190 Garfield Place (The Garfield Regency)
190 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, NY 11215
BBL 3009667501 · BIN 3020720
- Year built
- 1905
- Type
- Condop
- Units
- 40
- Floors
- 4
- Landmark
- No
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The Garfield Regency is an early Brooklyn condominium: Department of Finance condominium number 83, declared at the end of 1986, with 38 of its 40 units closed by the sponsor in 1987 and 1988. In that decade most Brooklyn apartment buildings of this size and age converted as co-ops, which makes a 1980s condominium conversion comparatively uncommon.
Two facts follow for a buyer. First, the tenure is a true condominium. Prewar buildings on condominium lots sometimes turn out to be condops, where a co-op corporation owns the residential unit inside a condominium; the records here show no such structure. Every apartment is its own tax lot and transfers by deed, and the roll shows 38 distinct owners of record across the 40 lots. Buyers deal with a board of managers, not a co-op board, with the financing and leasing latitude that implies. Second, the sponsor is long gone: Garfield Associates sold its last two units in 1998, and nothing remains in sponsor hands.
The location is a quiet residential block between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, half a block from the Seventh Avenue retail strip and under three blocks from Prospect Park. The blockfront sits just outside the Park Slope Historic District, whose Garfield Place portion begins east of Seventh Avenue. That spares owners LPC review of exterior work but also means the block has no landmark protection.
Architecture and unit composition
The building stands on a 112.6-by-100-foot lot. ACRIS shows the site was once several separate tax lots, recorded as lots 32 through 37. They passed through a series of owners in the 1970s and early 1980s, including a 1982 conveyance of one lot to the City and a vacate order recorded that year. By 1985 they were combined under a single owner, which placed a $4.3 million mortgage on the property that year. The condominium declaration followed in December 1986. Whether the 1905 fabric was originally one building or several attached ones is not documented in the records we reviewed. Today the city treats it as one building of four stories and about 32,500 square feet of residential floor area.
Forty apartments in about 32,500 square feet of residential floor area works out to roughly 800 square feet per unit before common areas, so layouts are compact. The declaration's unit schedule gives each unit's size and should be read for the specific apartment. The unit schedule is uneven by designation: eight units in the 1 series, three in the 2 series, nine each in the 3 and 4 series, and eleven in the 5 series. That suggests the designations do not map neatly onto floors. The declaration's floor plans settle it, and a buyer should read them for the specific unit.
The building has no individual landmark or district designation, so exterior work needs only Department of Buildings permits. Because it is non-complying as to bulk under R6B, it cannot be enlarged, and some alterations will need zoning review.
Building operations
We have no financial statements for this condominium on file. Management-sourced and listing records describe professional management, a 2017 renovation of the lobby and hallways, a replaced boiler and an elevator refurbishment within roughly the past decade. The association's reserves, any association-level debt, any assessments and the capital plan are not documented in sources we can verify. Request the last three years of audited statements, the current budget and any assessment history.
The declaration was amended three times in 2006. We have not reviewed the amendments. Request them with the by-laws: a declaration amendment can change common-interest allocations, use restrictions or leasing rules.
At about 36,700 gross square feet by the Department of Finance's measure, the building is over the 25,000-square-foot threshold for the city's benchmarking and emissions rules. Ask the managing agent for the building's position in writing.
Recent sales
The Garfield Regency trades as an older conversion condominium of compact units. Benchmark it in dollars per square foot against Park Slope condominiums in converted prewar buildings and small-unit resale product, not against the new-construction condominiums on Fourth Avenue or the historic-district co-ops east of Seventh. The building has recorded three sales in the past two years, a typical pace for 40 units. Condominium tenure, no abatement to burn off and no LPC overlay make the tax and approval picture simple to underwrite. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2025 | 5D | $1,190,000 |
| Feb 25, 2025 | 1D | $1,485,000 |
| Oct 7, 2024 | 2B | $3,200,000 |
| Jun 4, 2024 | 1A | $999,999 |
| May 2, 2023 | 1D | $1,712,500 |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 3C | $1,125,000 |
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 3-00966-7501) 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.
At the recent median sale of $1.49M (3 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $28,969 to close, or 2.0% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $14,850
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $14,119
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
The tax bill is the real one. No abatement has applied to any unit on any roll since at least 2010/11, so the current bill is the long-run bill. There is no burn-off to model.
Ask for the financials. Nothing is on file publicly. Reserves, the capital plan and the status of the boiler, elevator and facade work are the questions that matter in a building about 120 years old.
Confirm the elevator. City classification says walk-up; listings say elevator. Get the current elevator inspection record from the managing agent.
Read the declaration's floor plans for your unit. The unit numbering does not follow a simple floor-by-floor pattern.
Get the house rules. Pets, leasing minimums, any right of first refusal and move fees are not documented in sources we can verify.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the tenure. A prewar Park Slope apartment that transfers as a condominium, with no co-op board interview and no abatement cliff, is a clean story for a buyer's lender and attorney.
Have the paperwork ready. Because nothing about this building's finances is public, a current budget, recent audit and house rules in hand shorten the buyer's diligence considerably.
Price by the square foot, carefully. Compact units trade on layout and light as much as size. Price against like-sized units, not the neighborhood's full-floor averages.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 190 Garfield Place, also evaluate:
- 269 4th Avenue (Six Garfield) — a 33-residence new-construction condominium at the Fourth Avenue end of Garfield Place, also with no abatement
- 251 1st Street — a 44-residence terraced condominium at Fourth Avenue with a 15-year 421-a
- 759 President Street — The Presidential, a 1984 co-op conversion of former hospital buildings; the tenure contrast
- 145 Park Place — a 47-unit 2005–06 condominium whose J-51 has fully expired
- 675 Sackett Street — the 38-residence Park Slope Terrace condominium, whose 25-year 421-a has begun phasing out
- 445 5th Avenue — The Slope on Fifth, a 30-unit condominium outside the historic district
- 225 Lincoln Place — a 1923 co-op in the Park Slope Historic District
- 220 Berkeley Place — a 1955 elevator co-op in the historic district
- 814 Carroll Street — the 1950 doorman co-op at Eighth Avenue
More Park Slope buildings
- 153 Lincoln Place — 1886 condominium
- 155 15th Street (Harbor Hill) — 2011 condominium
- 1638 Eighth Avenue (Prospect Park Terrace) — 2010 condominium by Karl Fischer Architects
- 200 16th Street — 1926 condominium by Karl Fischer Architects
- 205 12th Street — 2019 condominium
- 209 Lincoln Place — 1928 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Park Slope.
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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