79 Bridge Street (The Bridges)
79 Bridge Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
DUMBO, Brooklyn
BBL 3000557501 · BIN 3000141
- Year built
- 1920
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 37
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
- Flip tax
- No flip tax. Purchaser pays a reserve-fund contribution equal to 1% of the purchase price to the condominium, plus a $700 managing-agent processing fee, $100 non-refundable move-in fee and $500 refundable move-in deposit; seller pays $100 move-out fee and $500 refundable move-out deposit
- Subletting
- Permitted under the condominium framework; leases as well as sales require an application to the managing agent and a waiver of the board's right of first refusal. No weekly/daily rentals
- Pied-à-terre
- Permitted (standard condominium framework)
- Pets
- Pet-friendly - house rules state the building is pet friendly; sale rider allows not more than 2 dogs and/or 3 cats per unit; pets barred from the roof and common courtyard, leashed or carried elsewhere
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 2017 house rules; sale requirements undated but post-conversion). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,071
- Listing discount
- 2.3%
- Recorded sales
- 54
- On record
- 2003–2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at The Bridges 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.
The Bridges is DUMBO's eastern edge in condominium form. The building stands on Bridge Street between Front and York — three blocks in from the water, past the retail core, where the district's cobblestone loft blocks give way to the low brick fabric of Vinegar Hill. The offering plan says as much in its own words, placing the property in the area "known as 'DUMBO/Vinegar Hill.'" That seam position sets the price tier, the quiet, and the walk.
The conversion belongs to a specific moment. Kay Bridge Properties LLC filed to convert the 1920 building to condominium ownership with construction targeted for completion on January 1, 2003, working with Robert M. Scarano, Jr., whose firm was then the most active hand in Brooklyn's early-2000s conversion wave and whose work appears elsewhere in this corridor at 133 Water Street. What emerged was thirty-seven residences over two commercial units, six stories, with a roof deck, a second-floor terrace, a courtyard and a driveway. The building predates the December 2007 designation of the DUMBO Historic District and sits outside its boundary — which means façade and window work here is an ordinary Department of Buildings matter rather than a Landmarks proceeding, shortening capital timelines relative to the district's protected loft stock.
The operating model is deliberately lean: no doorman, no front desk, a superintendent and a part-time porter. Heat, hot water and cooling run on each unit's own meters rather than through a central plant, so common charges carry a lighter load while the owner's utility bill carries more. Against Main Street or Washington Street inventory, the honest comparison is total monthly carrying cost with the unit's actual utility history in the model, not common charge against common charge.
One genuine diligence item is disclosed in the plan and belongs at the front of any conversation here: lot-line windows on the north wall of the third through sixth floors and the south wall of the fifth and sixth floors. Lot-line windows cannot supply the required light and ventilation for an enclosed habitable room, and they can be bricked up at the adjoining owner's expense if the neighboring parcel is built up to their height. On a block where development sites still exist, that is line-specific risk to check against the specific apartment.
Architecture and unit composition
Six stories on a C2-4/R6A lot, with two commercial units at the ground and cellar levels beneath thirty-seven residences. The conversion produced the full apartment mix a building of this size would carry, set out unit by unit in the plan's Schedule A and floor plans, with private patios and terraces assigned to designated units. Documented characteristics:
- Passenger and service elevators, under maintenance contract from the conversion forward
- Common roof deck limited to the paved portion, capped at twenty people for fire-code and insurance reasons; grills of any kind prohibited
- A landscaped second-floor terrace whose layout is fixed by schedule to the house rules and cannot be altered without board approval
- Interior courtyard and driveway, with a basement contractor entrance the board can require trades to use
- Independent per-unit heating, cooling and hot water; no central boiler serving the residences
- Lot-line windows on the north elevation (floors three through six) and south elevation (floors five and six)
Because outdoor rights are assigned unit by unit, line-level review matters more here than building averages. The floor plans and recorded declaration control which unit holds which terrace, patio or roof right.
Building operations
The condominium is administered by The Andrews Organization, Inc., with a superintendent and a part-time porter and no doorman. Audited financial statements have been produced annually since the conversion; the series held in The Roebling Research Library runs from the early 2010s forward and supports trend-level review of common-charge growth, reserve practice and capital spending.
The governance file is unusually complete for a building this size. The house rules were restated in May 2017 with a published schedule of fines — $1,000 for selling or leasing without an application, $600 for an unscheduled move, $1,000 for a gas grill or a roof-rule violation. Moves run Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and Saturday to 2:00 p.m., never Sunday, scheduled through the agent with insurance and a deposit in place. Interior work audible or visible to neighbors is confined to weekdays, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. A documented impact-noise rule requires, on a substantiated complaint, that eighty percent of walkable floor area in the offending room be covered, with the cost split between the units above and below.
Policy framework
Pets: Permitted and stated affirmatively — two dogs and/or three cats per unit under the sale rider, barred from the roof and courtyard, leashed or carried elsewhere. The board may limit numbers or require removal of an animal that interferes with other owners.
Sales and leases: Both require an application through the managing agent and a signed waiver of the board's right of first refusal, with contract, loan commitment, credit authorization, unit-owner insurance and the roof-deck, pet and house-rules rider.
Transfer costs: No flip tax, but a purchaser pays a one percent reserve-fund contribution plus a $700 processing fee and move-in charges; the seller pays move-out charges. The one percent is the largest of them and belongs in the closing model.
Subletting and pied-à-terre: Standard condominium flexibility, subject to the application process. Weekly and daily rentals are not permitted.
Property taxes: Assume the twelve- and fourteen-year J-51 benefit periods, applied for in 2002–03, have run.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $3,027/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $7
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 →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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | 2B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 920 sf | $975,000 | $1,060/sf | -2.4% |
| Jul 1, 2025 | 6A | 2 BR · 1,382 sf | $1,600,000 | $1,158/sf | off-mkt |
| Jul 17, 2024 | 4D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 900 sf | $920,000 | $1,022/sf | -1.1% |
| May 1, 2024 | 5C | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,447 sf | $1,850,000 | $1,279/sf | -17.7% |
| Sep 5, 2023 | 4B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 920 sf | $990,000 | $1,076/sf | -8.8% |
| Oct 27, 2022 | 3E | 1 BR · 1 BA · 795 sf | $871,650 | $1,096/sf | -5.8% |
| Jan 20, 2022 | 2A | 903 sf | $1,060,000 | $1,174/sf | off-mkt |
| Nov 4, 2021 | 5F | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,426 sf | $2,275,000 | $1,595/sf | -3.2% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,071/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 2.3% 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 3-00055-7501) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
Check the lot-line windows against your specific unit. North-facing rooms on floors three through six and south-facing rooms on floors five and six may sit on lot-line glass. Read the disclosure, then look at what is buildable next door.
Model utilities, not common charges. With no central boiler, heat, hot water and cooling land on your own meter. Pull the unit's utility history before comparing this building to a full-service conversion.
Budget the one percent. The reserve-fund contribution at closing is a purchaser cost and the largest line in the transfer package.
Not being landmarked cuts both ways. Exterior work is faster and cheaper than inside the DUMBO Historic District; you also lack the district's protection against what gets built around you.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the outdoor space. A common roof deck, a landscaped second-floor terrace and unit-level patios are the features buyers cannot get at this price on the waterfront.
Be direct about the seam location. Buyers who want the retail core will price that; buyers who want quiet, the F at York Street and a lower dollar per square foot will pay for exactly this block.
Assemble the diligence file first. The right-of-first-refusal waiver, application package, fee schedule and recent financials move fastest when ready before contract; closings pace 30 to 45 days.
Price to line and exposure. Outdoor rights and lot-line status vary unit to unit; recent same-line comparables anchor better than building averages.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering The Bridges, also evaluate:
- Bridge No. 50 (50 Bridge Street) — the Kirkman soap-works conversion up the same street; similar service-light operating model
- Kirkman Lofts (37 Bridge Street) — the sister Kirkman building, converted 2011; the higher-finish comparable
- 47 Bridge Street — boutique condominium neighbor on the same blockfront
- 168 Plymouth Street — factory-conversion condominium on the eastern blocks; the design-led alternative
- 133 Water Street — Scarano-designed new construction of the same era; the closest architectural cousin
- 205 Water Street — boutique new construction nearby; the systems-and-amenities contrast
- Ironwood (102 Gold Street) — small Vinegar Hill condominium east of the seam
- 51 Jay Street — loft conversion inside the historic district; the landmarked comparison
- The Beacon Tower (85 Adams Street) — full-service condominium tower a few blocks west
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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