279 First Street
279 First Street, near Fifth Avenue · Park Slope
Park Slope, Brooklyn
BBL 3009640057 · BIN 3020601
- Year built
- 1921
- Type
- Cooperative
- Amenities
- Bicycle storage and basement storage; private garden or roof space with selected homes
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not stated
- Maximum financing
- 90% of the purchase price
- Doorman
- No doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median, 2023–2025
- $728K
- 4 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $690K – $1.3M
- Listing discount
- -0.8%
- Recorded transfers
- 32
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279 First Street is a four-story cooperative whose one- and two-bedroom apartments include several forms of private outdoor space. Garden homes occupy the lower portion of the building, while selected upper apartments have roof rights and private decks. Twelve residences share the walk-up near Fifth Avenue.
FD-279 Associates sponsored the cooperative rehabilitation offering, which the Attorney General accepted in February 1987. It became effective in April of that year. The offering covered twelve homes, matching the current residential count.
Architecture and unit composition
City records date the building to 1921. The smaller one-bedroom layouts are commonly around 600 square feet, while two-bedroom examples extend into the seven hundreds. Some apartments use split-bedroom arrangements, with the living area between the bedrooms.
Some homes retain high ceilings, original moldings and wood-burning fireplaces. In-unit laundry has been installed in a number of apartments, and some have exposures on several sides.
Outdoor access changes by position. Lower homes can open to a private rear garden. A top-floor two-bedroom layout has a private roof deck reached one flight above its living level. That route places the outdoor area on a separate level from the apartment itself.
Building operations
Bicycle storage and basement storage supplement the apartments. Dedicated storage has accompanied individual sales, with allocation tied to the particular home. The building remains a walk-up across its four floors.
The cooperative is a Class 2 property without capped assessment growth. No building tax abatement is recorded. Its existing floor-area ratio exceeds the current R6B residential allowance.
Financing and purchase requirements
- Maximum financing
- 90% of the purchase priceSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
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Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not statedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Not verified
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Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Maintenance, per room
- $230 per room a monthMedian of 6 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Maintenance as recorded with each sale. A co-op's maintenance already covers the building's real estate taxes and the building's own mortgage, if it has one; add your own loan payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- No doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- NoSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Garden (private, lower homes), bike storage, storageSource: 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
Recent transfers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 2025 | 4C | 2 BR · 1 BA | $985,000 | -1.0% | |
| May 23, 2025 | 2C | 2 BR · 1 BA · 768 sf | $970,000 | $1,263/sf | +7.8% |
| May 21, 2025 | 3B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $745,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jun 20, 2024 | 1B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $777,000 | +5.7% | |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 4B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $710,000 | +1.6% | |
| Jan 12, 2024 | 3C | 2 BR · 1 BA | $850,000 | +0.0% | |
| Mar 24, 2023 | 1C | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,300,000 | +13.0% | |
| Feb 15, 2023 | 4B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $690,000 | -1.1% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $1,263/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. Median listing discount -0.4% over ask.
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 3-00964-0057). 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 on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
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At the recent median sale of $970K (3 transfers in the past 24 months, since November 12, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $12,188 to close, or 1.3% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $12,188
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
A private roof deck is attached to selected ownership interests. The right to occupy that area and responsibility for maintaining the underlying roof are separate questions. For a roof-rights home, the lease's repair allocation and access provisions matter when the cooperative undertakes roofing work or needs to remove deck surfaces.
Comparable buildings
- 240 Eighth Street — A small prewar cooperative with a similar ownership scale.
- Sterling Atrium — A low-rise cooperative with an unusual building arrangement and limited inventory.
- 904 Union Street — A prewar cooperative with a closely comparable residential count and height.
- The Milk Factory — A larger cooperative conversion nearby for comparing interior volume and shared costs.
- The Presidential — A larger prewar cooperative with more apartments contributing to common expenses.
More Park Slope buildings
- 270 Fifth Street (The Milk Factory) — co-op
- 275 Sixth Avenue — 1920 condominium
- 276 13th Street (5 One 5 Condominiums) — 2008 condominium
- 279 Prospect Avenue — 2004 condominium
- 288 Seventh Street — 1931 condominium
- 291 Sixth Avenue — 1920 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Park Slope.
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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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