Largest Active Projects, By Filed Cost
The 25 highest filed-cost New Building or Major Alteration filings with DOB activity in the last 3 years — DOB's own records, not a curated "biggest projects" list.
DOB permit fees scale with a filing's declared "initial cost," so filers — including on genuine multi-billion-dollar towers — routinely file a fraction of true project cost; checked live against every matching filing (2026-08-10), the single highest DOB-filed cost citywide was $160M, nowhere near $1B on any one filing. That's a real, well-documented practice, not a data error — see the applicant's filed figure for what it is (a fee basis, not a project budget) rather than expecting NYC's actual billion-dollar-class construction to show up here. For projects genuinely reported at that scale — the Port Authority's Midtown Bus Terminal replacement, for instance — see Landmark Infrastructure Projects, hand-tracked with real budgets and named contractors, or News for day-to-day coverage. Figures below are the applicant's own filed estimate, not an audited or as-built total (see Data & Sources).
- 11 East 70 Street, Manhattan$179.7M
Alteration (Major) · Job #121188794 · Permits & filing history →
- 22 Penn Plaza, Manhattan$160.0M
Alteration (Major) · Job #121189356 · Permits & filing history →
- 3301 Park Avenue, Manhattan$150.0M
Alteration (Major) · Job #121191245 · Permits & filing history →
- 4537 East 71 Street, Manhattan$144.0M
Alteration (Major) · Job #121205579 · Permits & filing history →
- 51 Madison Avenue, Manhattan$128.2M
Alteration (Major) · Job #123742101 · Permits & filing history →
- 6220 West 28th Street, Manhattan$104.1M
Alteration (Major) · Job #123300828 · Permits & filing history →
- 79 Orchard St, Manhattan$98.5M
Alteration (Major) · Job #121326010 · Permits & filing history →
- 8665 West 130 Street, Manhattan$81.9M
Alteration (Major) · Job #121187189 · Permits & filing history →
- 9422 Fulton Street, Brooklyn$78.5M
Alteration (Major) · Job #320908899 · Permits & filing history →
- 10224 12th Avenue, Manhattan$73.0M
Alteration (Major) · Job #123490070 · Permits & filing history →
- 11109 West 57 Street, Manhattan$71.0M
Alteration (Major) · Job #121332968 · Permits & filing history →
- 1224-55 Brooklyn Queens Expressway West, Queens$67.7M
Alteration (Major) · Job #421551519 · Permits & filing history →
- 13143-06 135th Avenue, Queens$56.5M
Alteration (Major) · Job #421134276 · Permits & filing history →
- 14645 West 130 Street, Manhattan$54.9M
Alteration (Major) · Job #121187170 · Permits & filing history →
- 15455 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan$49.2M
Alteration (Major) · Job #123313725 · Permits & filing history →
- 16300 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn$46.1M
Alteration (Major) · Job #321385504 · Permits & filing history →
- 1754-05 Skillman Avenue, Queens$45.0M
Alteration (Major) · Job #402892205 · Permits & filing history →
- 181760 Third Avenue, Manhattan$45.0M
Alteration (Major) · Job #121253829 · Permits & filing history →
- 1950 Nevins Street, Brooklyn$44.0M
Alteration (Major) · Job #320912367 · Permits & filing history →
- 2082-41 Parsons Blvd, Queens$43.0M
Alteration (Major) · Job #420664310 · Permits & filing history →
- 2185 Jane Street, Manhattan$41.5M
Alteration (Major) · Job #122660851 · Permits & filing history →
- 22250 5th Ave, Manhattan$39.8M
Alteration (Major) · Job #122414002 · Permits & filing history →
- 23521 W 43 St, Manhattan$38.0M
Alteration (Major) · Job #121107211 · Permits & filing history →
- 243825 Corlear Avenue, Bronx$36.8M
Alteration (Major) · Job #210177636 · Permits & filing history →
- 25443 Greenwich Street, Manhattan$30.0M
Alteration (Major) · Job #110360341 · Permits & filing history →
None of the filings above happen to cross $1B on DOB's own filed-cost field right now — expected, per the note above, not a bug.