245 Henry Street

The building is a six-story, non-fireproof brick structure over a concrete cellar — approximately 61 feet tall, faced in good-quality red brick with a recessed entrance court on the Henry Street elevation and fire escapes serving the apartment lines. A single passenger elevator serves all floors; an interior stair runs from lobby to roof. The cellar level, day-lit at the Joralemon Street end, historically held the superintendent's apartment and a professional office with its own street entrance.

The 54 offered apartments run from smaller one-bedroom lines through classic postwar two-bedroom layouts — the sensible, foyer-entered plans of the mid-1950s, with dining foyers, generous closets, and windowed kitchens and baths on most lines. First-floor apartments at the rear carry the patio decks; upper-floor rear lines look over the low Hunts Lane carriage houses. Share allocations under the plan drive maintenance, and per-room pricing remains the honest way to compare units here against the neighborhood's other postwar cooperatives.

245 Henry Street operates as a self-contained, full-service small cooperative: attended lobby, resident superintendent tradition dating to the conversion budget, central laundry, floor-by-floor compactor and recycling closets, and the attached garage — 13 spaces rented under building rules, a scarce and genuinely price-relevant amenity in the southern Heights. Move-ins and move-outs run through the Hunts Lane side entrance with a $750 refundable deposit under the house rules. The building is professionally managed; current managing-agent details and building financials are maintained in The Roebling Research Library and reviewed with clients during diligence.

Board approval: Full cooperative purchase application and board approval apply. The house rules additionally require approved purchasers to demonstrate $1 million in liability coverage before closing.

Subletting: Board-consent framework under the proprietary lease; the conversion plan's liberal original-purchaser privilege (managing-agent consent only) applied to first-generation purchasers and does not describe current policy. Confirm the board's present sublet posture and any fees during diligence.

Pets: Cats and dogs only with written, revocable consent of the managing agent; dogs must be carried or leashed in the public areas.

Carpet rule: At least 80 percent coverage in principal rooms and 100 percent in bedrooms, enforced on documented noise complaints — the house rules run a formal grievance procedure.

Alterations: Board approval required before any work; the building maintains a formal alteration agreement.

Flip tax / financing: Not disclosed in the plan; confirm the current transfer-fee and financing policy with the managing agent at offer stage.

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.

Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2025): a median $1,985/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-00254-0019). 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.

The garage is the headline amenity. Thirteen spaces in a 56-unit building inside the historic district; understand the waitlist and rental terms before you assign it value in your offer.

This is a board-approval building with real house rules. Insurance minimums, carpet coverage, alteration agreements, revocable pet consent — read the package early and budget the timeline of a full co-op application.

Use consistent apartment measurements and room counts. Postwar Heights layouts are efficient; per-room comparisons against the building's peers (54 Orange Street, 75 Henry Street, and 140 Cadman Plaza West) can inform pricing where room counts are comparable; also review total prices, reliable square footage and layout.

Landmarks governs the envelope. Window replacements, through-wall units, and anything visible from the street run through LPC as well as the board.

Sell the service package against the brownstone alternative. Elevator, attended lobby, laundry, garage — the buyer weighing a parlor-floor co-op against this building should hear exactly what the maintenance buys.

Location specifics earn their space in the copy. Joralemon corner, Hunts Lane behind, Grace Court a block south, Borough Hall trains minutes east — this micro-location is the southern Heights at its most convenient.

Present maintenance per room against the peer set. The postwar tier competes on carrying value; a clean per-room comparison is the most persuasive exhibit in the listing conversation.

Prepare the board package like the deal depends on it. In this tier it often does; complete, well-organized applications close faster and fall apart less.

If you're considering 245 Henry Street, also evaluate:

• 54 Orange Street — the north Heights' counterpart postwar cooperative; same vintage and scale
• 75 Henry Street — the large postwar Cadman Plaza cooperative; more units, fuller staffing
• 130 Clinton Street — elevator cooperative a few blocks east in the central Heights
• 2 Grace Court — larger cooperative on the Grace Court block, one street south
• 19 Grace Court — boutique cooperative on the same quiet cul-de-sac
• 60 Remsen Street — prewar elevator cooperative two blocks north; the prewar-detail alternative
• 100 Remsen Street — prewar cooperative on the Remsen corridor