401 Bedford Avenue
401 Bedford Avenue, at South 8th Street · Williamsburg
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
BBL 3021327501 · BIN 3059525
- Year built
- 1999
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 27
- Floors
- 7
- Amenities
- Elevator
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- No doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2024
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2024
- $755
- floor-adjusted, 2 sales
- Recorded sales
- 18
- On record
- 2003–2024
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401 Bedford Avenue is a seven-story condominium at South 8th Street, completed in 1999. It contains 27 residences above a mixed residential and commercial property and also uses the address 123 South 8th Street. Its scale falls between the neighborhood's small walk-up condominiums and its larger developments.
The apartment inventory is unusually broad for a building of this size. Recorded sales include compact homes below 600 square feet and substantially larger apartments around 1,200 square feet. Elevator access serves the seven-story structure, and the building operates without a doorman.
The south Williamsburg location places it near Broadway and the Marcy Avenue J, M and Z station. The East River ferry landing at South Williamsburg provides a separate transport option to the west. Bedford Avenue and South 8th Street are both part of the building's address history.
Architecture and unit composition
The building has a broad Bedford Avenue presence, with a recorded width of approximately 100 feet. Its seven floors contain a modest residential inventory, and the condominium includes four commercial lots in addition to the homes.
Recorded apartment areas range from approximately 534 to 1,211 square feet. A number of the larger homes fall in a narrower band around 1,140 to 1,210 square feet, while smaller apartments also occur on upper floors. Height in the building and apartment size therefore need to be considered separately.
The larger apartments account for most of the recent resale activity. Smaller homes appear in the earlier trading history, including an upper-floor residence of approximately 596 square feet. The apartment mix does not follow a simple progression from small homes below to large homes above.
Building operations
The elevator is the principal documented common service. The residential and commercial portions have separate tax classifications: Class 2 applies to the apartments and Class 4 to the commercial units. The condominium has no current building-wide tax abatement.
Ownership is dispersed. The largest single owner holds two of the 27 residences, about seven percent. That ownership structure accompanies a resale record extending back to the early 2000s.
The building's two commonly used street addresses identify the same condominium. Purchases and sales may appear under South 8th Street even when an apartment is introduced as 401 Bedford Avenue. The billing lot and individual condominium lot identify the property consistently across those addresses.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- No doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of Buildings elevator records
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
- $19,850/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $61
- Modeled exposure split equally across 27 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 →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. A filed Safe grade is not a guarantee of current condition: owners still maintain the facade and, where required, observe parapets each year. Future inspection timing (Local Law 49 of 2025 changed the cycle framework from October 1, 2026), repair and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
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 2015–20 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 October 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 2024 | 2B | 1,200 sf | $800,000 | $667/sf |
| Mar 27, 2024 | 3C | 1,211 sf | $995,000 | $822/sf |
| Aug 10, 2021 | 7B | 596 sf | $274,083 | $460/sf |
| Jul 19, 2021 | 6D | 1,140 sf | $750,000 | $658/sf |
| Dec 22, 2020 | 6D | 1,140 sf | $650,000 | $570/sf |
| Oct 25, 2017 | 3A | 1,181 sf | $810,000 | $686/sf |
| Oct 12, 2010 | — | 534 sf | $250,000 | $468/sf |
| Sep 29, 2009 | 5A | 1,211 sf | $500,000 | $413/sf |
Market read. Most recent trades (2024) cleared a median $755/sf (floor-adjusted) across 2 sales. 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 3-02132-7501; 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.
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Comparable buildings
- The Smith Gray Building — A nearby condominium conversion offering a historic loft-building alternative.
- 42–52 Broadway — A condominium of similar scale near the same Broadway corridor.
- The Broadway Arms Condominium — A smaller condominium for buyers comparing a more limited residential inventory.
- Bedford Court — A condominium of comparable scale farther north along the Bedford Avenue area.
- Williamsburgh Mews — A lower-rise condominium with a similarly modest number of homes.
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The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Williamsburg.
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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