497 Pacific Street
497 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
BBL 3001857501 · BIN 3000995
- Year built
- 1922
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 11
- Floors
- 4
- 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, 2001–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $1,386
- floor-adjusted, 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 1.4%
- Recorded sales
- 14
- On record
- 2001–2026
Own an apartment here? See what it would sell for.
A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 497 Pacific Street would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
497 Pacific Street is a small loft condominium on a row-house street. It is four stories on a 60-foot lot, the width of three typical brownstones, with eleven apartments. Listing records describe concrete floors and columns, ceilings of about ten to eleven feet, and original metal fire doors in the halls.
It is also an early Brooklyn condominium. The declaration was recorded in July 1986, and the Department of Finance numbers it condominium 63 in the borough. The sponsor used the J-51 program, the city's tax incentive for renovating older buildings. That benefit ran out around the turn of the century, so today's owners pay taxes at full assessment.
Same block, three buildings. Block 185 has two other buildings with Roebling pages, and they are easy to confuse with this one. 465 Pacific Street (lot 7504) is a 2016 new-construction condominium that runs through the block to Atlantic Avenue. 467 Pacific Street (lot 48) is a prewar walk-up co-op, where apartments transfer as shares. 497 Pacific is neither. It is a 1986 loft conversion with its own condominium regime on lot 7501.
Architecture and unit composition
The building is a four-story masonry industrial building converted to eleven apartments, about three per floor. Unit sizes run from about 850 to about 1,500 square feet on the Department of Finance roll, with apartment 1A the largest at about 2,000.
The commercial unit. In 2018–19 apartment 1A was divided to create an eating-and-drinking establishment on the first floor (DOB job 321717790, signed off December 23, 2019). An amended declaration recorded in November and December 2019 created unit 1C, now tax lot 1012, as a separate commercial unit of about 360 square feet. The residential count stayed at eleven. A buyer should read the amended declaration for how the commercial unit shares common charges and what uses it allows.
DOB's online records show apartment renovations, relocated air handlers in 2019, and sidewalk sheds in 2020–21, which usually signal façade work.
Building operations
This is a small condominium with no staff documented in public records. With no offering plan on file, the budget, reserves, insurance and house rules must all come from the managing agent. Ask specifically about the sidewalk-shed period and the most recent façade work and whether DOB classifies the building as subject to Local Law 11/FISP, including what the work cost and whether it was paid by an assessment.
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
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
497 Pacific Street trades in the Boerum Hill resale condominium market, where it competes as a loft: high ceilings and industrial construction against the newer condominiums on the same stretch of Pacific Street and the row-house apartments farther west. Two sales have closed in the last 24 months. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 2026 | 3C | 2 BR · 1 BA · 866 sf | $1,200,000 | $1,386/sf | -7.6% |
| Nov 14, 2025 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,034 sf | $1,550,000 | $1,499/sf | — |
| Jun 6, 2023 | 3C | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,057 sf | $1,315,000 | $1,244/sf | +8.2% |
| Aug 12, 2019 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,034 sf | $1,305,000 | $1,262/sf | -1.5% |
| Jun 3, 2019 | 2C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 901 sf | $995,000 | $1,104/sf | +7.6% |
| May 2, 2019 | 3C | 2 BR · 1 BA · 901 sf | $1,150,000 | $1,276/sf | +16.3% |
| Aug 3, 2018 | 4A | 2 BR · 1,200 sf | $1,375,000 | $1,146/sf | -1.4% |
| Dec 3, 2014 | 2B | 2 BR · 1,100 sf | $1,025,000 | $932/sf | -14.6% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,386/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 1.4% 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 3-00185-7501; 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.
What would your apartment rent for?
Enter your apartment and I'll send you what it would rent for, from comparable closed leases at 497 Pacific Street and nearby.
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.
Keep up with 497 Pacific Street and its market
The Roebling Report, monthly: Manhattan sales data and analysis, including buildings like 497 Pacific Street. Unsubscribe anytime.
We’ll use your email for The Roebling Report and note your interest in this building. See our privacy policy.
What to know if you’re buying
Taxes are already at full assessment. The J-51 benefit ended about twenty-five years ago. Primary residents should check eligibility for the city's co-op and condominium abatement.
Read the 2019 amended declaration. A restaurant-use commercial unit now shares the building. Check its share of common charges, permitted hours and uses, and any venting or noise provisions.
Confirm the elevator. Listing records describe a freight elevator; city tax records class the building as a walk-up. See what is actually there and who maintains it.
Get the façade history. The 2020–21 sidewalk sheds point to recent façade work. Find out whether it is finished and paid for.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the loft. Ceiling height, concrete construction and a 60-foot frontage are what separate this building from the condominiums around it.
Clear up the neighbors. Buyers and appraisers searching block 185 will find 465 and 467 Pacific. State the lot and the condominium number in the listing.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 497 Pacific Street, also evaluate:
- 465 Pacific Street: the 2016 new-construction condominium on the same block
- 467 Pacific Street: the prewar walk-up co-op on the same block, for buyers weighing co-op against condo
- The Hendrik (509 Pacific Street): a newer condominium one block east
- 88 Wyckoff Street: a 1986 condominium conversion of two commercial buildings in Boerum Hill, the same vintage and origin
- 423 Atlantic Avenue (the Ex-Lax Building): an early Boerum Hill loft conversion, organized as a co-op
- 60 Tiffany Place: a commercial-loft condominium conversion on the Columbia Street Waterfront
- 505 Court Street (Court Street Lofts): a larger loft condominium conversion in Carroll Gardens
- 457 Atlantic Avenue: a 21-unit new-construction condominium around the corner on Atlantic Avenue
More Boerum Hill buildings
- 464 Warren Street (Grants' Mews), 464 Warren Street · Boerum Hill — 1989 condominium
- 465 Pacific Street — 2017 condominium by Morris Adjmi Architects
- 467 Pacific Street — 1912 co-op
- 509 Pacific Street (The Hendrik) — 2016 condominium
- 52 Third Avenue — 2005 condominium
- 522 State Street — 1899 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Boerum Hill.
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.
Considering a move at 497 Pacific Street?
Request a private building brief with the relevant comparable sales, current and off-market availability, and an apartment-specific view of value.
646.939.7375 · c.cohen@compass.com