55 Eastern Parkway
55 Eastern Parkway, near Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn · Prospect Heights
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3011790092 · BIN 3029635
- Year built
- 1925
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 47
- Floors
- 6
- Amenities
- Part-time doorman; resident superintendent; elevator; central laundry; bicycle storage; resident storage; landscaped courtyard
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- Part-time doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median, 2024–2026
- $812K
- 4 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $440K – $1.6M
- Listing discount
- -4.6%
- Recorded transfers
- 57
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55 Eastern Parkway is a red-brick cooperative facing the parkway near Grand Army Plaza. Sunken living rooms and substantial entrance foyers recur across its apartment types, from studios to larger homes. The original apartments were advertised with dropped living rooms and dining galleries, according to historical reporting on the Kellner development.
The building's six-story height and 47-residence scale support a mix of compact and larger layouts. Its studios can have a separate entrance and dining zone, while some two-bedroom homes occupy corners with three exposures. Top-floor apartments include views over Brooklyn and toward the Manhattan skyline.
A landscaped courtyard provides common outdoor space behind the residential frontage. Part-time door service and a resident superintendent add staffing to the elevator building. The property's position on Eastern Parkway puts the park and cultural institutions close to the front entrance.
Architecture and unit composition
Changes in floor level are part of the interior architecture. In the studio plans, an entry foyer can serve as a dining area before a short descent into the living and sleeping room. In larger homes, the sunken living room is a separate destination reached from a broader entrance area.
Original details include parquet or herringbone floors, high ceilings and coved ceiling edges in some apartments. Windowed kitchens and bathrooms occur in several layouts. Renovations have changed cabinetry, appliances and finishes, while older tile and room divisions survive in other interiors.
One-bedroom apartments include oversized living rooms and multiple large windows. Corner two-bedroom plans can use the entrance foyer as dining space or a study, preserving the main living room for a separate use. Three-bedroom homes with two bathrooms have also been offered, giving the cooperative more than a small-apartment inventory.
The recorded sizes range from approximately 400-square-foot studios to homes above 1,000 square feet. A similar bedroom count can conceal a difference in the amount of foyer, dining and circulation space. Top-floor outlooks also vary by orientation: an open skyline view and a courtyard exposure are different features of individual lines.
Building operations
The building's service arrangement combines a part-time doorman with a live-in superintendent. Central laundry, bicycle storage and resident storage are shared facilities. Storage availability can be subject to a waiting list, so a seller's use of a space does not by itself establish that it transfers with the apartment.
The landscaped courtyard includes a picnic area. It provides an outdoor option separate from the windows and exposures of the individual homes. The building's common outdoor space is at ground level, and the top-floor views should not be confused with a shared roof amenity.
There is no building-wide tax abatement identified. The cooperative falls in ordinary Class 2, with no annual assessment-growth cap. The site is below the residential floor-area allowance shown by its current R8X zoning, but that gap alone doesn't point to a specific expansion project or available rights for an apartment owner.
Policy framework
Pets: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Minimum down payment: 20 percent — confirm with the managing agent.
Subletting: Permitted after one year, with board approval — confirm with the managing agent.
In-unit washer/dryer: Permitted subject to the building's installation requirements — confirm with the managing agent.
Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Maintenance, per room
- $418 per room a monthMedian of 4 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Maintenance as recorded with each sale. A co-op's maintenance already covers the building's real estate taxes and the building's own mortgage, if it has one; add your own loan payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Part-time doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Garden, bike storage, storage, laundry roomSource: 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.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $7,443/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $13
- Modeled exposure split equally across 47 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Recent sales
Recent transfers 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 23, 2026 | 6G | 1 BR · 1 BA | $861,000 | +7.8% | |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 1D | 1 BA | $440,000 | -2.2% | |
| Mar 2, 2026 | 6B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 815 sf | $1,150,000 | $1,411/sf | — |
| May 21, 2025 | 1H | 1 BR · 1 BA · 800 sf | $760,000 | $950/sf | +2.0% |
| Sep 26, 2024 | 2B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $763,352 | +9.8% | |
| Apr 8, 2024 | 5A | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,631,285 | +4.6% | |
| Jun 15, 2023 | 6F | 1 BA | $370,000 | -17.7% | |
| Nov 15, 2022 | 5H | 1 BR · 1 BA | $730,000 | +8.1% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,046/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. 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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2026 | 4H | $900,000 |
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 3-01179-0092). 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 on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
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At the recent median sale of $861K (5 transfers in the past 24 months, since November 12, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $11,779 to close, or 1.4% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $11,779
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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Comparable buildings
- The Abraham Lincoln — A same-block prewar cooperative with a similar six-story form and residential scale.
- 41 Eastern Parkway — Another parkway cooperative from the prewar period, with a substantially taller building form.
- The Theodore Roosevelt — A nearby prewar cooperative of similar scale, useful for comparing established layouts along the parkway.
- 315 St. Johns Place — A side-street cooperative with a similar unit count and six-story height.
- 50 Plaza Street East — A prewar cooperative with a similar inventory distributed through a taller building near Grand Army Plaza.
More Prospect Heights buildings
- 515 Dean Street — 1892 condominium
- 521 Dean Street — 1930
- 543 Dean Street, 543 Dean Street · Prospect Heights — condominium
- 550 Vanderbilt Avenue — 2015 condominium
- 560 Dean Street — 1902 co-op
- 618 Dean Street (The Merchant House), 618 and 626 Dean Street — 1930 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Prospect Heights.
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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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