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Condominium · 2019
Quay Tower
50 Bridge Park Drive, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Buildings·Condominium

Quay Tower (50 Bridge Park Drive)

50 Bridge Park Drive, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn

BBL 3002457502 · BIN 3426346

At a glance
Year built
2019
Type
Condominium
Units
126
Floors
30
Landmark
No
Board & building profile
Flip tax
Park Transfer Fee: 0.75% of sale price payable to Brooklyn Bridge Park (Landlord) on each resale from the 10th anniversary of substantial completion; sales invalid unless paid (offering plan)
Financing
Standard condominium; no financing contingency; unit mortgages require lender recognition/subordination under the sublease (offering plan)
Subletting
Permitted, entire residences only; no transient tenants (offering plan)
Pied-à-terre
Permitted (condo)
Washer / dryer
In every residence (offering plan)
Pets
Pet-friendly; pet-wash facility on site (developer materials); specific restrictions unverified

Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 2018-01-01). Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.

Quay Tower is the price ceiling of the Brooklyn waterfront. Developed by RAL — the firm that had converted One Brooklyn Bridge Park a decade earlier — with Oliver's Realty Group, on a Pier 6 site won through Brooklyn Bridge Park's competitive RFP, the 30-story tower was conceived as the park's flagship for-sale building: 126 residences, harbor-front, with ODA New York's architecture outside and Marmol Radziner's interiors within. It delivered on the ambition measurably. The building's penthouse sale at $20.3 million, recorded in 2022, was the highest residential sale ever recorded in Brooklyn at the time, and by late 2024 the sponsor reported the building more than 90 percent sold — a full-cycle validation of trophy pricing on the Brooklyn waterfront.

The physical premise is hard to replicate: Quay Tower is the tallest building standing inside Brooklyn Bridge Park, positioned at Pier 6 where the park meets the harbor, with protected sightlines across the water to lower Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, and the bridges. West-facing residences open from private elevator landings; the two rooftop lounges hold the building's best views in common. Marmol Radziner — a design-build practice better known for California modernism than New York development work — specified the interiors throughout, an unusual credential in the borough and central to the building's identity in the market.

The ownership structure deserves equal billing, because it is the least understood part of the building. Quay Tower is a qualified leasehold condominium: the land belongs to the park, the condominium holds a ground sublease from Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation expiring July 27, 2109, and owners pay PILOT — set equal to the full taxes the property would otherwise owe — plus base rent through common charges. From the tenth anniversary of the building's substantial completion, every resale pays a 0.75 percent Park Transfer Fee to the park. These are the mechanics by which the park sustains itself without city tax levy, and Quay owners are, structurally, its patrons. Unlike its older neighbor at 360 Furman Street — whose lease ends with a right to buy the fee for one dollar — Quay's lease ends with surrender, with no renewal right. On a 2109 horizon this is an actuarial footnote rather than a pricing driver, and the market has treated it as such; but it belongs in every buyer's understanding, and it is the reason diligence here runs through the lease summary as much as the floor plan.

For sellers, the building's proposition is scarcity: 126 units, one tower, no comparable altitude anywhere on the park, and a demonstrated record at the borough's highest price points.

Architecture and unit composition

The 125 offered residences run from two-bedrooms through four-bedroom lines and a penthouse tier, with reported sponsor pricing spanning roughly $2.4 million at entry to penthouses approaching $11 million across the sales cycle, and the aggregate initial offering of $507.66 million implying an average above $4 million — the highest-priced initial offering scale in Brooklyn at its filing. West-facing residences are organized around private elevator landings; finishes throughout are Marmol Radziner's specification. Every residence includes an in-unit washer and dryer; heat is provided by gas-fired boilers with residences metered for their own energy use per the plan's energy schedules; 71 storage lockers were offered separately.

The unit hierarchy follows the water. Harbor-facing lines above the parkland hold the building's defining views — the Statue of Liberty, the harbor, lower Manhattan — and have carried its record pricing; east-facing lines trade the harbor for the Heights bluff and morning light at meaningfully different price points. The building's one non-residential unit was intended under the plan for conveyance to the park's side as a public facility serving Pier 6, with its common expenses specially allocated at zero — a quirk worth knowing, as residential owners carry the associated costs, and a literal expression of the building's relationship to the park.

Building operations

Quay Tower operates as a full-service condominium with a resident manager housed in Residence 2B under a lease from the sponsor to the board (the offering plan sets out its below-market rent schedule and the board's associated costs). Common charges carry the building's operations plus each unit's proportionate rent — base rent and PILOT — under the ground sublease; the board also maintains a security fund with the park landlord sized to base rent and PILOT benchmarks, replenishable by special assessment if drawn. As at the park's other buildings, owners cannot pay or look up PILOT through the Department of Finance; the condominium's billing is the record, and lenders' escrow arrangements must run through it. The offering plan's income tax counsel opined that PILOT is deductible as real estate taxes for itemizing owners, subject to the standard limitations; confirm current treatment with your adviser.

Purchasers at closing contribute two months' common charges to the working capital fund. The building's offering plan, amendments one through six, and purchase application are maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.

Recent sales

The retrade record

Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.

8A-3%
$4,390,000 2023$4,250,000 2024

Recent closings at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.

DateUnitPrice
May 15, 202621D$2,625,000
Apr 27, 202616E$1,900,000
Dec 5, 2025PH2C$5,300,000
Feb 25, 202617E$1,995,000
Oct 16, 202523E$2,100,000
Jul 15, 20253B$2,850,000
View all 54 recorded sales, sortable

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 3-00245-7502) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price.

What to know if you’re buying

Read the lease summary before the floor plan. PILOT-inclusive common charges, base rent, the security fund, the 2109 expiration with surrender, and the 0.75 percent Park Transfer Fee on resales are all structural. None is exotic once understood; all belong in your underwriting, and our carrying-cost analysis prices them explicitly.

The view tier is the value tier. Harbor-facing lines above the park canopy are the reason the building set records; east-facing lines are a different, more accessible product. Price accordingly, and visit at more than one hour of day.

Interiors are a genuine differentiator. Marmol Radziner's specification is consistent building-wide and distinct from the borough's developer-standard finish packages; turn-key condition here carries real premium.

Transit is a walk. Borough Hall's 2/3/4/5 and Court Street's R are up Joralemon or Atlantic; many residents organize around the ferry at Pier 6's doorstep, Atlantic Avenue, and car or bike commutes.

Condo mechanics are standard, with one addition. Right of first refusal and 30–45 day closings apply; the leasehold adds the lender recognition requirements described in the plan — use counsel familiar with Brooklyn Bridge Park's structure.

What to know if you’re selling

Market the records and the scarcity. Brooklyn's price ceiling was set in this building; 126 units and no comparable tower on the park is the pitch, and the borough's trophy-buyer pool knows the address.

Get ahead of the leasehold conversation. Provide the lease summary, the PILOT explanation, and the all-in carrying analysis in the deal room; buyers who hear the structure first from their own attorney negotiate more defensively.

Model the Park Transfer Fee into net proceeds. Once applicable, the 0.75 percent fee is negotiable between the parties but must be paid; your net sheet should carry it from day one.

Price against the sponsor curve and your line. With a short resale record, the original sponsor pricing trajectory on your specific line, adjusted to 2025 conditions, is the honest anchor.

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