Brooklyn Municipal Building

The Brooklyn Municipal Building has about 551,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 504,000 square feet of office and 47,000 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 the Brooklyn Municipal Building to 1923-1926, designed by McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin. The building is 13 floors tall.

McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records, which list the style as Neoclassical and its original use as a civic building.

The Brooklyn Municipal Building is at 210 Joralemon Street in Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn. City records list 45-63 Court Street on the same tax lot (BBL 3002667501). A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

210 Joralemon 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 Brooklyn Municipal Building is at 210 Joralemon 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 8.76 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 the Brooklyn Municipal Building is Borough Hall (the 2, 3, 4, 5 and R trains, connected to Court St), about 150 feet away in a straight line, roughly 1 minute on foot. The MTA lists it as an accessible station. Also nearby: Jay St-MetroTech (the A, C, F and R trains), 3 min walk; Hoyt St (the 2 and 3 trains), 6 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

The Brooklyn Municipal Building is a condominium of 2 tax lots. NYC DCAS (the city's Department of Citywide Administrative Services), one of 2 owners of record on the roll, owns the units that make up 86% of its market value. That is from the NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll (BBL 3002667501). Deeds and mortgages for each unit are public in ACRIS, the city's property records system.

The Brooklyn Municipal Building reported an ENERGY STAR score of 87 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 87 earns an A. 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 50.4 kBtu per square foot, 46% below the national median of 94.2 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 2,363 metric tons of CO2e (4.27 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, the Brooklyn Municipal Building comes to about 1,931 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 4,126 tons for 2024 to 2029 (47% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 1,436 tons and the same energy use counts as about 1,331 tons, still under the limit. 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 4 jobs at the Brooklyn Municipal Building. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 15 floors (floors 1 to 15, the cellar and the lobby). The newest build-out, on floors 1 and 2 and the lobby, was first permitted in February 2026 (construction, mechanical, plumbing, sprinklers; filed cost estimate $430,000). A sidewalk shed permit here is active until December 15, 2026. These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 3002667501. 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 $7.26 million for the Brooklyn Municipal Building (the sum of its 2 condominium tax lots). At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $787,226 a year, roughly $1.43 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 3002667501 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of the Brooklyn Municipal Building at $125.2 million ($16.6 million of it land) and its assessed value at $56.4 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 12% from 2022/23 ($112.3 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered 6 storefronts at the Brooklyn Municipal Building for December 31, 2025, the newest annual filing the city has published, and 1 of them stood vacant that day. At least one storefront here has been reported vacant at the end of every year since 2023. These are the owners' filings with the Department of Finance under Local Law 157, so a storefront vacant on December 31, 2025 may have been leased since. Owners and brokers can list a storefront on Leasemark for free.

No space at 210 Joralemon 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.