132 Joralemon Street
132 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002640010 · BIN 3002533
- Year built
- 1879
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 12
- Floors
- 4
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Subletting by shareholders
- Permitted with conditions
- Dogs and cats
- Not permitted
- Subletting
- Board approval required for every sublet per board resolution of June 15, 2000: one-year terms only, renewable annually with board approval, no sub-subleases, non-refundable application fee per subtenant, escalating fee of $10/share year one, $20/share year two, +$10/share each year thereafter, payable monthly as additional rent; vacancy suspends and two years of owner-occupancy or vacancy resets to base
- Pets
- House rules as filed contain no prohibition; they require only that animals be carried or leashed in public portions of the building
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 2000 for sublet policy; 1985 for plan documents). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2006–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $1.1M – $1.8M
- Listing discount
- -5.5%
- Recorded transfers
- 10
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132 Joralemon Street is a twelve-apartment cooperative in a mid-nineteenth-century Anglo-Italianate house on the Aitken Place block, where Brooklyn Heights runs out into Borough Hall and Downtown Brooklyn. It is the smallest kind of building the district trades — a converted row house with a garden, a walk-up stair, twelve share blocks and no staff — and it is the kind of purchase where the paperwork matters more than the amenity list, because there is no amenity list.
The conversion documents are unusually complete. 132 Joralemon Associates bought the building in May 1984 from the family that had held it since 1967 and offered a non-eviction plan on July 19, 1985, with an express bar on ever amending it into an eviction plan. Tenants in occupancy bought at $750 a share; outside purchasers paid $1,000. Nine of the twelve apartments were rent-stabilized at filing and three were vacant, and the offering came to $1,570,000 across 1,570 shares.
What makes the plan a period document is its financing. The sponsor took back a $275,000 purchase-money wraparound mortgage at 12 percent interest, stepping to 14.5 percent in May 1987, interest-only throughout, with the full principal ballooning on May 2, 1994 — and the plan warned in capital letters that if the co-op could not refinance, shareholders would owe $175.16 per share. Beneath that sat an underlying mortgage held personally by the woman who had sold the building. The original shareholders of a twelve-unit Heights brownstone signed up for that in 1986. The City Register's record of the co-op's underlying debt since — modest six-figure balances rolled forward in 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2017 — indicates the corporation refinanced through it.
The apartments are small, and the plan says so plainly. The share schedule runs 1.5- and 3.5-room units with a single bath, at 68 to 155 shares. Two apartments were already combinations by 1985; a 2019 DOB filing combined two more. This is a building of studios, one-bedrooms and a handful of larger floor-throughs, where the garden apartments and the combined lines carry the value.
Architecture and unit composition
The house is 25 feet wide and 84 feet deep on a 26-by-100-foot lot, about 8,700 square feet of building, with the apartment lines running from a garden level up through a fifth tier under the roof. The plan's allocation of the rear yard is the distinctive feature: it is expressly not a common area. Apartments 1A and 1B each hold exclusive use of half the garden — the line runs from the rear wall to the rear property line, split at the partition between the two units — and each is solely responsible for maintaining its half, subject to the corporation's access for structural repair and to emergency egress. Two apartments carry lofts. On the third and fourth floors, rooms shown on the original design plans as exterior bathrooms had their fixtures pulled and their common-hall doors sealed at conversion, with the space annexed to the adjoining apartments — a small archaeology of pre-plumbing row-house life folded into two floor plans.
Building operations
132 Joralemon Street Buyers Corp. has run the building since 1986 on the leanest possible model. The conversion budget carried no management fee and no service contracts at all: a part-time non-union superintendent at $50 a month, gas heat and hot water, public-area electricity, insurance, taxes and the mortgage, totalling $58,215.60 for the first year. By the late 2000s the corporation was paying a small annual management fee — $4,800 a year in the 2009 through 2012 statements — plus a janitorial contract, with the building's own laundry generating a line of income.
Financial statements in The Roebling Research Library run from 2001 through 2012 and show the profile clearly: maintenance income around $100,000 a year, operating expenses tracking close behind, real estate taxes and mortgage interest as the two dominant costs, and a cash position that has generally sat near $100,000. Capital work is episodic: a boiler and hot-water heater replacement in 2000, and a sidewalk shed and pipe scaffold in 2014 for exterior repairs. On an 1860s-to-1870s masonry front in a landmark district, the façade cycle is the recurring obligation, and twelve shareholders carry it.
Policy framework
Subletting: Governed by a board resolution of June 15, 2000. Every sublet requires board approval; terms are one year, renewable annually with approval; no sub-subleases; a non-refundable application fee applies per subtenant. Sublet fees escalate at $10 per share for the first year, $20 for the second, and $10 more each year after, payable monthly as additional rent. Vacancy suspends the fee, and a two-year owner-occupancy or vacancy resets it to the base rate.
Resale: Board approval in the standard cooperative form. Under the plan as filed, sponsor-held unsold shares were exempt from consent and from certain transfer charges — an original-plan distinction whose present application depends on the current share and holder schedule and any amendments. Confirm whether holders of unsold shares or surviving exempt rights remain.
Pets: The house rules as filed contain no prohibition and contemplate animals in the building, requiring only that they be carried or leashed in public areas. They also impose the standard 80 percent floor-covering rule and restrict construction noise to weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Financing, flip tax, pied-à-terre, washer-dryer: Not documented in the plan or rules as filed.
Sublet and pied-à-terre policy
A condominium owner leasing a unit and a co-op shareholder subletting are different rules, and a building-wide rule is different from a restriction on one apartment. This is the building's rule; confirm it for the specific apartment.
- Subletting by shareholders
- Permitted with conditionsBoard approval required for every sublet per board resolution of June 15, 2000: one-year terms only, renewable annually with board approval, no sub-subleases, non-refundable application fee per subtenant, escalating fee of $10/share year one, $20/share year two, +$10/share each year thereafter…Source: The Roebling Research Desk's building record, 2000
- Pied-à-terre ownership
- Not verified
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Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Dogs and cats
- Not permittedSource: The Roebling Research Desk's building record, 2000
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Not verified
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Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Maintenance, per room
- $412 per room a monthMedian of 3 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Maintenance as recorded with each sale. A co-op's maintenance already covers the building's real estate taxes and the building's own mortgage, if it has one; add your own loan payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Elevator
- NoSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- GardenSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 limits apply to a building on its own. It is still covered if it shares a tax lot or condominium board with buildings totaling over 50,000 sq ft; confirm on DOB’s covered-buildings list.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 2026 | 2C | 1 BA | $730,000 | +12.3% | |
| Feb 20, 2026 | 5BC | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,775,000 | +11.3% | |
| Aug 1, 2025 | 3BC | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,050,000 | +5.5% | |
| Feb 23, 2018 | 2A | 650 sf | $610,000 | $938/sf | +2.5% |
| Feb 17, 2017 | 2C | $475,000 | +5.6% | ||
| Jul 30, 2014 | 4C | 1 BR | $580,000 | +7.6% | |
| Jul 13, 2012 | 5C | 1 BR | $330,000 | +1.5% | |
| Apr 17, 2006 | 5C | 1 BR | $319,000 | +0.0% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2018): a median $938/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount -5.5% 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 3-00264-0010). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. 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.
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At the recent median sale of $1.05M (3 transfers in the past 24 months, since October 31, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $22,988 to close, or 2.2% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $10,500
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $12,488
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
Twelve shareholders carry every capital item. Read current financials, reserves, façade inspection and repair records, and assessment history together. FISP applies to buildings higher than six stories; the recorded four- or five-story configuration alone does not establish a FISP filing obligation.
Confirm the share ledger and the combinations. Two apartments were already combined at conversion and a 2019 filing combined two more. Your attorney should verify the specific unit's shares and its approvals.
Confirm the current sublet rules. The June 15, 2000 resolution provides one-year terms, annual board approval and escalating per-share fees; obtain amendments and the current schedule before relying on those terms.
Garden rights belong to two apartments. The plan gives apartments 1A and 1B exclusive use of half the rear yard each, with the obligation to maintain it and subject to the corporation's access. It is a use right under the plan and proprietary lease, not separately deeded land; confirm it in the current lease and amendments. If you are buying anything else, you do not have yard access.
What to know if you’re selling
The paperwork is your asset. A complete plan, proprietary lease, house rules, sublet policy and a decade of financial statements is more diligence material than most twelve-unit Heights co-ops can produce. Put it in the deal room on day one.
Sell the garden and the combinations. In a building of 1.5- and 3.5-room apartments, the garden units and the combined floor-throughs are the scarce product, and they should be marketed as such.
Lead with the location, honestly. This is the Borough Hall edge of the Heights: less Promenade, more transit. For a buyer who commutes, that is the trade they want.
Price against the district's brownstone-scale co-ops. The right comparables are the small converted houses, not the staffed prewar elevator buildings on Montague and Clinton.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 132 Joralemon Street, also evaluate:
- 130 Clinton Street — the same block's larger prewar cooperative, at the corner
- 151 Joralemon Street — brownstone-scale co-op on the same street
- 39 Remsen Street (The Alden) — 1878 walk-up co-op; the district's oldest apartment house
- 8 Old Fulton Street (Brooklyn City Railroad Company Building) — eleven-unit co-op in the district's oldest converted commercial stock
- 1 Grace Court — small co-op on the cul-de-sac two blocks west
- 142 Hicks Street — brownstone-scale co-op peer in the western Heights
- 200 Hicks Street — small prewar co-op of comparable unit count
- 76 Remsen Street — small-scale Remsen Street co-op peer
More Brooklyn Heights buildings
- 13 Montague Terrace — 1861 co-op
- 130 Clinton Street — 1925 co-op
- 130 Hicks Street — 1958 co-op
- 132 Remsen Street — condominium
- 134 Remsen Street — co-op
- 135 Willow Street — 1955 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Brooklyn Heights.
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.
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