175 Columbia Heights
175 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002340022 · BIN 3001740
- Year built
- 1849
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 10
- 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
- Permitted with conditions
- Cats
- Not stated
- Subletting
- Board consent by resolution, written consent of a majority of directors, or a shareholder supermajority. The plan states the supermajority inconsistently - 'at least seventy percent' in the features-of-ownership introduction and 'at least 75%' in the Summary of Proprietary Lease. Both figures are given here; the executed lease controls
- Pets
- House rules: no bird or animal may be kept or harbored unless expressly permitted in writing by the corporation, such permission revocable; dogs carried or leashed in public portions
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 1982-1983 (conversion-era documents)). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2007–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median, 2023–2025
- $519K
- 2 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $488K – $550K
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 9
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 175 Columbia Heights 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.
175 Columbia Heights is the smallest kind of thing a cooperative can be: ten apartments and one hundred shares; the reviewed statements report no mortgage or management fee, but their dates and the current arrangements need confirmation. One share is one percent of the corporation, and that structure is what a buyer here is actually acquiring.
The house was built in 1849 for Albert Woodruff, one of the speculators putting up brownstones along what was then Columbia Street as Brooklyn Heights filled in westward toward the bluff; its neighbor at No. 173 went up the same year for Warren Carpenter. By the time the Landmarks Preservation Commission surveyed the block for the 1965 designation, both houses had lost their stoops and their original detail, and the Commission left the style field on each blank — placing them among the roughly 190 buildings the Brooklyn Heights Association described in its own testimony as of unknown or unrecognized original style while conforming in scale. That is the honest architectural position: an 1849 brownstone shell, refaced in part with stucco, its ornament gone and its designer never recorded.
What is not diminished is the address. This is Columbia Heights, one block from the Promenade entrance at Clark Street, on the block that also holds the 1903 hotel building at 169 and the carriage house at 181. A buyer on the odd-numbered side does not get the open harbor view — that belongs to the west side of the street — but does get the street, the quiet, and a basis the view buildings cannot approach.
The conversion repays reading, because it nearly failed. Stephen M. Raphael filed an eviction plan in April 1982 on a property he had contracted to buy in 1981 for $510,000. By November the sponsorship had passed to Hite Realty Corp., which had converted 135 Hicks Street. By March 1983 the plan had been rewritten as a non-eviction plan and declared effective — with, on the record of the Second Amendment, exactly two purchasers having signed subscription agreements. All ten apartments were rent-stabilized. The plan closed at $544,500 in cash across 100 shares plus a $175,000 wraparound mortgage at 11 percent, interest-only at $1,605 a month with the full principal balloon due at ten years, and a reserve fund of $2,000; if the wraparound could not be refinanced, shareholders faced an assessment of $1,750 per share.
The later financial statements describe a different position, but their reporting year is not identified here. Those statements show no mortgage interest, a zero per-share interest deduction and no mortgage on the balance sheet. That reporting-period observation differs from the original $2,000 reserve and balloon-note financing; obtain dated current statements and later loan records before describing the corporation as debt-free.
Architecture and unit composition
Four floors on a 25-by-101-foot lot, with the building occupying the front 50 feet of it — roughly 6,250 gross square feet, and a rear yard behind. Classic Brooklyn Heights row-house dimensions, and the apartment sizes follow.
Schedule A is unambiguous about what this building holds: a garden studio, one apartment of one and a half rooms with a bath, and eight apartments of two and a half rooms with a bath. Share allocations run from 8 to 19 out of 100; in 1982 dollars, prices ran from $33,000 to $76,500. This is a building of studios and small one-bedrooms — the district's genuine entry tier, on its most famous street. Buyers arriving with two-bedroom expectations should look elsewhere; buyers who want a Columbia Heights address at the bottom of the district's price ladder will find very few alternatives.
The façade is brownstone with stucco, stripped of its original detail and stoop, so the building presents as a flat-fronted four-story house rather than a stooped brownstone. The missing ornament does not establish lower repair costs or a simpler LPC process. Assess the actual façade condition and proposed scope, including windows, against applicable permit requirements. The house rules, meanwhile, are the standard prewar form and describe a building this one is not — incinerator provisions, service-elevator delivery rules and passenger-elevator operating rules, in a four-story walk-up with none of those things.
Building operations
175 Columbia Heights Housing Corporation was incorporated on October 30, 1980 and began operating the building in 1983. The conversion budget was expressly prepared on the basis that the building would be self-managed, and the later statements reviewed show no management fee line; their dates and any current service contract need confirmation. Terri Management Corp. was to be engaged at closing under the amended plan, but the statements reviewed here show no continuing agent, so a buyer should establish in writing who is responsible today for billing, financials, closings and repairs.
In the reviewed statements, whose year should be identified, income consists of maintenance and some interest. Reported expenses are, in order of size, real estate taxes, then gas, insurance, water and sewer, repairs, the janitor contract, professional fees and franchise tax. Those statements show no debt service and are prepared on the income-tax basis and compiled rather than audited. Obtain current accounts and ask the lender whether their scope meets its requirements.
Two cautions belong on the record. The reviewed accountants’ notes state that no study of remaining useful lives or replacement costs had been performed. Identify those statements’ years and obtain any later study, current balances and capital funding plan; maintenance, assessments and borrowing are possible funding sources. Ask for the assessment history, façade inspection and repair records, and the ages of the roof, boiler and building-side plumbing. At four stories, the building is below the FISP/Local Law 11 threshold of more than six stories.
Policy framework
Subletting: Board resolution, a majority of directors in writing, or a shareholder supermajority. The plan's two statements of that supermajority do not agree — 70 percent in the introduction, 75 percent in the proprietary-lease summary. On a 100-share corporation either threshold is a small number of apartments, which makes the difference practically as well as legally significant. Get the executed lease.
Resale and escape clause: Board approval in the standard cooperative form. Paragraph 35 of the lease permits a shareholder to cancel and surrender the shares without compensation, effective on any September 30 after the third anniversary of the plan's consummation — a 1980s artifact, rarely exercised.
Pets, floor covering and alterations: Written permission of the corporation for any animal, revocable at will; 80 percent floor covering outside kitchens, pantries, bathrooms, closets and foyer; corporation consent for alterations; construction weekdays only, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Flip tax, financing minimums, pied-à-terre, washer-dryer: Not documented in the plan, amendments or house rules reviewed.
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 consent by resolution, written consent of a majority of directors, or a shareholder supermajority. The plan states the supermajority inconsistently - 'at least seventy percent' in the features-of-ownership introduction and 'at least 75%' in the Summary of Proprietary Lease. Both figures are…Source: The Roebling Research Desk's building record, 1982
- Pied-à-terre ownership
- Not verified
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Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Dogs
- Permitted with conditionsHouse rules: no bird or animal may be kept or harbored unless expressly permitted in writing by the corporation, such permission revocable; dogs carried or leashed in public portionsSource: The Roebling Research Desk's building record, 1982
- Cats
- Not statedThe source permits pets without naming cats. House rules: no bird or animal may be kept or harbored unless expressly permitted in writing by the corporation, such permission revocable; dogs carried or leashed in public portionsSource: The Roebling Research Desk's building record, 1982
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 2025 | 4R | 1 BR · 1 BA | $550,000 | +0.9% |
| Sep 28, 2023 | 4F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $488,047 | +39.4% |
| Jun 9, 2022 | 5F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $555,000 | -3.5% |
| Oct 10, 2019 | 5R | 1 BR · 1 BA | $460,000 | +0.0% |
| Jul 19, 2013 | 5R | 1 BR | $330,000 | -9.6% |
| Oct 26, 2012 | 1 | 2 BR | $999,999 | +0.5% |
| Feb 27, 2007 | 1F | 2 BR | $660,000 | -5.6% |
Market read. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last 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 3-00234-0022). 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
One hundred shares is the whole company. Your apartment carries between 8 and 19 of them. Verify the allocation against the stock ledger — on this base, a share is a full percent of everything.
No mortgage is an asset; no reserve study is a gap. The reviewed accounts report no mortgage and no replacement-cost study. Establish their dates, subsequent changes and the current funding plan alongside the assessment history.
Confirm who manages the building. The conversion budget assumed self-management and the statements show no management fee. Establish in writing who handles financials, closings and repairs before contract.
Know which side of the street you are on. The odd-numbered east side does not hold the open harbor view.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the balance sheet. If current statements confirm no mortgage, disclose that fact with its reporting date; show the full budget and project obligations to explain carrying costs.
Be precise about the address and honest about the view. Columbia Heights sells itself; the east-side position converts better stated than implied.
Frame the scale correctly. These are studios and small one-bedrooms, and the buyer is someone who wants this street at an achievable number.
Assemble the paperwork. For this hundred-share corporation, provide financials, house rules, the lease and assessment history early so buyers and lenders can review them; no specific time saving is established.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 175 Columbia Heights, also evaluate:
- 177 Columbia Heights — the walk-up cooperative immediately next door on the same side of the same block; the closest comparable
- 169 Columbia Heights — the 1903 hotel building on the same block, converted to condominium; the deed-ownership alternative on the same address line
- 1 Pierrepont Street — Caughey & Evans's 1924 apartment house anchoring the block's Pierrepont corner
- 129 Columbia Heights — prewar co-op at the Clark Street corner, one block north on the same east side
- 184 Columbia Heights — the west-side cooperative on the Promenade block, for weighing the view premium directly
- 160 Columbia Heights — Art Moderne co-op at Clark on the harbor side
- 87 Columbia Heights — Slee & Bryson's walk-up cooperative further north on the same street
- 115 Willow Street — small prewar co-op one block east, between Clark and Pierrepont
- 128 Willow Street — Slee & Bryson's 1925 Willow Street building at comparable scale
More Brooklyn Heights buildings
- 166 State Street — 1930 co-op
- 169 Columbia Heights (The Standish) — 1903 condominium
- 170 Hicks Street — condominium
- 175 Hicks Street — 1840 co-op
- 177 Columbia Heights — 1861 co-op
- 183 Columbia Heights, 183 Columbia Heights · Brooklyn Heights — condominium
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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