58 Strong Place (The Landmark at Strong)

The property is a 15,890-square-foot corner lot carrying roughly 32,885 square feet of building area, formed from two combined structures: the 1851–52 church and the 1849 chapel. The offering plan describes the renovated building as a cellar, four stories and a mezzanine — and elsewhere in the same document as a cellar plus five stories, an inconsistency the plan never resolves. Department of Finance records four floors. What the discrepancy actually reflects is the reality of the conversion: floorplates inserted into a volume that was never designed to have them do not land at consistent levels, and "story" is an approximation in a building like this.

The unit mix as filed ran from a single two-bedroom/one-bath through three-bedroom layouts with up to three baths, and the plan's own energy schedules record apartments ranging from roughly 850 square feet to well over 5,400. Ingui Architecture's project record puts the design intent plainly: 23 units, each unique in character and in relationship to the building, with interior woodwork, paneling and stained glass salvaged and reused where possible.

Limited common elements are specific and worth knowing by unit. Units 1-H and 1-I each have exclusive use of a private yard. Units 3-A, 4-A, 4-B and 4-D carry balconies. Each owner of a unit with a limited common element handles the painting, decorating and ordinary non-structural maintenance of it; structural and extraordinary repairs fall to the condominium unless the owner caused the need.

The Landmarks constraint is absolute and the plan says so in a single sentence: the building has landmark status, which means the exterior may not be changed. In a converted church, that reaches further than it does in a row house — the buttresses, the belfry openings, the lancet turret, the triply pointed arch window and the iron railing with its tall gate posts are all protected fabric, and so is every window opening the conversion inserted into it.

The operating model here is deliberately minimal and a buyer should size it correctly. The offering plan states that there is no superintendent and no doorman. Whatever staffing arrangement exists today began from that base, and the current arrangement — porter, part-time super, contracted services — should be confirmed rather than assumed. In a 23-unit building the practical consequence is that common charges are low relative to a serviced condominium and that residents carry more of the day-to-day themselves.

The capital agenda is the opposite of minimal, and it is where diligence should concentrate. This is a stone church from 1851–52 with a masonry tower, stepped buttresses, a belfry, a slate-and-gable roof profile, a lancet turret, salvaged stained glass and an inserted structural floor system, all under Landmarks jurisdiction and all in the Local Law 11 façade cycle. Every one of those elements is expensive to maintain correctly and conspicuous when it is not. There is also an elevator serving 23 apartments and a five-space parking component.

Ask for the last three years of audited statements, the reserve balance, the current assessment schedule, the FISP filing history and the board minutes — and ask specifically what masonry, roof and window work has been done since the 2011–12 sellout, and what the Commission required. Management history and current agent details are maintained in The Roebling Research Library and confirmed with clients during diligence.

Purchaser review: No board approval. The board holds a right of first refusal on sales and leases in the standard condominium form; confirm the current procedure in the by-laws.

House rules: The condominium's rules and regulations rest on the First Amendment to the By-Laws filed October 10, 2010. They are a conventional set with a few building-specific provisions worth knowing: no access to the roof; no plants or flower boxes on any part of the roof without prior written board approval; no window guards or other window security barriers without written board approval; no air conditioners other than window units without board approval; and a package room used at the owner's own risk, with a caution against leaving anything dangerous or valuable in it.

Quiet hours: No loud music or television between midnight and 7:00 a.m. where it disturbs other occupants; no musical instruments or singing between 10:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m.; construction and repair work only on weekdays between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. absent an emergency.

Pets: Permitted; animals in public areas must be carried or on a leash.

Access: The managing agent must hold a key to each unit and must be given a key to any new lock. If entry is necessary or permitted under the rules and no key has been provided, the unit may be forced open without liability for the resulting damage. That is an unusually direct provision and worth reading before closing.

Parking: Five parking units, one designated handicapped-accessible. If that space goes to a non-handicapped owner and a handicapped owner subsequently holds another, the handicapped owner can compel a trade.

Home occupations: Permitted where lawful, but patients and clients may not wait in the halls, lobby or any common area.

Flip tax: None disclosed in the materials reviewed.

Recent sales

Recent closings 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 (2025) cleared a median $1,445/sf across 2 sales. Median listing discount 1.2% 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 3-00323-7503) 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.

There is no comparable line — pull the plan. Twenty-three unique apartments ranging from roughly 850 to over 5,400 square feet. Get the specific unit's area and layout from the offering plan schedules before you accept anyone's price per square foot.

Underwrite the masonry. A stone church from 1851–52 with a tower, stepped buttresses, a belfry and a lancet turret, all under Landmarks jurisdiction and in the Local Law 11 cycle. Read the reserve, the assessment history and the last façade filing. This is the single largest financial variable in the building.

Staffing started at zero. The plan provided for no superintendent and no doorman. Confirm what exists now and price the service level accordingly — it is part of why common charges sit where they do.

Know your limited common element. Private yards attach to Units 1-H and 1-I; balconies to 3-A, 4-A, 4-B and 4-D. Ordinary maintenance is yours; structural repair is the condominium's.

Read the house rules before you sign. No roof access, no non-window air conditioners without approval, no window guards without approval, and a managing-agent key requirement backed by a forced-entry provision. None of these are unusual individually; together they describe how the building is run.

Lead with Lafever. A documented Minard Lafever church, described in detail in the Landmarks Preservation Commission's own 1969 report, is a credential no competing Cobble Hill condominium can claim. Name him and quote the report.

Photograph the original fabric. Salvaged woodwork, paneling and stained glass, the arch openings, the buttressed walls. The conversion's whole argument is that the church is still visible from inside.

Publish the area and the plan. In a building with no repeating unit, the seller who documents square footage, ceiling condition and limited common elements controls the pricing conversation.

Present the capital story. Buyers know what nineteenth-century church masonry costs. A completed-projects narrative with the paperwork behind it converts far better than silence.

Closings are condominium-fast. Right of first refusal only, no board interview, no financing minimum beyond the lender's — a genuine advantage against the district's cooperative inventory.

If you're considering 58 Strong Place, also evaluate:

• 501 Hicks Street (Cobble Hill School Condominium) — the district's converted school, one block west, in condominium form with on-site parking
• 174 Pacific Street — the district's other converted school, at its northern edge, in cooperative form
• 401 Hicks Street (The Arches at Cobble Hill) — condominium conversion of Alfred Tredway White's Home Buildings, a few blocks north
• 417 Hicks Street — the Tower Buildings group of the Cobble Hill Towers condominium; White's model housing on the same corridor
• 439 Hicks Street (Cobble Hill Towers) — the balance of the same landmark model-housing complex
• 200 Congress Street — the largest cooperative in Cobble Hill; elevator, superintendent and garage
• 450 Clinton Street — 36-unit Carroll Gardens cooperative just south of the district line
• 344 Degraw Street — boutique condominium on the same cross street, east of the district
• 145 President Street — small Carroll Gardens condominium; the closest peer on unit count and finish