Every week we read every new NYC building permit and hand roofers, remodelers, demolition crews and post-construction cleaners a short list of the projects where their trade hasn’t been picked yet — with the owner, the address, and the permitted budget.
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This is not a list of “unclaimed jobs.” On most permits, a general contractor is already on the filing — anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you the raw permit feed.
What’s still open is everything underneath: the roofing and waterproofing subs on a new build, the trades that follow a demolition, the finishes on a fit-out, and the final clean nobody books until the end. That sorting — by trade, by what’s still winnable — is the product.
Top picks from this week’s real NYC permits, grouped the way subscribers receive them. Filter by your trade:
Lehman College (Carman Hall): removal, replacement and repair of waterproofing membrane, flashing and drains; spalled concrete repair.
Still open: waterproofing scope is explicit and the budget is approved — pitch the owner and GC while the job is mobilizing.
Removal and replacement of roof, area drains and associated piping.
Still open: the filing is a plumbing scope — the roof replacement itself is exactly the kind of package that gets subbed out.
Repair of roof and replacement of skylights. No change to use, egress, or occupancy.
Still open: a named roofing job with a seven-figure permitted budget — as direct as a permit lead gets.
Sidewalk vault waterproofing and below-grade structural work; spalling concrete repair at Court & Montague frontages.
Still open: private owner, specialist waterproofing scope — a short list of firms can do this work.
New gypsum board and all finishes; proposed 1-family dwelling with bulkhead at roof.
Still open: small private job, roof bulkhead in scope — the size solo and small-crew roofers actually win.
Exterior facade repairs and alteration with waterproofing; sidewalk shed under separate application.
Still open: waterproofing is in the filed scope on a large housing complex — repeat-work potential.
Full demolition of structure.
Still open: the building is coming down — every trade on the rebuild gets picked in the months that follow. Get in front of the owner now.
Full demolition of a two-story building.
Still open: developer-owned site — demolition today means a ground-up project and a full sub roster tomorrow.
Full demolition of a one-story building.
Still open: small demo, fast turnaround — and the rebuild conversation starts with whoever showed up first.
Full demolition of existing building.
Still open: LLC owner with a cleared-site plan — a warm intro beats bidding against a public listing later.
Full demolition of a three-story building.
Still open: Park Slope teardown — the replacement building will need roofing, interiors and a final clean.
Full demolition work at the property.
Still open: entry-level demo budget — right-sized for a small crew looking to build a developer relationship.
Interior non-bearing partitions and related finishes for an interior fit-out.
Still open: a fit-out this size carries dozens of sub packages and a substantial final clean — one slice pays for years of the list.
Conversion of a 9-story commercial building to residential & commercial use, plus a 6-story addition.
Still open: conversion + addition means roofing, interiors and cleaning phases stacked over many months.
Interior renovation as per plans filed.
Still open: seven-figure interior budget on the Upper East Side — finishes and specialty trades are the opportunity.
Installation of non-load bearing walls, floors, ceiling and finishes.
Still open: floors, ceilings and finishes are named in the filing — direct-fit scopes for remodelers.
Installation of non-load bearing walls, floors, ceiling and finishes.
Still open: same owner and GC as the job next door — win one, and you’re positioned for both.
Foundation and earthwork for a temporary parking area, filed under a major public project.
Still open: the largest budget on this week’s sheet — even a small subcontract or the site clean is meaningful revenue.
Plumbing work in conjunction with a new building.
Still open: new construction in Astoria — interiors, roofing and the post-construction clean are all still to be scheduled. Cleaners: this is your early warning, months before the job posts anywhere.
These 19 are the top picks. The full filtered list for the week holds 251 leads — every initial permit with an estimated job cost of $100,000 or more. Public-sector owners (city agencies, CUNY, NYCHA) usually award work through procurement rather than direct outreach; the weekly list flags them so you don’t waste calls.
Permits are public. Reading 3,000+ of them every week, and knowing which ones matter for your trade, is the part nobody has time for. That’s the part we do.
Every day, new permits land in NYC’s DOB NOW system. We pull the full feed — 3,238 issued in the sample week alone — straight from NYC Open Data.
Out go the sign permits, the $0 filings and the noise. What’s left — jobs of $100k+ — gets read, checked and sorted into trade lists by the work that’s still open.
Subscribers get their borough-and-trade list by email every week, as a readable report and a CSV you can load into your CRM or hand to whoever runs your outreach.
Business-filing leads ride along in the Pro and Team lists, matched to your boroughs.
One closed job pays for a year of any tier. Lead marketplaces charge $15–$100+ for a single shared lead; this is the whole week’s filtered list for your trade — every subscriber in your trade gets the same list, which is exactly why the contractors who call first win it.
For solo roofers and remodelers working one borough.
For growing shops with someone running outreach.
For multi-crew firms and material suppliers.
Phone and email enrichment is matched from third-party data and typically lands on 40–70% of records — we show you which leads are enriched rather than padding the count. Scrub numbers against the Do-Not-Call registry before calling; the list tells you who to reach, the outreach rules are still yours to follow.
The sample on this page is real — this week’s actual permits. Download the CSV, find one project in your borough, and check it against the DOB record yourself. If the full weekly list is worth $149 a month to you after that, subscribing is the easy part.
NYC Open Data — the Department of Buildings’ DOB NOW “Build – Approved Permits” feed (dataset rbx6-tga4), updated daily, plus NY Dept. of State daily business filings. It’s public record, and every lead on your list carries the permit number so you can verify it yourself in minutes.
Usually not in the way lead sellers imply — the permit names the GC or design firm that filed it. The value is one level down: the roofing, waterproofing, finish, demolition-follow-up and cleaning work that gets awarded after the permit issues. Each list is sorted for those still-open slots, and public-sector owners (who award through procurement) are flagged.
Because a lead list is a trust purchase. We’d rather send the preliminary list to 50 contractors for free and let the jobs in it make the case. If it doesn’t, you’ve lost nothing. If it does, the weekly subscription is how you keep getting it.
The weekly list covers permits issued in the last 7 days — the sample week ran Oct 13–20, 2026. DOB NOW updates daily, so a permit issued Monday can be on your desk before the GC has finished staffing the job.
The permit record itself carries owner and applicant names and the property address — no phones. Pro and Team lists add owner phone and email matched from third-party data, typically found for 40–70% of records. Starter lists are the permit data, complete and verified, at the lower price.
All five NYC boroughs today. Chicago is verified as the second metro (657 permits in the same sample week) and ships with Team plans. Each new city is a data-mapping job, not a new product — more metros follow subscriber demand.