125 Prospect Park West
125 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY 11215
BBL 3010890040 · BIN 3025833
- Year built
- 1916
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 38
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- Designated
Own an apartment here? See what it would sell for.
A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 125 Prospect Park West 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.
125 Prospect Park West is a six-story, 100-foot-wide corner building on the park at 8th Street. It was built in 1916 as The Hillhurst Apartments for Richard Bridgette to designs by the architect Harry Moore, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. That puts it in the first generation of apartment houses on an avenue that had been built out with mansions and rowhouses in the 1880s and 1890s. The block still shows both generations: next door, at 121 and 122 Prospect Park West, are a pair of 1896 single-family houses by George Miller.
The landmark status is the first thing to understand. Several large Prospect Park West apartment lots — 9, 35, 40 and 75 Prospect Park West, and 27 Prospect Park West at Montgomery Place — were left out of the Park Slope Historic District in 1973. This one was not. LPC's building database lists it inside the district, the 1973 designation report describes it by name, and the designation was recorded against the lot in ACRIS that September. The same is true of 86–88 Prospect Park West at 4th Street. For a buyer, that means the building's exterior is protected, and it also means window replacement, façade repair and any rooftop work go through a Landmarks permit.
The co-op is a 1984 conversion. The building had been under the same private ownership from 1967; 125 Prospect Park West Associates bought it in 1981 and conveyed it to 125 Prospect Park West Tenants Corp. in April 1984, per ACRIS. The corporation's early debt included mortgages held by the building's former owners, which were assigned to a savings bank in 1994.
Architecture and unit composition
The 1973 designation report describes a large brick corner building with a central entrance court facing the park. The effect comes from a few elements: a rusticated limestone first floor, quoins at the corners, a bandcourse that doubles as the sill line of the sixth-floor windows, and a cornice carried on evenly spaced console brackets. The 8th Street elevation repeats the same treatment flush, with no entrance. The court plan brings light into the middle of a 100-foot frontage and gives the park-facing apartments on either side of it a view straight across to Prospect Park.
ACRIS labels apartments in six lines, A through F, on six floors, with a small number of additional units. 6E and 6F have been combined and trade as one apartment. City counts differ by one — PLUTO carries 38 apartments, HPD 37 — and Department of Buildings filings go back and forth between the two, which is consistent with that combination. Confirm the current count and the share allocation for the specific apartment with the managing agent.
The park-facing lines are the premium product. The 8th Street lines face south across the side street over the district's rowhouses; the corner lines have both exposures.
Building operations
Capital work. Department of Buildings records show façade repair in 2004 (lintel replacement, scraping and painting of the cornice and fire escapes) and a larger job filed in 2016 covering façade repair, roof replacement, and window and door replacement, with sidewalk shed and scaffold permits in 2017. Ask for the current Local Law 11 façade inspection report (the city's five-year exterior wall inspection) and whether any cycle is open.
Underlying mortgage. Per ACRIS, the corporation refinanced in 1999, 2004 and 2011, and in April 2015 took $1.7 million of new money from a savings bank, consolidated into a $3.75 million loan. The maturity date, rate and amortization are not in the public record. Given the loan's 2015 origination, ask the managing agent whether it has been refinanced since, when it matures, and what the maintenance budget assumes about the rate at renewal.
Taxes. J-51 is a city program that reduces real estate taxes for qualifying renovation work. This building has used it three times. A 1990 abatement on $27,600 of work ran through the mid-1990s. A 2010 abatement, on about $150,000 of certified work, was used up in the 2020/21 tax year. A 2013 abatement, on about $77,000 of work, took its final partial year in 2023/24. There is nothing left to burn off; the tax bill no longer carries a J-51 credit. The co-op abatement continues, but it applies only to apartments that are a shareholder's primary residence.
Recent sales
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent transfers at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2026 | 2E | $780,000 |
| Jun 8, 2022 | 4A | $1,425,000 |
| May 13, 2022 | 2A | $2,500,000 |
| Apr 7, 2022 | 1F | $948,000 |
| Feb 8, 2022 | 4C | $1,260,000 |
| Jul 19, 2021 | 5F | $910,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-01089-0040) 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.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
Keep up with 125 Prospect Park West and its market
The Roebling Report, monthly: Manhattan sales data and analysis, including buildings like125 Prospect Park West. Unsubscribe anytime.
We’ll use your email for The Roebling Report and note your interest in this building. See our privacy policy.
What to know if you’re buying
Get the policy stack in writing. Nothing about financing limits, the flip tax, subletting, pets or washer/dryers is documented in the public record. Ask the managing agent for the house rules, the purchase application and the board's current financing requirement before you bid.
Ask about the 2015 mortgage. It is the largest fixed cost in the maintenance you'll be paying. Get the maturity date and rate.
Budget for Landmarks review. Any exterior change — including window replacement in your own apartment — needs an LPC permit as well as board approval.
Price off the co-op abatement correctly. If you won't be living in the apartment full time, your share of the building's taxes may be higher than the current owner's.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the view and the district. A park-facing prewar apartment on a landmarked block is a specific product, and it is the reason buyers pick this building over the outside-district towers to the north.
Have the capital-work history ready. The 2016 roof, window and façade program is a selling point with both the board and a buyer's lender; have the scope and completion status to hand.
Price by line. Park-facing, corner and 8th Street apartments are separate products. Use comparable sales from the same line.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 125 Prospect Park West, also evaluate:
- 86 Prospect Park West — the 1908–09 four-story walk-up co-op at 4th Street; also inside the district
- 75 Prospect Park West — a six-story, 24-apartment park-front co-op at 3rd Street; similar scale, outside the district
- 27 Prospect Park West — the 1928 fifteen-story co-op at Montgomery Place, excluded from the district
- 9 Prospect Park West — the 1929 fifteen-story park-front co-op at President Street
- 35 Prospect Park West — Emery Roth's 1929 co-op at Garfield Place, with the avenue's largest apartments
- 40 Prospect Park West — the 1942 park-front co-op at Garfield Place
- 300 8th Avenue — a 1920 elevator co-op on the historic-district line, with smaller apartments
- 90 Eighth Avenue — Sugarman & Berger's 1927 co-op at President Street, inside the district
More Park Slope buildings
- 100 Sterling Place — 1990 condominium
- 11 Sterling Place (Sterling Court) — 1935 condop
- 113–117 Sterling Place (Sterling Atrium), 113 and 117 Sterling Place — 1920 co-op
- 130 Eighth Avenue (814 Carroll Street) — 1950 co-op
- 140 8th Avenue, 140 Eighth Avenue — 1936 co-op
- 145 Park Place (Park Place Condominiums) — 1925 condop
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Park Slope.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
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.
Considering a move at 125 Prospect Park West?
Request a private building brief with the relevant comparable sales, current and off-market availability, and an apartment-specific view of value.