NYC Painting Contractors
Ranked by DOB permit volume among companies whose registered business name identifies them as painting specialists.
Classified by keyword match against each company's own DOB-registered business name — not a self-reported specialty (NYC doesn't publish one). Keywords are deliberately conservative to avoid false matches, so a real painting contractor with an unusual or abbreviated name may be missing from this list; that's an undercount, not a misclassification. A general contractor doing painting work as part of a larger job won't appear here unless "painting" is in its own name.
Notable Painting Contractor Not Captured Below
Hicksville, NY painting contractor founded in 1949 — by its own account the largest in the New York metro area — best known for bridge painting and lead abatement (George Washington, Queensboro, Verrazzano-Narrows, Williamsburg bridges), and in 2025 awarded NYC DOT's $53.9M Macombs Dam Bridge coating contract. That agency-procured work sits outside NYC DOB permitting, so it has no permit history and doesn't appear in the permit-volume rankings below.
Verified 2026-09-25
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- 1
- Permits
- 312
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- 2
- Permits
- 288
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- 3
- Permits
- 163
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- 4
- Permits
- 134
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- 5
- Permits
- 133
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- 6
- Permits
- 114
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- 7
- Permits
- 106
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- 8
- Permits
- 105
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- 9
- Permits
- 99
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- 10
- Permits
- 99
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- 11
- Permits
- 74
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- 12
- Permits
- 73
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- 13
- Permits
- 71
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- 14
- Permits
- 69
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- 15
- Permits
- 68
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- 16
- Permits
- 63
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- 17
- Permits
- 61
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- 18
- Permits
- 61
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- 19
- Permits
- 60
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- 20
- Permits
- 51
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- 21
- Permits
- 46
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- 22
- Permits
- 43
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- 23
- Permits
- 42
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- 24
- Permits
- 42
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- 25
- Permits
- 39
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- 26
- Permits
- 39
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- 27
- Permits
- 39
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- 28
- Permits
- 39
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- 29
- Permits
- 37
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- 30
- Permits
- 36
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- 31
- Permits
- 35
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- 32
- Permits
- 33
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- 33
- Permits
- 33
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- 34
- Permits
- 32
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- 35
- Permits
- 31
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- 36
- Permits
- 31
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- 37
- Permits
- 30
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- 38
- Permits
- 29
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- 39
- Permits
- 29
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- 40
- Permits
- 28
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- 41
- Permits
- 28
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- 42
- Permits
- 28
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- 43
- Permits
- 27
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- 44
- Permits
- 27
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- 45
- Permits
- 26
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- 46
- Permits
- 26
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- 47
- Permits
- 26
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- 48
- Permits
- 25
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- 49
- Permits
- 25
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- 50
- Permits
- 24