524 Halsey Street
524 Halsey Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
BBL 3016657501 · BIN 3329586
- Year built
- 1904
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 31
- Floors
- 4
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Bedford Stuyvesant / Expanded Stuyvesant Heights Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Washer/dryer
- Permitted
- Doorman
- Requires confirmation
Every recorded sale at this building, 2025–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $755
- 3 sales
- Listing discount
- -0.7%
- Recorded sales
- 30
- On record
- 2025–2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 524 Halsey 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.
Stuyvesant Heights is a rowhouse district. This building adds a 31-unit elevator condominium to the district's rowhouses and conversions. 524 Halsey exists because of what stood here: a 165-foot-wide commercial building, not a row of houses. Livery and boarding stables advertised on the site in the 1890s, and the Opera Stable supplied coaches for social events of the period. It became an automobile garage early in the 20th century, and a 1930s photograph shows the name carried over as the Opera Garage. It was still operating as a garage in the 1980s tax photographs, and it was a large non-residential footprint on the block.
The conversion took nine years from first filing to final certificate. The original application was filed in January 2016 by a prior owner, which presented a design to LPC that year before selling the property in 2018 to The Brooklyn Home Company. The historic shell was gutted to its masonry and rubble-stone foundation, a one-story adjoining garage was demolished and rebuilt as a continuation of the Halsey Street elevation, and a fourth story was added. The final certificate of occupancy issued March 31, 2025, for 31 units.
The historic district is why the building looks the way it does. It also frames the building's one visible preservation issue. LPC's July 2022 materials record that the historic building's wood cornice was removed in error during roof asbestos abatement. The owner came back to the Commission proposing fiberglass-reinforced plastic replacements for the cornices on both the historic and new portions, citing the cost of a metal cornice. A buyer should know which cornice material was finally approved and installed, because the condominium owns its maintenance under LPC jurisdiction.
Sponsor closings began in late January 2025, and ACRIS shows 29 of the 31 units deeded to separate buyers by August 2026. Apartments 105 and TH1 remained in sponsor title at the most recent recordings reviewed.
Architecture and unit composition
The Halsey Street front is the historic fabric: brick over a brownstone base with the arched stable openings that once admitted horses and then cars. Those openings produce the building's most distinctive interiors. The developer has described ground-floor ceilings of about 11.5 feet, set by the protected façade. The enlargement adds a fourth floor set within the historic envelope, carrying the penthouses and roof terraces. The new section on the site of the demolished garage continues the elevation under the same address.
The unit mix is broader than a typical conversion's. Nine ground-floor units, several with south-facing outdoor space toward the rear yards, and two townhouse units give the building a high share of private outdoor area. Department of Finance gross areas range from about 640 square feet at the small end to about 3,300 at the largest, with the typical unit around 950 to 1,550 square feet and the townhouse and larger ground-floor units at roughly 2,100 to 3,300. Finance areas are gross and will not match the net figures in an offering plan's Schedule A, which governs common-interest percentages and common charges.
One classification point: the Department of Finance classes the units R2, the code for condominium units in a walk-up building, while the developer and press describe the building as elevatored. The classification affects nothing a buyer pays. It is still worth knowing when a lender's or insurer's form pulls the city code.
Building operations
524 Halsey is a newly formed condominium in its first full years of operation, with the sponsor nearly out. Two consequences follow. Confirm the board-control milestones and current sponsor rights from the amended plan and corporate records; sale activity alone does not establish the transition date. And the first operating budgets, reserve contributions and insurance program were set by the sponsor, so they have little operating history behind them. Ask for the current budget, the reserve balance, the first-year actuals and any change in common charges since the first closings.
Because the building is in a historic district, proposed windows, doors, cornice work, rooftop additions and rear-yard changes need the applicable LPC review; ordinary maintenance may be exempt, and work meeting LPC rules can receive staff approval. Interior work requiring a DOB permit also requires LPC permission. FISP applies to buildings higher than six stories; the stated four-story height does not establish a FISP obligation here. Review the engineer’s condition report for the historic masonry front and replica cornice. Department of Buildings filings record support-of-excavation and underpinning work (filed 2018) and overhead protection installed at adjacent properties during construction. Ask whether any adjacent-owner claims from construction remain open.
Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Pets
- Not verified
- In-unit washer/dryer
- PermittedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
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Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Common charges + taxes, per room
- $342 per room a monthMedian of 29 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Common charges + taxes, per square foot
- $1.14 per square foot a monthMedian of 30 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Common charges plus real estate taxes, combined into one monthly figure the way New York condominium listings show them. Add a mortgage payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Requires confirmationSources differ. Confirm with building management.
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of Buildings elevator records
- Amenities noted
- Fitness room, roof deck, storageSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Recent sales
524 Halsey trades as boutique adaptive-reuse condominium product in a landmarked rowhouse district. It should be benchmarked per square foot against other historic conversions and small new condominiums in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill and Fort Greene, with adjustments when comparing brownstone floor-throughs or larger amenity buildings. Ground-floor units with outdoor space, the townhouse units and the penthouses trade as separate tiers from the interior second- and third-floor units. With no arm's-length resales identified in the reviewed records, and current sponsor inventory requiring confirmation, the first resales will set the building's secondary-market level. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2026 | 105 | 2 BR · 3 BA · 2,112 sf | $1,595,000 | $755/sf | -11.1% |
| Aug 7, 2026 | 109 | 2 BR · 3 BA · 2,416 sf | $1,832,850 | $759/sf | +2.1% |
| May 20, 2026 | 107 | 1 BR · 2.5 BA · 2,247 sf | $1,595,000 | $710/sf | +0.0% |
| Oct 10, 2025 | PH2 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,151 sf | $1,556,000 | $1,352/sf | +0.4% |
| Oct 6, 2025 | 302 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,227 sf | $1,504,000 | $1,226/sf | +0.6% |
| Sep 16, 2025 | 202 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,100 sf | $1,235,000 | $1,123/sf | +0.8% |
| Aug 18, 2025 | 201 | 1 BA · 636 sf | $695,000 | $1,093/sf | +0.0% |
| Aug 14, 2025 | TH2 | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,871 sf | $2,522,812 | $879/sf | +0.9% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $755/sf (recorded) across 3 sales. Median listing discount -0.7% over ask.
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 3-01665-7501; 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; square footage from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
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At the recent median sale of $1.34M (30 sales in the past 24 months, since November 10, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $58,217 to close, or 4.3% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $13,412
- Mortgage recording tax: $19,363
- Title insurance: $6,035
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $19,408
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
Request the offering plan and all amendments. There is none on file with us. The policy stack (pets, subletting, minimum down payment, move fees), the Schedule A areas and percentages, and the sponsor's remaining obligations all come from those documents.
Underwrite full taxes. The fiscal 2027 roll shows no exemption on the units. If you will occupy the apartment as a primary residence, confirm your eligibility for the co-op/condo abatement separately.
Ask what LPC finally approved for the cornice. The 2022 application followed the accidental removal of the historic wood cornice. The approved material and its maintenance obligations belong in your diligence file.
Read the unit's outdoor-space rights precisely. Terraces, yards and roof areas may be limited common elements rather than owned space, and any change to them needs both condominium and LPC approval.
Confirm the unit count your unit sits in. Earlier filings proposed 32 and 33 units. The final certificate of occupancy and the declaration govern at 31, and your common-interest percentage depends on the final Schedule A.
What to know if you’re selling
Present the building's documented history. Describe the 31-unit conversion within the historic district and the former Opera Stable use; compare specific features without asserting scarcity.
Sell the unit's tier, not the building average. Ceiling height on the ground floor, private outdoor space, and penthouse or townhouse layouts are the value drivers. Price against the matching tier.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 524 Halsey Street, also evaluate:
- 75 Greene Avenue — a 1930 institutional building adaptively reused as a 22-unit Fort Greene condominium; compare adaptive reuse, unit scale and actual transaction terms
- The Sanctuary (264 Cumberland Street) — 13 condominiums in a former chapel and clergy residence in Fort Greene; landmark-district conversion at smaller scale
- 970 Kent Avenue (The Kent) — the large industrial loft conversion on the Bedford-Stuyvesant–Clinton Hill edge; conversion product at far larger scale
- Clinton Mews (372 DeKalb Avenue) — a heavy-timber industrial building converted to a cooperative on the Pratt block; the tenure contrast
- 600-610 DeKalb Avenue — the 70-unit new-construction condominium in western Bedford-Stuyvesant, sold through the same period; larger units, no historic fabric
- 315 Gates Avenue (315 Gates) — the 72-unit western Bedford-Stuyvesant amenity condominium; compact new construction
- 87 Irving Place — a 25-unit 2024 Clinton Hill new-development condominium; the boutique new-build alternative
- 255 Eastern Parkway (The Woodrow Wilson) — a 1924 prewar building converted to condominium in 2002 in Crown Heights; the older-conversion benchmark
More Bedford-Stuyvesant buildings
- 42–44 Skillman Street — 2004 condominium
- 43 Skillman Street — 2013 condominium
- 448 Park Avenue, Brooklyn — condominium
- 531 Classon Avenue — 2021 condominium
- 55–57 Franklin Avenue — condominium
- 56 Quincy Street — 2023 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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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