New construction in Brooklyn, by neighborhood

Since March 2021, builders in Brooklyn have filed applications for 1,115 apartment buildings, 625 houses, 195 other new buildings and 1,067 major renovations, adding 74,843 units, across 52 neighborhoods. 1,364 of the 1,935 new buildings have been approved so far, and 65 more have permits for early work.

Units
74,843
Apartment buildings
1,115
Houses
625
Major renovations
1,067
Last 12 months
649

Neighborhoods ranked by units

New-building and major-renovation filings with three or more units, three or more stories, or 5,000 square feet of work, from the Department of Buildings’ DOB NOW records on NYC Open Data. Neighborhoods follow the Department of Finance’s neighborhood for each tax block. Methodology