Boulevard East
53 Boerum Place, between Schermerhorn and State Streets · Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn
BBL 3001697501 · BIN 3350516
- Year built
- 2003
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 99
- Floors
- 11
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Full-time doorman, resident superintendent, two elevators, landscaped courtyard, residents' lounge, fitness room and central laundry
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
- $1,026
- Listing discount
- 0.8%
- Recorded sales
- 217
- On record
- 2005–2026
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Boulevard East is an eleven-story, 99-residence condominium at the meeting of Downtown Brooklyn and the lower-rise streets around Smith Street. Stephen B. Jacobs Group designed the building for SDS/Procida. Its early-2000s development brought studios, one-bedrooms and two-bedrooms into a staffed building with a landscaped courtyard, residents' lounge and fitness room.
The address has two different street contexts within a short walk. Boerum Place carries the larger scale of Downtown Brooklyn, while State and Smith Streets connect the building to smaller residential blocks and storefronts. Apartment orientation therefore deserves attention: a home facing the principal street and one facing the interior courtyard experience different immediate surroundings.
At eleven stories, the upper floors remain close enough to the surrounding rooftops for setbacks, neighboring buildings and the direction of the windows to shape the outlook. Some upper-level homes have private terraces. Shared outdoor space is also available at courtyard level, giving apartments without terraces an outdoor amenity within the building.
Architecture and unit composition
The residential inventory ranges from compact studios to two-bedroom homes. Original construction reporting described maple flooring and a plan mix centered on these three apartment types. Two decades of ownership have brought individual renovations, so an original finish description doesn't tell you the present condition of a resale.
The smaller layouts place particular weight on the usable main room and the separation of the kitchen from sleeping and living space. The one-bedroom inventory provides an enclosed bedroom within a moderate overall footprint. Larger plans include split-bedroom arrangements, with bedrooms on opposite sides of the living area. That separation is a meaningful difference between homes with similar total interior area.
Corner positions can bring windows in more than one direction. On upper floors, private terraces introduce a further distinction between interior area and outdoor area. A terrace can extend the usable living space in season, but it does not increase the enclosed floor area used to compare apartment sizes.
The courtyard is a separate shared element of the design. It brings planted outdoor space into a building whose main frontage sits on a broad urban street. The relationship of a particular apartment to that courtyard can affect its outlook, privacy and distance from the activity in shared areas.
Building operations
A full-time doorman and resident superintendent support a building with 99 apartments. The entrance operation, package handling and day-to-day maintenance are shared across that residential inventory. Two elevators serve the eleven-story structure, and central laundry supplements the possibility of approved in-unit equipment.
The amenity program includes a fitness room and residents' lounge alongside the landscaped courtyard. These facilities occupy common space and form part of the association's ongoing operating responsibilities. The lounge and courtyard provide different settings for use within the building; the fitness room adds an indoor amenity that is independent of the weather.
The original 421-a benefit has expired. DOF places its last appearance on the 2022 roll, so a current purchase belongs to the building's post-abatement period. An older sales description advertising that benefit does not describe the current tax position.
The condominium contains a separately classified commercial lot as well as the residential lots. Residential apartments are in tax class 2, and the building's density exceeds the residential FAR shown for its present zoning. That comparison describes the existing building; it is not a measure of additional space available to an individual apartment.
Recent sales
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2026 | 9K | 1 BR · 1 BA · 550 sf | $610,000 | $1,109/sf | -3.2% |
| Jan 30, 2026 | 7A | 2 BR · 964 sf | $925,000 | $960/sf | off-mkt |
| Dec 9, 2025 | 4K | 1 BR · 1 BA · 472 sf | $590,000 | $1,250/sf | +0.9% |
| Oct 21, 2024 | 9B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 970 sf | $999,000 | $1,030/sf | -4.9% |
| Aug 28, 2024 | 8D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 600 sf | $660,000 | $1,100/sf | -2.2% |
| Jul 26, 2024 | 7D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 600 sf | $690,000 | $1,150/sf | +3.0% |
| Jun 5, 2024 | 5B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 970 sf | $975,000 | $1,005/sf | +0.0% |
| Apr 25, 2024 | 6G | 2 BR · 861 sf | $920,000 | $1,069/sf | off-mkt |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,026/sf across 2 sales. Median listing discount 0.8% 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 3-00169-7501) 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.
At the recent median sale of $925K (4 sales since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $33,866 to close, or 3.7% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- Mortgage recording tax: $13,355
- Title insurance: $4,163
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $16,349
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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Comparable buildings
- The Smith — A nearby early-2000s condominium for comparing a smaller inventory in a similarly vertical building.
- The Lookout Hill Condominium — A close condominium peer with a similar height and fewer residences.
- The Dean Boerum Condominium — A lower-rise condominium alternative with a substantially smaller ownership group.
- 417 Hicks Street — A condominium of comparable overall inventory spread across a lower building.
- The Forte — A condominium with a similar residential count in a substantially taller structure.
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- 365 Bridge Street (BellTel Lofts) — 1929 condominium by Beyer Blinder Belle
- 388 Bridge Street — 2007 condominium by SLCE Architects
- be@Schermerhorn, 189 Schermerhorn Street — 2007 condominium
- Bridgeview Tower, 189 Bridge Street — 2006 condominium
- Brooklyn Point (138 Willoughby Street) — 2019 co-op by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)
- Nine Chapel (9 Chapel Street) — 2022 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Downtown Brooklyn.
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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