35 Pierrepont Street
35 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002350004 · BIN 3001779
- Year built
- 1929
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 33
- Floors
- 9
- Landmark
- Designated
- Subletting
- Board consent required before sale or sublet per proprietary lease summary in offering plan
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 1979 plan). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 3BR median
- $3.6M
- Recent range
- $1.3M – $4M
- Listing discount
- -2.9%
- Recorded transfers
- 28
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Pierrepont Street is where Brooklyn Heights keeps its elevator-building tier, and 35 Pierrepont is one of the street's defining prewar cooperatives. Completed in 1929 to a design by Mortimer E. Freehof, the nine-story house stands on the north side of the street between Willow and Hicks — one block from the Willow Street rowhouse canon, two from the Promenade. Freehof was, quietly, one of the architects of the Heights' interwar transformation: LPC materials credit him with 1 Grace Court (1926) and the large apartment house at 153–155 Henry Street (1928) as well, making 35 Pierrepont the last and tallest of a three-building Heights portfolio built in a four-year span.
The façade carries the building's signature. Freehof dressed the street elevation's spandrel panels in a half-timber motif executed in stucco — a Tudor gesture unusual at nine-story scale, and unusual enough that its restoration went through Landmarks Preservation Commission review in the late 2010s, with the commission's public presentation materials documenting the original stucco-and-timber stratigraphy and the cast replacement work. The result is a building whose ornament has been maintained to landmark-grade standards rather than stripped, which is not something every Heights prewar can claim after a century of façade cycles.
The building's service tradition sets it apart just as much. When the conversion plan was filed in 1979, the staffing schedule ran to a resident superintendent, two elevator operators, a porter, and a relief man — attended elevators, in a 33-unit building. That is the small-building full-service model that mostly vanished from Brooklyn decades ago, and its lineage here shapes both the building's culture and its maintenance structure. Buyers should confirm the current staffing configuration during diligence, but they should also understand that they are underwriting a service building, and that the maintenance line reflects it.
The conversion history has an unexpected name in it. The sponsor-seller, Pierrepont Realty Corp., filed the plan on January 31, 1979 — early in the Heights' conversion wave — and the plan's amendments through the mid-1980s are executed by Richard S. LeFrak as holder of unsold shares. The amendments trace the era's repricing arc: unsold shares offered at $150 per share in 1980 had been marked to $500 per share by the Eighth Amendment in December 1985. All apartments in the unsold-share schedule were rent-regulated at conversion, a standard feature of the period; the corporation's audited financials show 17,970 shares issued against a 21,000-share authorization.
Architecture and unit composition
The building contains nine stories plus a penthouse level over a full cellar, with 33 apartments including the superintendent's unit — Apartment 1B at the time of the plan. Share allocations in the amendment schedules run from roughly 400 to nearly 700 shares per apartment, a wide band that reflects a genuine mix of scales rather than a single repeated line; in a co-op of this vintage, share load is the honest proxy for apartment size, and the larger allocations correspond to the building's full-scale prewar layouts. The floor plan on file with the plan documents the line structure; line-by-line layouts and share loads are maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Interiors follow the 1929 elevator-co-op template: proper foyers, separated kitchens, and the ceiling heights and casement-era window rhythm of the late-1920s Heights tier. Upper floors on the south side face Pierrepont Street across the low rowhouse fabric; the penthouse level is the building's scarcest asset.
Building operations
35 Pierrepont Street Owners, Inc. has operated the building since the 1979 conversion. The corporation's alteration agreement — the version in circulation dates to 1996 — runs to full architect-review protocol, with Landmarks Preservation Commission filings explicitly contemplated for any work touching regulated fabric; renovating shareholders should budget for both board and LPC process. The corporation's audited financials across the 2000s show a conventionally financed small co-op carrying an underlying mortgage and building reserves in the ordinary course. Current management, staffing, and financial position should be reviewed during diligence; The Roebling Team remains the contact of record for transaction questions.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $6,103/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $15
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2025–30. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2026 | 2A | 3 BR · 3 BA | $3,650,000 | +4.3% | |
| Aug 5, 2026 | 6A | 3 BR · 2 BA | $3,950,000 | +5.3% | |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 4A | 3 BR · 2 BA | $2,995,000 | +1.5% | |
| Nov 14, 2023 | 5B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,250,000 | -7.4% | |
| Nov 12, 2021 | 8B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,585,000 | +0.0% | |
| Mar 10, 2021 | 8C | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,500 sf | $1,650,000 | $1,100/sf | -17.5% |
| Apr 6, 2018 | 7A | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,800 sf | $3,000,000 | $1,667/sf | +0.0% |
| Dec 14, 2017 | 8B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,349,000 | -0.1% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2021): a median $1,046/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 3-00235-0004) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
You are buying a service building. The attended-elevator lineage is the building's defining operational feature, and it lives in the maintenance line. Compare carrying costs against staffed peers, not against self-service six-story co-ops, and confirm the current staffing model at offer stage.
The façade is an asset with a maintenance history. The half-timber spandrel restoration went through LPC review — evidence of a board that maintains original fabric properly. Review the LL11 cycle and any open façade work as part of diligence.
Share allocation is the sizing truth. Allocations vary by roughly 70 percent across the building. Price the shares, not the room count in the listing copy.
Expect full co-op process. Board consent is required before any sale or sublet under the proprietary lease; alteration work runs through architect review and, where applicable, Landmarks. Policies on pets, financing, and pied-à-terre use should be confirmed at offer stage.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the Freehof façade and the service tradition. The restored half-timber front and the building's staffing lineage are the two facts that separate this house from the rest of the street's prewar row.
Price against the staffed-building set. The right comparables are Pierrepont, Remsen, and Montague corridor elevator co-ops with service staff — the six-story self-service tier will underprice the apartment.
Prepare the alteration file. Buyers' attorneys at this tier will ask for board minutes, the alteration history, and the façade-cycle record. A complete package supports pricing; gaps become negotiation leverage.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 35 Pierrepont Street, also evaluate:
- 1 Pierrepont Street — 26-unit prewar co-op at the Promenade end of the street
- 20 Pierrepont Street — boutique prewar co-op across the street
- 128 Willow Street — Slee & Bryson's 1925 Gothic-style co-op around the corner; the six-story alternative
- 135 Willow Street — the large prewar co-op on the same block front toward Clark Street
- 153 Henry Street — Freehof's 1928 nine-story co-op two blocks east; the same architect at larger unit count
- 1 Grace Court — Freehof's 1926 boutique co-op on the Grace Court cul-de-sac
- 57 Montague Street (The Breukelen) — the Heights' big full-service prewar co-op on Montague
- 130 Hicks Street — prewar co-op on the same block's Hicks Street frontage
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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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