300 Rector Place (Battery Pointe)
300 Rector Place, New York, NY 10280
BBL 1000167507 · BIN 1065321
- Year built
- 1986
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 153
- Floors
- 9
- Amenities
- Fitness room overlooking the private landscaped courtyard garden, furnished roof terrace with Hudson River views, children's playroom, private garden with seating
- Pets
- Not firmly documented in public records — verify with the managing agent
- Land
- Owned by the building's owners
- The Roebling Team's building profile
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- Full-time doorman
300 Rector Place (Battery Pointe) sales history: 185 recorded sales
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
- $939
- floor-adjusted, 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 3.0%
- Recorded sales
- 185
- On record
- 2004–2026
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Battery Pointe is one of the original Rector Place condominiums — part of the 1980s build-out that made Battery Park City the most fully realized master-planned residential neighborhood in Manhattan. The Cooper, Eckstut design guidelines deliberately modeled the district on the city's best older residential fabric — Gramercy Park, Riverside Drive, the Brooklyn Heights Esplanade — and Battery Pointe's neo-Georgian red brick over a white stone base is among the most literal expressions of that intent. Bond Ryder James designed it as a pair with the Soundings across South End Avenue: two nine-story corner buildings that anchor the low-rise, garden-scaled end of the Rector Place composition.
The building's market position follows from its structure as much as its architecture. Like nearly every condominium in Battery Park City, Battery Pointe is a qualified leasehold condominium: unit owners own their apartments as leasehold interests, the Battery Park City Authority owns the land, and the building pays ground rent plus PILOT in lieu of conventional real estate taxes. The practical result is purchase prices that run at a visible discount to comparable view product elsewhere downtown, paired with monthly carrying costs that run higher — a trade every Battery Park City buyer should price deliberately rather than discover at the closing table.
What distinguishes Battery Pointe within that framework is documentation. The Roebling Research Library holds the original June 27, 1986 offering plan, amendments with early audited financial statements, and — most consequentially — the September 2011 amendment to the BPCA ground lease, negotiated in the era when eleven Battery Park City condominium boards organized collectively to restructure their ground-rent escalations. That amendment replaced near-term appraisal-based resets with a fixed, published rent schedule running through 2041, pushing fair-market reappraisal out to the 55th anniversary of the building's first certificate of occupancy. For a leasehold building, a known rent curve is the single most important underwriting fact, and at Battery Pointe it is on file.
At nine stories and 153 units on a corner one block from the Esplanade, the building offers something the corridor's towers do not: low-rise scale, a private interior garden, and proximity to the waterfront without elevator-bank anonymity.
Architecture and unit composition
The nine-story building has red-brick upper floors and a two-story white stone base, with an arcaded ground level along Rector Place, banded detailing at the top two floors, and night illumination that makes the crown legible from the Esplanade. The building uses a direct-upfeed water system rather than a traditional rooftop tank. The roughly 153 apartments run from studios and one-bedrooms through two- and three-bedroom corner lines; west-facing units catch Hudson River light and sunset views, while east- and courtyard-facing apartments overlook the building's private landscaped garden. Scale, not spectacle, is the product — ceilings, layouts, and finishes are 1980s-conventional, and renovated units trade at a clear premium.
Building operations
Full-service at boutique scale: 24-hour doorman, live-in superintendent, fitness room overlooking the garden, furnished roof terrace with river views, and a children's playroom. The commercial unit at the base was retained by the sponsor at offering and remains a separate unit per the plan. Operations are conventional condominium governance — a unit-owner board of managers, which also serves as tenant of record under the BPCA ground lease on behalf of all unit owners. The offering plan, amendments, early audited financials, and the 2011 ground-lease amendment are on file in The Roebling Research Library.
Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Common charges + taxes, per room
- $789 per room a monthMedian of 5 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Common charges + taxes, per square foot
- $3.67 per square foot a monthMedian of 7 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Common charges alone, per square foot
- $1.90 per square foot a monthMedian of 10 listings since October 2023 that give the annual taxSource: listing records, refreshed October 2026
- Real estate taxes alone, per square foot
- $1.89 per square foot a monthMedian of 10 listings since October 2023 that give the annual taxSource: listing records, refreshed October 2026
Common charges plus real estate taxes, combined into one monthly figure the way New York condominium listings show them. Add a mortgage payment for the monthly outlay. The split into common charges and taxes comes from the listings that also give the annual tax, a different sample, so the two lines need not add up exactly to the combined median; a tax abatement can hold taxes below the full amount until it expires. A summary of recorded sales and listings, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Full-time doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Concierge
- YesSource: recent listing records
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of Buildings elevator records
- Amenities noted
- Fitness room, playroom, roof deck, gardenSource: 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
- $11,591/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $6
- Modeled exposure split equally across 153 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 September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the inspector (QEWI) identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair, with repairs due by the deadline stated in the filing. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed September 2026.
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 | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2026 | 8ML | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,300 sf | $1,270,000 | $977/sf | -1.9% |
| Dec 19, 2025 | 2R | 1 BA · 565 sf | $533,000 | $943/sf | -6.5% |
| Dec 10, 2025 | 6E | 1 BR · 1 BA · 665 sf | $625,000 | $940/sf | -1.6% |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 4T | 562 sf | $475,000 | $845/sf | — |
| Jul 8, 2025 | 7F | 1 BR · 1 BA · 625 sf | $585,000 | $936/sf | -6.4% |
| Feb 5, 2025 | 8M | 1 BR · 635 sf | $1,270,000 | $2,000/sf | — |
| May 31, 2024 | 7C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 625 sf | $615,000 | $984/sf | -1.6% |
| Sep 28, 2023 | 6F | 1 BR · 1 BA · 625 sf | $630,000 | $1,008/sf | -9.9% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $939/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. Median listing discount 3.0% 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 1-00016-7507; 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 300 Rector Place (Battery Pointe), last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom | 15 | $4,100 |
16 closed leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease August 2026. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
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At the recent median sale of $605K (6 sales in the past 24 months, since October 25, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $24,887 to close, or 4.1% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- Mortgage recording tax: $8,167
- Title insurance: $2,723
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $13,997
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
Underwrite the ground lease first. This is a leasehold condominium: you are buying a leasehold interest, not land. The 2011 lease amendment on file fixes the building's base-rent schedule through 2041, with appraisal-based reset mechanics after that and the broader Battery Park City lease framework running to 2069. Your attorney should review the amendment and the board's current disclosures before contract — we provide the documents.
Price the monthly, not the sticker. Common charges in Battery Park City embed ground rent and PILOT. The purchase-price discount is real, but so is the carry. Run the True Monthly Carrying Cost Calculator against a fee-simple alternative before deciding which economics you prefer.
Confirm lender treatment early. Most major lenders are comfortable with Battery Park City leasehold condominiums, but underwriting standards on lease term and rent-reset exposure vary. Get the building approved with your lender at the pre-offer stage, not in week three of contract.
The neighborhood is the amenity. The Esplanade, Rector Park, the ball fields, Brookfield Place, and some of the strongest public-school zoning downtown sit within blocks. The 2009-era resiliency and post-Sandy flood-planning history of the corridor is also worth reviewing — the parcel sits in a designated flood zone per city records, and diligence should cover the building's flood protocols.
Verify the policy stack. Pets, sublets, and alteration rules are thinly documented publicly. We verify against the offering plan, by-laws, and managing agent during diligence.
What to know if you’re selling
Sell the math honestly. Sophisticated buyers will model the leasehold. The 2011 fixed rent schedule is a genuine selling point — lead with the known curve rather than letting buyers assume the worst about resets. We provide the underlying lease amendment to serious buyers' counsel.
Position against the towers. Battery Pointe's pitch is low-rise scale, the garden, the roof terrace, and the corner location a block from the water — a different product from the corridor's high-rise stock. Market it as the brownstone-scale alternative within the master plan.
Condition drives the spread. The buyer pool here is value-driven and carry-sensitive; renovated units clear cleanly, dated units clear at renovation-math discounts. Run the Renovation Cost Calculator against your pricing strategy before listing.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 300 Rector Place, also evaluate:
- The Soundings, 280 Rector Place — the sister building by the same architects directly across South End Avenue; the closest like-for-like comp in the city
- 200 Rector Place (Liberty Court) — the corridor's large full-amenity tower alternative
- 250 South End Avenue (Hudson View East) — fellow Rector Place-era leasehold condominium with the same ground-lease economics
- 225 Rector Place (Rector Square) — post-war-scale condo on the park side of Rector Place
- 377 Rector Place (Liberty House) — 1986-vintage Rector Place condominium peer
- 380 Rector Place (Liberty Terrace) — esplanade-adjacent peer with direct river exposure
- 350 Albany Street (Hudson Tower) — boutique-scale 1986 leasehold condo two blocks south
- 21 South End Avenue (Cove Club) — the lower-density neighbor toward the South Cove
More Battery Park City buildings
- 225 Rector Place (Rector Square) — 1986 condominium by Gruzen Samton Steinglass
- 250 South End Avenue (Hudson View East) — 1986 condominium
- The Soundings (280 Rector Place) — 1987 condominium
- Liberty Green, 300 North End Avenue — 2011
- 320 Albany Street (Hudson Tower) — 1986 condominium
- 333 Rector Place (One Rector Park) — 1985 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Battery Park City — read The Roebling Team Guide to Battery Park City.
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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