22 Monroe Place
22 Monroe Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002380026 · BIN 3001927
- Year built
- 1927
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 53
- Floors
- 12
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median, 2024–2026
- $660K
- 4 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $620K – $2.5M
- Listing discount
- 0.4%
- Recorded transfers
- 58
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Monroe Place is one of the quietest addresses in Brooklyn Heights — a single block running north from Pierrepont Street to Clark Street, lined with 1830s and 1840s Greek Revival row houses and anchored at its south end by the Appellate Division courthouse. In the middle of that low-rise street stands a twelve-story brick apartment house of 1927 by Mortimer E. Freehof. At 70,645 square feet it is by a wide margin the largest structure on the block, and it is precisely the kind of building the Landmarks Preservation Commission had in mind in 1965 when its designation report warned about "the advent of apartment houses" and about construction that did not "conform to the height or quality of the surrounding architecture."
That tension is the building's commercial asset. The interwar elevator apartment house arrived in the Heights in a narrow window — roughly 1925 to 1931 — and the surviving buildings offer elevator access and varied apartment plans. Here the aggregate ratio is about 1,330 gross square feet per home across 53 units; that includes building area and does not establish interior apartment size. The existing twelve-story form is a feature to compare, but historic-district status does not by itself establish that construction or reconstruction at that height is impossible. Feasibility requires site-specific zoning, rights and LPC review; no approval is presumed.
The cooperative dates to 1980. The City Register records the property passing that December from the family partnership that had held it — the deed names four related grantors — to 24 Monroe Place Tenants Corp., the entity that owns the building today and that gives the co-op its slightly confusing name: the building fronts as both 22 and 24 Monroe Place on a single lot, and the corporation took the higher number. DOF also carries a 1979 alteration of record, the year before the conveyance, which is the usual signature of pre-conversion capital work.
No offering plan for the building is held in The Roebling Research Library, and that shapes what this page can honestly tell you. The architecture, the unit count, the ownership history and the capital record are all documented in public records. The board's policies are not. For a building of this scale in this district, that gap is worth closing early: a Heights co-op with 53 apartments and a twelve-story elevator core has a governance and financial profile that a buyer should read before falling for an apartment.
Architecture and unit composition
Freehof gave the building a straightforward brick elevator-house form on a 75-foot Monroe Place frontage running 81 feet deep on a 101-foot lot — a shape that leaves real rear light for the back lines, which matters more than it sounds in a district of party-wall row houses. Twelve stories over 53 apartments produces roughly four to five units per floor, and the run of DOB alteration filings since 2006 reads like a directory of the building's variety: renovations to a penthouse, to a first-floor apartment designated MA, to units on the fifth and eighth floors, and to individual residential units with partition removals and kitchen and bath reconfiguration. The building supports both compact one-bedroom lines and apartments that carry family-sized room counts. That spread, not the floor, is what sets value within the building.
Building operations
The capital record is the clearest window into how the building has been run. Between 2006 and 2013 the co-op worked through a sustained exterior campaign: exterior alterations and a 189-foot sidewalk shed in 2006, lower-roof replacement in 2008, pipe scaffolding in 2010, roof-level and exterior Local Law repairs in 2011, further sheds and scaffolding in 2011 and 2012. On the systems side, a supplemental water-pressure booster pump went in in 2008 and a new low-pressure boiler with a combination gas/oil burner and new gas trains in 2017. That is the profile of a board that has replaced the expensive things in sequence rather than deferring them — but it is also a nearly continuous decade of façade work on a twelve-story 1927 masonry building, and the next FISP cycle is the item to underwrite. Ask for the current cycle filing, the reserve balance, the assessment history and the underlying mortgage terms together.
Application and transaction fees
Fees below are from building management's published schedule, as of September 2026. They are shown as published, item by item; no total is added because the total depends on the transaction. Deposits are listed apart from nonrefundable charges.
Purchase
4 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Processing Fee | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $350 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Credit Check FeePer applicant | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $50 per applicant | Refundable Non-refundable |
Deposits
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move-In Deposit | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $750 Please mail check, along with the address and unit number you are applying to: Joanne Tenedios at the ARGO Real Estate LLC address | Refundable Refundable |
| Move-Out Deposit | Paid by Shareholder | When With the application | Amount $750 Please mail check, along with the address and unit number you are applying to: Joanne Tenedios at the ARGO Real Estate LLC address | Refundable Refundable |
Sublet
4 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Processing Fee | Paid by Subtenant | When With the application | Amount $350 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Credit Check FeePer applicant | Paid by Subtenant | When With the application | Amount $50 per applicant | Refundable Non-refundable |
Deposits
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move-Out Deposit | Paid by Shareholder | When With the application | Amount $750 Please mail check, along with the address and unit number you are applying to: Joanne Tenedios at the ARGO Real Estate LLC address | Refundable Refundable |
| Move-In Deposit | Paid by Subtenant | When With the application | Amount $750 Please mail check, along with the address and unit number you are applying to: Joanne Tenedios at the ARGO Real Estate LLC address | Refundable Refundable |
Refinance
3 items
Management's “less refinance” schedule
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Processing Fee | Paid by Shareholder | When With the application | Amount $250 | Refundable Non-refundable |
Management's “more refinance” schedule
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Processing Fee | Paid by Shareholder | When With the application | Amount $250 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Credit Check FeePer applicant | Paid by Shareholder | When With the application | Amount $50 per applicant | Refundable Non-refundable |
Management updates its schedule without a public filing. The date is when management last updated the page, not when a rule changed. Confirm the current schedule with management before you apply.
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Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Maintenance, per room
- $500 per room a monthMedian of 6 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Maintenance, per square foot
- $2.24 per square foot a monthMedian of 3 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Maintenance as recorded with each sale. A co-op's maintenance already covers the building's real estate taxes and the building's own mortgage, if it has one; add your own loan payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $16,996/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $27
- Modeled exposure split equally across 53 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. A filed Safe grade is not a guarantee of current condition: owners still maintain the facade and, where required, observe parapets each year. Future inspection timing (Local Law 49 of 2025 changed the cycle framework from October 1, 2026), repair and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 2026 | 11B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $690,000 | +0.0% | |
| Sep 26, 2025 | 1C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $630,000 | -0.8% | |
| Sep 25, 2025 | 7D | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,695,000 | +0.0% | |
| Nov 7, 2024 | 11C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 725 sf | $699,000 | $964/sf | -6.7% |
| Aug 29, 2024 | PH | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,975 sf | $2,650,000 | $1,342/sf | -20.9% |
| Jan 25, 2024 | 3B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 630 sf | $620,000 | $984/sf | -0.8% |
| Jan 11, 2023 | 3A | 4 BR · 3 BA | $2,495,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jul 22, 2022 | 12A | 4 BR · 2.5 BA | $2,800,000 | -2.6% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2024): a median $832/sf (floor-adjusted) across 2 sales. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 2.2% 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 3-00238-0026). 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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At the recent median sale of $695K (4 transfers in the past 24 months, since October 31, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $11,154 to close, or 1.6% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $11,154
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
Get the policy package in writing first. No offering plan for this building is held in The Roebling Research Library; ask management for the plan, its amendments and the current policies. Sublet rules, pet policy, pied-à-terre treatment, financing minimums and any flip tax should come from management before you fall in love with an apartment.
Read the façade and boiler files together. Filings show exterior work from 2006 to 2013 and a 2017 boiler replacement; confirm the work was completed, its current condition, and how it was paid for.
Size is the variable, not floor. With 53 apartments across roughly 1,330 gross square feet each on average, the spread between lines is large. Compare to the same configuration, not to the building.
Monroe Place is the amenity. A single landmarked residential block between Pierrepont and Clark, the Clark Street express one block away, and the Promenade three. The block does a lot of the work.
What to know if you’re selling
Name the architect and the date. Mortimer E. Freehof, 1927, per LPC district records. Most Heights prewar elevator buildings go to market unattributed; an architect and a documented date give the listing a line competitors cannot borrow.
Lead with scale. Twelve stories and 53 apartments on a low-rise landmarked street is the building's structural advantage. Buyers looking for prewar room counts in the Heights have very few places to go.
Put the capital record to work. A documented sequence of roof, façade and boiler replacement is an underwriting asset with buyers, their attorneys and their lenders. Assemble it before listing.
Price against the district's prewar elevator set. The correct comparables are the Heights' interwar and prewar elevator co-ops, not the brownstone-scale walk-ups a few blocks west.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 22 Monroe Place, also evaluate:
- 28 Monroe Place — the street's other multi-unit cooperative, at a smaller scale
- 21 Monroe Place — small prewar co-op directly across the street
- 130 Clinton Street — larger prewar co-op peer a few blocks south
- 57 Montague Street (The Breukelen) — full-service prewar co-op on the Montague spine
- 100 Remsen Street — prewar elevator co-op of comparable scale
- 15 Clark Street — prewar Heights apartment house one block north
- 35 Clark Street — prewar elevator co-op on the Clark Street corridor
- 54 Orange Street — mid-size prewar co-op in the Fruit Streets
- 45 Pineapple Street (Hamilton House) — the postwar full-service alternative nearby
More Brooklyn Heights buildings
- 200 Hicks Street (Casino Mansions) — 1911 co-op
- 205 Hicks Street — 1919 co-op
- 21 Monroe Place — 1899 co-op
- 24 Clinton Street — 1926 co-op
- 245 Henry Street — 1955 co-op
- 26 Pierrepont Street, 26 Pierrepont Street · Brooklyn Heights — 1899 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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