168 Plymouth Street
168 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
DUMBO, Brooklyn
BBL 3000307501 · BIN 3329410
- Year built
- 1919
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 46
- Floors
- 5
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Governed by the condominium's house rules (the board may regulate pets on the common terrace); confirm current rules during diligence
- Flip tax
- none documented in offering plan; working capital 3 months' common charges + reserve fund 2 months' at closing
- Subletting
- permitted; sales and rentals subject to board right of first refusal (offering plan)
- Pied-à-terre
- permitted (condominium framework)
- Washer / dryer
- washer/dryer in every unit (offering plan)
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated offering plan (2019 filing era); verified August 2026). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2021–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,573
- Listing discount
- -2.0%
- Recorded sales
- 50
- On record
- 2021–2025
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 168 Plymouth Street would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
168 Plymouth Street closed the book that the Clock Tower opened. Between 1998 and the DUMBO Historic District's designation in 2007, the neighborhood's stock of convertible industrial buildings was worked through conversion by conversion; by the late 2010s, exactly one assemblage of scale remained unconverted inside the district. Alloy Development — the Brooklyn firm that develops, designs, and sells its own buildings from offices a block away at 20 Jay Street — bought it, and marketed the result honestly as the last loft conversion in DUMBO. The claim is structural rather than promotional: inside the historic district, there is no comparable industrial fabric left to convert, which gives the building a permanent scarcity position in the neighborhood's most supply-constrained product tier.
The property itself is a two-for-one of DUMBO's industrial building types. Fronting Plymouth Street at the Jay Street corner stand two joined buildings: a five-story brick-and-timber warehouse dated to the early 1890s, and a seven-story reinforced-concrete daylight factory built in 1919–21 for John W. Masury & Son, the paint and varnish maker whose works occupied this corner of the neighborhood for much of the twentieth century (the site's industrial history, documented in the offering plan's environmental review, runs from an 1887 foundry through paint and varnish manufacturing as late as 1973). The LPC's designation report records the concrete building's architect and builder as unknown — a rarity among DUMBO's documented Higginson/Turner stock — but its type is unmistakable: the same daylight-factory logic of concrete frame and vast window openings that defines the Gair buildings to the west. Timber lofts and concrete lofts are the two authentic species of New York loft; 168 Plymouth is the only DUMBO condominium that contains both.
Alloy's conversion, designed in-house by Alloy Design, LLP and completed with the condominium declaration recorded in December 2020 and closings following from 2021–22, is the most finish-forward of the neighborhood's conversions. The 46 residences divide into four distinct product types — garden-level townhouse-style units, brick-and-timber lofts, daylight-factory lofts, and five contemporary penthouse additions (PHA–PHE) set atop the historic roofs with private terraces — organized around a private interior courtyard. The specification runs to oversized triple-glazed windows (an acoustic and thermal upgrade no earlier conversion attempted), in-unit laundry in every residence, and a garden level housing the gym, a 92-space bicycle room, and licensed storage. The offering totaled $131.9 million, with residences priced from roughly $1 million to $6.85 million at the top penthouse.
The building's position adds a quieter argument. The northeastern blocks of DUMBO near the Manhattan Bridge anchorage carry less retail traffic than the Washington Street spine, with the small parks at John Street and the bridge's flank two blocks away — the neighborhood's calmest corner, inside its most protected streetscape of Belgian-block paving and industrial façades.
Architecture and unit composition
The conversion's architectural thesis is legibility: the 1890s building reads as brick and heavy timber, the 1919–21 building reads as concrete grid and glass, and the additions read as new. Within that framework:
- Townhouse-style units occupy the lower floors with garden-level lower stories (the garden level sits below grade and is sealed against the flood-zone condition the offering plan discloses candidly).
- Brick-and-timber lofts in the 1890s building carry the wood-column, exposed-beam warehouse character — the rarer type in DUMBO, where most conversions are concrete.
- Daylight-factory lofts in the concrete building carry the column grids, high ceilings, and oversized window bays of the type.
- Penthouses PHA–PHE, the one- and two-story additions, are contemporary construction with private terraces held as limited common elements.
Throughout, the operable windows are oversized and in many cases triple-glazed — the offering plan is unusually specific about their weight, custom fabrication, and maintenance implications, a disclosure buyers should read as the cost of the building's acoustic performance. House rules preserve the façade's visual discipline: all window treatments must present a uniform white backing to the street.
The courtyard, shared roof terrace on the 8th-floor roof, and three licensed cabanas make up the outdoor program; the roof terrace sits alongside building mechanicals, which the plan discloses.
Building operations
168 Plymouth operates as a boutique condominium with a non-resident superintendent and staff — a deliberately lean service model consistent with 46 units, and one reason carrying costs should be evaluated against the amenity set rather than against doorman buildings. Storage lockers and cabanas are held by license rather than deed and are transferable only within the building. The offering plan's working-capital structure (three months' common charges) and reserve contribution (two months') at closing are worth modeling into acquisition costs. As throughout the DUMBO Historic District, all exterior work — including those custom windows — is subject to LPC jurisdiction, and the plan flags that historic-district compliance can raise the cost of façade work; the building's Local Law 11 cycle begins on the schedule disclosed in the plan.
Policy framework
Resale and leasing: Sales and rentals of residences are subject to the condominium board's right of first refusal on matching terms — the standard permissive condominium framework, with no co-op-style approval.
Washer/dryer: Included in every unit under the offering plan.
Storage and cabanas: The 20 garden-level storage lockers and 3 roof cabanas are licensed, not owned, and may be transferred only to unit owners; the condominium's insurance does not cover locker contents.
Working capital and reserve: Three months' common charges (working capital) plus two months' (reserve fund) contributed by purchasers at closing.
House-rule specifics: Uniform white window-treatment backing; quiet hours 11:00 p.m.–9:00 a.m.; 80 percent carpet coverage in living areas; terrace and cabana use rules set by the board. Current house rules are maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Flip tax / transfer fee: None documented in the offering plan.
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the engineer identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair before the next inspection cycle. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 2025 | THB | 3 BR · 2 BA · 2,067 sf | $2,650,000 | $1,282/sf | -3.5% |
| May 28, 2025 | 5F | 1 BR · 2 BA · 1,371 sf | $2,125,000 | $1,550/sf | -7.6% |
| Aug 1, 2024 | 5F | 1 BR · 2 BA · 1,371 sf | $2,300,000 | $1,678/sf | +0.0% |
| May 17, 2024 | 4F | 1 BR · 2 BA · 1,371 sf | $1,999,000 | $1,458/sf | +0.0% |
| Feb 23, 2024 | THC | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 2,484 sf | $2,990,000 | $1,204/sf | -11.4% |
| Jan 26, 2023 | 3D | 1 BR · 2 BA · 1,163 sf | $2,134,353 | $1,835/sf | +3.1% |
| Jan 5, 2023 | PHD | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,033 sf | $4,950,739 | $2,435/sf | +7.6% |
| Oct 28, 2022 | 8C | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,733 sf | $3,483,000 | $2,010/sf | -2.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $1,573/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount -2.0% 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 3-00030-7501) 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
Scarcity here is structural. Inside the DUMBO Historic District there is no remaining industrial fabric of scale to convert — the building's "last conversion" position is permanent, not marketing cadence.
Know which of the four products you are buying. Brick-and-timber loft, concrete daylight-factory loft, townhouse-style unit, and penthouse addition are genuinely different assets with different comparables, light, and maintenance profiles.
Read the window disclosures. The oversized triple-glazed windows are a real amenity and a real maintenance item — custom fabrication, long replacement lead times, and LPC jurisdiction over exterior work all appear in the plan.
Model the lean service level. Non-resident superintendent and no doorman-tier staffing keep common charges proportionate; buyers wanting full-service infrastructure should weigh the trade against 70 Washington or the new-development tier.
License terms govern storage and cabanas. These transfer within the building only and are not insured contents-wise by the condominium — have counsel walk through the license terms.
What to know if you’re selling
Sell the dual position. Authentic fabric plus contemporary specification is the combination no other DUMBO building offers; marketing should name it explicitly.
Price within product type. The building average blends four different assets; anchor to same-type history in the building, then to the peer conversions.
Young resale history rewards preparation. With thin building comparables, condition, staging, and a complete diligence package move price more than in established buildings.
Storage or cabana licenses add real value — document them. Confirm transferability mechanics before listing.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 168 Plymouth Street, also evaluate:
- The Clock Tower (1 Main Street) — the founding conversion; the provenance benchmark
- 70 Washington Street — the large-scale Gair conversion; deeper liquidity, older specification
- The Sweeney Building (30 Main Street) — boutique conversion nearest the park
- Kirkman Lofts (37 Bridge Street) — the boutique conversion two blocks east on the Vinegar Hill seam
- 51 Jay Street — east-DUMBO warehouse conversion of the 2010s; the closest specification peer
- 205 Water Street — boutique contemporary condominium on the same side of the neighborhood
- 1 John Street — boutique new development at the park; the ground-up counterpoint
- 98 Front Street — mid-scale new development; the finish-level comparison shop
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. Where this page compares one building or neighborhood to another, that is our analysis of the recorded record — it names the measure, the period and the sample it rests on, and it is an observation about medians rather than a prediction about any particular apartment.
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