180 South 4th Street, Brooklyn
180 South 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
BBL 3024467501 · BIN 3063463
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 12
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Dogs
- Permitted
- Cats
- Not stated
- Doorman
- No doorman
180 South 4th Street, Brooklyn sales history: 26 recorded sales
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $1,115
- floor-adjusted, 2 sales
- Listing discount
- 2.0%
- Recorded sales
- 26
- On record
- 2005–2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 180 South 4th Street, Brooklyn 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.
This is a rental conversion, and that fact shapes everything else. Washington Plaza Associates owned and operated the building as rental housing from 1989. Its offering plan converted it under a non-eviction plan, so tenants who did not buy could stay on. The plan states that the building had no rent-regulated apartments. The Sponsor then sold every apartment, and the commercial unit, to individual buyers between August and December 2005. It holds nothing on the current roll. Those titled transfers do not establish whether owners are unrelated or whether all sponsor rights ended. Verify current beneficial holdings and the billboard right expressly reserved in the plan.
The second fact is the tax line. The building carries no 421-a or J-51 benefit and has not in any year of the Department of Finance records reviewed.
Third, this is a small building. It has twelve apartments, two per floor, and one commercial owner. Each owner's share of any repair is correspondingly large.
Architecture and unit composition
The building rises six stories over a cellar on a 44-foot lot. Its apartments run in north and south lines, one of each per floor. The Department of Finance classes the apartments R2, its code for condominium units in a walk-up building. The house rules and plan text mention elevator doors in their standard maintenance language, but the plan pages reviewed do not describe elevator service. Confirm whether there is an elevator before you rely on it.
The ground floor was reworked in the conversion. A 2003 alteration filing proposed offices and a dwelling unit on the first floor. A 2006 job renovated the store, added a stair to the cellar, and reinforced floor joists on the fifth and sixth floors. The plan described two commercial units, then used as an office, a store and a studio. The current roll shows one commercial lot, C1, and a first floor that includes apartments 1N and 1S. The plan gives the commercial owner broad rights to subdivide, combine and lease.
Building operations
Capital work on record. The Department of Buildings records façade restoration and roofing (2010), removal of an exterior fire escape (2010), a main roof replacement (2010), and an HVAC installation (2013), plus apartment renovations since. Ask what each covered, whether permits were closed out, and what is planned.
The billboard. The offering plan reserved to the Sponsor the right to keep a billboard on the roof and collect its rent, at the Sponsor's own cost for maintenance and any damage. Per the plan, title to each unit was conveyed subject to that right. Ask whether the sign is still there, who owns the right today, and whether the condominium receives anything from it.
Finances. The offering-plan financials date from 2001 and 2002 and describe the building as a rental. Ask the managing agent for the current budget, the latest audited statements, the reserve balance, and how common charges are split between the apartments and the commercial unit.
Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Dogs
- PermittedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Cats
- Not statedThe source permits pets without naming cats.Source: The Roebling Team's building profile
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Not verified
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Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Common charges + taxes, per square foot
- $1.30 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.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- No doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
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 →Photographs of 180 South 4th Street, Brooklyn
Recent sales
180 South 4th Street trades as a small South Side conversion. Price it by the square foot against Williamsburg's other rental and industrial conversions rather than against elevator new construction. The walk-up classification and the lack of amenities are the discounts. Use current unit tax bills and verify current ownership and retained rights; the historical sellout does not resolve the billboard reservation or all beneficial interests. Twelve apartments describes the residential count, not annual sales volume. Review dated transfers and supplement a thin sample with comparable buildings. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2026 | 1S | 2.5 BA · 2,202 sf | $1,683,869 | $765/sf | — |
| Apr 16, 2026 | 4N | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,571 sf | $2,300,000 | $1,464/sf | +15.3% |
| Sep 9, 2025 | 2S | 1,438 sf | $1,850,000 | $1,287/sf | — |
| May 10, 2024 | 4S | 3 BR · 1 BA · 1,486 sf | $1,949,000 | $1,312/sf | +2.6% |
| Jan 21, 2022 | 5N | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,651 sf | $1,750,000 | $1,060/sf | -2.5% |
| Oct 1, 2019 | 4S | 3 BR · 1 BA · 1,486 sf | $1,625,000 | $1,094/sf | -3.0% |
| Apr 7, 2017 | 5N | 3 BR · 1,651 sf | $1,700,000 | $1,030/sf | -2.0% |
| Sep 14, 2016 | 4S | 3 BR · 1 BA · 1,438 sf | $1,525,000 | $1,061/sf | -4.4% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,115/sf (floor-adjusted) across 2 sales. 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 2.0% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
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 3-02446-7501; 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.
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At the recent median sale of $1.85M (3 sales in the past 24 months, since November 10, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $75,744 to close, or 4.1% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $18,500
- Mortgage recording tax: $26,709
- Title insurance: $8,325
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $22,210
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
Settle the elevator question. City classification says walk-up. Confirm it on the premises.
Pin down the right of first refusal. The plan says both yes and no. The recorded by-laws decide, and they affect your closing timeline.
Ask about the roof. The billboard reservation, the 2S terrace and the no-access rule for everyone else all bear on what the roof is worth to you, and on who pays when it leaks.
Check the commercial unit's rights. Its owner can subdivide, combine and lease without the board's permission. Read those provisions of the declaration.
What to know if you’re selling
Show a clean tax line. There is no abatement to expire. Put the current bill in the package.
Document the capital work. The 2010 façade and roof work and any later projects answer the first question a conversion building raises.
Answer the plan's contradictions before a buyer's attorney finds them. Have the by-laws' right-of-first-refusal clause and the billboard status ready.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 180 South 4th Street, also evaluate:
- 138 Broadway — the South Side's large iron-front loft conversion nearby, whose J-51 has expired
- The Mill Building (85 North 3rd Street) — a non-eviction conversion of a 1910 industrial building
- 242 South 1st Street — a South Side conversion of an existing manufacturing building
- 338 Berry Street — a South Side loft conversion and enlargement
- Berry Street Lofts (55 Berry Street) — a light-manufacturing conversion on the Northside
- The Rialto (150 North 5th Street) — an early-twentieth-century conversion at similar scale
- 170 Broadway — nearby small new construction, for contrast on a 421-a phase-out
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- 172 North 10th Street — 1920 condominium
- 176 Frost Street — condominium
- 179 Richardson Street, 179 Richardson Street · Williamsburg — condominium
- 181 Jackson Street — 2023 condominium
- 185 Ainslie Street — 1901 condominium
- 185 Skillman Avenue — 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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