525 East 11th Street (The Fillmore)
525 East 11th Street, New York, NY 10009
East Village
BBL 1004057504 · BIN 1087059
- Year built
- 1965
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 26
- Floors
- 8
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,765
- Listing discount
- 1.5%
- Recorded sales
- 68
- On record
- 2005–2026
The Fillmore is one of the more literal buildings in the East Village: it is an apartment house sitting on top of a parking garage, and the garage is still there, still commercial, and still owned by somebody else. That single structural fact explains the building's shape, its economics, and most of what a buyer needs to understand before making an offer.
The site is two old parking structures on the south side of East 11th Street between Avenues A and B. In 2003 the owner filed to merge them, lower and enlarge the cellar, remove the upper parking deck, and build six residential floors on what remained. The work was finished in 2004, the condominium was subdivided in April 2005, and twenty-six apartments closed to twenty-six separate buyers between that June and November. The city's year-built field still says 1965, because that is when the garage went up, and it is the single most misleading number attached to this address.
What the vertical-enlargement approach produced is a genuinely unusual product for the block. The residential floors start at the third level, which means every apartment in the building sits above the streetscape — above the sidewalk noise, the double-parking, and the sightlines of a dense Alphabet City block. Most carry private outdoor space. Almost nothing else on these blocks offers that, because almost everything else is a five- or six-story tenement where the ground floor is somebody's living room.
The trade is scale. Twenty-six homes across about 22,700 square feet of residential area works out to roughly 870 square feet apiece, and the mix runs studios through two-bedrooms. This is a starter-and-second-home building, not a family building, and it should be priced and compared as one. It sits closer in character to the small new-construction condominiums that went up around Avenue B in the 2000s than to the loft conversions further west.
The commercial garage under the residences is the fact that most buyers miss. It is unit lot 1301, it is taxed in class 4 as a commercial parcel, and the sponsor sold it out of the building in 2012 to an unrelated owner. Residents do not own it, the board does not control it, and any parking a resident uses there is a private commercial arrangement. It also means the condominium's common-charge base and its shared building systems are entangled with a commercial operator — a detail worth reading in the by-laws, because the allocation of shared costs between a residential section and a commercial garage section is exactly the sort of thing that produces disputes a decade later.
Architecture and unit composition
The building is eight stories on a 75-foot lot, with a two-level garage podium and six residential floors above it. The residential elevations carry punched windows, balconies and terraces rather than a curtain wall, which is consistent both with the R8B zoning envelope and with the constraints of building on top of an existing concrete structure.
The unit stack is legible from the lettering. Floors three, four and five each carry six residences (A through F); floor six carries four; floor seven carries two; and the eighth floor holds two penthouses, PH8A and PH8B. The apartments get larger as the building rises and the count per floor drops, so line and floor matter more here than in most buildings of this size — a PH8 unit and a 3F unit are not variations on a theme, they are different products.
Interior specification, per listing records, runs to oak flooring, double-pane windows, solid-core doors, stainless appliances and limestone bathroom finishes. That is 2004-vintage new construction, not luxury new construction, and twenty years on, individual apartments vary widely depending on whether an owner has renovated. Ask what has been done to the specific unit rather than reading the building's original specification as current.
Building operations
The Fillmore runs a light staffing model: a part-time doorman, an on-site superintendent, a double-height attended lobby, and a fitness room. There is no full-time door staff and no concierge. For a 26-unit building that is the right-sized structure — it keeps common charges defensible — but buyers coming from a full-service building should test the actual coverage hours rather than assume them.
The façade and balcony history is the operating story worth pulling. The building has been through repeated exterior cycles: balcony curb-face repair in 2011, sidewalk shed and pipe scaffolding for balcony work in 2011 and 2012, a 2014 filing for Local Law 11 façade repairs that also resolved an Environmental Control Board violation, and a 2020 filing covering façade repairs including balcony and terrace work. A building with this much projecting outdoor space on a masonry elevation will keep having balcony and terrace work; it is inherent to the design. Any buyer should ask for the current FISP cycle status, the last engineer's report, the reserve balance, and whether an assessment is contemplated.
Policy framework
Ownership form: Condominium. Sales pass through the board of managers' right of first refusal rather than a cooperative approval, which means faster and more predictable closings — thirty to forty-five days is typical.
Pets, subletting, pied-à-terre, LLC and trust ownership, minimum down payment, flip tax: Not documented in public records, and no offering plan for this building was located in either library. Do not assume the standard condominium answers apply until you have read the by-laws and the current house rules. Get them from the managing agent.
Real estate taxes: No abatement of any kind, on the billing lot or on any residential unit lot, in the FY2021 through FY2027 rolls. Underwrite full unabated taxes on the specific unit against the current bill, not against a projection.
The garage: Confirm, in writing, whether any parking right attaches to the residence you are buying, and on what terms. It is a separately owned commercial condominium unit.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $7,389/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $24
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 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. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2010–15 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 record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
The building sold out from the sponsor in 2005 and has traded on resale continuously since, including through the 2008–2010 correction and the 2020–2021 reset. Turnover is healthy for a building of this size, which matters: with twenty-six homes, the difference between an active and an inactive building is the difference between having same-building comparables and not having them.
Pricing here is a dollars-per-square-foot conversation, and it should be run against the small new-construction and 2000s-vintage condominium stock of the East Village rather than against the surrounding tenement co-ops, whose policies, financing terms and buyer pool are structurally different. The absence of any abatement means the headline price and the true monthly number sit closer together than they do at abated new construction elsewhere — an advantage when comparing, because nothing steps up later. Outdoor space is the building's clearest premium driver, and the penthouse floor is a separate market from the rest of the stack. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Recent closings at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 2025 | 4A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,039 sf | $1,855,000 | $1,785/sf | -3.6% |
| May 9, 2024 | PHA | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,040 sf | $2,100,000 | $2,019/sf | +0.0% |
| Mar 20, 2024 | PHB | 3 BR · 3 BA · 1,579 sf | $3,150,000 | $1,995/sf | -1.6% |
| Jan 10, 2024 | PH8B | 1,579 sf | $3,115,000 | $1,973/sf | off-mkt |
| Jul 9, 2021 | 4A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,039 sf | $1,675,000 | $1,612/sf | -1.2% |
| Jun 25, 2021 | 4D | 1 BA · 433 sf | $640,000 | $1,478/sf | +2.4% |
| Jun 15, 2021 | 5B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,121 sf | $1,795,000 | $1,601/sf | +5.9% |
| Apr 30, 2021 | 3D | 1 BA · 433 sf | $650,000 | $1,501/sf | -13.3% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2025): a median $1,765/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 1.5% 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 1-00405-7504) 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; square footage from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
What to know if you’re buying
Ignore the 1965 year built. The residences date from 2003–2005. City data describes the garage.
Understand the garage ownership. It is a separate commercial condominium unit in outside hands. Read the by-laws on cost allocation between the residential and commercial sections.
Ask for the balcony and façade file. This building has repeatedly filed exterior repair work involving balconies and terraces. Get the current FISP status and the engineer's most recent report.
There is no offering plan in either library. Every policy question — pets, sublets, pied-à-terre, financing minimums, flip tax — has to come from the managing agent. Budget time for that.
Underwrite full taxes. No abatement, and none is coming.
Test the specific unit, not the building spec. Twenty-year-old new construction diverges unit by unit. Renovated and original apartments here are different products.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the third-floor-and-up plan and the outdoor space. Those are the two things the tenement stock on these blocks structurally cannot match.
Correct the year built in your own materials. If the listing data pulls 1965 from the city, fix it. It costs you buyers who filter on age and it invites a false comparison to the pre-war stock.
Price against 2000s-vintage East Village condominiums, not against Avenue B walk-up co-ops.
Be straightforward about the garage. Buyers find it. Presenting it as a known, bounded structural feature — with the by-law language in hand — is far better than letting it surface as a surprise in diligence.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering The Fillmore, also evaluate:
- 311 East 11th Street — 36-residence 2008 condominium on the same street; the nearest peer by street and product type
- 240 East 10th Street (The New Theatre) — 1999 condominium with a commercial unit in the building; the closest structural analogue for mixed residential-and-commercial ownership
- 754 East 6th Street — 24-residence 2001 condominium; the same small-building, small-unit East Village model one vintage earlier
- 1 Avenue B (One Avenue B) — 23 residences plus a commercial unit, completed 2007; the corner-site alternative a few blocks south
- 215 Avenue B (The Copper) — 17-residence 2008 condominium; the boutique Alphabet City alternative
- 421 East 13th Street — 84-residence 2008 condominium; the full-amenity, larger-denominator alternative nearby
- 438 East 12th Street (Steiner East Village) — 82 residences, 2017; the current-generation East Village condominium and a very different cost structure
- 100 Avenue A — 32 residences completed 2017 directly on Tompkins Square Park
- 97 Avenue B — 30 residential units in a pre-war structure operating as a condominium; the conversion alternative
- 298 East 2nd Street — seven full-floor residences completed 2020 with no abatement; the small, newer, no-abatement comparison
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across East Village + NoHo — read The Roebling Team Guide to East Village + NoHo.
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.
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