175 Remsen Street

175 Remsen Street has about 130,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 123,000 square feet of office and 7,000 square feet of retail, according to NYC PLUTO 26v2. These are the city's estimates for the whole building, not space that is available.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records date 175 Remsen Street to 1960-1962, designed by Philip Birnbaum. The building is 12 floors tall.

Philip Birnbaum, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records, which list the style as Modern and its original use as a commercial building.

175 Remsen Street is in ZIP code 11201, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The full mailing address is 175 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, in Downtown Brooklyn.

The lot is in the C5-2A zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 12.16 and a maximum commercial FAR of 10 for this lot. It is inside the Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District, so exterior changes go through the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

The closest subway station to 175 Remsen Street is Court St (the R, 2, 3, 4 and 5 trains, connected to Borough Hall), about 250 feet away in a straight line, roughly 1 minute on foot. Also nearby: Jay St-MetroTech (the A, C, F and R trains), 5 min walk; Clark St (the 2 and 3 trains), 6 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

The NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll lists 175 REMSEN OWNER TIC 1 LLC as the owner of record of 175 Remsen Street (BBL 3002500007). Big buildings are usually held through a company set up for that one property, so the name on the roll can differ from the landlord's brand or the managing agent. Deeds and mortgages for the lot are public in ACRIS, the city's property records system.

175 Remsen Street reported an ENERGY STAR score of 73 for calendar year 2024 in its Local Law 84 benchmarking filing. Under Local Law 33, as amended by Local Law 95 of 2019, a score of 85 or higher earns an A, 70 to 84 a B, 55 to 69 a C and under 55 a D, so 73 earns a B. The Department of Buildings assigns the grade a building posts, so the posted label can differ if a filing was corrected. Its site energy use came to 74.4 kBtu per square foot, 29% below the national median of 104.9 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 845 metric tons of CO2e (6.52 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, 175 Remsen Street comes to about 681 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 982 tons for 2024 to 2029 (69% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 344 tons and the same energy use counts as about 455 tons, about 111 tons over, or an estimated $30,000 a year unless the building cuts its emissions. This is an estimate from the owner's 2024 benchmarking filing using the coefficients and per-use limits in the law and the Department of Buildings rule, at $268 per ton over. It is not the building's Local Law 97 report, which can count credits and deductions this estimate cannot.

In the 12 months to October 2026, the Department of Buildings issued first permits for 5 jobs at 175 Remsen Street. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 3 floors (floors 1 to 3 and the cellar). The newest build-out, on floor 1 and the cellar, was first permitted in August 2026 (plumbing, sprinklers; filed cost estimate $100,000). A sidewalk shed permit here is active until March 13, 2027. These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 3002500007. A permit is approval to do the work; it does not say who the work is for or whether it is finished.

The Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll lists a taxable value of $12.3 million for 175 Remsen Street. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $1.34 million a year, roughly $10.31 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 3002500007 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 175 Remsen Street at $29 million ($2.12 million of it land) and its assessed value at $13.1 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 15% from 2022/23 ($25.2 million) to 2026/27.

No space at 175 Remsen Street is listed on Leasemark right now. Owners and brokers can list space here for free, and tenants can post a requirement to be matched when space opens up.