25 Plaza Street West
25 Plaza Street West, Brooklyn, between Berkeley Place and Lincoln Place · Park Slope
BBL 3010620011 · BIN 3024549
- Year built
- 1941
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 70
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Part-time doorman, resident superintendent, two elevators, two roof decks, central laundry, bicycle storage, storage and on-site parking
Every recorded sale at this building, 2000–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $837K
- Recent range
- $665K – $1.8M
- Listing discount
- -3.5%
- Recorded transfers
- 85
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25 Plaza Street West is a six-story cooperative on the curved western side of Grand Army Plaza. Built in 1941 and classified by LPC as Colonial Revival, it combines a brick exterior and a formal entrance with apartments that include sunken living rooms, entrance foyers and corner exposures. Two common roof decks give the building an outdoor amenity above the surrounding street trees.
The distinction between a plaza view and a view into Prospect Park is especially relevant here. Apartments can look toward the landscaped berm and Grand Army Plaza, while other exposures face Berkeley Place, neighboring roofs or the interior of the block. The plaza includes substantial road space as well as planting; a description of a park-facing home needs to identify the actual direction of its windows.
The building sits within the Park Slope Historic District Extension II, designated in 2016. Its comparatively broad, low form is part of the district's twentieth-century apartment-house history. The entrance canopy and brick façade establish a different scale from the taller buildings around the plaza.
Architecture and unit composition
The inventory includes studios, one-bedroom homes and larger two- and three-bedroom arrangements. Sunken living rooms create a level change between the entrance or dining area and the principal sitting room. That small interior stair is an important physical feature for anyone assessing how to move through the apartment.
Many plans use a substantial foyer, with the kitchen and principal rooms reached from that entrance space. In larger homes, the foyer can help separate the bedroom circulation from the living room. Smaller apartments depend more heavily on how the entry, closets and kitchen fit around the main room.
Corner positions introduce additional windows and can give different rooms different outlooks. Some larger homes have several exposures, while compact studios and one-bedrooms can concentrate their windows along one side. The building's low height means that treetops, nearby roofs and the immediate street frontage all contribute to the view.
Original details include parquet or herringbone flooring, beamed ceilings, moldings and arched openings in portions of the inventory. Windowed kitchens and bathrooms also occur. Renovations have changed individual layouts and finishes, so a period detail surviving in one apartment doesn't mean it survives throughout the cooperative.
A sunken living room can also create a useful separation between dining and sitting areas without enclosing them. In a smaller plan, the level change can make those functions legible within a limited footprint. In a larger plan, the same feature can accompany a separate bedroom wing and a more substantial kitchen.
Building operations
The entrance has part-time doorman service, supported by a resident superintendent. Two elevators connect the six residential floors with common facilities. Central laundry, bicycle storage and additional storage serve the apartments, and on-site parking is available subject to allocation and availability.
The two roof decks have different outlooks across the plaza, surrounding Brooklyn rooftops and the broader skyline. They are shared amenities. Their availability does not create private roof rights for the upper-floor apartments, and furniture or plantings placed there remain subject to the cooperative's rules.
LPC designation makes the exterior a preservation matter. Work affecting visible windows, masonry or the entrance can require a different approval route from an ordinary interior renovation. This is particularly relevant to a building whose appearance depends on the repeated window pattern and the treatment of its brick frontage.
The property is in tax class 2, with no building-level abatement identified. Its built FAR is below the residential allowance shown in present zoning. Historic-district controls and the cooperative's ownership of common property are separate matters; the FAR gap doesn't give an apartment owner a right to add space.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2026 | 2C | 1 BA · 500 sf | $545,000 | $1,090/sf | -4.2% |
| Jan 22, 2026 | 1J | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,310,000 | +9.6% | |
| Sep 4, 2025 | 4B | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,835,000 | +8.3% | |
| Feb 12, 2025 | 2L | 2 BR · 1 BA | $975,000 | +0.0% | |
| Nov 5, 2024 | 4E | 1 BA | $455,000 | +1.1% | |
| Apr 3, 2024 | 3A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $665,000 | +2.5% | |
| Nov 14, 2023 | 5C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $815,000 | -2.4% | |
| Jun 21, 2023 | 2E | 1 BR · 1 BA · 950 sf | $858,000 | $903/sf | +3.5% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,090/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount -1.2% over 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 3-01062-0011) 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.
At the recent median sale of $975K (5 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $12,206 to close, or 1.3% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $12,206
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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Comparable buildings
- 20 Plaza Street East — A similarly low-rise cooperative on the other side of the plaza with a larger overall inventory.
- 220 Berkeley Place — A nearby cooperative of comparable scale on a residential side street.
- 130 Eighth Avenue — A cooperative with a similar residential count in a somewhat taller building.
- 40 Prospect Park West — A six-story cooperative for comparing a direct park-edge address with the plaza setting.
- 1 Plaza Street West — A taller prewar cooperative offering a different vertical relationship to the same plaza.
More Park Slope buildings
- 240 8th Street — 1898 co-op
- 243 4th Avenue (Parlour), 243 Fourth Avenue — 2018 condominium
- 25 Montgomery Place — 1892 condominium
- 251 1st Street — 2015 condominium by Isaac & Stern Architects
- 261 Garfield Place — co-op
- 267–269 8th Street, 267 and 269 8th Street — 2003 condominium
The 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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