60 Remsen Street
60 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002530053 · BIN 3002200
- Year built
- 1955
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 85
- Floors
- 10
- Landmark
- Designated
- Subletting
- Board consent required (proprietary lease/by-laws); formal sublease application process on file; terms not publicly documented
- Pets
- Restrictive: animals only with written, revocable board permission; dogs carried/leashed in public areas, barred from roof
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 2001). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
60 Remsen Street occupies one of the best-mannered corners in Brooklyn Heights: Remsen at Hicks, with Grace Court Alley — the district's famous mews of converted carriage houses — running along its southern flank, and the Promenade one short block west. The building itself is the neighborhood's postwar type done properly. Completed in 1955 to a design LPC records attribute to Rollin Caughey — the architect whose earlier Heights work includes 160 Columbia Heights and The Breukelen — it is a Class I fireproof, reinforced-concrete apartment house faced in light beige brick, ten stories with a canopied entrance and a doorman-attended lobby. Because it arrived a decade before the November 23, 1965 designation of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, the country's first, it is grandfathered into the protected streetscape it now helps define: nothing around it can change much, and neither can it.
The cooperative's history is notable for how early it began. Remsen Realty Inc. presented the offering plan on July 21, 1978 — in the first handful of Heights conversions, ahead of the 1980s wave — as a voluntary, non-eviction plan under which no rent-stabilized tenant could be displaced. Town House International Development Ltd, the Montague Street firm that sold the plan, stayed on as the building's initial manager. Nearly five decades of cooperative operation later, the corporation's file in The Roebling Research Library — financial statements running back to the late 1990s, the 2001 restatement of the house rules, the proprietary lease and by-laws — documents a conservatively governed, owner-occupancy-minded house.
For buyers, the appeal is straightforward: full postwar infrastructure — doorman, elevator, laundry, storage, a common roof deck with harbor light — inside the most protected low-rise district in the city, at per-room cooperative pricing on a block where the alternative is townhouse capital.
Architecture and unit composition
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.
Building operations
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.
Recent sales
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2026 | 10C | $925,000 |
| Jun 7, 2024 | 9C | $895,000 |
| Aug 4, 2022 | 4H | $770,000 |
| Aug 10, 2022 | 7C | $995,000 |
| Aug 10, 2022 | 7D | $580,000 |
| Jun 8, 2022 | 1C | $575,000 |
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.
What to know if you’re buying
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.
What to know if you’re selling
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.
Comparable buildings
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
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