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
- Designated
Monroe Place is one of the quietest addresses in Brooklyn Heights — a two-block spur running north off Pierrepont 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 survivors from that window are the district's most useful large-apartment stock: real elevators, real service cores, real room counts, and, in this case, an average of about 1,330 gross square feet per apartment across 53 units. Very little else on a landmarked Heights side street offers that combination, and nothing built since can be built again at that height on that block.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 2026 | 11B | $690,000 |
| Oct 6, 2025 | 1C | $630,000 |
| Oct 9, 2025 | 7D | $1,695,000 |
| Nov 14, 2024 | 11C | $699,000 |
| Sep 5, 2024 | PH | $2,650,000 |
| Jan 30, 2024 | 3B | $620,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-00238-0026) 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
Get the policy package in writing first. No offering plan is publicly available for this building. 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. A decade of exterior work from 2006 to 2013 and a 2017 boiler replacement mean much of the heavy lifting is behind the building — verify that, and find out 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 landmarked residential spur with no through traffic, 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
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