Court and Remsen Building

The Court and Remsen Building has about 293,000 square feet of floor area in total, including 280,000 square feet of office and 13,000 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 Court and Remsen Building to 1925-1926, designed by Schwartz & Gross. The building is 29 floors tall.

Schwartz & Gross, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building records, which list the style as neo-Romanesque and its original use as an office building.

The Court and Remsen Building is at 26 Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn. City records list 22-30 Court Street and 177-179 Remsen Street on the same tax lot (BBL 3002500001). A space listed on Leasemark at any of these addresses shows up on this page.

City records give two ZIP codes for this tax lot: 11201 in NYC PLUTO 26v2 and 11242 on the Department of Finance's assessment roll. Some large New York buildings have a ZIP code of their own beside the area's, so check with the building's management which one it uses before you rely on either.

The lot is in the C5-2A zoning district. PLUTO lists a built floor area ratio (FAR) of 21.32 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 Court and Remsen Building is Borough Hall (the 2, 3, 4, 5 and R trains, connected to Court St), about 300 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), 4 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 26 COURT ASSOCIATES LLC as the owner of record of the Court and Remsen Building (BBL 3002500001). 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.

The Court and Remsen Building's 2024 Local Law 84 benchmarking filing got no ENERGY STAR score, 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 64.9 kBtu per square foot, 11% below the national median of 73.1 for a similar property. Its greenhouse gas emissions were about 1,377 metric tons of CO2e (4.7 kg per square foot).

At its 2024 energy use, the Court and Remsen Building comes to about 1,198 metric tons of CO2e a year under Local Law 97's coefficients, against a limit of 2,289 tons for 2024 to 2029 (52% of the limit), so it would owe no penalty. From 2030 the limit drops to 822 tons and the same energy use counts as about 948 tons, about 127 tons over, or an estimated $34,000 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 the Court and Remsen Building. In the last two years, interior work was permitted on 2 floors (floors 1 and 13). The newest build-out, on floor 13, was first permitted in July 2026 (construction; filed cost estimate $296,000). These are the Department of Buildings' DOB NOW work permits for tax lot 3002500001. 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 $31.6 million for the Court and Remsen Building. At the Class 4 rate of 10.848% (tax year 2025/26, the latest rate the Department of Finance lists), that is about $3.43 million a year, roughly $11.71 per square foot of floor area, before abatements such as ICAP. The city's property tax records for BBL 3002500001 show the actual bill.

For tax year 2026/27, the NYC Department of Finance puts the market value of the Court and Remsen Building at $71.2 million ($3.44 million of it land) and its assessed value at $32 million, the 45% of market value the city assesses for Class 4 property. The city's market value rose 2% from 2022/23 ($69.8 million) to 2026/27.

Owners registered 5 storefronts at the Court and Remsen 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 2020. 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 26 Court 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.