60 Remsen Street

The building holds 85 simplex apartments across ten residential floors, along with a ground-floor doctor's office and the janitor's apartment — a unit mix typical of its 1955 vintage, planned around efficient foyers, windowed kitchens, and generous closets rather than prewar formality. The corner siting gives the stock three principal exposures: north over Remsen Street, west toward Hicks and the Promenade blocks, and south over the low carriage houses of Grace Court Alley, an exposure with protected light and an unusually picturesque outlook for a mid-block price. Upper-floor west and south lines are the building's premium stock, and the common roof deck extends the harbor-and-skyline view to every shareholder. Construction is reinforced concrete with brick facing — quiet, solid, and inexpensive to insure relative to converted rowhouse fabric.

60 Remsen Street Housing Corporation operates the building with a doorman-attended lobby and superintendent, a cellar laundry room, basement storage, and a compactor system, under a managing agent and a formal fee schedule adopted by the board. The house rules — restated comprehensively in 2001 — run in the traditional Heights register: quiet hours, 80 percent carpeting, window-guard compliance, mandatory homeowner's insurance, service access through the basement, and a roof deck open on posted hours. The proprietary lease, by-laws, financial statements, and offering plan are maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.

Pets: Permission-based, and stricter than most neighbors — animals may be kept only with the board's written consent, which is revocable; dogs must be carried or leashed in public areas and are barred from the roof. Dog owners should confirm current practice before offering.

Subletting: Board consent required under the proprietary lease and by-laws; a formal sublease application exists. Terms, duration limits, and fees should be confirmed at offer stage — read the building as owner-occupancy-first.

Fees: The board maintains a written schedule of fees and deposits (moves, applications, and related items); request the current schedule with the board package.

Carpeting and insurance: 80 percent carpet coverage outside kitchens and baths; proof of homeowner's insurance is required.

Flip tax and financing limits: Not publicly documented; confirm both with the managing agent early in diligence.

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. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2024): a median $1,347/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 1.4% 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 3-00253-0053) 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.

The block is the asset. Grace Court Alley, Remsen's brownstone rows, and the Promenade one block west — this is the postcard quadrant of the district, and the building is the affordable full-service way into it.

Postwar bones are a feature. Fireproof reinforced concrete, simple systems, and simplex layouts mean fewer of the surprises that come with converted 19th-century fabric.

Check the pet policy before you fall in love. Written, revocable board permission is a genuinely restrictive regime by current Brooklyn standards.

Ask for the fee schedule and policy file early. Flip tax, sublet terms, and financing limits are board matters without public documentation; the 2001 house rules are the baseline, and current practice should be confirmed.

The roof deck is real amenity value. Harbor and skyline light on posted hours — factor it in when comparing against walk-up alternatives at similar pricing.

Sell the corner. Grace Court Alley outlooks, Promenade proximity, and the southwest Heights address lead the story; the doorman and roof deck close it.

Name the architect. The LPC-recorded Caughey attribution ties the building to 160 Columbia Heights and The Breukelen — a Heights pedigree most postwar buildings cannot claim.

Price per room against full-service comparables. The peer set is the district's doorman co-op stock, adjusted for postwar vintage; same-line and same-exposure trades anchor best.

Anticipate the board's paper. A conventional, well-documented board process; a complete package with the fee schedule and financials anticipated keeps the timeline predictable.

If you're considering 60 Remsen Street, also evaluate:

• 68 Remsen Street — the substantial prewar cooperative next door
• 76 Remsen Street — boutique co-op on the same Promenade-end block
• 100 Remsen Street — larger cooperative two blocks east
• 2 Grace Court — the major cooperative on Grace Court, around the corner
• 19 Grace Court — smaller Grace Court co-op alternative
• The Breukelen (57 Montague Street) — Caughey-designed doorman co-op one block north; larger building, same architect lineage
• 2 Montague Terrace — Promenade-front boutique cooperative
• 145 Hicks Street — larger prewar co-op up Hicks Street
• 130 Hicks Street — mid-size Hicks Street cooperative alternative