- Year built
- 2015
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 134
- Floors
- 8
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Attended lobby, roof terrace, fitness center, playroom, lounge, party room, pet spa, bicycle storage and parking
- Pets
- Confirm with the managing agent.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2013–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $951
- Listing discount
- 2.7%
- Recorded sales
- 152
- On record
- 2013–2026
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The Rennie is an eight-story condominium built on the former Renaissance Ballroom and Casino site in Central Harlem. BRP Companies developed the property with 134 residences, retail, community facilities and below-grade parking. Its name recalls the earlier entertainment venue, a history described by The New York Times when the new condominium entered the market.
The project contains two ownership categories: market-rate apartments and homes carrying income and resale restrictions. The New York Times described 106 market-rate apartments and 27 affordable homes at launch. The market-rate residences have their own open resale activity, including a top-floor studio sold in late 2025. Buyers need to identify which category applies before using another apartment's sale as a comparable.
An active 25-year 421-a benefit is the other major ownership feature. The benefit began in 2020, later than the construction dates attached to the property, and remains active on the 2027 roll. The start of a tax program and the completion of a building are distinct dates here.
Architecture and unit composition
The building occupies a broad boulevard frontage with residential floors above a mixed-use base. Its eight-story scale accommodates a large inventory without a very tall tower. Interior-facing and street-facing apartments have different outlooks, with some homes facing landscaped courtyard areas and others looking across the surrounding streetscape.
The residential mix includes studios, one-bedrooms and larger multi-bedroom homes. Upper-floor apartments include compact studio and one-bedroom configurations as well as larger homes, so a penthouse description does not necessarily signify a large interior. Private terraces occur in selected residences, while the common rooftop serves the building as a whole.
Open kitchens, oak flooring and individually controlled heating and cooling are recurring interior features. In-unit laundry is present in multiple apartment types. The apartments entered service relatively recently, but individual upgrades and alterations can still produce meaningful differences between otherwise similar plans.
The developer identifies solar panels, water-saving plumbing, an energy-efficient boiler and green roofs among the project's environmental elements. These are building systems and landscape features; they should be distinguished from the finishes inside an individual apartment. The development was designed with residential, retail and community uses sharing one larger structure.
Building operations
The Rennie's common facilities include an attended lobby, fitness room, playroom, work and social spaces, and rooftop outdoor access. A pet spa, bicycle storage and parking add practical services to the recreation program. Access to a particular storage area or parking space depends on its own arrangement.
DOF classifies the residential apartments as tax class 2 and the commercial property separately as class 4. Residential class 2 assessment growth is not subject to a statutory annual cap. The 421-a benefit changes the tax treatment during its term, but does not turn that classification into a capped-assessment class.
The 25-year benefit starting in 2020 extends across a substantial portion of a prospective ownership period. Its remaining schedule is therefore relevant to both budgeting and resale. A program's stated term should be read alongside the apartment's billed taxes and applicable phaseout, particularly when comparing a newly purchased home with an earlier owner's costs.
Market-rate and restricted apartments also have different transaction requirements. The latter can have buyer-income limits and resale controls that do not apply in the same way to an unrestricted home. Sharing the same lobby, amenities and building name does not make the two categories interchangeable for financing or valuation.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2026 | PH16 | 1 BA · 508 sf | $485,000 | $955/sf | -9.3% |
| Jul 21, 2026 | 716 | 508 sf | $485,000 | $955/sf | off-mkt |
| Jun 1, 2026 | 204 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,051 sf | $995,000 | $947/sf | -9.5% |
| May 27, 2026 | 208 | 1 BR · 1 BA · 657 sf | $625,000 | $951/sf | -10.1% |
| Apr 16, 2026 | 614 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 903 sf | $855,000 | $947/sf | -7.6% |
| Dec 18, 2025 | PH27 | 1 BA · 553 sf | $500,000 | $904/sf | -10.7% |
| Dec 17, 2025 | 810 | 553 sf | $500,000 | $904/sf | off-mkt |
| May 9, 2025 | 702 | 645 sf | $710,000 | $1,101/sf | off-mkt |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $951/sf across 5 sales. Median listing discount 2.7% 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 1-02006-7502) 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.
At the recent median sale of $710K (12 sales since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $28,214 to close, or 4.0% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- Mortgage recording tax: $10,251
- Title insurance: $3,195
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $14,769
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Harlem — read The Roebling Team Guide to Harlem.
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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