96 North 1st Street
96 North 1st Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
BBL 3023797504 · BIN 3062589
- Year built
- 1950
- Type
- Condominium
- Landmark
- No
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96 North 1st Street is a five-residence condominium on the Northside of Williamsburg, a block and a half from the Kent Avenue waterfront. It was built by adding five stories on top of a one-story commercial building. The listing records describe one home per floor, each reached by elevator directly.
The building is past the paperwork stage. The condominium declaration was recorded in February 2025, and ACRIS shows sponsor deeds for three of the five residences between March 2025 and August 2026. Recorded prices run from about $1.96 million to $2.6 million, and storage units were sold alongside two of them.
Architecture and residences
The Department of Buildings job dates to December 2014. The filing proposed extending five stories vertically over an existing one-story building with 14-foot ceilings, raising it to six stories and 70 feet. It changed the use from commercial to five apartments and added about 7,840 square feet. The plans were approved in October 2016, fully permitted in September 2020 and signed off on January 27, 2025, ten years after filing. A curb cut serves the ground-floor garage.
PLUTO carries 8,526 square feet of building area on a 25-by-101-foot lot. That is 7,980 square feet residential plus a 264-square-foot garage and 282 square feet of storage. The lot sits in a paired M1-2/R6A district within the Greenpoint–Williamsburg special mixed-use district. The September 2024 condominium filing created ten tax lots: five residences (1301–1305) on the first floor through the sixth floor and penthouse, four cellar storage units (1306–1309) and one ground-floor parking unit (1310).
Listing records describe full-floor residences: four two-bedrooms and one three-bedroom duplex townhouse, from about 1,360 to 2,540 square feet, each with private outdoor space, radiant heated floors, central air and in-unit washer-dryers. Unit 5 is a two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath home of about 1,399 square feet with a private roof area and two terraces. TH1 is a three-bedroom duplex with a rear patio. Unit 3 is a two-bedroom with a balcony. Staffing and shared amenities are not documented consistently; confirm them with the managing agent.
110 North 1st Street, a 38-residence condominium on the same block, is a separate building and a separate plan.
Offering and pricing
Per the offering plan filed with the New York State Attorney General (plan CD230297), the plan was submitted November 1, 2023 and accepted July 9, 2024, with 96 North 1st Street, LLC as sponsor. It covers ten units: five residential plus storage and parking. The total offering price was $15,945,000 at submission and is $16,475,000 now. The database shows no effective date and no units sold, even though closings have been recorded since March 2025. We could not open the amendment record, so the amendments were not reviewed.
The plan total does not reconcile with the prices recorded so far. $16.475 million across five residences would average about $3.3 million each, against recorded prices of $1.96 million to $2.6 million. The amendments may have reduced the prices. Confirm the current schedule of prices in the plan.
Recorded sponsor deeds (ACRIS):
- Unit 4: $2,142,000, deed dated March 20, 2025. Listing records show a two-bedroom of 1,360 square feet with two terraces, first asked at $2,350,000; the deed works out to about $1,575 per square foot.
- Unit 3 with storage unit 1: $1,957,702.50, deed dated October 9, 2025. Listing records show a two-bedroom of 1,360 square feet with a balcony, asked at $1,990,000 from May 2025 and closed at $1,940,000 for the apartment.
- Unit 5 with storage unit 3: $2,600,000, deed dated August 12, 2026
Unit 5 was asked at $2,750,000 ($1,966 per square foot) in January 2026, and at $2,495,000 by mid-2026, per listing records. Its recorded deed of $2.6 million includes a storage unit. TH1, the three-bedroom duplex of about 2,540 square feet, was asked at $4,325,000 ($1,703 per square foot) from October 2024; we could not confirm its current status. As of October 2026, ACRIS shows no sponsor deed for Units 1 (TH1) and 6, the garage unit or two storage units.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2026 | 5Sponsor Sale | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,399 sf | $2,600,000 | $1,858/sf | +4.2% |
| Oct 9, 2025 | 3ASponsor Sale | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,360 sf | $1,957,702 | $1,439/sf | -1.6% |
| Mar 20, 2025 | 4Sponsor Sale | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,360 sf | $2,142,000 | $1,575/sf | -8.9% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,858/sf (recorded) across 1 sale.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-02379-7504; 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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At the recent median sale of $2.14M (3 sales in the past 24 months, since October 31, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $90,600 to close, or 4.2% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $26,775
- Mortgage recording tax: $30,925
- Title insurance: $9,639
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $23,261
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
Ask for the plan's current price schedule. The Attorney General figure has not been updated to match the recorded sales. The amendments set the prices and the effective date.
Storage and parking are separate units. They are deeded separately, so price them separately and ask about their common charges and taxes.
Carrying costs. Listing records show about $885 a month in common charges and $829 a month in taxes for Unit 5. Confirm both against the plan's budget.
Closing costs. In sponsor sales the buyer customarily pays the New York State transfer tax (0.4%) and the New York City real property transfer tax (1.425% above $500,000), plus the mansion tax, which starts at 1% at $1 million.
Comparable buildings
- 110 North 1st Street: 38-residence condominium on the same block, with separately deeded parking and storage
- 207 North 8th Street: RoseBK, four residences, sold out at $2.04 million to $4.6 million in 2024–2025
- 221 Middleton Street: six-story, ten-residence condominium with a $25.6 million plan
- 185 Ainslie Street: four-residence enlargement, sold out at $2.2 million to $2.49 million
- 109 Devoe Street: eight-residence condominium with sponsor closings from $1.88 million in 2026
- 141 Ross Street: 1927 building being converted to 16 condominiums
More Williamsburg buildings
- 89 South 4th Street — 1994 condominium
- 89 Union Avenue — 2023 condominium
- 90 North 5th Street — 2010 condominium
- 98 Havemeyer Street (Williamsburgh Mews) — 2002 condominium
- Aliya (772 Metropolitan Avenue) — 2025 condominium
- Austin Nichols House (184 Kent Avenue) — 1914 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Williamsburg.
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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