60 South Oxford Street
60 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
BBL 3021000068 · BIN 3058918
- Year built
- 1930
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 10
- Floors
- 4
- Landmark
- Designated
- Subletting
- Under the plan as filed: consent by resolution of the Board of Directors, or written consent of a majority of directors, or vote/written consent of shareholders owning at least 51% of outstanding shares. Sponsor and unsold-share holders exempt from consent and transfer fees. Current board policy unverified
- Pets
- Plan-era standard-form house rules: no bird or animal without express written permission of the corporation, revocable; dogs carried or leashed in public portions. Current board practice unverified
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 1988 plan as filed). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
South Oxford Street is one of the three blocks — with South Portland Avenue and Cumberland Street — that carry the Fort Greene Historic District's reputation. The rows here are the reason the district was designated in 1978, and the reason buyers pay a premium to be inside its boundary rather than a block outside it. 60 South Oxford Street is a working piece of that fabric: a four-story house of the mid-19th-century Italianate generation, associated in the LPC's district records with the developer Henry W. Derby and with four named builders — Richard Claffy, John Flanagan, Robert Connolly and Thomas Fagan — the kind of speculative building partnership that produced most of brownstone Brooklyn.
Its 20th-century life is what a buyer actually transacts on. At some point the house was cut up into apartments; the configuration in place today was legalized under a Certificate of Occupancy issued on December 27, 1966, and the Department of Finance's year-built field reads 1930, which is almost certainly the record of an alteration rather than of construction. These three dates do not reconcile, and rather than paper over them this profile states all three. The practical consequence is narrow: nothing about the co-op's operation turns on which date is right, but a listing that asserts a single year without qualification will be corrected by a diligent buyer's attorney.
The cooperative conversion is unusually well documented. Drew Associates offered the building as a non-eviction plan on August 24, 1988 — the reform-era standard, with no tenant displaced — through selling agent Townhouse International Development on Remsen Street. All ten apartments were rent-stabilized at the time. The offering allocated 1,440 shares across the ten units, priced at $625 per share to outside purchasers and $500 to tenants during the exclusive period, against a purchase price of $1,048,400 and a $175,000 mortgage.
What makes the building distinctive is uniformity. Every one of the ten apartments was a 3½-room, one-bath unit at conversion, counted by the Real Estate Board of New York's method — no penthouse, no garden duplex, no combination line. In a district where the small-building stock is otherwise a jumble of parlor floors, garden apartments and top-floor walk-ups, every apartment here starts from the same place, and the price spread is therefore almost entirely a function of renovation, floor and exposure.
Architecture and unit composition
Four stories, ten apartments, Italianate frontage on a landmark block. The building's value is in its street presence and its address, in the district's own terms: masonry, cornice line, and the rhythm of the row. Interior detail is a unit-by-unit question after a century and a half of alterations, and the 1988 plan itself cautioned that apartments may have been altered and should each be inspected to determine present layout.
The ten apartments carry 120 to 150 shares each out of 1,440 — a tight band, consistent with their uniform 3½-room, one-bath configuration. That tightness has a practical effect: maintenance differences between apartments in this building are small, so a buyer comparing two units is comparing condition and light, not carrying cost. Exposures split front-to-rear on a row-house footprint, which means the rear apartments face the block's interior gardens and the front apartments face the street's row-house wall — a real difference in light and quiet that should be experienced rather than inferred from a floor plan.
Exterior work runs through Landmarks. Windows in particular are a district-review item, and any seller with Landmarks-clean alteration files should say so.
Building operations
This is a self-directed ten-unit cooperative with no staff to speak of. The conversion budget funded a part-time superintendent at roughly 15 hours a week — cleaning the public areas, replacing bulbs, maintaining the trash compactor and monitoring the heating plant — and carried service contracts for extermination and heating maintenance. Management was engaged at a below-market fee guaranteed for the first two years, with the plan disclosing that the prevailing rate for a building of this type ran 4 to 5 percent of annual maintenance charges. Electricity and gas are separately metered, so shareholders pay their own utilities directly and maintenance reflects only common costs.
The consequence for diligence is obvious: in a building this small, capital events are not absorbed, they are assessed. For an Italianate masonry house inside a historic district, the recurring items are façade and cornice work under FISP/Local Law 11 cycles, roof, heating plant, and Landmarks-compliant window replacement. Ask for several consecutive years of financial statements, the reserve position, and the board's own account of deferred work.
One document belongs on the list early: the proprietary lease as filed runs only to June 30, 2035, extendable by shareholder vote. Extensions are routine and boards handle them as a matter of course, but lenders notice a short remaining term. Confirm the extension has been executed before a financing contingency depends on it.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2025 | 4B | $650,000 |
| Aug 25, 2023 | #1B | $965,000 |
| Mar 3, 2023 | 2B | $640,000 |
| Dec 7, 2021 | 2A | $595,000 |
| May 1, 2020 | 5A | $570,000 |
| Oct 16, 2017 | 1B | $852,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-02100-0068) 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
You are buying the block as much as the building. South Oxford Street is one of the Fort Greene Historic District's defining rows. That is the durable part of the value here.
Do not accept a single year built. Department of Finance says 1930, the LPC's records say Italianate, and the ten-unit configuration was legalized by a 1966 Certificate of Occupancy. All three belong in the file.
Check the proprietary lease term. The lease as filed expires June 30, 2035. Extensions are routine; confirm this one has been done before your lender asks.
Budget for assessments, not for a doorman. Ten shareholders, a part-time superintendent and a landmark masonry façade means capital work arrives as assessment. Read several years of financials and ask about the façade, roof and boiler directly.
Get the current pet and sublet rules in writing. The 1988 plan text is restrictive on both, and forty years of board practice may not be. Only the current rules control.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the district and the block. Fort Greene Historic District, designated September 26, 1978, and one of its three signature row-house streets. State it plainly — it is the single strongest line in the listing.
Use the conversion documents. A non-eviction plan, a named sponsor and selling agent, and a clean 1,440-share allocation make for a diligence package that reassures buyers' attorneys. Put it in the deal room up front.
Sell condition. Every apartment here started as a 3½-room, one-bath unit. Renovation quality, Landmarks-clean window and exterior files, and documented alteration approvals are what create the spread.
Be straight about the operating model, and comp accordingly. Low maintenance and a part-time superintendent is a genuine selling point to the right buyer and a surprise to the wrong one — say it early. The correct comparable set is Fort Greene and Clinton Hill's ten- to thirty-unit historic-district co-ops, not the postwar towers on the Downtown Brooklyn edge.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 60 South Oxford Street, also evaluate:
- 147 South Oxford Street — small co-op on the same district row; the most direct block-level comparable
- 149 Lafayette Avenue — ten-unit Fort Greene Historic District co-op converted in 1987; identical scale, very different building type
- 147 Lafayette Avenue — the 1930s Colonial Revival apartment conversion on Lafayette Avenue; a purpose-designed alternative to a row-house co-op
- 159 Lafayette Avenue — small district co-op peer a few blocks east
- 264 Cumberland Street (The Sanctuary) — the district's boutique condominium alternative, in a converted chapel
- 175 Amity Street — Cobble Hill's seventeen-unit historic-district co-op; the same decision in another brownstone district
- 177 Amity Street — fifteen-unit peer for scale calibration
- 450 Clinton Street — Carroll Gardens small-building co-op; a useful price-per-room cross-check outside Fort Greene
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