144 Vanderbilt Avenue
144 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205
BBL 3020467501 · BIN 3430518
- Year built
- 2023
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 26
- Floors
- 8
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2025–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,911
- Listing discount
- -3.3%
- Recorded sales
- 25
- On record
- 2025–2026
The record on this building is short, and the honest version of it is more useful than a padded one.
144 Vanderbilt is the third and largest of three collaborations between the developer Tankhouse and the architects SO – IL, after 450 Warren Street in Boerum Hill and Nine Chapel in Downtown Brooklyn. The through-line across all three is the same: a single material carried across the whole envelope, residences arranged so that circulation happens partly in the open air, and private outdoor space treated as a requirement rather than an upgrade. At 144 Vanderbilt that logic produced a building wrapped almost entirely in pink precast concrete — two finishes, an acid wash and a sandblasted texture — with a fluted, staggered massing that holds the corner of Myrtle Avenue and then descends toward the nineteenth-century row to the east. Florian Idenburg of SO – IL has described the corner as the design problem: something robust enough to announce itself several blocks down Myrtle, while still negotiating a context that "very quickly drops down to the townhouses of the Wallabout Historic District."
That last point is worth pinning down, because the proximity is close enough to matter. This lot is not in the Wallabout Historic District, and no Landmarks review applies to it — but thirty lots on the same tax block are inside the district, and the boundary runs about ninety feet away. The Fort Greene Historic District is roughly seven hundred feet off. So the building sits in a pocket of unregulated frontage inside a heavily regulated neighbourhood, which is both why it exists in this form and why it reads the way it does against its neighbours.
The site's history is the reason the pocket was available. The parcel was a Cumberland Farms gas station, carried in city records as 134 Vanderbilt Avenue. A previous development scheme was filed in 2014 by ODA under an All Year Management ownership — a 46-unit, eight-story building — and never built; that job stalled and the site sat behind fencing for years. Tankhouse, through 134VAP LLC, took the site over in 2021, paying $10 million to Cumberland Farms per city records reported by Brownstoner. The current new-building job was filed in 2022 and construction ran through 2025.
Two facts about this building's status are more important to a buyer than anything above, and neither is visible in the marketing.
First, the year built is wrong in the public record. PLUTO carries 2023. The Department of Buildings does not: the first certificate of occupancy under job B00648774 was a temporary certificate issued May 29, 2025 — the same day the condominium declaration was recorded — and it has been renewed without change four times since, most recently on 13 July 2026. There is no final certificate of occupancy on file. That is not unusual for a new development a year into closings, and temporary certificates are renewed routinely; it does mean that a buyer should ask when the final certificate is expected, what open items remain, and how the sponsor's obligations under the plan are secured until it issues. Lenders and title companies ask the same question.
Second, there is no 421-a here, and no other exemption either. Department of Finance exemption records return nothing for this condominium or for any of its 66 unit lots on any tax roll, and PLUTO records zero exempt value against the property. In a Brooklyn new-development market where a large share of the 2015-and-later condominium stock carries a 421-a in some phase of its life, a fully taxable building is a genuinely different underwriting proposition. The upside is that there is no step-down ahead and no year in which the carrying cost jumps. The cost is that the monthly number is what it is from day one, and it should be compared against abated buildings on a fully-assessed basis rather than on today's bill.
Architecture and unit composition
Eight stories on an irregular 15,129-square-foot corner lot, built to a 3.31 FAR against an R7A maximum of 4.00 — the building does not use its full envelope, which is what makes the stepped massing and the carved-out gardens possible.
The plan is organised around outdoor space rather than around a corridor. Residents enter from Vanderbilt Avenue across a bridge over a sunken garden, through full-height glass, into a lobby whose ceiling heights compress and expand deliberately. Communal breezeways on each level connect the elevators and stairs to the apartment doors and function as lookouts over the gardens — the same open-corridor idea SO – IL used at 450 Warren Street. A cascading landscaped garden runs down the back of the site to the amenity level, and a sixth-floor sky garden gives the building its long view.
The 26 residences run from two to four bedrooms across 21 distinct floor plans, and the unit lettering in the recorded schedule shows how irregular the stacking is: five apartments on the second floor, four on the third, five on the fourth, three on the fifth, two each on six, seven and eight, plus three townhouse-style homes. Interiors were delivered with wood floors, exposed concrete ceilings and columns, and floor-to-ceiling windows in narrow steel frames. Every residence carries private outdoor space and multiple exposures, which is the design brief the developer set and the reason for the massing.
The parking and storage here are deeded condominium units, not licenses — 18 parking units and 21 storage units with their own tax lots. That is a meaningful difference from most Brooklyn buildings of this size: a parking space at 144 Vanderbilt is a separately conveyable asset with its own common-charge and tax obligation, and it can be sold apart from the apartment.
Building operations
The lobby is described in the sponsor's materials as partially attended, not staffed around the clock. For a 26-unit building that is the expected model, and it is the honest one — but confirm current hours and the current staffing arrangement with the managing agent, because a partially attended lobby means package handling and access control work differently from a full-service building, and buyers coming from doormanned inventory notice.
Amenity depth is the building's operating story: over 11,000 square feet spread across a lounge and coworking room, fitness center, children's playroom, game room, a detached studio pavilion, three distinct gardens and a sky terrace, all serving 26 apartments. That ratio is unusual, and it has a carrying-cost consequence — a lot of common space maintained by a small number of unit owners. Read the current budget, the reserve position and the actual common-charge history rather than the plan's projections, which for a building this new are projections.
Governance is early-stage. The condominium was declared in May 2025 and first closings ran from July 2025 through the middle of 2026. Expect the sponsor to retain control of the board through the sellout, and read the plan's sponsor-control provisions before assuming otherwise.
Policy framework
Purchaser review: Condominium mechanics — a board right of first refusal rather than cooperative approval. Closings of 30 to 45 days are typical.
Property taxes: No 421-a, no J-51, no exemption of any kind on any Department of Finance roll for the condominium or its unit lots. The bill is the bill. Run the carrying-cost model on the current assessment and compare abated comparables on a fully-assessed basis, not on their present bills.
Certificate of occupancy: Temporary, first issued 29 May 2025 and renewed without change through 13 July 2026. No final certificate on file as of this writing. Confirm the current certificate and the expected timeline to final before contract.
Parking and storage: Deeded condominium units with their own tax lots — 18 parking, 21 storage. Confirm whether a given apartment conveys with either, and what the separate common charges and taxes on that unit are.
Pets, subletting, pied-à-terre and flip tax: The offering plan under File No. CD23-0287 governs all four, and this page will not assert what the plan record on file does not settle. As a New York condominium, pied-à-terre ownership and leasing are permitted in principle, subject to the Board's right of first refusal and to any minimum-lease-term rule. Confirm each with the managing agent and against the plan before making an offer that depends on it.
Recent sales
144 Vanderbilt entered the market in 2025 as the most design-forward new condominium in Fort Greene, and it prices accordingly — in dollars per square foot, against the borough's architect-signed 2020s condominium tier rather than against the neighbourhood's prewar cooperative stock, which trades on room count, original detail and historic-district frontage.
Three variables carry the pricing. The first is outdoor space: every residence has some, but a wrapping terrace with two exposures on the upper floors is a different asset from a townhouse-level garden, and comparables must match. The second is the tax position — with no abatement, the monthly number here is fully loaded, and a buyer cross-shopping an abated building nearby is not comparing like with like unless the comparison is run to full assessment. The third is the sellout itself: the building was still closing units through the middle of 2026, which means sponsor inventory and resale inventory compete directly, and sponsor pricing sets the reference. Indexed to 2025, the last complete year, the defensible comparable set is Brooklyn's small, architect-led, amenity-heavy new-development condominiums rather than the larger full-service towers. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Recent closings at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Prices are the transfer amounts recorded with the NYC Department of Finance; apartment-level detail is checked against the building’s own file in The Roebling Research Library before publishing.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 2026 | 2A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,393 sf | $2,250,000 | $1,615/sf | +0.0% |
| Jul 10, 2026 | 2D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,305 sf | $2,320,987 | $1,779/sf | +2.0% |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 4A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,167 sf | $1,975,000 | $1,692/sf | +0.0% |
| May 27, 2026 | TH1 | 4 BR · 3 BA · 2,378 sf | $4,174,533 | $1,755/sf | +5.0% |
| May 22, 2026 | 5E | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,125 sf | $2,230,781 | $1,983/sf | +11.5% |
| Apr 21, 2026 | 3D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,305 sf | $2,550,000 | $1,954/sf | +9.7% |
| Mar 10, 2026 | 4D | 3 BR · 3 BA · 1,896 sf | $3,495,000 | $1,843/sf | +0.0% |
| Jan 21, 2026 | 4B | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,370 sf | $2,530,351 | $1,847/sf | +3.3% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,911/sf across 8 sales. Median listing discount -3.3% over ask.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
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 3-02046-7501) 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; square footage from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
What to know if you’re buying
There is no abatement — model the real number. The absence of a 421-a is not a defect; it removes future step-down risk entirely. But it means today's carrying cost is the permanent one, and any comparison to an abated building has to be run to full assessment to be honest.
Ask about the final certificate of occupancy. The building has run on renewed temporary certificates since May 2025. Get the expected date, the open items, and how the sponsor's obligations are secured in the interim. Your lender will ask.
Price the outdoor space separately. Twenty-six apartments, twenty-one floor plans, and outdoor space in every one of them means almost no two units are directly comparable. Match on floor, exposure, terrace size and orientation before you accept a comparable.
Parking and storage are deeded, not licensed. That is an advantage — they are real, conveyable assets — but they carry their own taxes and common charges. Confirm what conveys and what it costs.
Understand what the amenity ratio costs. Over 11,000 square feet of common space maintained by 26 unit owners is a real operating line. Read the actual budget and reserve position, not the plan's projection.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the architecture, because it is genuinely singular. Pink precast in two finishes across an entire envelope, open-air breezeways, a sunken garden entry sequence and a sixth-floor sky garden — there is nothing else like it in Fort Greene, and there is no substitute building a buyer can go see.
Answer the tax question before it is asked. Buyers arriving from abated inventory will notice the monthly number. The right frame is that there is no cliff ahead — no step-down, no year in which the cost jumps — and that is worth something specific.
Be straightforward about the certificate of occupancy. It is temporary and it has been renewed on schedule. Saying so plainly, with the dates, is better than having a buyer's attorney raise it in week three.
Your comparables are the design tier, not the block. The right anchors are Brooklyn's architect-led boutique condominiums, not the Vanderbilt Avenue townhouse market and not the larger amenity towers.
Condominium mechanics are a timeline advantage. Right of first refusal, no board interview, fast closings — state it explicitly to buyers who are also weighing Fort Greene and Clinton Hill cooperatives.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 144 Vanderbilt Avenue, also evaluate:
- 550 Vanderbilt Avenue — the full-service, architect-signed condominium further down the same avenue; the direct abated-versus-unabated comparison
- 75 Greene Avenue — the boutique Fort Greene condominium alternative, an adaptive reuse rather than new construction
- 11 Hoyt Street — the amenity-led, large-scale Downtown Brooklyn condominium; the opposite end of the same buyer's search
- 10 Nevins Street (The Brooklyn Grove) — newer Downtown Brooklyn new-development condominium at scale
- 509 Pacific Street (The Hendrik) — boutique Boerum Hill condominium; the closest peer on unit count and delivery model
- 360 Clinton Avenue — the prewar cooperative comparison for buyers weighing tenure and historic-district frontage against new construction
How to read the facts on this page. Items attributed to an offering plan describe the building as it was offered at that filing — unit mix, square footage, the amenity program as planned. They are not a statement about how the building operates today. Tax and compliance figures are sourced separately to current City records and carry their own dates. House rules, staffing and fee policy can change by board resolution without any public filing: treat every policy line here as a starting point for diligence and confirm it with the managing agent.
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