175 Hicks Street
175 Hicks Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002360078 · BIN 3326030
- Year built
- 1840
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 23
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2024
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $625K
- Recent range
- $616K – $975K
- Listing discount
- 1.7%
- Recorded transfers
- 42
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 175 Hicks Street 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 Hicks Street is Brooklyn Heights at its most literal. In 1840, when the Heights was being laid out as America's first commuter suburb, two separate speculators put up two brick Greek Revival houses side by side on Hicks Street north of Pierrepont: Daniel Moran at number 175, and Joseph Dean, Capt. W. H. Russell and Edward Miller at 173. The LPC's district survey records both, names no architect for either — the usual and honest answer for speculative row-house construction of this date — and files them under the same style, the same material, the same year. Nearly two centuries later they are one building, one tax lot, and one cooperative corporation named, with characteristic Heights understatement, 173 Hicks St Corp.
That is the building's defining fact and the one a buyer should understand first. Everything about the property — how the apartments are shaped, why the unit count has moved, what the capital plan looks like — follows from the reality that this is two 1840 houses that were joined, raised and extended into an apartment building rather than an apartment building that was designed as one. The 1840 fabric is the reason the apartments have the proportions and the detail they do. The later work is the reason there are twenty-three of them.
The block is one of the quieter stretches of central Brooklyn Heights. Immediately north sit 171 and 169 Hicks Street, dated 1841 — the rest of the same speculative row — and the streetscape up to Clark Street is largely three- and four-story nineteenth-century houses. Two blocks west is the Promenade; two south is Montague Street and its retail; the Clark Street 2/3 express is a short walk north. This is the geography Brooklyn Heights buyers pay for, and the buildings on it that are neither mansions nor towers — converted-house co-ops of a dozen to two dozen apartments — are the district's most quietly durable inventory. For buyers, 175 Hicks is an entry into the Heights' oldest housing stock at apartment prices, with the trade-offs of a 185-year-old masonry structure.
Architecture and unit composition
The two houses read from the street as Greek Revival brick — the plain, well-proportioned idiom of 1840s Brooklyn, where the interest is in the doorway, lintels, cornice line and brickwork rather than ornament. The LPC's entries for both houses record brick and Greek Revival, and the district designation protects the elevations permanently.
What sits behind the façades is a converted-house building, and it behaves like one. City records describe six stories and roughly 18,300 square feet across the pair — substantially more than the original 1840 houses contained, consistent with the additions and rear extension typical of Heights houses reworked for apartment use; an alteration is recorded in 1971. Inside, the apartments follow the houses' bay depth and stair placement rather than a repeating line plan: front rooms facing Hicks Street, rear rooms facing the block interior, and a duplex running down to the garden level at 173 Hicks. Ceiling heights, window proportions, fireplaces and moldings vary floor to floor and house to house, in the way only converted row houses do. The unit count has moved with them — twenty-six dwelling units in filings from 2000 and 2009, twenty-three to twenty-four from 2010 forward, the ordinary result of shareholders combining apartments. This is a building to evaluate apartment by apartment, not line by line, and the specific unit's share allocation should be verified rather than inferred.
Building operations
173 Hicks St Corp. operates the two buildings as one cooperative. At twenty-three apartments this is a small-board building, and small-board buildings in the Heights are typically self-managed or served by a small local agent; no managing agent is publicly documented, and current management should be confirmed with the cooperative. The Roebling Team remains the contact of record for clients.
The capital picture deserves the attention. Two 1840 masonry structures, joined and altered, inside a historic district produce a specific maintenance profile: façade and cornice work under Local Law 11 with Landmarks review layered on top, party-wall and roof conditions at the junction between the houses, and the plumbing, wiring and structural legacies of nineteenth-century construction. Recent filings are consistent with a cooperative that attends to this — sidewalk shed and pipe scaffolding in 2009 and 2010, and partial replacement of the roof cornice in 2010. Ask the board where the current façade cycle stands and what the reserve holds; in a twenty-three-unit building, one cycle of exterior work is a meaningful per-share number.
Policy framework
Purchaser review: Standard cooperative board approval. Expect the pace and personal texture of a small self-governing board rather than the process of a large managed corporation.
Subletting, pets, pied-à-terre use, financing limits and flip tax: Not publicly documented for this building. In small Heights co-ops these terms vary widely, financing limits especially. Obtain the current house rules and purchase application in writing before contract.
Alterations: Interior work runs through the board; anything touching the façades, windows or cornice runs through the Landmarks Preservation Commission as well.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 emissions caps apply. No regulatory capital pressure from this law specifically, current or 2030.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 2024 | A | $241,750 | -19.4% | |
| Apr 25, 2024 | 3D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $643,000 | -0.9% |
| Aug 25, 2023 | 4E | 1 BR · 1 BA | $625,000 | +0.0% |
| Mar 10, 2023 | 6A | 2 BR · 2 BA | $975,000 | -2.4% |
| Jan 19, 2023 | 5E | 1 BR · 1 BA | $616,000 | -3.6% |
| Feb 28, 2022 | 5D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $605,000 | -3.2% |
| Jun 17, 2021 | 5AB | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,520,000 | +1.3% |
| May 5, 2021 | 4A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $685,000 | -2.0% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2016): a median $1,346/sf across 2 sales. The building has traded as recently as 2024. Median listing discount 0.9% 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 3-00236-0078) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price.
What to know if you’re buying
This is two 1840 houses, and you should underwrite it that way. Party walls, roof junctions, older structure and older systems are the real diligence items. Read the engineer's findings and several years of financials before you fall for the moldings.
Confirm the share ledger. Filings record twenty-six units in 2000 and twenty-three to twenty-four from 2010. Have counsel verify the apartment's shares, boundaries and any combination approvals.
Ask about the façade cycle. Exterior work in 2009–10 including cornice replacement is a good sign; the question is what comes next and how the reserve stands against it.
Get policy in writing. Sublet rules, pets, pied-à-terre use, financing limits and any flip tax are not publicly documented.
The block is the amenity. Nineteenth-century houses on all sides, the Promenade two blocks west, Montague two blocks south, the Clark Street express a short walk north.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with 1840. Very little Brooklyn Heights apartment inventory is this old, and the LPC's own records name the year, the style and the original owner-builders — a documented pedigree most competing listings cannot claim.
Sell the apartment, not the building. In a converted-house co-op with a combination history, condition, ceiling height and light are the price-makers.
Put the capital record in the deal room. The 2009–10 exterior work and cornice replacement answer the first question a sophisticated buyer asks about a building of this age.
Price per room against the converted-house set — the Clark-to-Montague small prewars, not the elevator buildings with staff and heavier maintenance.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 175 Hicks Street, also evaluate:
- 187 Hicks Street (Florence Court) — the prewar apartment house immediately south at the Pierrepont corner; the direct block comparable
- 155 Hicks Street — small converted-house cooperative a short way north on the same side of the street
- 145 Hicks Street — the block's large 1930s elevator co-op; the full-building alternative
- 142 Hicks Street — small Heights co-op of comparable scale across the street
- 130 Hicks Street — prewar cooperative peer in the north Heights
- 160 Henry Street — 1924 elevator co-op on the same block, facing Henry Street
- 70 Clark Street — postwar cooperative alternative two blocks north
- 200 Hicks Street (Casino Mansions) — the Montague corner's two-building cooperative; a larger, grander counterpoint
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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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