220 Berkeley Place
220 Berkeley Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Park Slope, Brooklyn
BBL 3010630026 · BIN 3024572
- Year built
- 1955
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 61
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
- Financing
- Generally permitted, reviewed case by case; no published LTV ceiling (corporation resale procedure on file)
- Subletting
- Board consent required; non-family occupancy beyond one month also requires written board consent (purchase application / house rules)
- Pets
- Dogs prohibited outright; other birds/animals only with the board's revocable written permission (house rules, June 2003)
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 2003-06). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $743K
- Recent range
- $440K – $864K
- Listing discount
- -2.1%
- Recorded transfers
- 77
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220 Berkeley Place is the building that tests what a Park Slope historic district actually is. It went up in 1955, eighteen years before the Landmarks Preservation Commission drew a line around these blocks, on a mid-block Berkeley Place site wide enough to swallow several rowhouses. When designation came in 1973, the Commission took the block as it found it — brownstones, a few flats buildings, and this six-story brick apartment house — and the co-op has lived under Landmarks jurisdiction ever since. For a buyer that means the same permit discipline that governs a neighbor's stoop applies to the building's windows and façade, without any of the compensating nineteenth-century detail that usually justifies the trouble.
What the building trades on instead is plan. Postwar apartment houses were laid out for the way people actually lived in them: squarer rooms, real closets, kitchens sized for appliances rather than for a cook, and bathrooms that were never carved out of a bedroom. Against the district's converted brownstone floor-throughs and its 1920s prewars, a 1955 building offers fewer decorative arguments and fewer compromises. Ceilings are lower and mouldings are absent; light and layout are frequently better. That trade is the whole purchase decision here, and it is worth making explicitly rather than discovering at the second showing.
The co-op itself dates to the tail of the first Brooklyn conversion wave. Title moved to 220 Berkeley Place Housing Corp. in February 1981, from Jack Sternklar and Stanley Gallant, after a decade in which the property changed hands repeatedly among investor partnerships — Kings Berkley Co., Gemehl Associates, Salvatore J. Zizza Associates. Forty-five years of shareholder governance later, the operating posture is conservative and legible: one resident superintendent, one laundry room, a compactor, no doorman, and a board that interviews every purchaser and every refinancing shareholder.
The house rules are stricter than most buyers expect from a mid-market Park Slope co-op, and the pet rule is the one that ends conversations. Dogs are prohibited outright; other animals require written permission that is revocable. That single line moves the building's buyer pool measurably in a neighborhood where dog ownership is close to a default, and it is the first question a seller here should be prepared to answer.
Architecture and unit composition
The building occupies an 11,250-square-foot lot and holds about 43,900 square feet of floor area across six stories — a built FAR near 3.9, well above the 3.0 that the block's R7B contextual zoning allows today. It is, in the zoning sense, a survivor: nothing of this size could be constructed on the site now, which is a durable structural support for the value of the apartments inside it.
The 61 residences run to the postwar Brooklyn standard of studios, one-bedrooms and two-bedrooms, with the sixth floor carrying the building's best light and the mid-block position sparing the front line of avenue noise. There are no terraces and no through-floor units of the sort a brownstone conversion produces; the value spread between apartments is set almost entirely by floor, exposure and renovation state. Because the building runs a single passenger elevator bank and no freight car, moves are scheduled with the superintendent and the front door is attended while it is open — a small operational detail that also tells you the scale of the staff.
Building operations
220 Berkeley Place Housing Corp. has run the building since the 1981 closing, under professional management with a resident superintendent handling the physical plant. The corporation's financial records in The Roebling Research Library run back to the early 2000s, which supports trend-level diligence on maintenance growth, reserve practice and assessment history — the three questions that matter most in a self-contained co-op with no commercial income to lean on.
Capital planning at a 1955 masonry building centers on the recurring items: FISP/Local Law 11 façade cycles, roof and parapet, elevator modernization, and the boiler and riser stack. Any alteration to the exterior envelope runs through Landmarks in addition to the Department of Buildings, so window replacement programs at this address take longer and cost more than they would three blocks west of the district line. Ask for the board's current capital plan and the last two FISP filings.
Policy framework
Pets: Dogs are prohibited. Other birds and animals require the board's written permission, which is revocable.
Purchaser review: Full board package — two years of tax returns, income and cash-flow statements, business and personal references, a prior-landlord statement, proof of homeowner's insurance — followed by an interview. Recognition agreement and commitment letter are required where financing is involved.
Financing: Generally permitted and reviewed on a case-by-case basis; there is no published loan-to-value ceiling. Refinancing and home-equity borrowing require board consent on the same terms.
Subletting: Requires board consent, as does allowing non-family occupancy beyond one month.
Alterations: Written notice to the board with the contractor's scope; anything structural or involving wall removal requires an engineer's certification at the shareholder's expense, licensed and insured contractors, and the corporation and managing agent named as additional insureds. Floors must be 80 percent covered.
Insurance: Every shareholder must carry general liability coverage with a current certificate on file.
Move deposits: $500 refundable in each direction; weekday moves only, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Flip tax, pied-à-terre and washer-dryer policy: Not documented in the materials on file. Confirm each against the current house rules and purchase application during diligence.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $5,988/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $8
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 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. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
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 | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2026 | 5F | 1 BA · 600 sf | $500,000 | $833/sf | +3.1% |
| May 27, 2026 | 1K | 1 BA | $440,000 | -1.1% | |
| Mar 5, 2026 | 4G | 1 BR · 1 BA | $864,300 | +8.7% | |
| Oct 30, 2025 | 3K | 1 BA · 400 sf | $475,000 | $1,188/sf | -1.0% |
| Feb 26, 2024 | 5B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $786,598 | -1.1% | |
| Feb 5, 2024 | 4H | 1 BR · 1 BA · 787 sf | $700,000 | $889/sf | +16.9% |
| Dec 5, 2023 | 5K | 1 BA | $444,000 | -4.5% | |
| Nov 21, 2023 | 1E | 1 BA | $460,000 | -5.9% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $833/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
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 3-01063-0026) 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; square footage on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
What to know if you’re buying
Confirm the pet rule before you fall for an apartment. Dogs are prohibited under the house rules on file. This is not a policy that quietly goes unenforced in a building where every purchaser signs the rules as part of the board package.
Price the postwar plan honestly. You are buying closets, square rooms and a workable kitchen, and giving up ceiling height and original detail. That is a good trade for many buyers and a bad one for others; decide which you are before you compare this to a brownstone floor-through.
Landmarks applies even though the building is postwar. Windows and any façade work require LPC approval. Ask what the last window program cost and whether one is pending.
Read the board package requirements early. Two years of returns, multiple references, a landlord statement and an interview — the review is thorough, and financing is approved case by case rather than against a published ceiling.
Model the carrying cost with no commercial income. There is no garage, no retail and no professional space subsidizing the budget. Maintenance and assessments carry the building.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the plan, not the vintage. Photograph the closets, the room proportions and the kitchen. The apartment's argument against a converted brownstone is functional, and it has to be shown rather than asserted.
Disclose the pet rule up front. Screening for it early costs you a few showings and saves you a dead contract after board submission.
Price against the district's mid-scale elevator co-ops. The right comparable set is the six-story buildings between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, not the Plaza Street and Prospect Park West towers with doormen and heavier maintenance.
Have the board package assembled in advance. In a building with a full financial review and an interview, a seller who can hand a buyer the exact requirement list shortens the deal by weeks.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 220 Berkeley Place, also evaluate:
- 235 Lincoln Place — 1937 co-op one block north; the prewar alternative at similar scale inside the same district
- 225 Lincoln Place — six-story 1920s co-op a block north; larger, with a documented flip tax and sublet framework
- 209 Lincoln Place — the ten-story 1928 elevator co-op a block north, with its own parking lot
- 140 8th Avenue — the 1936 Art Deco co-op at Carroll Street; the district's largest interwar apartment house
- 814 Carroll Street — 1950 co-op of similar postwar vintage a few blocks south
- 20 Plaza Street East — 1940 co-op on Grand Army Plaza; the larger, more service-heavy alternative
- 40 Prospect Park West — 1942 park-front co-op outside the district line
- 343 4th Avenue — the 2006 Fourth Avenue condominium; the condo-ownership alternative in the same neighborhood
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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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