Greenpoint's 1905 House Makes Way for Six-Story, $2.7M Condo Project

A 120-year-old two-family house on Meserole Avenue in Greenpoint is on track to be replaced by a six-story condominium building, with permits filed for a 75-foot structure that will hold six residences and a penthouse. The site at 146 Meserole Avenue sits between McGuinness Boulevard and Eckford Street, in a stretch of the neighborhood that has become a hotbed of small-scale luxury condo development.

The filing, first reported by New York YIMBY, lists Eitin Binet as the owner behind the applications and names Stephen Conte of StudioSC Architecture as architect of record. The proposed concrete-based structure would yield 9,956 square feet of residential space across six units averaging 1,659 square feet each, with the building's scope suggesting the residences will most likely be sold as condominiums rather than rentals. The plans also call for a cellar and a 30-foot-long rear yard, though no estimated completion date has been announced.

Property records show the current structure is a two-story, two-family house built in 1905, with roughly 2,244 square feet of space, according to Zillow. The lot itself, measuring 2,500 square feet, changed hands for $2.7 million in April 2025, per sales records reviewed by Redfin, setting the financial stage for the redevelopment well before any permits reached the Department of Buildings.

Setback Details Emerge in Permit Filing

Department of Buildings filings logged this week outline precise dimensions for the proposed 77-foot building, including a 24.58-foot front yard and a 36.5-foot rear yard, according to the Marketproof Blog. Demolition permits for the existing structure were filed back in 2025, though it remains unclear from available records when demolition or new construction will actually begin.

StudioSC's involvement on this stretch of Meserole Avenue isn't new. The firm, which keeps its studio at 37 Greenpoint Avenue, previously designed boutique residential projects at 78 Meserole Avenue in 2024 and 84 Meserole Avenue in 2023, establishing a recognizable brick-and-glass aesthetic along the block. In mid-August, permits were also filed for another StudioSC-designed six-story project at 191 Greenpoint Avenue, replacing the former Kimchee Market with five luxury units, as Hoodline reported in its piece on the Korean market site's condo conversion.

Transit Access and a Changing Boulevard

The site sits close to the Nassau Avenue subway station, two blocks away, which serves the G train with direct access north to Long Island City and south to Downtown Brooklyn, according to New York YIMBY's reporting. That proximity to transit has become a consistent draw for developers targeting Greenpoint's interior blocks.

The project also arrives as McGuinness Boulevard, the thoroughfare bordering the site, undergoes a major transformation. In May, the city's Department of Transportation officially broke ground on a redesign that reduces the boulevard to one travel lane in each direction while adding parking-protected bike lanes running north to the Pulaski Bridge, following years of street safety activism along the corridor.

Pricing Points to Luxury Positioning

Greenpoint's condo market reached a median of $1,449 per square foot in the second quarter of 2026, according to PropertyShark data reported by Hoodline, meaning the six planned 1,659-square-foot units at 146 Meserole Avenue could each command roughly $2.4 million if priced at that benchmark. That estimate tracks with broader momentum in the surrounding submarket: North Brooklyn logged 16 luxury contracts in a single week in August 2026, totaling $49 million at an average of $1,504 per square foot, per The Real Deal as relayed by Hoodline.

The filing also fits into a much larger citywide pattern. Brooklyn led all five boroughs in residential development filings in 2025, recording 19,905 proposed units out of 57,352 citywide, according to a New York YIMBY analysis of Department of Buildings records cited by Hoodline. Whether local residents welcome the added height and density on this particular block of Meserole Avenue remains an open question, as does the timeline for when demolition of the century-old house will actually begin.