108 Pierrepont Street
108 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002430037 · BIN 3002000
- Year built
- 1840
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 10
- Floors
- 3
- Landmark
- Designated
- Flip tax
- An 'apartment sale surcharges' income line appears in the corporation's audited statements, indicating a transfer fee on sales; current formula not documented
- Washer / dryer
- Basement laundry available 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.; laundry equipment historically belonged to shareholders rather than the corporation
- Pets
- No bird or animal may be kept or harbored unless the board expressly permits it in writing in each instance, revocably; dogs carried or leashed in public portions (house rules revised April 2004)
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 1979 plan as filed; house rules as revised April 2004). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $1.2M
- Recent range
- $825K – $1.3M
- Listing discount
- 0.4%
- Recorded transfers
- 16
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 108 Pierrepont Street would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
108 Pierrepont Street is an 1840 Greek Revival house that has spent the last four and a half decades as a ten-shareholder cooperative — which is to say it is the Brooklyn Heights Historic District's characteristic building type in its characteristic modern form. The LPC's district records credit the house to P. C. Cornell, one of the builders who put up the Greek Revival rows that gave the neighborhood its first architectural identity in the 1830s and 1840s; the immediate neighbor at 120 Pierrepont carries an 1858 Anglo-Italianate date, which is the district's next chapter written on the same block.
What distinguishes the building for a buyer is that the conversion left the house intact as a house. The apartments are not a grid of identical lines; they are the rooms of a nineteenth-century dwelling redistributed. There are garden apartments front and rear at the bottom, two-bedroom apartments with garden or terrace use above, and one-bedroom duplexes at the top that climb into an attic level where four bubble skylights bring light into what had been the servants' story. Fireplaces survive — one of the sponsor's obligations under the 1979 plan was to clean every flue for purchasers before closing, alongside repairing the fascia, painting the front fence, venting the basement dryer, waterproofing the back patio for no more than $500, and making sure every stove, switch, and outlet in the building actually worked. That list is the best surviving portrait of the building at the moment it became a co-op.
The exterior remains a stoop house. Twenty-six feet of paved front garden with hedges and plantings flank the entry steps on either side, behind iron gates set in a wrought-iron fence at the property line; a three-foot paved alley runs down the side to a wood-fenced rear yard roughly thirty feet deep. Inside the front door is a marble-floored vestibule with thirty inches of wood wainscot, opening to a public hall with plaster walls, a rug-covered wood floor, and a decorative chandelier. Those are not marketing flourishes; they are lines in an architect's 1979 inspection report, and they describe what a buyer walks through today.
The economics have always been small and self-directed. The 1979 plan valued the whole property at $721,000 and priced individual apartments between $50,000 and $92,500 after the first-amendment repricing. The building has been self-managed with a visiting superintendent ever since — which produces the two facts that define it in the market: a low carrying cost by district standards, and a high expectation that shareholders participate in running the place.
Architecture and unit composition
The house is three stories over a basement and cellar, with an attic level above. The roof is a built-up assembly that pitches steeply in three planes to gutters at the rear and side; four clear bubble-top skylights sit above the attic-level bedrooms and a fifth lights the central public hall, and chimneys serve the fireplaces and the boiler alongside the mechanical ventilation stacks.
The ten apartments distribute across those levels in genuinely varied form. The garden level holds front and rear apartments with kitchenettes, bedrooms, and direct outdoor access; the middle floors carry two-bedrooms, several with garden or terrace use; the top of the house holds one-bedroom duplexes, two with terraces, running up into the attic bedrooms under the skylights. The house rules acknowledge the arrangement explicitly, requiring that carpeting extend into loft areas for sound insulation. Electrical service was rebuilt at conversion to individual meters and breakers per apartment at fifty to eighty amps each. The kitchens and baths described in the 1979 report have long since been replaced apartment by apartment, so condition varies enormously from unit to unit; laundry equipment and window air conditioners have historically belonged to shareholders rather than the corporation, and windows and any street-visible work run through the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Building operations
108 Pierrepont Street Housing Corporation has run the building since 1980, self-managed with a visiting superintendent — the audited statements carry superintendent service as a small annual line rather than a payroll, alongside taxes, fuel, water and sewer, insurance, and repairs. Income comes from shareholder maintenance, a laundry line, and an apartment-sale surcharge collected on transfers. The corporation has held Class B shares in the National Cooperative Bank, the lender most closely associated with small co-op underlying mortgages, and its capital-improvement account shows sustained investment rather than deferral.
Diligence should run in two directions. Ask for several years of audited statements, the underlying mortgage terms and maturity, the reserve balance, the assessment history, and the record of façade, roof, and boiler work — then ask about governance, because a self-managed ten-unit corporation depends on shareholders who serve, and what is expected of a new owner should be answered before contract rather than after. The Roebling Research Library holds the plan, its first amendment, the bylaws, the current-era house rules, the proprietary lease, and the financial statements for client diligence.
Policy framework
Pets: Under the house rules as revised in April 2004, no bird or animal may be kept or harbored unless the board expressly permits it in writing in each instance; permission is revocable, and dogs must be carried or leashed in the public portions. Confirm current practice.
Renovations: Every renovation project requires permits from both the Department of Buildings and the Landmarks Preservation Commission unless the board waives the requirement in writing, and shareholders must file a certificate of insurance and a hold-harmless agreement before work begins. Construction is confined to weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Floors and noise: Floors must be covered to at least 80 percent of each room's area with carpeting or equally effective noise-reducing material, kitchens, pantries, baths, closets, and foyers excepted — and the rule extends explicitly into the duplex apartments' loft areas.
Laundry, storage, and terraces: The basement laundry runs from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. under board policy; basement storage is board-assigned, with shareholders responsible for keeping their space clear of flammable material and for any Fire Marshal citation it causes. Terrace plantings require prior written board approval in lined containers raised clear of the surface.
Flip tax / transfer fee: An apartment-sale surcharge appears as a recurring income line in the corporation's audited statements. Confirm the current formula and who pays it.
Subletting, financing minimums, pied-à-terre: Not documented in the papers available. Confirm against the current house rules, proprietary lease, and purchase application.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 emissions caps apply. No regulatory capital pressure from this law specifically, current or 2030.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Prices are the transfer amounts recorded with the NYC Department of Finance; apartment-level detail is checked against the building’s own file in The Roebling Research Library before publishing.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2026 | 6 | 2 BR · 1 BA · 850 sf | $1,345,000 | $1,582/sf | -0.4% |
| Nov 2, 2023 | 6 | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,080,000 | -4.0% | |
| May 10, 2023 | 7 | 1 BR · 1 BA | $825,000 | +10.0% | |
| Oct 17, 2018 | 8 | 1 BR | $800,000 | +14.4% | |
| Jun 1, 2017 | 6 | 2 BR | $1,065,000 | +1.4% | |
| Jun 12, 2015 | 9 | 1 BR | $626,101 | +8.9% | |
| Jul 13, 2012 | 8 | 1 BR | $540,000 | +1.9% | |
| Aug 10, 2006 | 10 | $357,500 | -2.1% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,582/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount -1.7% over ask.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Full closing history with price-per-square-foot over time, the complete retrade record, and every line that has traded.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-00243-0037) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price; square footage on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
What to know if you’re buying
You are buying into a house. Every apartment is different. Evaluate the specific unit's ceiling heights, light, outdoor access, and fireplace condition on their own terms; the building average tells you very little.
Self-management cuts both ways. The carrying cost is low because there is no staff and no management fee. The corollary is shareholder participation — ask what the board expects of new owners.
Landmarks is written into the house rules. The co-op itself requires permits from both the Department of Buildings and the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Budget the approval timeline, not just the construction.
Confirm the transfer fee and the capital record. The corporation records an apartment-sale surcharge as income; find out the formula and who pays it. Then get the façade, roof, skylight, and flue history in writing — an 1840 masonry house with a steeply pitched roof and working chimneys has a specific maintenance profile.
What to know if you’re selling
Name the architecture. An 1840 Greek Revival house credited in LPC district records to P. C. Cornell, on Pierrepont Street, is a pedigree line most small Heights co-ops cannot offer.
Lead with what your specific apartment has. Garden access, a terrace, a fireplace, skylights, or duplex volume — one of these is almost certainly your listing's argument, and it belongs in the first line.
Put the maintenance figure forward. A self-managed building with a visiting superintendent produces carrying costs well below the district's staffed co-ops. Buyers running the numbers will notice; make sure they notice early.
Prepare the board package early. Small self-managed boards move on their own schedule. Setting expectations at contract, with the co-op's financials in the deal room, prevents the delays that most often cost small-co-op sellers their closing date.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 108 Pierrepont Street, also evaluate:
- 123 Pierrepont Street — small co-op directly on the same street; the closest comparison on address and scale
- 20 Pierrepont Street — small prewar elevator co-op on Pierrepont; the serviced alternative
- 35 Pierrepont Street — moderate-scale prewar co-op on the same corridor
- 1 Pierrepont Street — prewar co-op at the Promenade end of the street
- 138 Pierrepont Street — thirteen-unit condominium conversion further east; the condominium alternative on the same street
- 92 Remsen Street — ten-unit co-op in an 1830s Federal house; the nearest structural twin in the district
- 99 Clinton Street — ten-unit co-op in a mid-nineteenth-century house one block east
- 123 Henry Street — ten-unit walk-up co-op one block north
- 21 Monroe Place — ten-unit walk-up co-op on the quietest street in the district
- 40 Clinton Street — large full-service co-op nearby, for buyers weighing house-scale living against services
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How to read the facts on this page. Items attributed to an offering plan describe the building as it was offered at that filing — unit mix, square footage, the amenity program as planned. They are not a statement about how the building operates today. Tax and compliance figures are sourced separately to current City records and carry their own dates. House rules, staffing and fee policy can change by board resolution without any public filing: treat every policy line here as a starting point for diligence and confirm it with the managing agent. Where this page compares one building or neighborhood to another, that is our analysis of the recorded record — it names the measure, the period and the sample it rests on, and it is an observation about medians rather than a prediction about any particular apartment.
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