What’s Happening at The Carroll, Carroll Gardens’ First New Apartment Building in 15 Years?
The Carroll, an eight-story, 82-unit rental building at 33 4th Street, has been open and occupied since January 2026. Multiple outlets covering its debut called it Carroll Gardens’ first new upscale apartment building in roughly 15 years — and on a site that used to hold a warehouse, nearly a quarter of the finished building’s units are now set aside as affordable housing.
What It Is
The Carroll sits just outside Carroll Gardens’ landmarked historic district, on a stretch of 4th Street zoned M1-4/R6A under the Fourth Avenue Subdistrict’s mixed-use overlay. No rezoning was involved — as far as the available public record shows, it went up as-of-right, under zoning already in place before the project existed.
We’re stating that carefully: no ULURP application, variance, or special-permit process turned up in the sources reviewed for this piece. That’s good evidence for as-of-right construction, but it isn’t the same as confirming it directly against a Department of Buildings permit-review record.
Informed Infrastructure’s coverage of the opening credits Shimon Hoffman as developer and IMC Architecture as architect; GH Management, LLC holds the property as owner of record.
Of the 82 units, 23 are set aside as affordable housing, offered through NYC Housing Connect to households earning up to 130% of area median income.
Why It Matters
Carroll Gardens doesn’t see much genuinely new construction. Its rowhouse core is fully built out and landmarked — new ground-up building isn’t possible there at all.
Even the blocks outside the historic district tend toward renovation and expansion rather than new towers; a separate, much larger wave of that kind of work, worth roughly $340 million since 2023, is the neighborhood’s more typical current story.
Multiple outlets reported The Carroll as the first new upscale apartment building here in around a decade and a half. That’s less a marketing line than a real marker of how rarely a ground-up project like this actually happens in Carroll Gardens, on either side of the historic district line.
The affordable component matters on its own terms, too: 23 income-restricted units is a meaningful number for a neighborhood where new housing of any kind, restricted or not, is scarce.
What We Couldn’t Pin Down
Not everything about the building is fully settled. Press coverage describes The Carroll as seven stories; New York City’s own PLUTO parcel dataset — the city’s official record of building and lot characteristics, which places the site on tax block 464 — lists it as eight.
It’s a minor gap, likely a difference in how a mezzanine or cellar level gets counted, and it doesn’t change anything about the building’s scale, unit count, or use. We’re noting the discrepancy rather than picking one figure, since neither source resolves it definitively.
One other small mismatch is easier to explain: PLUTO’s year-built field lists 2024, while press coverage puts the opening in January 2026. That’s not really a conflict — 2024 most likely reflects when construction itself wrapped, with leasing and occupancy following roughly a year and a half later, a normal enough gap for a residential building this size.
What’s Next
Nothing — The Carroll is complete and occupied, with no pending phase or additional construction expected at this address. For the fuller picture of what else is changing in Carroll Gardens, including that $340 million renovation wave, a delayed library reopening, and a set of public infrastructure projects nearby, see Hush Street’s Carroll Gardens Development Tracker.
Sources: Informed Infrastructure; News 12 Brooklyn.
Hush Street Editorial researches and reports on the projects, permits, and physical changes reshaping Brooklyn — and, more broadly, New York City. Reporting draws on primary-source city records — Department of Buildings filings, land-use and planning applications, agency and community-board documents — verified and cross-checked against independent reporting where it exists. Coverage is continuously updated as new filings and decisions are recorded, and confirmed facts are distinguished from open questions.
