229 Nevins Street

229 Nevins Street has about 47,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 40,000 square feet of retail, according to NYC PLUTO 26v2. These are the city's estimates for the whole building, not space that is available.

City records list 1931 as the year built. The building is 4 floors tall.

City records list 236 Butler Street and 233 Nevins Street on the same tax lot (BBL 3004127501) as 229 Nevins Street. A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

229 Nevins Street is in ZIP code 11217, according to the city's tax lot records (NYC PLUTO 26v2) and the Department of Finance's assessment roll. The full mailing address is 229 Nevins Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217, in Gowanus.

The lot is in the M1-4/R7X zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 3.32 and a maximum commercial FAR of 2 for this lot.

The closest subway station to 229 Nevins Street is Union St (the R train), about 0.3 miles away in a straight line, roughly 6 minutes on foot. Also nearby: Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr (the 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q and R trains), 8 min walk; Bergen St (the F and G trains), 9 min walk. Walking times are straight-line estimates; the street route is longer.

229 Nevins Street is a condominium of 5 tax lots. 233 NEVINS STREET LLC, one of 4 owners of record on the roll, owns the units that make up 77% of its market value. That is from the NYC Department of Finance's 2026/27 assessment roll (BBL 3004127501). Deeds and mortgages for each unit are public in ACRIS, the city's property records system.

229 Nevins Street's 2024 Local Law 84 benchmarking filing got no ENERGY STAR score (no single use that ENERGY STAR scores covers more than half of the floor area), and Local Law 33 letter grades come from that score, so the filing does not yield an A to D grade. Its site energy use came to 69.1 kBtu per square foot, 73% above the national median of 40 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 381 metric tons of CO2e (7.95 kg per square foot).

In the 12 months to October 2026, the Department of Buildings issued first permits for 1 job at 229 Nevins Street. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on one floor (floor 1). The newest build-out, on floor 1, was first permitted in January 2025 (sprinklers; filed cost estimate $78,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 3004127501. 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 $5 million for 229 Nevins Street (the sum of its 5 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 $541,964 a year, roughly $11.64 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 3004127501 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of 229 Nevins Street at $12.2 million ($252,000 of it land) and its assessed value at $5.49 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 14% from 2024/25 ($10.7 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered one storefront at 229 Nevins Street for December 31, 2024, the newest annual filing the city has published, and it was not vacant that day. These are the owners' filings with the Department of Finance under Local Law 157, so a storefront may have come free since. Owners and brokers can list a storefront on Leasemark for free.

No space at 229 Nevins 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.