or ownership at all, so we only show a name here when the company's own site or a named press source discloses one directly — most small subcontractors don't publish one anywhere findable. See Official Record Lookups below to search yourself.
Business Registration
- Registered Name
- Benchmark Builders, Llc
- Entity Type
- Domestic Limited Liability Company
- Jurisdiction
- New York
- Initial NY Filing
- 2019-09-27
- Registered Agent Address
- 469 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, 10018
Live from the NYS Department of State's own Corporation & Business Entity filing record — a real government registration, not a marketing data broker. Source: data.ny.gov
Locations
Job-site addresses from this company's own DOB permit filings — no headquarters address is publicly disclosed by Benchmark Builders Inc that we could verify.
Licensed Professionals of Record(1)
The individual license holders DOB has on file as pulling permits under this business name — a second, permit-level real "key employee" data point NYC's public records provide, alongside Leadership above.
- Benchmark BuildersGC · License #0039625
Current Permits
Unexpired permits in DOB's older Permit Issuance records, which most new work no longer goes through. Current DOB NOW permits are under Active Job Sites above.
No unexpired permits in the older Permit Issuance records.
Recent Permit History(4)
- 95-25 Queens Boulevard, QueensOct 16, 2023
AL permit · Issued · — · Est. —
- 30 Rockefeller Plaza, ManhattanJun 30, 2022
EW permit · Issued · 70 stories · Est. $295K
- 49 West 49th Street, ManhattanJun 30, 2022
EW permit · Issued · 70 stories · Est. $100K
- 30 Rockefeller Plaza, ManhattanJun 27, 2022
EW permit · Issued · 70 stories · Est. $1.6M
Developers & Owners Worked With(1)
From DOB's own owner-of-record field on each notable job's filing, above — ranked by how many of Benchmark Builders Inc's own projects that owner appears on. A real, sourced client relationship, not an inferred one.
- Nbc/universal3 projects
Other Contractors on the Same Projects(1)
Other real companies that pulled a permit on one of Benchmark Builders Inc's own DOB job numbers, above — a genuine, sourced co-occurrence (same job application on file at DOB), not a confirmed formal GC/subcontractor relationship, which NYC's public permit data doesn't record at all.
- Queens Ofice Tower Lp1 shared job
AL permit(s)
NYC Contract Awards Won
Cross-referenced against the city's own "Recent Contract Awards" dataset by vendor name — a DOB permit-pulling contractor and a procurement-awarded vendor are two different city record systems, joined here by an exact match after normalizing punctuation, legal suffixes, and common abbreviations. A real business can legitimately win contracts under a slightly different legal name than the one on its DOB permits, so an empty result here doesn't mean Benchmark Builders Inc has never won a city contract — only that no exact name match was found.
No exact name match found in NYC's awarded-contracts records. Browse Contract Awards →
Public Safety & Compliance Records(26)
These are citywide building-equipment compliance filings (including elevator and boiler safety compliance), ECB violations, and DOB complaints recorded at the same addresses as this company's projects above — not violations or complaints attributed to or caused by Benchmark Builders Inc. NYC's public data does not link any of these records to specific contractors (ECB violations in particular are almost always filed against the property owner), so no company safety score is shown or implied.
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2026-09-04
- DOB Complaint6M · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2026-08-06
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2026-07-31
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2026-06-27
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · 27-3018(B) ELECTRICAL WORK WITHOUT A PERMITDismissed · 2026-06-03
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · 28-301.1 FAILURE TO MAINTAIN BLDG IN CODE-COMPLIANT MANNERDismissed · 2026-06-03
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · 28-105.1 WORK WITHOUT A PERMITDismissed · 2026-06-03
- DOB Complaint31 · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2026-05-26
- DOB Complaint83 · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2026-04-26
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2026-04-11
- DOB Complaint6M · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2026-04-07
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2026-03-24
- DOB SafetyElevators · FTC-VT-PER-COActive · 2025-10-10
- DOB SafetyElevators · FTC-VT-PER-CODismissed · 2025-10-10
- DOB SafetyElevators · FTC-VT-CAT1-CODismissed · 2025-10-10
- DOB SafetyElevators · FTC-VT-CAT1-CODismissed · 2025-10-10
- DOB SafetyElevators · FTC-VT-PER-CODismissed · 2025-10-10
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · 28-301.1 FAILURE TO MAINTAIN BUILDING IN CODE-COMPLAINT MANNER:SERVICE EQUIPMENCured/in-vio · 2025-06-23
- DOB Complaint6M · DOB-assigned complaint category code, not independently decoded.Closed · 2025-06-23
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · 28-301.1 FAILURE TO MAINTAIN BUILDING IN CODE-COMPLAINT MANNER:SERVICE EQUIPMENCured/in-vio · 2025-06-02
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 1 · AC 1RCNY-MISC,RS-MISC MISCELLANEOUS VIOLATIONSIn Violation · 2024-10-01
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · 28-302.4 FAILURE TO SUBMIT A REQUIRED REPORT OF CRITICAL EXAMINATION DOCUMENTINIn Violation · 2022-12-02
- Elevator ComplianceElevator · DOB NOW: Elevator Safety Compliance filing status for device Elevator at this address.Active · 2022-09-01
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 3 · 28-105.12.2 WRK DOESN'T CONFORM TO APPROV DOCS AND/OR APPROV AMENDMENTSAdmit/in-vio · 2017-12-21
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 2 · 28-317.5 FAILURE TO FILE AN ANNUAL CERTIFICATION OF COOLING TOWER INSPECTION/ TDismissed · 2017-06-20
- ECB ViolationCLASS - 3 · 28-105.12.2 WRK DOESN'T CONFORM TO APPROV DOCS AND/OR APPROV AMENDMENTSIn Violation · 2015-03-02
Stop Work Orders(0)
DOB Stop Work Orders issued at this company's project addresses. A minority reference a job number in their text — when that job number matches one of Benchmark Builders Inc's own permits, it's marked directly linked below. The rest are address-level only (same building, different or unspecified job) and are shown as context, not attributed to this company.
No Stop Work Orders on record at these addresses.
Layoff & Closure Notices (WARN)(0)
Matched by business name against NYS DOL's official WARN Dashboard (layoffs/closures affecting 50+ employees). This is an approximate name match, not verified — WARN notices are filed under whatever legal entity operated the site, which can be a parent company, subsidiary, or DBA different from the name on a DOB permit. Confirm at the source link below before treating a match as confirmed. As of 2026-08-04, no NYC-area construction company appeared on the current WARN list — an empty result here is the norm, not a bug.
No matching WARN notices on file for this business name.
Companies Ranked Near Benchmark Builders Inc
Citywide, by permits on file with NYC DOB. This measures volume, not quality. Ranking counts cover each firm's main spellings, so they can sit below the all-spellings total quoted above.
- #122Roma Scaffolding Inc1,945
- #123Rock E Small Plbg&htg Inc1,945
- #124Rci Plbg, Inc1,930
- #125Benchmark Builders Inc1,920
- #126Schimenti Construction Co1,915
- #127Bass Mechanical Corp1,910
- #128Bay Ridge Mechanical Corp1,901
About Benchmark Builders Inc: Common Questions
- How many NYC building permits does Benchmark Builders Inc have?
- Benchmark Builders Inc is the permittee on 1,980 permits in NYC Department of Buildings Permit Issuance records, issued between 2008 and Oct 16, 2023, 95% of them in Manhattan. Since 2021 it has been issued 659 DOB NOW permits carrying $1.01B in applicant-filed job costs, most often for general construction work. As of Sep 25, 2026 it holds 71 DOB NOW permits in force at 29 buildings.
- Which boroughs does Benchmark Builders Inc work in?
- By permits on file with the NYC Department of Buildings: Manhattan (1,872), Brooklyn (104) and Queens (4).
- What kind of construction work does Benchmark Builders Inc do?
- Of its 659 DOB NOW permits since 2021, the most common work types are General Construction (435), Structural (108) and Mechanical Systems (100).
- Who has Benchmark Builders Inc worked for recently?
- The owners of record most often named on its DOB NOW permits since 2021 are Solow Management Corporation (31 permits), Vornado Realty Trust (21 permits) and Nbcuniversal (19 permits). An owner of record is often a single-purpose entity rather than the developer brand.
Official Record Lookups
For company ownership, executives, or safety-inspection history beyond what DOB publishes, search the primary government sources directly:
- NY Dept. of State — Corporation & Business Entity Search
Official state registration record — registered agent, entity status, and filing history.
- OSHA Establishment Search
Federal workplace-safety inspection and citation history, searchable by company name.
- NYS DOL WARN Dashboard
Official statewide layoff/closure notice filings (WARN Act), searchable by employer.
- Better Business Bureau — Search This Company
BBB accreditation status, customer rating, and complaint history, pre-searched by this company's name near New York, NY.
Sources & Method
Every figure on this profile comes from the records below, read live on Sep 25, 2026. DOB spellings of a business name are merged only after normalizing punctuation, legal suffixes, common abbreviations and DOB's fixed-width truncation; spellings that could belong to a different business stay separate. Constructel publishes no quality ratings or composite scores for companies — the rank shown is permit volume and nothing else. Every dataset this site uses →
- [1]DOB Permit Issuance — NYC Department of Buildings
- [2]DOB NOW: Build – Approved Permits — NYC Department of Buildings
- [3]Active Corporations: Beginning 1800 — New York State Department of State
- [4]Recent Contract Awards — NYC Mayor's Office of Contract Services
- [5]DOB Safety Violations — NYC Department of Buildings
- [6]DOB ECB Violations — NYC Department of Buildings / Environmental Control Board
- [7]DOB Complaints Received — NYC Department of Buildings
- [8]Stop Work Orders in NYC — NYC Department of Buildings
- [9]WARN Dashboard — NYS Department of Labor
Cite this profile
Constructel NYC. "Benchmark Builders Inc — NYC Permits, Projects & Licenses." Data retrieved September 25, 2026. https://constructelnyc.com/companies/benchmark-builders-inc