Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn's owner of record is published, free, for every one of its 276,106 tax lots and the price of every recorded deed is open too, but the biggest towers sit in single-purpose LLCs and the biggest holders of all are public bodies.
9 buildings · 9 with an owner established · 8 sources · 6 tier A · 3 tier B · prepared 2026-11-01
Can you find out who owns it?
Brooklyn is Kings County, one of New York City's five boroughs, so its property record is the city's. The Department of City Planning's PLUTO file, free on NYC Open Data with no key or registration, names the recorded owner of each of Brooklyn's 276,106 tax lots with its assessed value, floor area, floors and year built. The Department of Finance's ACRIS land-records register publishes every recorded deed and mortgage, with the amount and both parties, as bulk open data. Owner names are raw text with no link to a parent company, so most new towers read as a numbered LLC.
Is ownership public?An open dataset names the owner
Cost of one title searchNot available at any price
Bulk ownership dataNYC Open Data (Socrata): PLUTO 64uk-42ks (ownername per tax lot, borough BK = 276,106 lots, version 26v2); ACRIS Master bnx9-e6tj + Parties 636b-3b5g + Legals 8h5j-fqxa (amount and named parties per recorded document). Free, no key, no registration.
Sale pricesEvery sale, with its address
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The marquee buildings
The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.
| Building | Use | Owner | Owner type | Last price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barclays Center 620 Atlantic Avenue, Prospect Heights - BBL 3011180001 660,000 sq ft building area (PLUTO) |
Civic | New York State Urban Development Corporation (d/b/a Empire State Development) PLUTO ownername "ARENA NOMINEE SUB B," ownertype X (exempt), class P9, built 2011, assessed land $461,496,600, total $1,142,662,050, the highest assessed private-use lot in Brooklyn. ACRIS shows the fee side as New York State Urban Development Corporation / Empire State Development, which leased the arena to Brooklyn Arena Local Development Corporation (lease 2010050701047001, 2010-05-12); that corporation subleased it to Brooklyn Events Center, LLC c/o Forest City Ratner Companies (2010050701047002). The operator is a lessee, not the fee owner. |
Government | —A |
| Brooklyn Navy Yard 652 Kent Avenue / 63 Flushing Avenue - BBL 3020230001 and 3020230050 7,058,736 sq ft on the main lot (PLUTO), on 6,429,961 sq ft of land · 15 floors |
Industrial | City of New York (NYC Department of Small Business Services) PLUTO ownername "NYC DEPARTMENT OF SMALL BUSINESS SERVICES" for 652 Kent Avenue (assessed total $230,179,050, the largest building area of any Brooklyn lot) and 63 Flushing Avenue ($31,368,600); 22 Flushing Avenue reads "BROOKLYN NAVY YARD DEV". ACRIS records Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation leasing parts of the yard onward, e.g. to BNY S 1 / 6, LLC (2020-09-04) and to GMC Landlord, LLC (memorandum of lease 2026-03-02). City fee, a city-affiliated non-profit as master lessee, private sub-tenants. |
Government | —A |
| The Brooklyn Tower 9 DeKalb Avenue, Downtown Brooklyn - BBL 3001497503 (condominium) 617,022 sq ft (PLUTO) · 74 floors |
Residential | 9 DeKalb Fee Owner LLC 74 floors in PLUTO, the most of any correctly keyed Brooklyn lot. PLUTO ownername "9 DEKALB FEE OWNER LLC", built 2021, 541 residential units, assessed total $103,825,350. ACRIS: the LLC took title from 9 DeKalb Owner LLC by a $0 deed dated 2019-04-22, both c/o 104 Fifth Avenue. Its mailing address on recorded documents changes from that address in 2024 to "C/O SILVERSTEIN PROPERTIES, LLC" (7 World Trade Center) on every document from July 2025 to August 2026, most of them unit sales out of the 9 DeKalb Avenue Condominium. A c/o address shows who handles the documents, not a recorded equity stake. |
Private company | —B |
| Kings Plaza Shopping Center 5100-5120 Avenue U, Mill Basin / Marine Park - BBL 3084700055 2,401,524 sq ft building area, 1,274,028 sq ft of it retail (PLUTO) · 2 floors |
Retail | Brooklyn Kings Plaza LLC (The Macerich Company, 100%) 100% Macerich's FY2025 10-K lists Kings Plaza Shopping Center, Brooklyn, at 100% ownership, acquired 2012, 1,097,000 sq ft total GLA, 93.4% occupied, Macy's as anchor, with a $528.9M fixed-rate mortgage maturing 2030. ACRIS: Brooklyn Kings Plaza LLC (401 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica) is lessor to Target, Ulta and Shake Shack. PLUTO's title string for the main lot is "MACY'S MALL REAL ESTATE, LLC" (assessed $147,153,600) after a 2020 deed between two Macy's entities: the Macy's store is held apart. Alexander's Inc still holds 5102 Avenue U. |
REIT | $276,947,000 2012-11-28 ACRIS deed 2012120300520002, 100% transferred, from Alexander's Kings Plaza LLC and Kings Parking LLC to Brooklyn Kings Plaza LLC. B |
| Starrett City (Spring Creek Towers) 1155 Pennsylvania Avenue, Spring Creek - BBL 3044350001 997,720 sq ft on the main lot (PLUTO) · 20 floors |
Residential | BSC Housing Company, Inc. PLUTO ownername "BSC HOUSING COMPANY, INC.", 1,092 units on the main lot and 9,637 units on its 15 lots, built 1971, assessed total $39,886,200. On the 2018 deed the grantee's address is c/o Rockpoint Group, Dallas. A $567,567,000 mortgage of 2021-06-30 to Wells Fargo names BSC Owner LLC c/o Brooksville Company and BSC Housing Company, Inc. c/o Settlement Housing Fund as borrowers, so title holder and beneficial owner are not the same entity. |
Private company | $869,612,895.51 2018-05-04 ACRIS deed 2018050400965001, 100%, from Starrett City, Inc. and Starrett City Associates, L.P.; the largest Brooklyn sale in DOF's 2016-2025 file. A |
| City Point Albee Square / DeKalb Avenue, Downtown Brooklyn - block 149 lot 1 531,982 sq ft GLA (Acadia 10-K) |
Mixed use | City of New York (fee); Acadia Realty Trust Fund II (ground lessee, 76.0%) 76.0% (Acadia Fund II) Acadia's FY2025 10-K lists City Point under Fund II, acquired 2007, Acadia's interest 76.0%, 531,982 sq ft GLA, 79.6% economic occupancy, $20,764,697 annualised base rent, tenants incl. Primark, Target, Trader Joe's and Alamo Drafthouse. ACRIS: The City of New York leased the site to Albee Development, LLC and Albee Phase 3 Development LLC, both c/o Acadia Realty Trust (2013-03-22). The towers above are separate condo lots, e.g. 7 DeKalb and 138 Willoughby, listed in PLUTO under NYC HPD (690 and 458 units). |
Government | —B |
| Kings County Hospital Center 451 Clarkson Avenue, East Flatbush - BBL 3048290001 1,503,150 sq ft (PLUTO) |
Institutional | NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation PLUTO ownername "NYC HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION", class I1, assessed total $145,664,100 on 891,577 sq ft of land. H+H also holds Coney Island Hospital at 2661 Ocean Parkway ($127,909,350), Woodhull at 760 Broadway ($104,900,400) and 599 Kingston Avenue ($90,776,700). The SUNY Downstate campus next door at 445 Lenox Road reads "SUNY SYSTEM ADMINSTRATION" ($97,986,600). |
Government | —A |
| 4 MetroTech Center 4 MetroTech Center, Downtown Brooklyn - BBL 3020590001 1,330,743 sq ft, 1,239,070 sq ft of it office (PLUTO) · 24 floors |
Office | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. PLUTO ownername "JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,", class O4, built 1990, assessed total $107,407,800, the highest-assessed office lot in Brooklyn. An owner-occupier. Nearby, 350 Jay Street reads "MUSS & MUSS" ($160,892,100, 1,420,558 sq ft) and the 330 Jay Street condominium reads NYC DCAS ($131,216,850). |
Public company | —A |
| 25-30 Columbia Heights (former Watchtower headquarters, now Panorama) 29 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn Heights - BBL 3002040001 274,426 sq ft (PLUTO); 304,650 gross sq ft (DOF sales file) · 12 floors |
Office | 25-30 Columbia Heights (Brooklyn), LLC PLUTO ownername "25-30 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS BROOKLYN, LLC", assessed total $34,680,150. On the 2016 deed the grantee's address is c/o The Kushner Companies, 666 Fifth Avenue; a 2018 deed between the same LLC and itself, and a 2025 $245,000,000 agreement with JPMorgan Chase and Panorama (Brooklyn) Lender, LLC, give it c/o CIM Group, Los Angeles. |
Private company | $340,000,000 2016-08-03 ACRIS deed 2016080800760001 and DOF sales file, 100%, from Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of NY, Inc. A |
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The core land
The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.
Brooklyn is 32.2% of the city's tax lots but 21.1% of its assessed value. The most valuable ground is federal parkland and the Barclays Center arena block; Downtown Brooklyn's towers come next.
Brooklyn assessed total, 276,106 lots$112,588,516,289
PLUTO 26v2, borough BK; land $19,355,816,352; 1,550,256,274 sq ft of buildings; 1,115,989 residential units. Citywide total $533,820,080,909 (us-nyc record). Read 2026-11-01.
Highest assessed lot in Brooklyn$1,549,967,400
PLUTO 26v2, BBL 3085900700, Flatbush Avenue, National Park Service, 43,263,037 sq ft of land, no buildings. Read 2026-11-01.
Highest assessed built lot$1,142,662,050
PLUTO 26v2, Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Avenue (BBL 3011180001), land $461,496,600 on 315,943 sq ft. Read 2026-11-01.
Most valuable ground per sq ft (lots of 20,000 sq ft or more)$1,461 per sq ft
PLUTO 26v2: the Barclays Center lot. Next is 8 5 Street (NYC HPD) at $368 per sq ft. Read 2026-11-01.
Largest recorded sale, 2016-2025$869,612,895
DOF Citywide Annualized Calendar Sales file: 1155 Pennsylvania Avenue (Starrett City), 2018-05-04. Next: 85 Jay Street $345,000,000 (2016-12-20), 29 Columbia Heights $340,000,000 (2016-08-03), 85 Smith Street hotel condo $317,792,634 (2023-11-28). Read 2026-11-01.
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Who owns the town
At this scale the significant owner is rarely a trust or a fund: it is one or two local holding companies, a family in its second or third generation, and often the land around the town rather than the buildings in it.
Government is by far Brooklyn's largest landowner. The National Park Service holds the Gateway shoreline at Floyd Bennett Field and Jamaica Bay, NYC Parks over a thousand lots, and the city's business agency owns the Navy Yard and other waterfront industrial land. NYCHA is the borough's largest landlord. Green-Wood and the other cemeteries hold more open ground than any private owner. Figures sum PLUTO 26v2 lots, Brooklyn only, under the exact owner string. Acres are lot area divided by 43,560. A further 3,586 lots, 548.9 acres and 48,222 units, read "UNAVAILABLE OWNER", mostly condominiums.
| Name | Type | Holdings, PLUTO 26v2 (Brooklyn) |
|---|---|---|
| National Park Service Includes the Flatbush Avenue lot BBL 3085900700 (43,263,037 sq ft, assessed $1,549,967,400, the highest-assessed lot in Brooklyn) and 5031 Flatbush Avenue (52,591,959 sq ft), plus Shore Parkway frontage. |
Government | 7 lots, 7,737.4 acres, $1.93B assessedA |
| NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Includes Prospect Park (95 Prospect Park West, 17,142,400 sq ft, assessed $139,075,650) and parkland on Jamaica Bay at 3000 Flatbush Avenue and Bergen Avenue. |
Government | 1,065 lots, 3,853.1 acres, $1.85B assessedA |
| NYC Department of Small Business Services The city's waterfront and industrial landholder. Holds the Brooklyn Navy Yard main lot (652 Kent Avenue) and a 23,108,842 sq ft Flatbush Avenue lot assessed at $816,511,500. "BROOKLYN NAVY YARD DEV" holds another 35.4 acres at 22 Flushing Avenue. |
Government | 100 lots, 1,378.5 acres, 15,339,541 sq ft of buildings, $1.36B assessedA |
| New York City Housing Authority Brooklyn's largest residential holder by far. Separate strings for NYCHA's PACT conversions add more: NYC PACT Preservation Partners LLC (146 lots, 1,940 units), Williamsburg PACT LLC (1,635) and Boulevard Together Owner LLC (1,468). |
Government | 229 lots, 734.6 acres, 50,591 units, 46,344,107 sq ftA |
| NYC Department of Education The largest assessed total of any single owner string in Brooklyn. The biggest school lot is 5800 20 Avenue (965,600 sq ft, $99,256,500). |
Government | 397 lots, 655.2 acres, 39,217,169 sq ft, $3.40B assessedA |
| Green-Wood Cemetery PLUTO string "GREENWOOD CEMETRY", 500 20 Street, tax-exempt. Other cemeteries: Cemetery of the Evergreens (103.3 acres), Cypress Hills (70.2), Saint John's (66.0), Washington (48.6), Salem Fields (34.4). |
Institution | 1 lot, 466.2 acres, $217.3M assessedA |
| Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NYC Transit and LIRR) Rail yards and rights of way. A separate string, "METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTH", holds the Atlantic Terminal lot at 139 Flatbush Avenue ($104,810,400). |
Government | 419 lots, 407.7 acres (NYC Transit 311 lots, 301.4 acres; MTA-LIRR 108 lots, 106.3 acres)A |
| NYC Department of Environmental Protection Water-pollution control and sewer sites, including the 851,780 sq ft lot at 61 Little Street next to the Navy Yard. |
Government | 47 lots, 258.9 acres, $157.8M assessedA |
| United States Department of the Army (Fort Hamilton) PLUTO string "DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY", 9275 Fort Hamilton Parkway. Other federal holders: the Federal Bureau of Prisons at 830 3 Avenue (902,000 sq ft), the federal courthouse at 225 Cadman Plaza East, and the US Postal Service (26 lots, 25.0 acres). |
Government | 1 lot, 171.0 acres, 1,545,708 sq ft, $132.0M assessedA |
| Brooklyn Union Gas Company The largest utility holder. Astoria Generating Company Acquisitions, L.L.C. holds a further 34.3 acres on 3 lots. |
Public company | 5 lots, 120.1 acresA |
| NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation Kings County, Coney Island and Woodhull hospital campuses. Universities: CUNY (2 lots, 56.2 acres), Brooklyn College (3 lots, 30.9 acres), Pratt Institute (29 lots, 27.2 acres), Long Island University (75 DeKalb Avenue, $95,400,900), SUNY Downstate (445 Lenox Road), New York University (2 lots, 807,493 sq ft). |
Government | 11 lots, 60.7 acres, 4,635,517 sq ft, $526.1M assessedA |
| Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Mainly the Red Hook and Sunset Park marine terminals. |
Government | 60 lots, 60.3 acres, 2,517,863 sq ftA |
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Who builds the houses
New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.
Brooklyn has no housebuilder league table. Each new tower is titled to its own LLC, and DCP's Housing Database records no developer names. Its ownership field is generic: of 145,798 net new units in 7,183 completed new buildings since 2000, 54,392 were built by for-profit corporations and 50,661 by for-profit partnerships. Completions rose to 13,532 net units in 2024 and 18,046 in 2025. The developers below are named by the c/o address that ACRIS records for each owner LLC. That address shows who handles the documents, not the equity, and units are PLUTO 26v2 counts.
| Name | Type | Units in named new buildings (PLUTO 26v2) |
|---|---|---|
| Brookfield Properties (Greenpoint Landing) BOP Greenpoint D LLC (1 Eagle Street, 745 units, 2020), F (41 Blue Slip, 421, 2018), G (359) and H-3 (414). ACRIS c/o Brookfield Properties, 250 Vesey Street. |
Public company | 1,939 units on 5 lotsB |
| AvalonBay Communities, Inc. Avalon Willoughby West, LLC, ACRIS c/o AvalonBay Communities, Inc. A second string, Avalon Gold, LLC, holds 631 units; its sponsor was not checked. |
REIT | 826 units (100 Willoughby Street, 57 floors, 2014)B |
| The Brodsky Organization 18 Sixth Avenue Owner LLC, ACRIS c/o The Brodsky Organization, LLC, 400 West 59th Street; assessed $113,172,744. |
Private company | 858 units (18 Sixth Avenue, Pacific Park, 2019)B |
| Lendlease 1 Java Owner LLC; one ACRIS record c/o Lendlease Development Inc., 200 Park Avenue. |
Public company | 834 units (1 Java Street, Greenpoint, 2023)B |
| Clipper Equity Waterview Owner LLC, ACRIS c/o Clipper Equity LLC, 4611 12th Avenue, Brooklyn. |
Private company | 766 units (85 Commercial Street, Greenpoint, 2021)B |
| Two Trees Management Co. (Domino) Domino A Partners LLC, ACRIS c/o Two Trees Management Co., 45 Main Street, Brooklyn. Domino Refinery LLC holds the refinery building ($47,820,600). |
Family / private | 462 units on 3 lots (346 Kent Avenue, 2022), plus the 400,101 sq ft Domino RefineryB |
| Tavros Holdings (Gowanus) Gowanus Nevins North LLC and South LLC, ACRIS c/o Tavros Holdings LLC. PLUTO shows 654 units on each of the two lots. That looks like one project counted twice, so only 654 is given. |
Private company | 654 units (498 Union / Nevins Street, 2024)B |
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Commercial landlords
The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.
Brooklyn's commercial stock sits mostly with public bodies and private families, not office REITs. Only a few listed owners disclose Brooklyn assets. Macerich owns Kings Plaza outright, Acadia's Fund II owns City Point, and BXP's Dock 72 sits at the Navy Yard. The largest private commercial blocks are the former Bush Terminal buildings in Sunset Park, held by two partnerships. Floor area is PLUTO's comarea summed over the exact owner string unless a filing is cited.
| Name | Type | Floor area |
|---|---|---|
| 1-10 Bush Terminal Owner LP and 19-20 Bush Terminal Owner LP The former Bush Terminal industrial buildings on Second and Third Avenues in Sunset Park. 1-10 Bush Terminal Owner LP: 8 lots, 3,172,720 sq ft, 1,213,574 sq ft of it office. ACRIS mailing addresses are 882 Third Avenue and 220 36th Street, Brooklyn. No filing opened here names the partners. |
Private company | 13 lots, 5,440,566 sq ft of buildings, 3,602,201 sq ft commercial, $313.2M assessedA |
| The Macerich Company (Kings Plaza) Kings Plaza Shopping Center, 100% owned, 93.4% occupied at 31 Dec 2025 (FY2025 10-K). Macerich's only Brooklyn property; Queens Center is in Queens. |
REIT | 1,097,000 sq ft GLAA |
| Acadia Realty Trust (City Point) City Point, held through Acadia's Fund II. The 10-K also lists Acadia's own Brooklyn street retail on North 6th Street in Williamsburg (70, 93, 95/97, 107, 123-129 North 6th Street). |
REIT | 531,982 sq ft GLA (76.0% interest)A |
| Muss & Muss (350 Jay Street) PLUTO string "MUSS & MUSS" on the 350 Jay Street condominium lot (BBL 3001407501, 32 floors, assessed $160,892,100), the second-highest-assessed office lot in Brooklyn after 4 MetroTech. |
Private company | 1,420,558 sq ft, 815,470 sq ft of it officeA |
| CubeSmart, L.P. Self-storage. PLUTO strings "CUBESMART, L.P." (10 lots, 632,296 sq ft) and "CUBESMART 338 3RD AVENUE, LLC" (79,244 sq ft). Assessed $62.1M combined. |
REIT | 11 lots, 711,540 sq ftA |
| JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Owner-occupier of Brooklyn's highest-assessed office lot ($107,407,800). |
Public company | 1,330,743 sq ft (4 MetroTech Center)A |
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Looked for and not found
Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.
- Barclays Center's operator. ACRIS shows the arena sublease to Brooklyn Events Center, LLC c/o Forest City Ratner Companies (2010); no later filing was opened to show who controls that LLC now, so no operator is named.
- The Brooklyn Tower's equity. Every 2025-26 ACRIS document addresses 9 DeKalb Fee Owner LLC c/o Silverstein Properties, but no recorded deed or filing opened here states Silverstein's stake.
- Industry City. The Bush Terminal Owner LPs' partners are not named in any filing opened here.
- Starrett City's beneficial owner. The 2018 deed and 2021 mortgage give c/o Rockpoint Group and c/o Brooksville Company, but no filing opened here states the equity split.
- Single-family-rental holders. No Brooklyn owner string was found that identifies an SFR platform; Brooklyn's small homes are held by individuals, who are not named here.
- Borough Hall. Its PLUTO lot could not be identified with confidence (225 Joralemon Street reads NYC DCAS but is classed as a park), so it is left out.
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Sources
- Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), version 26v2, filtered to borough BK (276,106 lots; assessed total $112,588,516,289; land $19,355,816,352; 1,550,256,274 sq ft of buildings; 1,115,989 residential units). Read 2026-11-01. — NYC Department of City Planning, on NYC Open Data · openA
- NYC Citywide Annualized Calendar Sales Update, Brooklyn (borough 3) rows: 239,778 sales 2016-01-01 to 2025-12-31 — NYC Department of Finance, on NYC Open Data · openA
- ACRIS - Real Property Master (recorded documents with document amount and date) — NYC Department of Finance, Office of the City Register, on NYC Open Data · openA
- ACRIS - Real Property Parties (named grantors and grantees with mailing addresses) — NYC Department of Finance, on NYC Open Data · openA
- ACRIS - Real Property Legals (document to borough/block/lot) — NYC Department of Finance, on NYC Open Data · openA
- The Macerich Company Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 (filed 2026-02-20), Item 2 property table and mortgage schedule — The Macerich Company, via SEC EDGAR · openA
- Acadia Realty Trust Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 (filed 2026-02-13), Investment Management property detail — Acadia Realty Trust, via SEC EDGAR · openA
- Housing Database Project-Level Files, version 26Q2.1, Brooklyn (boro 3) completed new-building jobs — NYC Department of City Planning, on NYC Open Data · openA