DOB NOW: Build Elevator Permit Applications
This collection contains applications submitted online via "DOB NOW: BUILD" portal by Design Professionals to get an authorization to begin work on an elevator project. Data in this collection is limited to applications (job filings) related to elevator applications only (also known as ELV1) submitted on DOB NOW, and includes Initial (New), subsequent, and Post Approval Amendment (PAA) filing types. DOB NOW: BUILD is an online portal that allows users to file for permit applications, check the status of an application, make payments, schedule appointments, and print permits. This dataset contains general information about the job filing, including location, applicant, type of work and fee information. Each instance of elevator work might have one row/record for the Initial application, as well as one or more Post Approval Amendment. (See Filing_Type field.)
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Freshness
The publisher's promise
How the agency that publishes this data says it keeps the data current.
Stale
- Says it updates
- Daily
- Actually updates about every
- 1 days
- Publisher last updated the data
- Oct 4, 2026
Our mirror
Whether our copy of this data is current with the source.
In sync
- We last synced
- Oct 4, 2026, 12:32 PM
- Rows in our copy
- 71,372
- Rows at the source
- 71,372
- Our copy trails the source by
- under a minute
Columns
Each source column, with the name and type we use to store it.
2 of 82 columns carry a concept; 74 carry a description from the publisher. Read the concept column before you join. A column with no concept carries no claim from us, and a name that looks like a key is not one.
| Source field | Display name | What the publisher says it is | Concept | Source type | Stored as | Stored type | Row identifier | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
job_filing_number | Job Filling Number | A unique identifier assigned to a job filing. It consists of job number (a letter indicating the borough followed by an 8-digit number) hyphenated with Filing Number (a 2-digit code identifying the filing type). Once the permit is issued, a suffix "-VT" is added to the job filing number. (Example: B00016701-I1-VT) | Not bound | Text | job_filing_number | text | — | |
job_number | Job Number | A 9-digit identifier for the job. The first letter indicates the borough for which the filing is associated, followed by an 8-digit ID number | Not bound | Text | job_number | text | — | |
filing_number | Filing Number | A 2-digit code identifying the filing type | Not bound | Text | filing_number | text | — | |
filing_date | Filing Date | Filing Date; Date and Time Format: '2018-04-25 21:52:00.000' | Not bound | Calendar date | filing_date | timestamp | — | |
filing_type | Filing Type | Indicates whether this filing is new, subsequent or Post Approval Amendment (PAA) filing | Not bound | Text | filing_type | text | — | |
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Source and attribution
Where this data comes from, which version we hold, and what we changed.
- Source
- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/kfp4-dz4h
- Version
- Content hash:
10b31753497af98e0245f04e397db60753be6c9be4c6af05b8e114c9308cc022 - What we changed
- We did not change the data. We stored it as published.
- Publisher
- codenownyc
- We retrieved it
- Oct 4, 2026, 12:32 PM
Update history
| Started | Kind | Result | Rows written | Produced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 2026, 3:45 PM | full_replace | success | 71,372 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.84 |
| Oct 3, 2026, 3:45 PM | full_replace | success | 71,372 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.84 |
| Oct 2, 2026, 4:14 PM | full_replace | success | 71,354 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.84 |
| Oct 1, 2026, 4:17 PM | full_replace | success | 71,335 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.84 |
| Sep 30, 2026, 4:11 PM | full_replace | success | 71,308 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.84 |
| Sep 29, 2026, 4:17 PM | full_replace | success | 71,267 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.84 |
| Sep 28, 2026, 3:15 PM | full_replace | success | 71,249 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.84 |
| Sep 27, 2026, 3:49 PM | full_replace | success | 71,249 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.84 |
| Sep 26, 2026, 3:45 PM | full_replace | success | 71,249 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.84 |
| Sep 25, 2026, 4:10 PM | full_replace | success | 71,231 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.84 |