44 Pineapple Street (St. George Tower)

The tower's 275 apartments stack from studios and one-bedrooms through larger combined layouts, on floor plates that follow the hotel's original room-and-corridor logic. As with most hotel conversions, line-by-line generalization fails: apartments were assembled from hotel rooms in varying combinations, so layout quality, closet depth, and kitchen placement differ meaningfully between similar-sized units, and renovation vintage drives value within each size class. Ceiling heights and window scale are prewar-hotel in character, and the upper floors — where the massing steps back — carry the exposures the building is known for: open harbor and skyline views above the protected low-rise district.

The exterior is the district's tallest Art Deco statement: a buff glazed-brick base rising to bands of black and white glazed brick, with glazed terra-cotta ornament — the six-foot Egyptian-motif figures and eagles — marking the setbacks, all restored in the recent façade campaign. Local Law 11 cycles on a 30-story ornamented tower are a permanent capital-planning feature, and the completed restoration is a genuine diligence positive: the major envelope work of this generation is behind the building rather than ahead of it.

St. George Tower & Grill Owners Corp. operates the tower with an attended lobby and building staff, and maintains the 27th-floor roof deck that serves as the building's signature amenity. The cooperative's recent capital record — led by the LPC-supervised façade restoration — is documented in trade and preservation press; current financial statements, house rules, and the offering plan with amendments are maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence. The complex's lower levels and neighboring buildings carry separate owners and uses, including student housing and, per recent reporting, a large wellness facility; shared-wall and complex-level arrangements are ordinary diligence items for a building with this history.

Transit is a defining operational fact: the Clark Street 2/3 station entrance sits within the former hotel complex at Clark and Henry Streets, effectively giving the building an in-house subway — one stop from Wall Street.

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.

Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,079/sf across 3 sales. Median listing discount 2.4% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-00231-0019) 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.

Buy the apartment, then the line. Hotel-conversion layouts vary unit by unit; walk the specific apartment's plan against others in its size class and review its alteration history before anchoring to building averages.

The views are grandfathered and protected. The 1965 historic district caps everything around the tower at rowhouse scale; high-floor exposures here are among the most stable view envelopes in Brooklyn.

The façade work is done — verify the rest. The completed restoration is a capital-planning positive; review current financials, reserve levels, and any active projects in diligence as with any landmarked prewar co-op.

Confirm the policy file early. Sublet terms, pet policy, financing limits, and any flip tax are board matters and are not publicly documented; get the current house rules and two years of financials before offer.

Understand the complex. The St. George name spans several separately owned buildings, including student housing; know which entity you are buying into (this cooperative is the tower at 44 Pineapple / 111 Hicks) and how complex-level arrangements are handled.

Sell the provenance. Emery Roth, Bing & Bing, the largest hotel in New York, the beacon, the Pogany pool — this building's story outruns every comparable in the district; use it in positioning.

Lead with the view and the roof deck. High-floor open exposure is the scarcest asset in the Heights co-op market; the 27th-floor deck extends that asset to every shareholder.

Document your renovation. In a conversion building, a board-approved renovation with a clean alteration file is a direct pricing lever.

Price per room against tower peers. The right comparable set is the Heights' tower and conversion cooperatives, with same-building trades anchoring; the brownstone-scale co-ops west of Hicks are a different market.

Prepare buyers for co-op pacing. Board package, interview, and conventional cooperative timelines apply.

If you're considering the St. George Tower, also evaluate:

• 75 Henry Street (Whitman Close) — the postwar tower cooperative one block east; the same high-floor view thesis in postwar form at volume scale
• 75 Livingston Street — 1926 neo-Gothic office conversion cooperative; the Heights' other great prewar tower silhouette
• Hamilton House (45 Pineapple Street) — full-service postwar cooperative directly across Pineapple Street
• 60 Pineapple Street — prewar Heights cooperative on the same block
• 59 Pineapple Street — prewar cooperative neighbor
• 135 Willow Street — substantial prewar cooperative in the central Heights
• 70 Clark Street — prewar cooperative steps from the Clark Street station
• 160 Columbia Heights — prewar cooperative toward the Promenade; the westward alternative
• The Breukelen (57 Montague Street) — prewar cooperative on the Montague spine