157 Waverly Avenue
157 Waverly Avenue, between Myrtle and Willoughby Avenues · Clinton Hill
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
BBL 3019037501 · BIN 3054810
- Type
- Former hotel and event space converted to loft residences
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- No doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $1,023
- floor-adjusted, 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 0.8%
- Recorded sales
- 25
- On record
- 2004–2026
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The former Golden Key Hotel also housed Lenruth Hall, a dance and event venue active in the mid-twentieth century. Its conversion produced fourteen loft residences with a wide range of interior volumes, including duplexes and upper-floor homes with private roof space. The residential cooperative occupies one condominium tax lot alongside two commercial lots, giving the property a condop structure.
Architecture and unit composition
The loft inventory extends from compact apartments in the high-700-square-foot range to larger homes of roughly 1,200 to 1,590 square feet. Plans include one-level residences, lower duplexes and penthouse layouts. Ceiling heights reach approximately eleven feet in upper lofts, and some homes have three exposures.
Duplex configurations place living space on more than one level, with lower areas used as a den or home office. Upper-floor residences can have direct access to private roof decks. These roof areas belong to particular homes and are not a common amenity for the whole cooperative.
The hotel and assembly-space history helps explain why the homes do not follow one repeated apartment plan. Living-and-dining areas can occupy broad open rooms, while bedroom and work-space partitions reflect later residential alterations. Wood-burning fireplaces and in-unit laundry occur in some homes.
Building operations
The cooperative is a walk-up, with an intercom and common laundry; DOB records show the building's single elevator sealed since 1989. Lower duplexes can have particularly direct access to the laundry area. The residential corporation handles its shareholder apartments within the larger condominium structure, which also includes the separately taxed commercial portions.
For an owner, this creates two levels of building responsibility: the residential cooperative and the condominium containing it. Work involving the overall roof, exterior or shared building systems can cross the boundary between the residential and commercial components.
Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Common charges + taxes, per room
- $204 per room a monthMedian of 5 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Common charges + taxes, per square foot
- $0.95 per square foot a monthMedian of 3 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Common charges plus real estate taxes, combined into one monthly figure the way New York condominium listings show them. Add a mortgage payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- No doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Amenities noted
- 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2026 | 2D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 781 sf | $799,000 | $1,023/sf | +0.0% |
| Jan 14, 2025 | 1B | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,075,000 | +7.8% | |
| Jul 22, 2024 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,590 sf | $1,615,000 | $1,016/sf | +8.0% |
| Jul 8, 2024 | 2C | 3 BR · 1 BA · 1,200 sf | $1,400,000 | $1,167/sf | +3.7% |
| Jan 23, 2024 | 2B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $999,000 | +0.4% | |
| Mar 3, 2021 | 2C | 3 BR · 1 BA · 1,200 sf | $970,000 | $808/sf | -2.5% |
| Jan 26, 2021 | 3C | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,204 sf | $975,000 | $810/sf | +0.0% |
| Nov 12, 2020 | 3B | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,100 sf | $940,000 | $855/sf | -1.1% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,023/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 0.8% 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 3-01903-7501). 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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What to know if you’re buying
Read roof rights alongside the condop allocation. A penthouse's private deck sits on a building shared with commercial ownership. The documents assigning deck use and the condominium's division of structural responsibility are consequential here, particularly when roof work requires removal and reinstatement of a private terrace installation.
Comparable buildings
- 110 Clifton Place — A larger cooperative loft conversion for comparing reused industrial-scale space.
- Clinton Mews — A substantially larger loft cooperative with a broader apartment inventory.
- The Clinton — A prewar cooperative offering a more conventional apartment-building comparison.
- 159 Lafayette Avenue — A small prewar cooperative useful for comparing ownership scale in the neighborhood.
- The Richelieu — Another small prewar cooperative, with purpose-built apartment architecture.
More Clinton Hill buildings
- 139 Clinton Avenue — 1905 condominium
- 148 Clinton Avenue — condominium
- 153 Clinton Avenue — 1900 co-op
- 166 Washington Avenue — 1901 condominium
- 185 Clinton Avenue (Clinton Hill Co-ops, North Campus) — 1944 co-op
- 185 Hall Street (Willoughby Walk) — 1958 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Clinton Hill.
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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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