226 Clifton Place
226 Clifton Place, Brooklyn, NY 11216
BBL 3019547503 · BIN 3055817
- Year built
- 2017
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 24
- Floors
- 5
- Landmark
- No
Own an apartment here? See what it would sell for.
A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 226 Clifton Place 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 small, straightforward new-construction condominium: 24 apartments in a five-story Karl Fischer building on Bedford Avenue, with a retail unit at grade. Its records are unusually clean. The sponsor sold all 24 apartments in about twelve weeks, from November 14, 2017 to February 7, 2018, each to a separate buyer, and conveyed the commercial unit a month later. There is no sponsor inventory, no rental block and no retained residential unit. Resales since 2021 are on record.
The apartment mix is the second point. Every residence falls between about 600 and 1,000 square feet, in a regular six-unit floor plate repeated on four floors. That puts the building in the one-bedroom and smaller two-bedroom tier, a different product from the large-format condominiums elsewhere in northern Bedford-Stuyvesant and South Williamsburg.
The tax position is the third. Many Brooklyn condominiums filed in 2014 carry a 421-a benefit. This one shows none on any roll from 2021 onward. For a buyer, that means the tax bill is already at its full level and will not rise when a benefit expires. For a seller, it means competing against buildings whose tax line is still subsidized.
Architecture and unit composition
Karl Fischer's new-building application describes a five-story brick mixed-use building with a cellar holding commercial space, residential storage and utility rooms. The Department of Finance attributes about 35,800 gross square feet to the building. It replaced an earlier building on the corner, demolished under a job signed off in March 2015.
Each residential floor holds the same six lines, per the roll:
- A: about 928 square feet
- B: about 981
- C: about 977
- D: about 608
- E: about 992
- F: about 640
The upper floors repeat that plan exactly, so floor height and exposure are the main differences between units in the same line. Bedroom counts and outdoor space are not documented in the records reviewed.
The commercial unit. The ground-floor and cellar unit (about 7,200 square feet) was conveyed to a separate commercial owner in March 2018. Department of Buildings filings show it fitted out in 2018–19 under an alteration that changed occupancy and egress on the cellar and first floor, with a fire-alarm system filed for a day-care facility, and divided into more than one space with a new first-floor entrance in 2019–20. Ask the managing agent who occupies the commercial space now, what uses the declaration allows, and how the commercial unit's share of common charges was set.
Building operations
Full taxes, no abatement. The Department of Finance property-exemption file carries no exemption on any of the 25 unit lots for the 2021 through 2027 tax years. Whether the building held any benefit in its first tax years is not visible in the digitized file; the Department of Finance can answer that for a specific unit. At the 2027 assessments and a Class 2 rate of roughly 12.5 percent, taxes work out to about $6,700 a year for the smallest apartments and about $11,400 for the largest. These are our estimates from the roll, not bills.
The ground-floor unit carries the largest assessment in the building by far. Ask how its common-charge percentage compares with its share of the building's area.
Staffing, amenities, the operating budget, reserves and assessments are not documented in sources we can verify. On a building of nearly nine years, ask about roof and facade warranties, mechanical systems, and any construction-defect claims against the sponsor.
Recent sales
226 Clifton Place trades as boutique post-2015 new construction with small-to-mid-size apartments. Benchmark it on a dollars-per-square-foot basis against condominiums of the same generation in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill, adjusting for two things. The first is size: apartments under 1,000 square feet usually trade at a higher price per foot than the large-format product nearby. The second is tax: a building with no abatement carries a higher monthly cost than a building with an active 421-a, and the fair comparison is full monthly carrying cost at current taxes and common charges. The building is fully sold, so resales do not compete with sponsor pricing. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent closings at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2026 | 4B | $1,195,000 |
| Mar 30, 2022 | 5C | $1,120,000 |
| Mar 15, 2022 | 4A | $1,073,000 |
| Jan 21, 2022 | 5E | $1,165,000 |
| Sep 24, 2021 | 3D | $719,950 |
| Sep 22, 2021 | 3F | $729,000 |
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 3-01954-7503) 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.
Buying here? Condo closing costs with a mortgage typically run 3 to 6% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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What to know if you’re buying
The tax bill is stable. With no exemption to burn off, the current bill is the right basis for underwriting. Confirm it on the unit's own Department of Finance record.
Ask about the commercial unit. Its use, its lease terms if leased, and its common-charge share all affect the building. The declaration governs what it can be used for.
Ask for the capital and warranty record. Get the budget, reserve balance, any assessments and any open claims against the sponsor.
Get the policy stack. Leasing minimums, pets, move fees and any right of first refusal are not documented in sources we can verify.
What to know if you’re selling
Show full carrying cost. Against buildings with active abatements, this building's tax line looks higher. Against buildings whose 421-a is about to end, it looks better. Frame the comparison around the monthly number.
Lead with the plan. A regular floor plate and apartments in the most liquid size range are the building's selling points.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 226 Clifton Place, also evaluate:
- 136 Clifton Place — The Clifton Place Condominium a block west, 32 walk-up residences completed in 2012 with a 25-year 421-a; the tax contrast
- 315 Gates Avenue (315 Gates) — another Karl Fischer condominium on Bedford Avenue, a few blocks south
- 525 Myrtle Avenue — a 22-residence 2017 Clinton Hill condominium of the same vintage, with a 15-year 421-a in its step-down
- 111 Steuben Street (The Absolute) — a 35-residence Clinton Hill condominium whose 421-a phase-out is complete
- 105 Lexington Avenue — a 32-unit Bedford-Stuyvesant loft conversion
- 87 Irving Place — a 25-unit Clinton Hill condominium sold out in 2025
- 92 Stockton Street — the Cascade D Condominium in northern Bedford-Stuyvesant; larger apartments and an active 25-year 421-a
More Bedford-Stuyvesant buildings
- 105 Lexington Avenue — 1930 condominium
- 136 Clifton Place — new-construction condominium by Karl Fischer Architects
- 315 Gates Avenue (315 Gates) — 2009 condominium by Karl Fischer Architects
- 524 Halsey Street — 1904 condominium
- 600-610 DeKalb Avenue, 600 and 610 DeKalb Avenue — 2024 condominium
- 859 Myrtle Avenue — 2018 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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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