59 Pineapple Street
59 Pineapple Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002260035 · BIN 3001708
- Year built
- 1926
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 66
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Not publicly documented — confirm against current house rules
- Subletting
- Board approval or, if refused, consent of holders of at least 65% of shares (plan as filed, 1982); current policy unverified
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 1982 plan as filed). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
59 Pineapple Street is core Brooklyn Heights co-op stock: a 1926 elevator building by the borough's definitive Colonial Revival firm, on one of the Fruit Streets, three blocks from the Promenade, converted in the early-1980s wave that turned the Heights' rental prewars into the co-op inventory the neighborhood trades on today. Nothing about the building is flashy, and that is the point — it is the sort of six-story brick apartment house that gives the historic district its texture, and its apartments are the neighborhood's bread-and-butter one- and two-bedroom prewar rooms.
The architectural pedigree is better than the building's modesty lets on. The LPC's district records attribute 59 Pineapple to Slee & Bryson, the partnership of John B. Slee and Robert H. Bryson that, from 1905, effectively defined Colonial Revival Brooklyn: the landmarked Albemarle-Kenmore Terraces in Flatbush, rows in Lefferts Manor and Crown Heights, the Appellate Division courthouse on Monroe Place — and a run of Brooklyn Heights apartment houses including 15 Clark Street, one block north, where Bryson lived until his death in 1938. At 59 Pineapple the firm was working in its restrained brick apartment-house register in the same mid-1920s seasons that produced the Heights' broader prewar elevator stock.
The building's conversion paperwork is a small museum piece. Columbia Properties' 1982 offering plan went out as an eviction plan — the harder-edged conversion form that New York effectively retired in the reform era, with carve-outs protecting senior and disabled tenants — at a moment when the building held 12 rent-controlled and 47 rent-stabilized tenancies against 12 vacancies. The five-doorman staffing schedule in the same plan's budget records a vanished service economy: a six-story Heights walk-up-scale building carrying round-the-clock attendance on pre-union wages. Four decades of co-op operation later, the practical residue for buyers is simpler — a shareholder-run prewar with an elevator, a laundry room, a superintendent, and a unit count that has drifted from 71 to 66 as apartments combined.
For buyers, 59 Pineapple is an entry into the district's prewar co-op market at its most classic; for sellers, the building's Slee & Bryson attribution and Fruit Streets address are differentiators worth stating in a market where most six-story prewars go unattributed.
Architecture and unit composition
Slee & Bryson's six-story brick building carries the firm's quiet manner: the value is in proportion, masonry, and street presence rather than ornament. The 1982 share schedule covered 71 apartments weighted toward studios, one-bedrooms, and two-bedrooms — classic Heights prewar scale — with the superintendent's unit at 1-H outside the offering; today's DOF count of 66 units reflects decades of combinations, so line-to-line comparison matters less here than the specific apartment's light, floor, and renovation state. North-side units face Pineapple Street's row-house and garden frontage; the Clark Street corridor and the Promenade approaches are each a short block away. Exterior work, windows included, runs through the LPC under the district designation.
Building operations
59 Pineapple Corp. has operated the building since the 1983-era closing. The operating model is the district's standard for buildings of this scale — resident superintendent, elevator, laundry — and the co-op's financial statements in The Roebling Research Library run from the late 1990s forward, supporting trend-level diligence on maintenance growth and capital practice. Conversion-era service contracts and staffing (including the five-doorman schedule) are historical record rather than current fact; confirm today's staffing and any assessment history with management. For a 1926 masonry building, FISP/LL11 façade cycles are the recurring capital item to review.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2025 | 1N | $890,000 |
| Apr 18, 2025 | 2L | $575,000 |
| Jul 11, 2024 | 1G | $500,000 |
| May 10, 2024 | 5F | $575,000 |
| Apr 24, 2023 | 6G | $560,000 |
| Sep 6, 2022 | 4K | $601,500 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-00226-0035) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
This is the classic district co-op purchase. Prewar rooms, elevator, superintendent, moderate scale — evaluate it on apartment condition and light, because the building-level variables are stable and known.
Confirm the current unit and share ledger. The 71-to-66 drift means combined apartments with recut share allocations; your attorney should verify the specific unit's shares and any combination approvals.
Ask for current policy in writing. Sublet rules, pets, financing standards, and any flip tax postdate the plan documents; management's current answers control.
The micro-location is the amenity. Fruit Streets quiet, the Promenade three blocks west, and the 2/3 express around the corner — the daily-life case for the building is the block itself.
What to know if you’re selling
Name the architects. Most Heights six-story prewars are anonymous; Slee & Bryson attribution — with 15 Clark Street and the Appellate courthouse as neighbors-in-portfolio — gives the listing a pedigree line competitors cannot copy.
Lead with condition. In a building where combinations and renovations set the spread, documented renovation quality and Landmarks-clean alteration files are the price-makers.
Price per room against the district's six-story set. The correct comps are the district's moderate-scale prewar co-ops, not the full-service Montague corridor buildings with heavier staff and maintenance.
Surface the co-op's financial record. A long, steady financial history is an underwriting asset with boards and lenders alike; put it to work in the deal room.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 59 Pineapple Street, also evaluate:
- 60 Pineapple Street — the loft-style conversion co-op directly across the street; open plans versus 59's prewar rooms
- 45 Pineapple Street (Hamilton House) — the block's postwar full-service alternative
- 44 Pineapple Street — large co-op neighbor on the same block
- 15 Clark Street — Slee & Bryson's own Heights apartment house one block north; the direct pedigree comparable
- 35 Clark Street — prewar co-op peer on the Clark Street corridor
- 54 Orange Street — Fruit Streets prewar co-op one block south
- 72 Orange Street — moderate-scale Fruit Streets co-op peer
- 160 Henry Street — prewar elevator co-op two blocks south on Henry Street
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