579 Washington Avenue
579 Washington Avenue, between Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Street · Crown Heights
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3011247501 · BIN 3397591
- Type
- Condominium
- Amenities
- Elevator, shared garden, laundry, storage, bicycle storage and virtual-doorman entry
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Washer/dryer
- Permitted with conditions
- Doorman
- Virtual doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2025
- $920
- floor-adjusted, 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 3.0%
- Recorded sales
- 13
- On record
- 2005–2025
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579 Washington Avenue became a sixteen-residence condominium through an alteration that combined two buildings into one. Hugo Subotovsky’s 2001 filing called for renovation and an addition, along with new roof, window, heating, plumbing and electrical work. The result is a four-story ownership building with an elevator and varied apartment layouts inside an older shell.
The building’s J-51 benefit has expired. It began in 2007 for a fourteen-year term and was last active on the 2021 roll, so early conversion-era descriptions of its tax costs no longer describe the current benefit position.
Architecture and unit composition
The apartment inventory includes compact one-bedroom homes, layouts with separate studies, larger multi-bedroom apartments and garden-level duplexes. Some homes have high ceilings, wood floors and decorative fireplaces. Combining the two original structures produced a range of internal plans, with apartments facing the street, rear garden or secondary exposures.
The smaller apartments generally occupy a different size category from the garden duplexes and larger multi-bedroom plans. Recorded areas range from the mid-600s in square feet for compact homes to more than 1,300 square feet for a duplex. Interior renovations have also changed bedroom arrangements within existing footprints.
Building operations
The building has an elevator, shared rear outdoor space and basement laundry. Bicycle storage and additional storage serve the apartments, with a virtual-doorman entry system and a nonresident superintendent.
Some homes include their own washer/dryers alongside the central laundry option. The condominium’s sixteen residential lots are separately held, with no owner controlling more than one on the current DOF roll.
The property is not landmark-designated. Its existing built FAR of 4.85 exceeds the current R6A residential allowance of 3.0. The conversion retained a substantial amount of floor area within the low-rise building.
Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Pets
- Not verified
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Permitted with conditionsSome apartmentsSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
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Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Virtual doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Virtual or video entry
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Garden, bike storage, laundry roomSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2025 | 1D | 3 BR · 1.5 BA · 1,125 sf | $1,035,000 | $920/sf | -3.7% |
| Jul 29, 2024 | 4A | 1 BR · 663 sf | $595,000 | $897/sf | — |
| Oct 27, 2023 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA · 765 sf | $785,000 | $1,026/sf | +1.9% |
| Jan 26, 2022 | 2B | 2 BR · 1 BA · 765 sf | $700,000 | $915/sf | -2.8% |
| Oct 31, 2019 | 3B | 765 sf | $500,000 | $654/sf | — |
| Apr 30, 2018 | 1B | 2 BR · 1,382 sf | $915,000 | $662/sf | -3.2% |
| Dec 8, 2017 | 2B | 2 BR · 765 sf | $690,000 | $902/sf | -4.8% |
| Aug 4, 2014 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA · 765 sf | $640,000 | $837/sf | +3.2% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $920/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 3.0% 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 3-01124-7501; 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 Merchant House, 618 Dean Street: A similarly scaled prewar condominium in the nearby Prospect Heights market.
- Shoe Factory Lofts, 242 Greene Avenue: A small condominium conversion for buyers comparing older shells and unconventional layouts.
- 4 Downing Street: Another small prewar condominium alternative with a low-rise format.
- Clinton Court, 252 Greene Avenue: A nearby condominium with a similarly modest association and older construction.
- Lofts on Lex, 95 Lexington Avenue: A prewar conversion comparison for buyers who value interior volume and varied floor plans.
More Crown Heights buildings
- 529 Park Place — condominium
- 566 Prospect Place — 1931 co-op
- 569 Saint Marks Avenue — 1901 condominium
- 582 Park Place — 1910 condominium
- 622 Grand Avenue — 2009 condominium
- 625 Rogers Avenue (The Rogers Residences) — 2024 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Crown Heights.
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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