Rivera Court
338 Prospect Place, between Underhill and Washington avenues, Brooklyn · Prospect Heights
BBL 3011607501 · BIN 3250940
- Year built
- 1931
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Doorman, resident superintendent, common laundry, bicycle storage and private storage
Every recorded sale at this building, 1999–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,178
- Listing discount
- -0.9%
- Recorded sales
- 65
- On record
- 1999–2025
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Rivera Court is a five-story prewar condominium with doorman service and a resident superintendent. Its walk-up circulation is an important part of the building's identity: staffed entry and common facilities coexist with stair access to the apartments. The property sits on Prospect Place beside Underhill Playground.
The inventory spans small studios, one-bedroom homes and larger layouts. Selected upper-floor apartments have balconies and private roof areas reached by stairs from inside the home. That outdoor space is attached to particular apartments, so the building contains both conventional indoor layouts and homes organized around two levels of living and recreation.
At 51 residences, Rivera Court has a larger ownership base than a converted townhouse. The largest owner holds only two residential unit lots in the current DOF roll. Its condominium ownership and established resale history give buyers a prewar option within the neighborhood's mix of apartment types.
Architecture and unit composition
The building uses a masonry apartment-house form arranged in two wings. Five residential stories keep its scale close to the surrounding lower-rise streetscape. Circulation up the stairs creates a different daily experience on the upper floors from the apartments closer to the entrance.
Smaller studios can be under 400 square feet. One-bedroom plans range from compact layouts into the roughly 700-square-foot category, and larger two-bedroom homes occupy more substantial portions of the floor plate. Some lower-level arrangements have substantially more total space than the typical apartment above.
Kitchens vary between open and enclosed plans. Windowed kitchens occur in some homes, and multi-exposure apartments can have living rooms and bedrooms facing different directions. Renovations have altered room openings and kitchen connections, so homes with similar floor area can divide their space differently.
Private outdoor areas include balconies and roof terraces. In roof-access homes, an internal stair connects the apartment to the outdoor level. Roof space and a balcony serve different uses, and some apartments have both.
Building operations
Doorman service and a live-in superintendent support the building, while common laundry and bicycle storage cover practical needs outside the apartments. Private storage is also available within the property; the specific allocation belongs to the storage arrangement, not simply to an apartment's bedroom category.
The condominium's residential tax lots are all Class 2, without an assessment-growth cap. No building-wide abatement is identified. The building exceeds the residential floor-area ratio allowed by its current R6B zoning, so the existing interior floor area and private roof use are separate questions from permission to create additional enclosed rooms.
Recent sales
Recent closings 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 2024 | 1C | 2 BR · 1.5 BA · 819 sf | $965,000 | $1,178/sf | -3.4% |
| Mar 25, 2022 | 1D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,129 sf | $1,075,000 | $952/sf | +13.2% |
| Jan 18, 2022 | 3E | 2 BR · 1 BA · 880 sf | $933,500 | $1,061/sf | +16.8% |
| Jan 12, 2022 | 1H | 443 sf | $515,000 | $1,163/sf | off-mkt |
| Dec 17, 2021 | 1C | 2 BR · 1.5 BA · 819 sf | $975,000 | $1,190/sf | +0.0% |
| Nov 15, 2021 | 2F | 2 BR · 1 BA · 749 sf | $975,000 | $1,302/sf | +6.1% |
| Nov 2, 2020 | 5G | 1 BR · 1 BA · 613 sf | $782,000 | $1,276/sf | -2.1% |
| Jan 15, 2020 | 2E | 767 sf | $625,000 | $815/sf | off-mkt |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2024): a median $1,178/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount -0.9% 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 3-01160-7501) 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
What to know if you’re buying
A roof-access home involves two separate stairs. An upper-floor apartment requires the walk from the street-level entrance, followed by its own stair to the private roof space. That circulation is part of the apartment's layout and should remain visible in comparisons with lower-floor homes or a single-level balcony apartment.
Comparable buildings
- Butler Plaza: A nearby prewar condominium with a similar overall residential scale.
- 145 Park Place: A prewar condominium of comparable size in a taller apartment-house form.
- 475 Washington Avenue: A Clinton Hill prewar condominium with a similar inventory and masonry building scale.
- The Woodrow Wilson: A larger prewar condominium with Eastern Parkway frontage.
- The Prospect: A smaller prewar condominium alternative with fewer residences.
More Prospect Heights buildings
- Mark 324, 324 Saint Marks Avenue — 2006 condominium
- Museum Court, 115 Eastern Parkway — 1922 co-op
- Public School 9 Annex, 279 Sterling Place — 1895 co-op
- The Abraham Lincoln (61 Eastern Parkway) — 1930 co-op
- The Mark, 268 Saint Marks Avenue — 2013 condominium
- The Mark, 336 St. Marks Avenue — 2019 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Prospect Heights.
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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