One Northside Piers (1 Northside Piers)
1 Northside Piers, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
BBL 3023407501 · BIN 3343910
- Year built
- 2007
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 181
- Floors
- 30
- Landmark
- No
- Subletting
- Permitted under standard condominium rules; specific minimum lease term not documented
- Pied-à-terre
- Permitted (standard condominium)
- Pets
- Permitted; specific restrictions not documented
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 2026-08). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
One Northside Piers was the first condominium tower to be completed on the Williamsburg waterfront after the 2005 Greenpoint-Williamsburg rezoning, and for several years it was the tallest thing standing between the Williamsburg Bridge and Greenpoint. That timing is the building's defining fact. When Toll Brothers City Living finished the tower, the esplanade in front of it was new, the ferry service that now defines the corridor did not yet exist, and there was no comparable inventory for buyers to price against. Everything that followed on this shoreline — the Edge, the second Northside Piers tower, the Kent Avenue towers of the 2010s — was underwritten in part against what happened here.
The building is the work of FXFOWLE Architects, a practice with an unusually consistent record in New York residential towers of this generation, and the design argument is straightforward: a slim glazed shaft placed as close to the river as the waterfront zoning allowed, with floor-to-ceiling glass turned toward the water and the Manhattan skyline. There is no attempt at industrial reference here, no brick or precast masonry answering the warehouses inland. It reads as a glass tower on a river, which in 2007 was a genuinely new proposition in North Brooklyn and remains the cleanest expression of what the rezoning intended the waterfront edge to become.
What distinguishes One Northside Piers from the later waterfront stock is layout rather than finish level. Apartments here were drawn with more generous proportions than much of the inventory built after 2013 — one-bedrooms in the high 700s of square feet and two-bedrooms running roughly 1,100 to 1,300 square feet, against a later-generation norm that compressed both. For buyers who care about the difference between a room and an alcove, that matters more than a newer appliance package.
The amenity program was built around a shared recreational core with the adjoining Two Northside Piers: the pool, hot tub, and sauna sit with the sister building, while One Northside Piers carries its own fitness center, yoga studio, lounge, playroom, and a landscaped roof deck with a lounge, kitchen, and billiards. The arrangement gives a 181-unit building a much deeper amenity base than its own scale would support. It also means the condominium documents govern a relationship between two boards, and any purchaser should read how costs and access are allocated before assuming the pool is simply "in the building."
For sellers, the relevant positioning is that One Northside Piers is now the seasoned option on a waterfront full of newer product. It cannot compete on 2020s amenity depth. It competes on location — directly on the esplanade, at the ferry — on apartment proportions, and on a tax profile that, depending on the specific unit's remaining exemption, can still carry meaningfully lighter than an unabated alternative.
Architecture and unit composition
The 181 residences distribute over 30 stories, with townhouse-style units at the base and penthouse-tier residences at the top. The building's value gradient is unusually simple to read: western and northwestern exposures take the river and the Manhattan skyline, southern exposures look down the waterfront toward the Williamsburg Bridge and, since 2018, Domino Park, and eastern lines look inland across Kent Avenue toward the Northside street grid. Because the tower is slender, the number of prime-exposure apartments per floor is small, and the premium attaching to them is correspondingly durable.
Interiors are of their moment: floor-to-ceiling glazed walls, hardwood floors, open kitchens, and the stainless-and-stone finish vocabulary that defined 2007-era new development. The floor plans are the more persuasive feature. One-bedrooms of roughly 775 square feet and two-bedrooms in the 1,100-to-1,300-square-foot range are meaningfully larger than the equivalents in much of the post-2013 Williamsburg stock, and combined and corner configurations on the upper floors reach genuinely large three- and four-bedroom layouts.
Buyers renovating here should note the practical constraints of a glass tower of this vintage: curtain-wall assemblies limit what can be done at the perimeter, and window and façade maintenance is a building-level rather than a unit-level matter. Reviewing the condominium's façade inspection history and any capital plan for the envelope is the single highest-value piece of diligence at a building of this construction type and age.
Building operations
The condominium runs as a full-service building — attended lobby, 24-hour doorman and concierge, on-site superintendent, package handling, bicycle storage, and cold storage — with a parking facility serving the development. The recreational amenities are operated across the Northside Piers complex, which is the operational fact that most often surprises buyers: the pool, hot tub, and sauna that appear in marketing materials sit within the shared program with Two Northside Piers rather than being wholly self-contained at 1 Northside Piers. Access rights, scheduling, and cost allocation are set by the governing documents, and a purchaser should read them rather than rely on a listing summary.
Two further operational items belong in any diligence file. The first is the waterfront itself: the esplanade in front of the building was built as part of the rezoning's public-access requirements, and maintenance obligations for waterfront access areas at these developments typically run through a shared association funded by the buildings that front them. Ask how that obligation is reflected in the condominium's budget. The second is the building's envelope. A 2012 lawsuit brought by the developer against window contractors over water infiltration at the building is a matter of public record; whatever its resolution, it makes the current condition of the curtain wall, the reserve position, and any assessment history the right questions to put to the managing agent.
Recent sales
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent closings at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2026 | 9F | $980,000 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | 24B | $1,913,000 |
| Jun 12, 2025 | 19H | $1,395,000 |
| Jul 28, 2025 | 7D | $1,925,000 |
| Dec 26, 2024 | 5D | $1,762,500 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | 9B | $1,740,000 |
Full closing history with price-per-square-foot over time, the complete retrade record, and every line that has traded.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-02340-7501) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price.
What to know if you’re buying
Location is the durable asset. Directly on the esplanade, at the ferry, with river and skyline exposure that later buildings inland cannot replicate. That is what you are paying for, and it does not depreciate.
Read the shared-amenity structure. The pool, hot tub, and sauna are reported as part of a program shared with Two Northside Piers. Confirm access rights, hours, and cost allocation in the condominium documents before you assume anything about them.
Diligence the envelope. A 2007-vintage glass tower on the water deserves a careful review of façade inspection filings, reserve levels, and any assessment history. Ask the managing agent directly.
Confirm the tax position on the specific unit. The §421-a benefit in this exclusion area was project-specific in both term and structure. The current bill is the only reliable input to a carrying-cost model.
Apartment proportions are a real advantage. Layouts here are generally more generous than the post-2013 Williamsburg norm. Walk a comparable newer unit before deciding what the price difference is buying you.
What to know if you’re selling
Market the position, not the vintage. Esplanade frontage, ferry access, FXFOWLE architecture, and a Toll Brothers City Living pedigree are the durable points; competing on amenity newness against 2020s product is a losing frame.
Lead with the floor plan. Where the apartment is larger than its newer competition, say so in square feet and show it in the room dimensions.
Be transparent on taxes and on the building's capital position. Buyers will ask about the exemption and about the façade. Having the current bill, the reserve figure, and any capital plan in hand shortens negotiations.
Price against the line. Exposure drives value in a slender tower. Recent closings on comparable lines are the anchor; building averages are not.
Closings run on condominium timing. Right of first refusal, no interview, 30 to 45 days typical.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering One Northside Piers, also evaluate:
- Two Northside Piers (2 Northside Piers) — the sister tower next door; the same developer and architect, a later delivery, and the shared amenity core
- The Edge — South Tower (22 North 6th Street) — the 370-unit tower two blocks north; the deepest amenity program of the first post-rezoning generation
- The Edge — North Tower (34 North 7th Street) — the low-rise half of the same condominium, with townhouse and terrace inventory
- 184 Kent Avenue (Austin Nichols House) — the Cass Gilbert warehouse conversion up the shoreline; loft proportion and scarcity against tower views
- 346 Kent Avenue — later Southside waterfront new development at large scale
- The Oosten (429 Kent Avenue) — Piet Boon's low-rise courtyard condominium; a different design argument at a similar price tier
- Schaefer Landing North (440 Kent Avenue) — the earlier South Williamsburg waterfront condominium beside its own ferry landing
- The Greenpoint (21 India Street) — the equivalent waterfront tower one neighborhood north in Greenpoint
- The Lookout Hill Condominium (199 State Street) — FXFOWLE's Brooklyn Heights condominium; the architect's boutique-scale work in the borough
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