358 Court Street

The complex reads as four buildings of three different periods, and the Court Street elevation is the one that carries the designation's weight: brick, round-arched, with the closed running arcades near the cornice that identify the Rundbogenstil manner and that give the church its scale against a street of two- and three-story commercial buildings. The chapel of 1851 sits alongside in the same idiom. The 1889 ladies parlor at 267 President Street and the 1893 rectory at 253–269 President Street turn the corner and step down in mass, in materials — terra cotta, rock-faced stone — that place them a generation later.

Unit composition is the part of this building a buyer cannot assume. Apartments inserted into a church volume are individually shaped: some carry the original arched window openings, some have galleries or mezzanine levels, and ceiling heights differ from floor to floor and between the church and the ancillary buildings in a way no floor-plate building ever produces. The city's tax roll assigns thirty condominium lots to the property and records 26 of them as residential; unit numbers in circulation run well into the thirties. That gap between numbering and count is a conversion artifact, and it is the first thing an attorney should reconcile against the declaration and the specific unit deed.

LPC jurisdiction extends across the designated site, including exterior work that is not visible from a public thoroughfare. Window, door, ironwork, storefront, signage, painting, roof and equipment changes require scope-specific review; ordinary maintenance can be exempt. Qualifying work can receive staff-level permits, while work outside those rules may require a Commission hearing. Confirm the applicable route before scheduling a window replacement.

The condominium is professionally managed. The building's Department of Housing Preservation and Development registration, current for the 2025–26 cycle, names Argo Real Estate, LLC as managing agent, and lists the Carroll Gardens Landmark Condominium as the corporate owner.

Beyond that, this is a building whose operating documents are held privately rather than in the public record. No offering plan, budget, house-rules package or financial statement for the condominium sits in The Roebling Research Library, and no amenity program, staffing arrangement or elevator is documented in the filings reviewed. The honest statement is that the operating picture must be assembled from the managing agent at contract, and the request list is specific: three years of financial statements, the current budget, the assessment history, the reserve balance, current façade-condition reports, and the record of Landmarks approvals and any open violations. FISP/Local Law 11 generally applies to buildings higher than six stories; the recorded three-story count does not itself establish coverage.

That last item deserves emphasis. In an individually designated complex of this age and complexity, the masonry envelope and windows deserve particular review alongside the roof, building systems and other capital needs. Ask when each was inspected or repaired, which LPC approvals were required, and whether work is pending; the building's age alone does not rank the costs.

Recent sales

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-00345-7501; 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.

Reconcile the unit designation. The city records 26 residential units among thirty condominium lots, and building unit numbers run into the thirties. Have your attorney confirm the exact unit designation, common-interest percentage and appurtenances against the declaration and the deed.

Get the Landmarks history. Ask the managing agent what the Commission has approved, what is pending, and whether there are open violations. Then ask what a window replacement in your specific unit would require.

Assume the documents are private. No public offering plan is available. Pets, subletting, financing minimums and any transfer fee are all questions for the current governing documents — do not take a general condominium assumption as the answer.

Judge the unit, not the building average. Ceiling height, window geometry and volume vary enormously here. Price the specific apartment.

Ask about the envelope. Masonry, roof and windows in an 1851–1893 complex are the capital story. Request the reserve balance, assessment history and current façade-condition reports. Confirm FISP applicability from the actual structures; the recorded three-story count is below its usual more-than-six-story threshold.

Lead with the designation, precisely. Individual Landmark, March 23, 1982, LP-1245; National Register, November 4, 1982; chapel 1851, church 1857, ladies parlor 1889 by Frederick Carles Merry, rectory 1893 by Woodruff Leeming. Very few Brooklyn listings can put that on the page and support all of it.

Correct the historic-district confusion before a buyer does. This building is not in the Carroll Gardens Historic District; it is individually designated. Say so, and explain that exterior work needs an LPC permit either way.

Show the volume. The single strongest asset here is interior space that cannot be reproduced. Photograph the height and the arched openings; do not photograph it like a row-house floor-through.

Have the paperwork ready. Because no offering plan is in the libraries and the current budget and house rules are not public, a seller who can hand over the declaration, current budget, house rules and Landmarks approval record at the first showing removes the building's one real friction point.

If you're considering 358 Court Street, also evaluate:

• 505 Court Street (Court Street Lofts) — the neighborhood's other adaptive reuse, a 124-unit factory conversion further south on the same street
• 291 Union Street (Sackett Union) — Carroll Gardens' new-construction boutique condominium tier; the amenity alternative
• 345 Carroll Street — boutique Carroll Gardens condominium a block from the historic district
• 145 President Street — small Carroll Gardens condominium on the same street, east of Court
• 401 Hicks Street (The Arches at Cobble Hill) — institutional adaptive reuse in Cobble Hill; the closest neighborhood parallel
• 439 Hicks Street (Cobble Hill Towers) — landmark model housing in condominium form
• 58 Strong Place (The Landmark at Strong) — a Cobble Hill church conversion; the single best comparison for buyers shopping the type
• 214 Clinton Street — prewar Cobble Hill cooperative at the district's northern edge, for buyers weighing tenure
• 71 Smith Street — Boerum Hill condominium on the other commercial spine