430 Sterling Place
430 Sterling Place, between Underhill and Washington avenues · Prospect Heights
BBL 3011730040 · BIN 3029395
- Year built
- 1908
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $990K
- Recent range
- $730K – $1.4M
- Listing discount
- -1.1%
- Recorded transfers
- 25
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430 Sterling Place is one of a pair of Renaissance Revival flats buildings constructed around 1908–1911. Its limestone basement, rusticated brick upper floors and carved entrance panels preserve the architecture of an early twentieth-century apartment house. Cooperative ownership encompasses both this building and the adjoining property at 426 Sterling Place.
The 16 apartments at this address include conventional one- and two-bedroom plans, larger lower-floor homes and top-floor apartments with roof access. It stands within the Prospect Heights Historic District, several blocks north of the Brooklyn Museum and Eastern Parkway.
Architecture and unit composition
LPC identifies the two buildings as an identical pair, with five bays at the basement and first story and six bays above. Shallow facade projections group the windows. Upper end bays have paired openings, including round arches at the third story, while elaborate urn carvings appear beside the recessed entrances and on upper-floor panels.
The original roof treatment included molded terra-cotta cornices and open parapets. Those features were altered after about 1940; the current parapets are stuccoed. Historic iron fire escapes remain part of the facade composition.
Inside, the inventory includes high ceilings, exposed brick and varied room arrangements. Some top-floor homes have lofted areas and direct access to private rooftop space. Lower-floor apartments can have larger interiors and more than one bathroom. Roof rights are therefore associated with particular homes, alongside a shared roof amenity.
Building operations
The cooperative provides laundry facilities, basement storage and bicycle storage. Entry uses a voice intercom. The two-building ownership structure is material: a purchaser joins the broader cooperative corporation, even though this profile's count and sales concern the 430 address.
There is no building-level tax abatement. The existing floor area exceeds the R6B residential allowance, and exterior work also falls under LPC review. The carved entrance surrounds, masonry and roofline are part of the designated exterior.
Policy framework
Pets: Permitted with approval — confirm with the managing agent.
Financing: Confirm the current financing limit and minimum down payment with the managing agent.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 2026 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,400,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jan 14, 2026 | 2D | 2 BR · 1 BA | $880,000 | +21.4% | |
| Apr 1, 2025 | 2B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $990,000 | +0.5% | |
| Apr 26, 2024 | 2C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 772 sf | $730,000 | $946/sf | +9.0% |
| Jun 8, 2023 | 1C | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,225 sf | $1,265,000 | $1,033/sf | -0.8% |
| Mar 16, 2023 | 1A | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | $915,000 | +1.7% | |
| Mar 1, 2022 | 2C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $670,000 | +3.1% | |
| Dec 10, 2020 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,025,000 | +0.0% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2024): a median $946/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 3-01173-0040) 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 $990K (3 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $12,263 to close, or 1.2% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $12,263
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
Roof allocation: A private rooftop connected to an apartment and a shared roof deck carry different rights. For a roof-associated home, establish the boundaries of exclusive use and the division of decking and underlying roof maintenance within this two-building cooperative.
Comparable buildings
- 296 Sterling Place: A nearby prewar cooperative with a somewhat larger apartment inventory.
- 408 St. John's Place: A larger prewar cooperative around the corner, useful for comparing building scale.
- 418 St. John's Place: Another nearby prewar cooperative with a taller residential form.
- 375 Lincoln Place: A low-rise cooperative with more residences in the same neighborhood.
- 904 Union Street: A smaller prewar cooperative across the park's northern approach.
More Prospect Heights buildings
- 41 Eastern Parkway — 1926 co-op
- 418 St Johns Place — 1924 co-op
- 427 St. John's Place — 1912 condominium
- 436 Sterling Place — 1908 co-op
- 50 Plaza Street East — 1925 co-op
- 521 Dean Street — 1930
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Prospect Heights.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
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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