19 Grace Court
19 Grace Court, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002510055 · BIN 3002139
- Year built
- 1925
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 33
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- Designated
- Subletting
- Board consent framework under proprietary lease; current policy unverified
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 1988 plan and amendments through 17 (2013)). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
Grace Court is the quietest address in Brooklyn Heights, and 19 Grace Court is its apartment house. The street is a single dead-end block running west from Hicks Street, named for Richard Upjohn's Grace Church (1849), whose sandstone tower and churchyard anchor the corner. There is no through traffic, no retail, and no reason to be on Grace Court unless you live there. The block ends at the bluff above Furman Street, where the sight line opens across Brooklyn Bridge Park to the harbor and the lower Manhattan skyline. Across Hicks Street, Grace Court Alley preserves the carriage houses that once served the Remsen Street mansions.
The cul-de-sac carries real literary history. The 1850s row at the middle of the block includes No. 31 Grace Court, where Arthur Miller lived while writing Death of a Salesman and which he sold in 1951 to W.E.B. Du Bois. No. 27 originally housed Grace Church's rector. The 1920s apartment layer — 1 Grace Court, 2 Grace Court, and 19 Grace Court — filled the Hicks Street end of the street as the Heights' mansion era gave way to elevator living, and the three buildings have framed the entrance to the cul-de-sac ever since.
Within that layer, 19 Grace Court is the work of Sugarman & Berger, per LPC records — a fact that rewards attention. Sugarman & Berger were high-volume Manhattan specialists whose commissions ran to the New Yorker Hotel and an associated role on One Fifth Avenue; a six-story, thirty-odd-unit red-brick house on a Brooklyn cul-de-sac is among the more intimate entries in the firm's catalog. The building went up in 1925, at the height of the decade in which the Heights acquired nearly all of its prewar apartment stock, and it has been protected since November 23, 1965, when the Brooklyn Heights Historic District became New York City's first designated historic district.
The cooperative history is late-cycle and worth understanding. Grace Owners Corp. was formed under a non-eviction conversion plan first offered June 8, 1988, by sponsor 19 Realty Co. — a decade after the Heights' first conversion wave. The plan offered 47,880 shares across 32 residential apartments at $110 per share to tenants in occupancy and $165 per share to outsiders; eight apartments were then rent-controlled and the balance rent-stabilized. Because the plan was non-eviction, sponsor-held units persisted for decades: the plan's Seventeenth Amendment, filed in 2013, disclosed that the successor holder of unsold shares, 19 Realty LLC, still owned fourteen apartments, while confirming that the sponsor interest did not control the board. That long sponsor tail is the single most important diligence thread at this building, and the current unsold-share count should be established at offer stage.
Architecture and unit composition
The building presents as a six-story red-brick prewar house scaled to its rowhouse-and-church surroundings — a low-rise building by apartment-house standards, which is precisely why it sits comfortably on a cul-de-sac of 1850s rowhouses. Department of Finance records carry 33 residential units; the offering plan describes 32 apartments offered for sale plus the corporation-owned superintendent's apartment, and the two figures reconcile on that basis.
Apartments follow the compact prewar Heights template: foyer entries, separated kitchens, and the room proportions of the 1920s middle-scale co-op tier rather than the grand-classic-seven tier of the larger Pierrepont Street houses. Share allocations in the plan's Schedule A vary meaningfully by line and floor, which in a co-op of this vintage is the honest guide to relative apartment scale. Line-by-line layouts and share loads are maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Building operations
Grace Owners Corp. operates the building with an elevator, a central laundry, and a live-in superintendent — the service package typical of the Heights' small prewar cooperatives, without doorman staffing. At conversion the sponsor entered a management agreement disclosed in the offering plan; current management should be confirmed during diligence, and The Roebling Team remains the contact of record for any transaction question. Apartments are individually metered for electricity and gas under the plan's framework, so maintenance covers building-level costs rather than in-unit utilities — a detail that matters when comparing maintenance-per-share against peer buildings.
Recent sales
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent transfers 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 2024 | 4D | $590,000 |
| Aug 4, 2023 | 6B | $2,350,000 |
| Jun 8, 2022 | 4A | $1,823,656.17 |
| Mar 22, 2022 | 3B | $1,999,000 |
| Feb 2, 2022 | 5D | $650,000 |
| Mar 28, 2022 | 5C | $1,881,978.48 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-00251-0055) 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
The street is the asset. A dead-end block with a Richard Upjohn church at one end and a harbor overlook at the other is not reproducible in the Brooklyn market. Buyers comparing the Heights' co-op stock on interior finish alone will misprice what Grace Court contributes.
Establish the sponsor-share picture early. The 1988 plan was non-eviction, and as late as 2013 the successor sponsor entity held fourteen apartments' unsold shares. Ask for the current count, the sponsor's payment standing, and how the board treats unsold-share sales — all of it shapes financing and resale dynamics in a 33-unit corporation.
Underwrite like a small co-op. With roughly three dozen units, each shareholder carries a meaningful slice of any capital project. Review the building's financials, reserve position, and LL11 façade cycle — a six-story masonry building in a historic district still carries recurring envelope work at landmark-grade standards.
Expect co-op process. Board package, board approval, and co-op closing timelines apply; policies on pets, subletting, and financing should be confirmed at offer stage rather than assumed.
What to know if you’re selling
Market the cul-de-sac first. Grace Court's quiet, the Grace Church setting, the Miller–Du Bois literary lineage next door, and the walk-to-Promenade geography are the differentiators; interior condition ranks second to address here.
Anchor pricing to per-room comparables on quiet southern-Heights blocks. Remsen Street, Joralemon Street, and Montague Terrace co-op trades are the right reference set — through-traffic corridors are not.
Have the building story ready. Sophisticated Heights buyers will ask about the sponsor tail, the reserve fund, and the assessment history. A transparent package moves a small-co-op deal faster than any staging decision.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 19 Grace Court, also evaluate:
- 1 Grace Court — the 18-unit 1926 Mortimer E. Freehof co-op next door at the Hicks Street corner; the same cul-de-sac in a smaller format
- 2 Grace Court — the street's large full-service co-op across the way; more units, deeper amenity bench
- 2 Montague Terrace — 21-unit prewar co-op on the Heights' other great quiet enclave, facing the Promenade
- 10 Montague Terrace — boutique prewar co-op with the same view-adjacent, no-through-traffic character
- 76 Remsen Street — 23-unit prewar co-op one block north on a comparably quiet block
- 60 Remsen Street — larger prewar elevator co-op at the foot of Remsen near the Promenade
- 35 Pierrepont Street — Freehof's 1929 nine-story co-op; the step up to the Heights' staffed-building tier
- 160 Columbia Heights — prewar co-op on the Heights' waterfront-facing spine
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