Street Construction Permits And Related Agencies

DOT issues over 150 different types of sidewalk and roadway construction permits to utilities, contractors, government agencies, and homeowners. This dataset tracks these permits and any additional organizations associated with them, listing fields like RelatedPermitNumber and PermitRelatedAgencyDesc. The data is maintained by data.cityofnewyork.us and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze relationships between primary and secondary permits using the RelatedPermitNumber and PermitNumber fields.
• Track the timeline of permit modifications and creation by analyzing the CreatedOn and ModifiedOn date columns.
• Categorize types of involved organizations by examining the PermitRelatedAgencyDesc field across permit records.

Strengths

• Covers over 150 distinct permit types for street and sidewalk work.
• Includes temporal tracking with CreatedOn and ModifiedOn columns.

Limitations

• Unknown total record count prevents assessment of statistical significance.
• Geographic scope is implied but not explicitly defined in the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us

Collection Method

Issued and recorded by the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT).

Freshness

Last updated April 2026.

Geography

New York City, based on source organization.