252 Greene Avenue (Clinton Court)
252 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
BBL 3019667502 · BIN 3056260
- Year built
- 1890
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 12
- Floors
- 4
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- No doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2006–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $1,350
- floor-adjusted, 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 1.4%
- Recorded sales
- 27
- On record
- 2006–2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at Clinton Court would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
Clinton Court is a small prewar condominium, a building type that is scarce in Clinton Hill. Most of the neighborhood's older apartment houses became co-ops. This one was converted to a condominium in the 2000s, so buyers get prewar volumes in a four-story flats building without co-op board admission; confirm financing and leasing rules in the current declaration and bylaws.
The building went up around 1890 as one of a matched pair with 250 Greene Avenue next door, which remains a rental. The original layout, per HPD records, was two six-room railroad apartments per floor. The 2000 alteration reworked that into three units per floor. It also gave the first-floor units cellar space, so the ground-floor apartments are larger than their floor plates suggest.
The building's recent history includes one event buyers should know about. In July 2014 a fire led the Department of Buildings to issue a full vacate order. The repair filing replaced about half of the rear roof structure, replaced damaged windows, insulation and finishes, and was signed off. The building has since been reoccupied and has traded normally.
Architecture and unit composition
The front is brick, with an arched entrance, arched window heads, terra-cotta ornament and crenellated bays. It is Romanesque Revival with Queen Anne elements, and it matches its twin at No. 250. Interiors have been renovated unit by unit. Ceilings run about 10 feet. Some units keep mantels and arched openings, and others have been stripped to modern finishes.
The unit mix is three per floor across four floors. The first-floor units are larger because of the attached cellar rooms, and 1B is the largest in the building by sale history. Upper-floor units are compact two-bedrooms. Individual floor areas are in the declaration and shared with clients during diligence.
Building operations
The association is small and self-governed. DOB records show a boiler and water-heater replacement in 2000, structural header work in 2011, the 2014 fire repairs, a central-station fire-alarm system permitted in 2015, and a rooftop solar installation permitted in 2021. With no staff and no elevator, common charges are low. Listing records show a two-bedroom at roughly $540 a month.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- No doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- NoSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Bike storage, storage, laundry roomSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 limits apply to a building on its own. It is still covered if it shares a tax lot or condominium board with buildings totaling over 50,000 sq ft; confirm on DOB’s covered-buildings list.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
The sponsor sold the 12 units one at a time between December 2006 and 2011. Confirm current sponsor holdings from the latest unit deeds and ownership schedule; historical sale dates alone do not establish present inventory. ACRIS shows resales to differently named buyers, whose beneficial relationships are not established by names alone from 2013 on, with the enlarged first-floor units at the top of the building's range and 2025 activity setting its high. Clinton Court prices against Clinton Hill and Fort Greene prewar walk-up condominiums and brownstone floor-throughs, not against loft conversions such as 242 Greene Avenue two doors west. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Recent closings 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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 2026 | 2B | 2 BR · 1 BA · 737 sf | $995,000 | $1,350/sf | +7.1% |
| Jul 25, 2025 | 1B | 2 BR · 1.5 BA · 1,216 sf | $1,855,000 | $1,525/sf | +12.4% |
| Nov 3, 2021 | 2C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 559 sf | $655,000 | $1,172/sf | — |
| Sep 9, 2019 | 2A | 1 BR · 1 BA · 566 sf | $567,500 | $1,003/sf | -11.3% |
| Jun 7, 2019 | 1C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 540 sf | $595,000 | $1,102/sf | — |
| Oct 11, 2018 | 3A | 1 BR · 1 BA · 566 sf | $565,000 | $998/sf | -12.4% |
| May 3, 2018 | 2B | 737 sf | $840,000 | $1,140/sf | — |
| May 17, 2016 | 2C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 559 sf | $590,000 | $1,055/sf | +2.6% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,350/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 1.4% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
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 3-01966-7502; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
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What to know if you’re buying
Confirm the 2014 vacate order is formally closed. The repair work was signed off, but city open data still lists the related DOB violation as active. Have your attorney confirm the violation is resolved and the vacate order rescinded before contract.
Look at the cellar space in first-floor units. The 2000 alteration attached recreation rooms to those units. Confirm how the declaration and certificate of occupancy describe that space, because cellar rooms are generally not legal bedrooms.
The tax line is already full. There is no abatement to expire, so current taxes are the real number.
No elevator and no staff. It is a four-story walk-up with an off-site superintendent. Budget accordingly, and review reserves given the small association.
What to know if you’re selling
Be ready for questions about the fire. Have the sign-off paperwork and the violation status on hand. A clean file removes the issue before an attorney raises it.
Price against prewar condominiums, not co-ops. The condo form is the selling point in a neighborhood where most prewar apartment buildings are co-ops.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 252 Greene Avenue, also evaluate:
- 242 Greene Avenue: the Shoe Factory Lofts, a separate 13-unit loft condominium on the same block
- 532 Clinton Avenue: a 14-unit Clinton Hill condominium, no Landmarks review
- 320 Washington Avenue: The Graham, a 25-unit condominium in an 1851 institutional building
- 95 Lexington Avenue: Lofts on Lex, a 20-unit conversion condominium nearby
- 385 Clinton Avenue: The Richelieu, an 1897 flats building of similar age, as a small elevator co-op
- 275 Clinton Avenue: The Clinton, an 1897 apartment house in the historic district, as a co-op
More Clinton Hill buildings
- 218 Classon Avenue — 2022 condominium
- 242 Greene Avenue (Shoe Factory Lofts) — 1930 condominium
- 25 Quincy Street — condominium
- 258 St. James Place (The James) — 2024 condominium
- 264 Greene Avenue — condominium
- 269 Clinton Avenue — 1879 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Clinton Hill.
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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