62 Montague Street (The Arlington)
62 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002470025 · BIN 3002033
- Year built
- 1887
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 43
- Floors
- 10
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Pet-friendly per the cooperative's published building information
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 2026). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
When it opened at the west end of Montague Street in 1888, the Arlington was a genuinely radical building: ten stories of apartments in a neighborhood of four-story row houses, visible — as the Brooklyn Eagle noted at the time — from Wall Street and the ferry. The Eagle's account, reproduced in the building's own offering plan, records the ambition in detail: twenty-nine original apartments with "not a single dark room in the entire building," large family units of drawing room, dining room, library, four bedrooms and eleven closets, nine bachelor flats at the building's center, two elevators (one for tenants, one for servants), a marble-and-iron fireproof staircase, interiors finished by cabinetmakers in rosewood, antique oak, and bird's-eye maple, and frescoed ceilings. For its first two decades it stood among the tallest residential structures in Brooklyn.
The architect matters as much as the height. Montrose W. Morris became Brooklyn's defining apartment-house architect — the Alhambra (1889), the Imperial, the Renaissance — and the Arlington is an early, largely intact major work, a precursor in which the elements of his mature style are already assembled: the rusticated base, the brownstone portico, the projecting metal bay, terra-cotta ornament, and above all the corner turret rising five stories to its peaked slate cap. The building's 2010 façade restoration renewed the decorative program, including the turret's "witch's hat." Within the Brooklyn Heights Historic District — the city's first, designated November 23, 1965 — that exterior is protected permanently.
The building's social history runs deep as well. The cooperative's own building history records Arthur Miller among the residents of the early 1940s, during his Brooklyn Navy Yard years, along with the filmmaker Marie Menken and poet Willard Maas. From the start the Arlington housed the Heights' professional middle class rather than its mansion-dwellers — a building of managers, clerks, writers, and supervisors, which is roughly the constituency its four- and three-room lines serve today.
The 1980 cooperative conversion, sponsored by Monty Realty Co. as a non-eviction plan, preserved this fabric: forty-eight apartments at conversion, sold at share prices that now read as historical artifacts, with the working fireplaces, mantels, and Victorian floor plans documented in the plan itself. What today's buyer purchases is the direct descendant of 1888's experiment — a grand early apartment house one block from the Promenade, at co-op economics.
Architecture and unit composition
The conversion-era layout (per the offering plan) placed two seven-room apartments on the parlor floor and, on each floor from the second through the tenth, two four-room corner lines (A and C) toward Montague Street, two three-room rear lines (D and E), and a center studio (B) — plus the penthouse tucked into the turret, a genuinely singular apartment. City records count 43 units today against the plan's 48, reflecting decades of combinations; verifying the legal configuration of any combined unit is standard diligence here.
Original fabric is the building's currency: working fireplaces in the A, C, and select three-room lines with terra-cotta-lined flues; mantels and hearths in varied Victorian styles; hardwood floors; pressed-tin and plaster ceilings; and the tenth floor's mansard rooms with dormers. The four-room lines carry the classic parlor–dining–bedroom sequence with windowed kitchens. Because the building predates central air and sits in the historic district, cooling is by interior-approved means — the offering plan itself flagged that street-façade masonry cannot be cut for sleeves — and buyers planning renovations should assume LPC and board review for anything touching windows or façade.
The building's structure is documented in the plan's engineering description: brick foundation walls laid in cement, upper walls of hard brick and terra cotta with partition walls up to 28 inches thick, floors on 20-inch iron beams — construction the Eagle admired in 1888 and which remains the reason prewar buyers respond to the building's solidity.
Building operations
62 Montague Street Housing Corporation runs the building with a live-in superintendent, central cellar laundry, bike and private storage, and a roof deck with harbor views (per the cooperative's published building information). A single passenger elevator serves the ten floors — the original servants' car is long gone — and the cellar houses the building systems. No managing agent is publicly documented; management arrangements should be confirmed during diligence. The Roebling Research Library holds the offering plan, amendments, bylaws, proprietary lease, house rules, purchase application, and multi-year financial statements for the building, available to 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2025 | 3BC | $2,535,000 |
| Jul 7, 2025 | 10C | $1,700,000 |
| Aug 26, 2024 | 2C | $1,408,000 |
| Jan 2, 2024 | 3BC | $1,300,000 |
| Jul 13, 2020 | 5A | $985,000 |
| Jan 4, 2019 | 7ABE | $2,995,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-00247-0025) 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
Buy the fabric, budget for the systems. Fireplaces, mantels, tin ceilings, and mansard rooms are the value; kitchens, baths, and electrical capacity vary widely by unit. Price the renovation before you bid, and expect LPC review for anything visible outside.
Confirm the legal unit configuration. With 48 plan units against 43 in city records, combined apartments are common; verify alteration approvals and the share allocation for any combination.
This is a self-contained prewar co-op, with prewar economics. A single elevator, a live-in super, and no amenity floor keep maintenance grounded; the trade is service depth for carrying-cost discipline.
Policy detail lives with the board. Sublet, pied-à-terre, and financing rules are not publicly documented. We confirm current policy directly with the cooperative at offer stage.
The location is the west-end sweet spot. Promenade access without Promenade pricing, Montague Street's retail at the door, and the 2/3 at Clark Street and R at Court Street within a few blocks.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with Morris and 1888. A documented Montrose W. Morris apartment house with an Eagle write-up and a turret is a marketing asset no staging can replicate; use the history.
Photograph the fireplaces and ceilings. Original-fabric details are the differentiator against the Heights' plainer prewar stock; make them the visual argument.
Price to condition honestly. The renovated-versus-estate spread in the Heights remained wide through 2025; an aspirational ask on an unrenovated four-room line will sit.
Prepare the alteration file. Buyers' attorneys will ask about combinations, fireplace status, and LPC sign-offs; a complete file protects the timeline.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering The Arlington, also evaluate:
- 57 Montague Street (The Breukelen) — the larger full-service prewar co-op across the street
- 2 Montague Terrace — boutique Promenade-block co-op one block west
- 10 Montague Terrace — intimate prewar co-op on the Terrace
- 76 Remsen Street — neighboring Remsen Street prewar co-op
- 60 Remsen Street — larger prewar elevator co-op one block south
- 35 Pierrepont Street — prewar co-op on the Heights' other grand apartment street
- 20 Pierrepont Street — smaller co-op near the Promenade's north end
- 160 Columbia Heights — Promenade-front prewar co-op; the view-forward alternative
- 65 Montague Street — the interwar elevator co-op neighbor at the same corner of the Heights
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