Bommer Building
272 Willoughby Avenue, between Classon Avenue and Taaffe Place, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
BBL 3019247501 · BIN 3343740
- Year built
- 1920
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 94
- Floors
- 5
- Amenities
- Elevator, shared laundry and resident superintendent
- 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, 2004–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $531
- floor-adjusted, 1 sale
- Recorded sales
- 28
- On record
- 2004–2026
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The Bommer Building occupies a substantial former factory property at Willoughby and Classon Avenues. Its name preserves the connection to spring-hinge manufacturing. The Brooklyn Public Library identifies the surviving building with the Bommer works, and historical construction reporting places a factory on the south side of Willoughby Avenue before the 1920 date carried by PLUTO.
The current property contains 94 condominium residences across five floors. Its residential inventory includes substantial multiroom apartments, with individual ownership transfers continuing alongside rental activity. The building's size and broad footprint distinguish it from the smaller converted houses on nearby blocks.
Ownership remains concentrated: one owner holds 46 of the 94 residential units according to DOF. That is just under half the apartments. The concentration is a material part of the association's structure, even though individual homes have sold to other owners over many years.
Architecture and unit composition
The building is a low-rise industrial shell with a large residential floor plate. Historical records describe brick factory construction and alterations associated with the hinge works. The surviving factory identity is also marked by the Bommer Building name above its entrance.
The residential layouts include two- and three-bedroom homes, with some larger apartments providing more than one bathroom. Broad living areas, separate bedrooms and varied kitchen arrangements appear in the inventory. Some homes have an open kitchen connected to the living space; others have a more distinct dining or eat-in area.
The transfer history includes apartments with substantial interior areas. A large floor plate isn't a legal bedroom count or a measure of daylight; check the certificate of occupancy and window placement for a given unit before relying on either.
The Willoughby Avenue and Classon Avenue addresses identify the same condominium property. An apartment may appear under either street frontage in transaction and rental descriptions. The correct legal unit and its allocation within the condominium need to match the residence being transferred.
The five-story height should not be confused with a small ownership association. Ninety-four residences share the property, and the combination of individual owners and a large single-owner holding affects the association's operating structure. Individual rentals within the building do not change a deeded condominium apartment into cooperative ownership.
Building operations
Elevator service, shared laundry and a resident superintendent support the residential operation. The building's service package centers on those practical facilities. Its former industrial scale also means that the roof, exterior walls and common circulation areas serve a substantial amount of residential floor area within only five stories.
The largest owner's 46 apartments are an important point for mortgage underwriting and governance. A lender may review the concentration alongside owner occupancy and the association's financial position. The number of units held does not, by itself, establish the percentage of voting interests, since votes and common interests can follow the condominium documents.
All 94 unit lots are classified as residential Class 2. No building-wide tax abatement appears in the DOF benefit record. The tax class carries no assessment-growth cap, and the apartment's tax bill is separate from the condominium's common charges.
PLUTO records a built floor-area ratio below the base residential figure for the current zoning district. That gap isn't a right to expand the building; any development proposal would depend on the legal lot, ownership of air rights and the other applicable restrictions, as well as the condominium's approval requirements.
Building staffing and amenities
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Laundry roomSource: 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
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $36,499/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $32
- Modeled exposure split equally across 94 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; condominium owners are typically charged by each unit's common-interest percentage.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Recent sales
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2026 | 3G | 1,845 sf | $980,000 | $531/sf |
| Jun 9, 2025 | 3B | 1,470 sf | $999,000 | $680/sf |
| Jul 3, 2024 | 2F | 1,815 sf | $1,272,812 | $701/sf |
| Feb 23, 2022 | 4I | 1,603 sf | $650,000 | $405/sf |
| Feb 17, 2022 | 1E | 1,747 sf | $1,078,500 | $617/sf |
| Oct 29, 2019 | 3F | 1,803 sf | $485,000 | $269/sf |
| Jul 23, 2015 | 5I | 1,858 sf | $560,000 | $301/sf |
| Jan 7, 2015 | 2D | 1,270 sf | $499,900 | $394/sf |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $531/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.
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 3-01924-7501; 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.
Closed rents at Bommer Building, last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| 3 bedroom | 6 | $4,100 |
7 closed leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease March 2026. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
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What to know if you’re buying
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Comparable buildings
- The Kent: A nearby industrial condominium conversion with a similar overall residential scale.
- 10 Quincy Street: A warehouse conversion with fewer residences and a lower-rise form.
- 105 Lexington Avenue: A smaller converted industrial condominium for comparing loft layouts and association scale.
- Lofts on Lex: A conversion with a mixed historic shell and a much smaller ownership inventory.
- Shoe Factory Lofts: A factory condominium at a substantially smaller scale, useful for buyers weighing industrial space against association size.
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- Clinton Hill Village, 963–965 Kent Avenue — 2003 condominium
- Marcy Villa, 594 Marcy Avenue — 2016 condominium
- The Brick Lofts (386 Kosciuszko Street) — 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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