170 Broadway, Brooklyn (The Broadway Arms Condominium)
170 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
BBL 3021327503 · BIN 3378334
- Year built
- 2002
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 11
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
170 Broadway, Brooklyn (The Broadway Arms Condominium) sales history: 29 recorded sales
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $1,285
- floor-adjusted, 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded sales
- 29
- On record
- 2004–2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 170 Broadway, Brooklyn (The Broadway Arms Condominium) 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.
The tax schedule is the headline. This building carries a 25-year 421-a exemption, and the benefit is now in its phase-out. The city's exemption records show the full benefit through 2025/26 and 80% for 2026/27. If the standard 20-point annual steps hold, the benefit reaches 60% in 2027/28, 40% in 2028/29 and 20% in 2029/30, and apartments pay full taxes from 2030/31. Those later steps are a projection from the plan; each year's actual figure comes from the Department of Finance. A buyer here is buying four years of scheduled tax increases.
The second fact is scale: eleven homes on six floors. Assess recorded sales and actual arrears, reserves and expense allocations; unit count alone does not establish a sale’s pricing impact or each owner’s exposure.
The third is what the Sponsor kept. The original plan did not offer the community facility unit or the parking. The Sponsor still owns the cellar community facility unit, which Department of Buildings records show fitted out as medical offices, and one parking space. The reviewed first apartment deeds date to fall 2004, followed by separately named purchasers. Recorded names alone do not establish unrelated beneficial ownership or exclude sponsor affiliates; confirm current holdings.
Architecture and unit composition
The building is a six-story mid-block building with a cellar, built by the same sponsor as the seven-story rental at 158 Broadway next door. The two cellars connect: cars reach 170 Broadway's parking by a ramp through 158's cellar, under an easement the plan required the Sponsor to record.
The apartments run in A and B lines, two per floor from the first through the sixth. The plan assigns balconies and portions of the roof to certain units as limited common elements and bars planters on them. One passenger elevator runs from the cellar to the sixth floor, per the plan's building description.
Apartments 1B and 2B were combined into a single first- and second-floor duplex under Department of Buildings alteration 321370841, filed in 2016 and signed off.
Building operations
The 421-a schedule. The plan describes a benefit of 100% for 21 years on the increase in assessed value, then 20-point annual reductions, for 25 years in all. The Department of Finance records match that shape. This is an older 25-year benefit, not the 421-a(16) homeownership program. Get the specific unit's current bill and model the next four years' increases.
Sponsor litigation, settled. Per the audited statements on file, the condominium sued the Sponsor in 2009 over system and construction deficiencies and settled in January 2012 for $340,000. The money sits in a reserve drawn down as defects are fixed; the statements say it was not known whether it would cover all the work.
Capital and assessments. The board levied a $400,000 special assessment in the year ended June 30, 2020, for façade repairs (Department of Buildings job 321972914). Those statements, now six years old, showed expenses above common-charge revenue in both years covered and no reserve study. Ask for the current budget, the latest audited statements, the settlement reserve balance and any assessment still being collected.
Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Common charges + taxes, per square foot
- $1.13 per square foot a monthMedian of 3 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Common charges plus real estate taxes, combined into one monthly figure the way New York condominium listings show them. Add a mortgage payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 limits apply to a building on its own. It is still covered if it shares a tax lot or condominium board with buildings totaling over 50,000 sq ft; confirm on DOB’s covered-buildings list.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. A filed Safe grade is not a guarantee of current condition: owners still maintain the facade and, where required, observe parapets each year. Future inspection timing (Local Law 49 of 2025 changed the cycle framework from October 1, 2026), repair and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2015–20 to 2025–30. 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 data last refreshed October 2026.
Recent sales
170 Broadway trades as small 2000s new construction on the South Side. Price it by the square foot against the other abated condominiums built around the Williamsburg Bridge in the same decade. Model the documented tax phase-out and current service costs, then compare actual sales for duplexes, outdoor space and upper floors; neither an automatic discount nor a fixed price hierarchy is established. Measure turnover over a defined period from recorded transfers; eleven homes do not establish annual sales frequency or the influence of one transaction. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Recent closings at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 2026 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA · 807 sf | $1,099,000 | $1,362/sf | +0.0% |
| Oct 14, 2025 | 2B | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 807 sf | $2,180,000 | $2,701/sf | — |
| May 21, 2024 | 6A | 2 BR · 1 BA · 807 sf | $1,032,500 | $1,279/sf | -6.1% |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 4A | 2 BR · 1 BA · 807 sf | $1,100,000 | $1,363/sf | +0.0% |
| Oct 5, 2022 | 2A | 2 BR · 807 sf | $999,999 | $1,239/sf | — |
| Oct 3, 2022 | 3A | 2 BR · 1 BA · 807 sf | $1,100,000 | $1,363/sf | +4.8% |
| Jun 18, 2021 | 3A | 2 BR · 1 BA · 807 sf | $995,000 | $1,233/sf | +0.0% |
| Feb 12, 2021 | 1B | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,600 sf | $1,950,000 | $1,219/sf | -2.4% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,285/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last 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 3-02132-7503; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. 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.
Closed rents at 170 Broadway, Brooklyn (The Broadway Arms Condominium), last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| 2 bedroom | 4 | $5,500 |
4 closed leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease August 2026. Based on few leases. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
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What to know if you’re buying
Model the tax step-up. Carry each year of the phase-out from 2026/27 to 2030/31 in the budget, not just the current bill.
Read the settlement file. Ask what the 2012 settlement money has paid for, what is left, and whether any listed defect is still open.
Ask about the façade and any open assessment. Confirm whether the 2019–2020 façade work is complete and whether any charge from it is still being collected.
Understand the cellar. Ask how the medical-office unit and the parking spaces share building costs. The right of first refusal does not reach their sales or leases.
What to know if you’re selling
Put the tax schedule in front of the buyer. Early disclosure supports an informed carrying-cost comparison; it does not determine whether a buyer renegotiates.
Have the right-of-first-refusal waiver planned. The board has 45 days to respond. Build that into the contract timeline.
Lead with the unit. Outdoor space, the duplex and upper-floor light are what separate one apartment here from the next.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 170 Broadway, also evaluate:
- 138 Broadway — the 1884 loft conversion on the same block, with its J-51 already expired
- 34 South 9th Street — ground-up South Side new construction with enclosed parking
- 42 Broadway — Broadway new construction with a ground-floor commercial unit
- Bridgeview Towers (26 Broadway) — abated 2000s construction near the bridge, with a garage
- 150 South 1st Street — elevator new construction with commercial space and parking
- 46 South 2nd Street — ground-up South Side condominium with deeded parking
- 98 Havemeyer Street — small-scale South Side new construction, walk-up format
More Williamsburg buildings
- 165 North 10th Street (The Decora) — 2008 condominium
- 167 Devoe Street — 1901 condominium
- 17 North Henry Street — condominium
- 170 North 11th Street (Lucent Condominium) — 2007 condominium
- 170 South First Street — 2015 condominium
- 170 Williamsburg Street East — condominium
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Williamsburg.
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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