211 North 5th Street
211 North 5th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
BBL 3023377501 · BIN 3062248
- Year built
- 2004
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 10
- Floors
- 6
- Amenities
- Elevator (key-locked), furnished roof deck, private gardens for the first-floor units and private terraces for two upper units, per listing records
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
Every recorded sale at this building, 2007–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $1,435
- floor-adjusted, 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 3.1%
- Recorded sales
- 17
- On record
- 2007–2026
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211 North 5th Street was part of the first wave of Northside new construction. Its DOB filing came in December 2001, and its apartments closed in the winter of 2004–05. It is a six-story elevator building with ten apartments, on a block of mostly three- and four-story houses and walk-ups between Driggs Avenue and Roebling Street. The Bedford Avenue L station at North 7th Street is about two blocks away.
All ten apartments are about 1,160 to 1,490 square feet. There are no studios or small one-bedrooms, which is unusual for a building this size.
The tax position is simple. The building's 15-year 421-a exemption ended with the 2019/20 tax year. Owners have paid full taxes for six years, so the current tax bill is the real one. There is no step-up ahead.
Architecture and unit composition
The building. DOB records a six-story, 67-foot new building on a 5,000-square-foot site that combines two former tax lots, 32 and 33. The architect of record is Gene Kaufman. A separate 2002 application for a four-story building on lot 33 was approved but not built.
The residences. The unit designations and Department of Finance areas give the layout. There are three residences on the first floor: 1A (about 1,160 square feet), 1B (about 1,300) and 1C (about 1,490). Floors two through four each have two residences of about 1,280 to 1,295 square feet. At the top there is a single penthouse of about 1,295 square feet on the Department of Finance roll. Listing records describe private gardens for the first-floor residences and terraces for two upper residences; confirm any unit's outdoor space in the declaration.
Zoning. PLUTO now maps the block R6B, the contextual district mapped across much of the upland Northside in the 2005 rezoning. The 2001 filing was made under R6. A building filed today on this lot would face R6B's lower height limits.
Building operations
Taxes. The Department of Finance exemption file shows code 5113, "421A 15 YR NO CAP," on all ten residences, with a 2002 base year and a 2005/06 benefit start. The benefit ended after 2019/20, and every residence has been fully taxed since 2020/21. The residences are in tax class 2C. Their assessed values have risen each year since the exemption ended. Look at the unit's actual current bill and the trend over the last few rolls, not the building average.
Sponsor position. The sponsor has no remaining units. It sold all ten between December 2004 and February 2005 to separate buyers, per ACRIS, and the building has resold steadily since.
Management. Ten owners share one elevator, a roof deck and a small budget. Get the current budget, the reserve balance, any assessment history, the elevator contract and the roof and façade maintenance records from the managing agent.
Building staffing and amenities
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of Buildings elevator records
- Amenities noted
- Roof deckSource: 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 →Recent sales
211 North 5th Street trades as early-2000s Northside new construction, priced in dollars per square foot. Because the apartments are similar in size, the differences come from floor, outdoor space and condition. The garden units and the penthouse set the top of the building's range. ACRIS shows one deed since January 2022, the August 2026 resale of unit 2A at $1,836,450, so price any new listing against current Northside comparables of similar age as well.
Indexed to 2025 as the last complete year, the older Northside condominiums near the Bedford Avenue L traded below the new waterfront towers.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2026 | 2A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,280 sf | $1,836,450 | $1,435/sf | -3.1% |
| Dec 22, 2021 | 4A | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,575 sf | $1,500,000 | $952/sf | -18.9% |
| May 20, 2021 | 2A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,280 sf | $1,475,000 | $1,152/sf | +1.7% |
| Jan 28, 2021 | 2B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,250 sf | $1,425,000 | $1,140/sf | -1.7% |
| Oct 29, 2020 | 1A | 1 BR · 2 BA · 1,161 sf | $1,150,000 | $991/sf | -9.8% |
| Feb 5, 2020 | 1C | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,488 sf | $1,375,000 | $924/sf | -8.0% |
| Jun 7, 2017 | 3A | 2 BR · 1,280 sf | $1,435,000 | $1,121/sf | +0.0% |
| Dec 2, 2016 | 1A | 1 BR · 2 BA · 1,161 sf | $1,050,000 | $904/sf | -12.1% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,435/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 3.1% 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 3-02337-7501; 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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What to know if you’re buying
The tax bill is final. The 421-a ended in 2020. Run True Monthly Carrying Cost on the current bill and allow for continued assessment increases.
Confirm the house rules directly. The offering plan copy on file cannot be read. Pet, leasing and alteration rules, and any right of first refusal, come from the declaration and by-laws. Get them from the managing agent.
Verify the outdoor space. Gardens and terraces are the main difference between units of the same size. Confirm in the declaration that the space is tied to the unit you are buying.
Ask about capital work. Ask the managing agent about the elevator, the roof membrane, façade inspections and any assessment under discussion.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 211 North 5th Street, also evaluate:
- 161 North 4th Street — a 37-residence condominium one block south, fully taxed since its 15-year 421-a ended
- 101 North 5th Street — a 40-residence condominium on the same street near Berry Street, 421-a expired
- 90 North 5th Street — a 23-residence condominium on North 5th, fully taxed since July 2025
- 120 North 7th Street — a 27-residence Northside condominium from the same era, fully taxed
- 100 North 3rd Street — a 24-residence Northside condominium, fully taxed since 2024
- 2 Bayard Street — a 19-residence condominium from the same era facing McCarren Park, fully taxed
More Williamsburg buildings
- 202 Division Avenue — 1998 condominium
- 207 North 8th Street — 2023 condominium
- 210 South First Street, 210 South First Street · Williamsburg — condominium
- 212 North 9th Street (Two12 Williamsburg) — 2015 condominium by Karl Fischer Architects
- 214 Middleton Street, 214 Middleton Street · Williamsburg — 2005 condominium
- 215 North 10th Street (NX) — 2020 condominium by Morris Adjmi Architects
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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