30 Ocean Parkway
30 Ocean Parkway, near Caton Place · Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn
BBL 3052860001 · BIN 3122848
- Year built
- 1936
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 70
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Elevator, resident superintendent, landscaped garden, gym, central laundry, bicycle storage and storage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $973K
- Recent range
- $750K – $1.5M
- Listing discount
- -0.5%
- Recorded transfers
- 71
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30 Ocean Parkway is an Art Deco cooperative with a landscaped garden and a substantial range of apartment sizes near the southwestern end of Prospect Park. The six-story building dates to 1936, with 70 residences today. Its brick-and-concrete exterior and decorative lobby place the architecture at the center of the property's identity.
Published architectural history traces the project to plans filed in 1935 by Paqueen Building Corporation, with Cohn Brothers as architect. The exterior uses contrasting horizontal and vertical elements, while the lobby incorporates terrazzo, niches and ornamental ceiling plaster. These common spaces preserve a visible link to the original apartment-house design.
The residential inventory includes one-bedroom homes and larger two- and three-bedroom layouts. Some larger apartments have several exposures, substantial entrance foyers and separate bedroom areas. A shared garden provides outdoor space within the property, with Prospect Park and the Parade Ground nearby.
Architecture and unit composition
The building's broad footprint allows apartments to occupy different relationships to the street, garden and interior courts. Corner homes can have windows in several directions. Lower floors may look toward planting or the garden, while upper-floor windows can extend over neighboring roofs.
Large foyers occur in portions of the inventory, distributing circulation between the living room, kitchen and bedrooms. In larger plans, that entry space can accommodate furniture and serve a function beyond passage. A compact apartment may devote a smaller proportion of its area to the entrance and place more of the usable space in the principal room.
Period features include arched openings, parquet floors, coved ceilings and built-in niches in some homes. These details can survive alongside renovated kitchens and bathrooms. The pattern of preservation varies with each apartment's alteration history; the building's Art Deco character is most consistently visible in its exterior and common interiors.
The two- and three-bedroom inventory includes eat-in kitchens and homes with more than one bathroom. Some plans place bedrooms away from the living room through a separate hall. Others use rooms opening from a central foyer, allowing several parts of the apartment to be reached without passing through another room.
Windowed kitchens and bathrooms occur across the larger layouts. Multiple exposures can bring daylight to rooms beyond the living area, but the outlook differs between a window facing open space and one facing a neighboring wall. A corner designation identifies position, not a uniform view.
Combined apartments also appear in the resale history. They can provide larger living areas or additional rooms, while retaining elements of two earlier plans. Their layout and circulation should be compared with other combined homes or similarly sized original apartments, not assumed to match a standard line elsewhere in the building.
Building operations
A resident superintendent supports the building's daily maintenance, with elevator service connecting the six floors. Central laundry, a gym, bicycle storage and additional storage are shared facilities. Some storage is available separately for a fee, and availability is distinct from the purchase of cooperative shares.
The landscaped garden is a common amenity. The property also has a composting area, giving the outdoor space a practical role beyond seating and planting. Garden-facing apartments relate closely to this shared setting, while upper and street-facing homes can have different immediate surroundings.
The cooperative's monthly maintenance combines its operating obligations and real estate tax costs. DOF classifies the property as class 2, and no building-level abatement is identified. The absence of a temporary tax benefit means a current purchase is not premised on an advertised new-development exemption term.
The building is not landmark-designated. Its present density is slightly above the residential FAR shown for its zoning, which spans two districts. These are separate facts: preservation designation concerns exterior review, while FAR concerns the amount of floor area on the lot.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2025 | 5H | 2 BR · 1 BA | $995,000 | +10.7% | |
| Sep 9, 2025 | 6G | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,480,000 | +2.1% | |
| Aug 8, 2025 | 2L | 1 BR · 1 BA | $750,000 | +7.1% | |
| Aug 6, 2025 | 5G | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,470,000 | +1.4% | |
| Feb 27, 2025 | 4B | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,367,500 | -2.3% | |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 1G | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,117 sf | $999,999 | $895/sf | +0.5% |
| Feb 26, 2024 | 3DE | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,430,000 | -4.6% | |
| Dec 15, 2023 | 1K | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,031 sf | $850,000 | $824/sf | -5.5% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2024): a median $942/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. 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 3-05286-0001) 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 $1.37M (6 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $27,353 to close, or 2.0% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $13,675
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $13,678
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
Sponsor and ordinary resales can have different approval routes. A sponsor-owned one-bedroom has recently been offered alongside ordinary cooperative resales. Any exemption from the usual board purchase process belongs to that particular sponsor transaction; it should not be assumed to apply to another apartment in the building.
Comparable buildings
- The Lakeview — A nearby six-story cooperative of broadly comparable scale from a later construction period.
- Hamilton House — A larger cooperative inventory near the same end of Windsor Terrace.
- Park Vanderbilt — A postwar cooperative alternative for comparing layouts and shared facilities.
- 125 Prospect Park West — A smaller prewar cooperative with a direct park-edge address.
- Ansonia Court — A cooperative with a similar overall inventory in a markedly different conversion and courtyard setting.
More Windsor Terrace buildings
- 202 Seeley Street — 1931 co-op
- 207 Prospect Park Southwest (Windsor Tower) — 1990 condominium
- 250 Seeley Street — co-op
- 310 Windsor Place — 1914 co-op
- 49 East 4th Street — condominium
- 589–593 17th Street, 589–593 17th Street · Windsor Terrace — 1999 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Windsor Terrace.
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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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