Butler Heights
14 and 20 Butler Place, between Sterling Place and Plaza Street East · Prospect Heights
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3011717503 · BIN 3029334
- Year built
- 1916
- Type
- Condominium
- Amenities
- Live-in superintendent; central laundry; bicycle storage; basement storage; video intercom
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
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Butler Heights joins the prewar apartment buildings at 14 and 20 Butler Place within one condominium. The four-story walk-ups contain a mix of compact one-bedroom and larger two-bedroom apartments, close to Grand Army Plaza. Original parquet floors, moldings and high ceilings remain visible in many interiors.
Kura, LLC sponsored the occupied-building conversion. The Attorney General accepted the non-eviction offering in April 2008, and it became effective in May 2009. Individual apartment closings followed that year, turning the property into an established resale condominium over the following decade.
Architecture and unit composition
The buildings date to 1916 and retain the low-rise form of early apartment development in Prospect Heights. Their separate entrances serve one ownership association. The street addresses therefore identify parts of the same condominium, with common operations spanning both buildings.
Smaller residences include apartments around 395–430 square feet. Two-bedroom plans frequently fall around 670–740 square feet, while larger homes can approach 920 square feet. These are compact prewar configurations, and the larger room count does not necessarily come with a large living area.
Parquet flooring with contrasting inlay, picture-frame moldings and high ceilings recur in the apartments. Some two-bedroom layouts place a kitchen near a separate living room, with bedrooms and closets distributed along the plan. Renovations vary from retained traditional room divisions to more open living and kitchen arrangements.
The four-story form requires stair access to upper homes. Light and exposure differ between street-facing rooms and interior or rear rooms, with upper-floor outlooks extending above more of the surrounding built fabric.
Building operations
A live-in superintendent serves the condominium. Central laundry, bicycle storage and basement storage are shared facilities, with storage availability to be confirmed with the managing agent. Video intercom provides visitor access.
The association's scale is larger than either doorway suggests. Building operations span both street addresses, including shared maintenance and staffing. A sale advertised at 14 Butler Place therefore belongs to the same condominium structure as apartments entered at 20 Butler Place.
The Attorney General's filing documents a non-sponsor-controlled board by 2017. The largest current residential owner holds seven of the 47 assessed residential unit lots, or approximately 15%, well below a majority.
Policy framework
Pets: Allowed — confirm with the managing agent.
Pied-à-terre: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Building staffing and amenities
- Virtual or video entry
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- NoSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Bike storage, storage, laundry roomSource: 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
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $2/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $0
- Modeled exposure split equally across 47 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; condominium owners are typically charged by each unit's common-interest percentage.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Recent sales
Recent closings 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 |
|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2026 | 77 | $950,000 |
| Jan 31, 2024 | 88 | $925,000 |
| Dec 17, 2020 | 92 | $815,500 |
| Feb 6, 2018 | 74 | $777,000 |
| Mar 8, 2017 | 86 | $920,000 |
| Jan 12, 2017 | 91 | $940,000 |
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 3-01171-7503; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). 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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Comparable buildings
- Butler Plaza: Another prewar condominium on Butler Place, with a larger and taller building.
- Park Place Condominiums: A prewar condominium of similar overall scale in an eight-story form.
- 851 Carroll Street: A smaller prewar condominium with a comparable low-rise profile.
- The Garfield Regency: Another established prewar condominium spread through a four-story building.
- Park Union: A smaller condominium close to Grand Army Plaza, with a taller building and different apartment scale.
- The Prospect: A smaller prewar condominium farther east in the neighborhood.
More Prospect Heights buildings
- 856 Washington Avenue — 2017 condominium by Kutnicki Bernstein Architects
- 876 Pacific Street — 1930 condominium
- 98 Saint Marks Avenue — condominium
- Butler Plaza (44 Butler Place) — 1925 condominium
- Mark 324, 324 Saint Marks Avenue — 2006 condominium
- Museum Court, 115 Eastern Parkway — 1922 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Prospect Heights.
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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