100 Gold Street
100 Gold Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn
BBL 3000557503 · BIN 3000148
- Year built
- 2009
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 10
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Not documented in the records available to us — confirm against the current house rules
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed
The tax block bounded by Front, Gold, York and Bridge Streets is a compressed record of what happened to DUMBO's eastern edge, and 100 Gold Street is the smallest thing on it. Between 2006 and 2012 the block absorbed five separate small condominiums — a 1920 building converted at 79 Bridge Street, new construction at 206 Front Street, at 185 York Street, here, and next door at 102 Gold — and in 2023 it took a 218-unit rental building. Six residential addresses, one block, seventeen years. No historic district governs any of it.
100 Gold Street is the fine-grained end of that sequence: ten apartments, two to a floor, front and rear. The condominium's own designations say so plainly — 1F and 1R through 5F and 5R — and that plan is the building's whole argument. A two-apartment floor plate means every residence has one clear exposure and no more than one neighbor on the level, reached from a private vestibule rather than a corridor. It is the closest thing this end of the neighborhood offers to a townhouse in condominium form, and it prices against its own tier — the small, quiet, low-carrying-cost inventory buyers find when they walk one block further east and the rent-versus-buy math changes — rather than against DUMBO's larger, older loft floors or the serviced waterfront towers.
Gold Street Associates LLC filed the new-building applications in early 2008 with Victor Weisberg as architect of record, signed the work off in May 2009, and filed the offering plan under File No. CD08-0420. Purchasers began closing in June 2010 — the building came to market into the teeth of the post-2008 correction, sold through it, and has traded steadily since. Sponsor prices in 2010 and 2011 ran from the low $400,000s to $800,000; the resale record shows the same apartments well above those levels within five years.
The location argument has strengthened since. Gold Street sits three blocks in from the Manhattan Bridge anchorage, a short flat walk from the York Street F, with the Brooklyn Navy Yard's employment base to the east and the DUMBO retail core to the west. What the address does not carry is the historic district's protections or its constraints — and for an owner planning windows, terraces or façade work, the absence of Landmarks review is a permanent operating advantage over otherwise similar buildings two streets west.
Architecture and unit composition
The building reads as contemporary infill: a masonry-and-glass elevation with tall window walls carrying light deep into a narrow floor plate, built to the lower scale of the surrounding Vinegar Hill fabric rather than to DUMBO's warehouse cornice. Department of Finance records tabulate six floors; the residential stack occupies five, two homes to each.
The front-and-rear designation is the thing to understand before comparing units. Front residences face Gold Street; rear residences face the block interior. That produces two distinct products in a ten-unit building — different light, different noise profile, different outlook — and in-building comparables must match on orientation before anything else. Balconies appear on part of the inventory, and the common roof terrace serves the building as a whole. Interior specification was marketed on an energy-efficient basis, with white oak flooring, quartz and high-gloss cabinetry, central air conditioning and in-residence laundry. That specification is now more than fifteen years old, which makes renovation state a genuine variable between apartments rather than a rounding error.
Building operations
100 Gold Street Condominium is managed by Corbel Property Management per its current HPD registration. The operating model is minimal by design: an elevator, a video intercom, bicycle and private storage, and a common roof terrace, with no door staff and no amenity program. That trade is the point — carrying costs here are among the lowest available in a new-construction condominium within walking distance of the DUMBO waterfront.
The corollary is that ten units share every capital item, with no commercial income in the building to absorb it. A roof, an elevator modernization, a façade cycle or a boiler replacement lands on a very small base. Request the reserve balance, the assessment history since the 2010 sell-out, the elevator service record, and the most recent façade filing status; in a building this size the board's minutes are as informative as its budget.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 2024 | 3F | $765,000 |
| Jan 24, 2023 | 1R | $1,355,000 |
| Jun 9, 2016 | 5F | $1,250,000 |
| Mar 13, 2015 | 3R | $655,000 |
| Mar 2, 2015 | 5R | $1,275,000 |
| Aug 29, 2013 | 3F | $550,000 |
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 3-00055-7503) 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
Front or rear is the first question. Two units to a floor means the building has exactly two products. Decide which one you are buying before you compare prices.
Low carrying cost is the thesis. No door staff, no amenity program, ten units. That is why the monthlies work; make sure it is what you want.
Ten units is a small denominator. Reserve position, assessment history and the elevator record are the three documents to read first.
The specification is fifteen years old. Kitchens, baths and mechanicals date to 2008–09, and window and façade work runs through the Buildings Department alone. Price condition, not vintage.
What to know if you’re selling
Sell the floor plate. Two homes per floor, private landing, one clear exposure. That is a townhouse-like arrangement and it should lead the listing.
Name the carrying cost. In this tier the monthly number closes deals. Put common charges and taxes in front of buyers early and let them run the comparison.
Anchor to the block. The same tax block holds four other small condominiums with their own trading records — a tighter comparable set than any neighborhood average.
Document the renovation. Where kitchens, baths or systems have been updated since the sell-out, the paperwork is worth money in a building where the original specification is now the baseline.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 100 Gold Street, also evaluate:
- 206 Front Street — boutique 2006 condominium on the same tax block; the closest peer by location and vintage
- 79 Bridge Street (The Bridges) — 1920 building converted on the same block; the character alternative at the same seam
- 98 Front Street — boutique condominium a block west; newer construction, similar buyer
- 50 Bridge Street — small condominium on the neighborhood's eastern edge
- 37 Bridge Street (Kirkman Lofts) — boutique soap-factory conversion; the loft alternative at comparable unit count
- 133 Water Street — boutique condominium inside the historic district with terraces and parking
- 85 Adams Street (The Beacon Tower) — the serviced tower alternative for a buyer weighing amenity against carrying cost
- 85 Jay Street (Front & York) — the full-amenity new-development benchmark two blocks west
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