36 Remsen Street
36 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002517502 · BIN 3002124
- Year built
- 1860
- Type
- Condominium
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 36 Remsen Street 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.
36 Remsen Street is a house marketed as 25 feet wide (PLUTO records a 50-by-120.5-foot lot) on the Promenade block of Remsen Street, converted into four condominium residences. Before the conversion it was a 10-unit dwelling, per Department of Buildings filings; the house sold as a whole for $7.5 million in February 2023, per public records, and the Department of Buildings approved the conversion to four units the same year.
Three of the four residences closed between July and September 2024 at $2,140 to $2,386 per square foot. Those are recorded prices, so a buyer here can underwrite against deeds rather than asks. The fourth residence, Unit 1, does not appear in the recorded sales reviewed for this page.
The building suits a buyer who wants a renovated full-floor or near-full-floor home in a Brooklyn Heights house without a co-op board, and who accepts a four-owner condominium with no staff on site.
Architecture and residences
City records date the house to 1860. The conversion ran under a single Department of Buildings alteration job, filed in November 2021 and permitted in April 2023, that converted the 10-unit dwelling into four units across about 8,070 square feet. A certificate of occupancy issued on that job in October 2024. Marketing material describes the house as about 10,000 square feet, a figure that does not match the filing; Schedule A of the plan states the unit areas.
The upper residences are three-bedroom, two-bath homes of about 1,100 square feet, and Unit 2 is a four-bedroom, two-bath home of about 1,800 square feet, per listing records. Published finishes include Danish ash plank floors, Calacatta Viola marble counters, Belgian wood cabinetry, Miele appliances, LePage windows and in-unit laundry. Each home carries a deeded storage room, and listings describe private outdoor space. Building services listed are a virtual doorman and porter service.
Offering and pricing
Per the offering plan filed with the New York State Attorney General (plan CD230125), the plan was submitted May 17, 2023, accepted February 8, 2024, and declared effective June 24, 2024, with 36 Remsen LLC as sponsor. The record lists four residential units. The total offering price has risen from $11,410,000 to $16,970,000, an increase of $5.56 million or about 49%. The amendment-by-amendment detail was not available for this review. The record still shows one unit sold, which it has not updated since the closings.
The three recorded deeds total about $9.02 million. At the current offering total, that leaves roughly $7.95 million attributed to Unit 1. Its size and layout were not found in the records reviewed, so ask for Schedule A before reading anything into that figure.
| Residence | Layout | Size | Last ask | Recorded price | $/sf | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 bed, 2 bath | 1,800 sf | $3,750,000 | $3,853,331 | $2,141 | July 23, 2024 |
| 3 | 3 bed, 2 bath | 1,100 sf | $2,625,000 | $2,625,000 | $2,386 | August 21, 2024 |
| 4 | 3 bed, 2 bath | 1,100 sf | $2,495,000 | $2,540,533 | $2,310 | September 12, 2024 |
The recorded prices on Units 2 and 4 sit above the last asks, which is consistent with transfer taxes grossed up into the price; confirm against the deeds. A later listing record shows Unit 4 offered at $2,595,000; whether that is a resale was not confirmed. One listing record gives common charges of $502 a month and real estate taxes of $1,264 a month for Unit 3, about $1.61 per square foot combined. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Recent sales
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 12, 2024 | 4 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,100 sf | $2,540,533 | $2,310/sf | -2.1% |
| Aug 21, 2024 | 3 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,100 sf | $2,625,000 | $2,386/sf | +0.0% |
| Jul 23, 2024 | 2 | 4 BR · 2 BA · 1,800 sf | $3,853,331 | $2,141/sf | +2.8% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2024) cleared a median $2,310/sf (recorded) across 3 sales.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-00251-7502; 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
The plan is effective. Contracts are binding under the plan's terms. Read every amendment, especially the ones behind the $5.56 million increase in the offering total.
Unit 1. Ask the sponsor whether Unit 1 is unsold, held or leased. A sponsor-held residence affects board control and the reserve position in a four-unit building.
Closing costs. In sponsor sales the buyer customarily pays the New York State transfer tax (0.4%, or 0.65% at $3 million or more) and the New York City real property transfer tax (1.425% above $500,000), plus the state mansion tax: 1.25% from $2 million and 1.5% from $3 million. Use the calculators below to run your price.
Landmark status. PLUTO's record for the condominium lot carries no historic-district entry, which is common on condominium billing lots, while the Brooklyn Heights Historic District covers most of the neighborhood. Exterior work such as windows and rooftop changes needs Landmarks Preservation Commission approval if the lot is within the district. Confirm with the commission.
Small-building governance. With four owners, every assessment and repair is split four ways. Read the budget, the reserve and the by-laws on voting.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 36 Remsen Street, also look at these Brooklyn Heights and brownstone-conversion condominiums:
- 110 First Place — four-residence Carroll Gardens condominium created by Eckstrom in a 26-foot-wide brownstone
- 323 Clinton Street — four-residence Eckstrom brownstone conversion in the Cobble Hill Historic District
- 408 3rd Street — Park Slope condominium developed by Eckstrom
- 40 Remsen Street — full-lot brownstone co-op a few doors west on the Promenade block
- 58 Remsen Street — 1844 house at Hicks Street, a ten-apartment cooperative
- 76 First Place — five-residence townhouse conversion in Carroll Gardens, sold out in 2024–2025
More Brooklyn Heights buildings
- 312 Hicks Street — 1846 co-op
- 35 Clark Street — 1922 co-op
- 35 Pierrepont Street — 1929 co-op
- 38 Livingston Street (The Colonial) — 1914 co-op
- 38-44 State Street — condominium
- 39 Remsen Street (The Alden) — 1877 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Brooklyn 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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