245 Henry Street
245 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002540019 · BIN 3002223
- Year built
- 1955
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 56
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- Designated
- Subletting
- board-consent framework per proprietary lease; original-purchaser privilege (managing-agent consent only) was plan-era, not current policy
- Washer / dryer
- not a building feature; alteration-dependent — hedged on page
- Pets
- cats and dogs only with written, revocable consent of managing agent (house rules, restated 2015-05-20)
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 2015-05-20). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
245 Henry Street is one of the quiet workhorses of the Brooklyn Heights cooperative market: a 1955 red-brick elevator building at Henry and Joralemon Streets that delivers three things the surrounding brownstone-era stock structurally cannot — an elevator, an attended lobby, and a 13-space attached garage — inside New York City's first historic district. The Heights' postwar apartment houses occupy a distinctive niche. Built in the decade before the November 23, 1965 designation froze the neighborhood's fabric, they are the district's youngest contributing generation, and they function as its full-service tier: buildings scaled to the townhouse blocks (six stories here, under the Heights' limited-height envelope) but organized around midcentury conveniences.
The building's siting is a genuine asset. The main entrance sits in a recessed court off Henry Street; the south exposure runs along Joralemon Street toward the Promenade approaches; and the rear of the building faces Hunts Lane, the small carriage-house mews that gives the block its character and gave the conversion sponsor — Hunts Lane Associates — its name. First-floor apartments open onto private patios set on the garage's roof deck, an unusual amenity for the building type. Grace Court and the fruit-street blocks are minutes away; Borough Hall's 2/3/4/5 and R trains are roughly the same walk in the other direction, which is why the southern Heights postwar buildings have always drawn Manhattan-commuting buyers who want the district without the stair climb.
The cooperative's history follows the classic Heights arc. Built as a rental in the mid-1950s — LPC designation records credit the design to Cohn & Cohn — the building converted to cooperative ownership through a plan first offered in August 1979, at the leading edge of the conversion wave that reorganized the neighborhood's apartment stock. The plan offered 54 apartments against 20,810 shares, retained a professional unit and the superintendent's apartment, and carried the era's staffing model of resident superintendent, doorman, and porters. Nearly five decades on, the building operates as a stable, board-governed cooperative with the unglamorous virtues that define the tier: modest scale, full service, and a shareholder base that tends to stay.
Architecture and unit composition
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.
Building operations
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2025 | 5C | $1,300,000 |
| Apr 8, 2025 | 6C | $1,050,000 |
| Feb 27, 2023 | 5A | $729,000 |
| Feb 14, 2023 | 1I | $640,000 |
| Feb 1, 2023 | 4B | $785,000 |
| May 12, 2022 | 1C | $900,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-00254-0019) 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
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.
Compare on price per room, not square footage. Postwar Heights layouts are efficient; per-room comparisons against the building's peers (54 Orange Street, 75 Henry Street, and 140 Cadman Plaza West) tell the truer story.
Landmarks governs the envelope. Window replacements, through-wall units, and anything visible from the street run through LPC as well as the board.
What to know if you’re selling
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.
Comparable buildings
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
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