134 Remsen Street
134 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002540078 · BIN 3002237
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 10
- 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
- Permitted with conditions
- Cats
- Not stated
Construction chronology: 1861–1879 per the LPC's Brooklyn Heights Historic District records for this lot, a range rather than a single year; Department of Finance records say 1879, inside that range; the sponsor's 1982 engineering report records only "prior to 1936." (138 Remsen next door, the corporation's other section, carries an earlier LPC date — the two houses were not necessarily built in the same season.) The LPC date range and style are the better evidence here
- Subletting
- Up to 18 months in any continuous five-year period measured from the first day of the sublet; a new five-year period may begin only after a full year has elapsed since the prior sublet ended; every sublet, renewal or extension requires board authorization under Section 15 of the proprietary lease. Policy effective July 1, 1997
- Pets
- No bird or animal may be kept or harbored without express written permission of the corporation, revocable at any time; dogs must be carried or on leash in all public portions of the building; feeding animals from windows, yard, courts, public portions, sidewalk or street is prohibited
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated July 1, 1997 (sublet); house rules undated). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2024
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $878K – $878K
- Listing discount
- 0.3%
- Recorded transfers
- 11
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The first thing to understand about 134 Remsen Street is that it is half of something. The cooperative corporation is 13438 Homes Corp., and it owns two buildings — 134–136 Remsen and 138 Remsen — as a single legal and financial entity. Buy an apartment at 134 and you are buying shares in both houses: one board, one budget, one reserve, one mortgage, one façade program across two brownstone fronts. That is the first thing a buyer's attorney should read the paperwork for.
The house itself is Anglo-Italianate, dated 1861–1879 in the LPC's district file — the low-stoop, English-basement idiom that followed the Greek Revival houses at the Hicks Street end of Remsen. What survives on the front is genuinely good: a brownstone façade with carved ornamental stone bordering the windows on the first, second, and third floors. What does not survive is the top. In 1946 the owners filed two identical alteration applications — 4007 and 4088 — that stripped the dormers, raised the front portion of the roof to create a full penthouse story in red brick above the brownstone, and cut both houses into twenty small apartments. New certificates of occupancy issued October 9, 1947. The entrances went down with the alteration: today you reach them by three concrete steps below street grade.
That 1946–47 conversion is why 134 Remsen contains ten apartments and only eighteen residential rooms. The profile describes studios and one-bedrooms; verify current plans and areas before ranking them against Remsen Street inventory. Compare dated, matched prices and carrying costs before calling this one of the district’s least expensive ownership options.
The cooperative arrived in 1982, sponsored by Irving and Sidney Bassuk through Bassuk Brothers, Inc. of Jamaica, at $675,000 in cash for 5,010 shares plus $300,000 of mortgage indebtedness. It was an eviction plan — the harder-edged form New York's 2019 housing legislation ended for new conversion plans — carrying the statutory carve-outs for senior citizens and eligible disabled persons; eighteen of the nineteen offered apartments were occupied at presentation, all rent-stabilized. The plan's special-risk disclosure flagged a $300,000 balloon due eight years after closing. That original balloon date is past; the 1982 terms and later dated interest disclosures do not establish uninterrupted borrowing or today’s balance. Obtain current corporate loan terms and the allocation across both buildings.
Architecture and unit composition
The structure is Class III non-fireproof ordinary construction — brick and stone foundation, two-by-eight wood floor beams roughly 16 inches on center, brick exterior walls with the decorative finish carried on the front elevation, sprinklers throughout, and a stair enclosure that is fire-resistant though the stair itself is not. The 1982 engineer found the building structurally sound, with pointing required in places and repair needed to the brownstone façade, particularly around the windows — then original wood frames in two-over-two, one-over-one, and six-over-one patterns, a mixed inventory typical of a house re-fenestrated over a century.
Inside 134–136, the basement holds two apartments and each of the first through fourth floors holds two more. The recorded ten apartments and eighteen rooms do not establish the current unit mix. Conversion share allocations run from 150 to 350; confirm each apartment’s actual area and room count from plans rather than treating shares as a size measure. Front apartments face Remsen Street, rear apartments the block interior, and the penthouse-floor units sit inside the 1946 roof raise. Evaluate the specific apartment; there are no repeating lines here.
Building operations
13438 Homes Corp. runs both buildings from one budget, which doubles the diligence set: ask for the combined financial statements, the schedule of any assessments and how they were allocated between the two houses, the reserve balance, and the current mortgage terms. The corporation's annual tax letter is a useful window on scale — for 2005 it reported real estate taxes of $54,260 and interest of $13,494 across the corporation, allocating $10.048 per share of tax and $2.500 per share of interest as shareholder deductions, and treating $2.115 per share as a capital contribution. Flag that last line to your accountant; it affects basis on a future sale.
There is no elevator and no staff beyond the superintendent, who occupies apartment 1B at 138 Remsen. The 1982 report recommended pouring a reinforced slab where the cellar lacked one and adding a railing to the main-roof parapet; ask whether both were done. Two brownstone façades and a raised 1946 roofline across two adjoining buildings is the recurring capital story, and all of it runs through the LPC.
Policy framework
Subletting: A shareholder may sublet for up to 18 months within any continuous five-year period measured from the first day of the sublet; a new five-year period may begin only once a full year has elapsed since the prior sublet ended. Every sublet, renewal, or extension requires board authorization under Section 15 of the proprietary lease. Policy effective July 1, 1997 — confirm current terms.
Pets: Permitted only with express written permission of the corporation; permission is revocable at any time. Dogs must be carried or leashed in every public portion of the building.
Carpeting and noise: At least 80 percent of each room's floor area must be covered outside kitchens, pantries, baths, closets, and foyers; no disturbing sound between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m.; construction weekdays only, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Window air-conditioning units and ventilators require the corporation's express approval — a live rule in a landmarked streetscape.
Flip tax, financing minimum, pied-à-terre, washer-dryer: Not documented in the file. Confirm each against the current house rules and purchase application.
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 conditionsUp to 18 months in any continuous five-year period measured from the first day of the sublet; a new five-year period may begin only after a full year has elapsed since the prior sublet ended; every sublet, renewal or extension requires board authorization under Section 15 of the proprietary lease.…Source: The Roebling Research Desk's building record
- Pied-à-terre ownership
- Not verified
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Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Dogs
- Permitted with conditionsNo bird or animal may be kept or harbored without express written permission of the corporation, revocable at any time; dogs must be carried or on leash in all public portions of the building; feeding animals from windows, yard, courts, public portions, sidewalk or street is prohibitedSource: The Roebling Research Desk's building record
- Cats
- Not statedThe source permits pets without naming cats. No bird or animal may be kept or harbored without express written permission of the corporation, revocable at any time; dogs must be carried or on leash in all public portions of the building; feeding animals from windows, yard, courts, public portions, sidewalk or street is prohibitedSource: The Roebling Research Desk's building record
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Not verified
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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 | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2024 | 4B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $878,000 | -4.0% |
| May 11, 2022 | 3AB | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,999,995 | +0.0% |
| Apr 12, 2019 | 2AB | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,850,000 | +5.7% |
| Apr 9, 2019 | 2B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,045,000 | +22.9% |
| Apr 9, 2019 | 2A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $796,000 | -0.5% |
| Jun 16, 2015 | 3AB | 2 BR | $1,800,000 | -2.7% |
| Apr 11, 2011 | 5A | 1 BR | $425,000 | -5.6% |
| May 18, 2007 | 5B | 1 BR | $450,000 | +1.1% |
Market read. Median listing discount 0.3% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
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 3-00254-0078). 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
You are buying into two buildings. 13438 Homes Corp. owns 134–136 and 138 Remsen together. Read the combined financials and the assessment history for both houses before you value the apartment.
The 18-months-in-five-years sublet rule is the operative limit. Confirm it against the current house rules; if a rental period matters, map it against the policy precisely.
Pets need written, revocable permission. Confirm the board's current practice early.
Expect small. Ten apartments and eighteen rooms at 134–136. Check the share allocation and the floor plan together; with no repeating lines, both are needed to judge relative size.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the address and the entry price. Brooklyn Heights Historic District, a nineteenth-century brownstone front, and Borough Hall's express trains three blocks away — for the district's most price-sensitive buyer pool, that is the whole pitch.
Explain the corporation up front. Disclose the two-building structure with combined financials so buyers can assess shared obligations; early disclosure does not make those obligations immaterial or guarantee acceptance.
Show the façade work. The 1982 engineer flagged brownstone repair around the windows. Provide subsequent restoration and completion records with current condition reports; missing disclosure does not establish a price discount.
Comp against small-unit walk-ups, not the district's prewar elevator buildings.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 134 Remsen Street, also evaluate:
- 138 Remsen Street — the other half of the same cooperative corporation
- 149 Willow Street — an 1889 building gut-rehabilitated into apartments in 1942; the closest structural analogue
- 87 Columbia Heights — prewar walk-up co-op with a comparable small-unit mix
- 151 Joralemon Street — 20-unit prewar walk-up converted in the early 1980s
- 87 Hicks Street — small nineteenth-century walk-up cooperative
- 44 Remsen Street — 1844 Greek Revival house, ten apartments, at the Hicks Street end
- 100 Remsen Street — the postwar co-op nearby, for a full-service contrast
More Brooklyn Heights buildings
- 130 Hicks Street — 1958 co-op
- 132 Joralemon Street — 1879 co-op
- 132 Remsen Street — condominium
- 135 Willow Street — 1955 co-op
- 136 State Street — 1843 co-op
- 137 Joralemon Street, 137 Joralemon Street · Brooklyn Heights — 1843 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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