Home Values · Brooklyn · Gowanus, NY
What's your home worth in Gowanus?
The median home in Gowanus sold for $1,750,000 — condo prices ▼ 15.4% over the past year.
Based on recorded residential sales over the last 12 months (all home types). Source: ATTOM public property records · updated quarterly · as of July 2026.
About the neighborhood
Industry, art, and a canal
The canal defines Gowanus: an industrial channel in northwestern Brooklyn whose weathered brick warehouses, sawtooth rooftops, and cobblestone alleys are now interleaved with new glass-fronted residential buildings. The area's history runs from colonial-era farming and Revolutionary War skirmishes through Brooklyn's manufacturing peak, and the bones of that era are everywhere, including the retractable Carroll Street Bridge, a rare mechanical landmark.
The waterway is at the center of one of the city's most ambitious cleanup and redevelopment efforts, and reinvention is the daily mood: former factories hold studios, galleries, and coworking spaces, with the Powerhouse Arts center operating from a restored power station. Independent restaurants and bars fill the streets, and an activist streak runs deep, with residents organized to protect small businesses as development accelerates. Best for people who like a neighborhood mid-transformation.
Where Gowanus sits
The official neighborhood boundary — every sale behind the numbers above closed inside this outline.
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