First Columbia Terrace
250 Columbia Street, between President and Carroll Streets · Columbia Waterfront
BBL 3003477501 · BIN 3004607
- Year built
- 1986
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 27
- Floors
- 2
- Landmark
- No
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
- $1,061
- Recorded sales
- 14
- On record
- 2004–2026
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First Columbia Terrace is a low-rise condominium dating to 1986 on the Columbia Waterfront. Its two-story buildings contain compact apartments with a much lower physical profile than the neighborhood's converted loft buildings. The Columbia Street address also appears in transactions for homes entered from Carroll Street.
The tax classification is a significant part of the ownership structure. DOF carries the residential unit lots in Class 1A. Buyers comparing carrying costs with a larger apartment condominium are therefore comparing properties in different tax classes, even though both use condominium ownership.
The location is west of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, between President and Carroll Streets. Carroll Gardens lies across the expressway, while Columbia Street provides the development's main north-south setting. The homes are part of the neighborhood's late-twentieth-century low-rise housing stock.
Architecture and unit composition
The two-story form creates ground-floor and upper-floor apartment categories. Two-bedroom, one-bath layouts around 800 to 860 square feet appear in the inventory. Upper-floor flats have traded alongside ground-floor homes with garden space.
A Carroll Street apartment within First Columbia Terrace has a plan area of 862 square feet. Its position on the top floor identifies the low-rise scale of that part of the development. Renovated and estate-condition apartments both appear in the resale history, with interior condition varying significantly between homes.
The development uses more than one entrance address. A home offered under 250 Columbia Street may have its actual front door on Carroll Street. The street address of the entrance is consequently a material part of understanding the apartment's location within the condominium.
Building operations
The condominium's residential lots are individually owned, with the largest owner holding one of 51 residential lots. The tax roll does not show a building-wide exemption; personal owner exemptions are separate from a development-wide benefit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | — | 862 sf | $915,000 | $1,061/sf | off-mkt |
| Jan 4, 2024 | 9E2 | 2 BR · 1 BA · 862 sf | $762,000 | $884/sf | +0.0% |
| Jan 3, 2024 | — | 862 sf | $795,000 | $922/sf | off-mkt |
| Sep 20, 2021 | — | 759 sf | $900,000 | $1,186/sf | off-mkt |
| Apr 29, 2011 | — | 862 sf | $545,000 | $632/sf | off-mkt |
| Jan 23, 2006 | 40 | 794 sf | $435,000 | $548/sf | off-mkt |
| Sep 29, 2005 | 9G | 772 sf | $350,000 | $453/sf | off-mkt |
| Jun 7, 2005 | — | 787 sf | $463,000 | $588/sf | off-mkt |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,061/sf across 1 sale.
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 3-00347-7501) 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.
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
Identify the condominium phase as well as the entrance. Several Columbia Terrace developments use nearby addresses. Here, the condominium billing lot is Brooklyn block 347, lot 7501; the apartment's own lot and entrance address should correspond to that development. A sale elsewhere in the Columbia Terrace group may carry a similar street label while belonging to a different association.
Comparable buildings
- Fifth Columbia Terrace — A nearby low-rise condominium from the same broad period of waterfront housing development.
- 60 Tiffany Place — A condominium loft conversion offering a different interior scale within the Columbia Waterfront.
- The Maritime — A larger elevator condominium for comparison with the low-rise apartments here.
- 344 Degraw Street — A condominium with a similar-sized residential inventory in a taller building.
- 361 Clinton Street — A smaller low-rise condominium on the Carroll Gardens side of the expressway.
More Columbia Waterfront buildings
- 49 Summit Street — condominium
- 60 Tiffany Place — 1978 condominium
- 75 Columbia Street — 2008 condominium
- 84 Congress Street — 2015 condominium
- Kane 1.1.3, 113 Kane Street — 2013 condominium
- The Govley, 76 Congress Street — 2020 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Columbia Waterfront.
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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