66 Pierrepont Street (The Woodhull)
66 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002420027 · BIN 3001978
- Year built
- 1910
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 35
- Floors
- 8
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2024
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 3BR median
- $2M
- Recent range
- $1.1M – $2.4M
- Listing discount
- -4.5%
- Recorded transfers
- 30
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at The Woodhull, per Brownstoner's architectural history of the building would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
The Woodhull came first. When Realty Associates pulled down three single-family houses on the south side of Pierrepont Street in 1910 and put up an eight-story elevator apartment house in their place, Brooklyn Heights was still a neighborhood of private homes, and the building type that now defines the district's co-op market barely existed here. Everything that followed on this street — the 1920s houses, the 1929 and 1930 arrivals covered on our 35 Pierrepont Street and 69 Pierrepont Street pages — followed The Woodhull.
That is also, precisely, the transformation the Landmarks Preservation Commission was writing against fifty-five years later. The 1965 designation report names as one of the district's live dangers "the demolition of residences for the construction of apartment houses and other structures which do not conform to the height or quality of the surrounding architecture." The Woodhull is a specimen of the practice and is now protected by the rule written in response to it — the same LPC review that governs the 1840s row houses down the block governs this building's windows and façade.
George Fred Pelham designed it, working in a Renaissance-and-Colonial Revival register: the mode Brooklyn's speculative builders trusted for buildings meant to persuade families out of their own houses and into rented rooms. The persuasion had to be architectural, and it had to be spatial.
Which brings up the number that actually governs value here: about 1,540 gross square feet per apartment. Fifty-four thousand square feet across thirty-five units, on a full 75-by-100-foot lot built to a floor-area ratio of 7.2 — more than double what current zoning would permit. Apartments here were sized for households leaving houses, and a century later they remain the largest average unit in the Heights' mid-size prewar cooperative tier. Against the district's 1920s six-story stock, where 1,200 to 1,300 gross square feet is typical, and against the postwar tier, where 800 is common, the difference is not marginal. It is the whole case for the building.
The cooperative history is early: the City Register records the conveyance to Pierrepont Apartment Corp. on December 22, 1981, putting The Woodhull at the front of the Heights conversion wave rather than in its 1983–88 crest.
Architecture and unit composition
Eight stories of brick over a 75-foot Pierrepont Street frontage and an 88-foot building depth, with Pelham's revival detailing at the base and cornice line. Inside, apartments run in lettered lines across each floor, with the plan generous enough that renovation work filed with DOB routinely involves relocating kitchens, adding powder rooms, and reconfiguring interior partitions — the kind of work that is only worth doing when there is square footage to rearrange. Recorded filings touch apartments 1C/D, 3B, 4B, 4C/4D, 5C, 5E, 6E and 8D, which is a fair map of how the building is laid out and how it has changed.
Two structural facts belong in any diligence file here. First, lot-line windows: DOB filings record lot-line windows installed in apartments 5C and 6E in 2011. A lot-line window sits on a property line and can be legally required to be sealed if the neighboring parcel is developed to its height; it cannot supply the code-required light and air for an enclosed habitable room. On a fully built block the practical risk is low, but the specific apartment's exposure should be checked. Second, the parapet and cornice: a 2008 filing records removal of a damaged wood cornice on the roof parapet wall. Wood cornices on masonry parapets are a recurring maintenance liability in prewar Brooklyn, and any restoration of that element runs through the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Building operations
Pierrepont Apartment Corp. has run the building since the 1981 closing. The public filing record reads as a normally maintained prewar: waterproofing with 115 linear feet of sidewalk bridge in 2001, a 75-foot sidewalk shed for façade inspection in 2008, pipe scaffolding and a heavy-duty shed in 2012, and a further alteration of record in 2016 — roughly a FISP cycle every five to seven years, which is what an eight-story 1910 masonry building should be doing.
The mechanical picture carries one flag. A 2011 filing covers boiler and burner replacement and, in the same application, legalization of a boiler installed in 1982, identified from the plant's own identification plate. That is not unusual in a co-op of this vintage, but it means heating-system capital history should be reviewed rather than assumed. Ask for the boiler service record, the reserve balance and the assessment history alongside the façade file.
Building staffing and amenities are not documented in public records; current arrangements should be confirmed with management. The Roebling Team remains the contact of record for transaction questions.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- Per unit / month range
- —
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the engineer identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair before the next inspection cycle. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2024 | 6E | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,150,000 | +4.5% | |
| May 31, 2024 | 2A | 3 BR · 1 BA | $1,725,000 | +8.2% | |
| Oct 12, 2023 | 1CD | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,560 sf | $2,375,000 | $1,522/sf | +0.0% |
| Dec 28, 2021 | 7B | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,195,000 | -0.4% | |
| May 18, 2021 | 5CD | 3 BR · 2 BA | $2,125,000 | +0.0% | |
| Aug 20, 2020 | 8 | 2 BR · 1 BA | $965,000 | -2.0% | |
| Jan 8, 2020 | 2B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,080,000 | -1.4% | |
| Sep 17, 2019 | 4CD | 3 BR · 2 BA | $2,250,000 | +0.0% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2023): a median $1,522/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2024. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Full closing history with price-per-square-foot over time, the complete retrade record, and every line that has traded.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-00242-0027) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
You are buying square footage, and you should price it that way. The building averages roughly 1,540 gross square feet per apartment. Verify the specific unit's dimensions and share allocation, then compare against Heights inventory on a per-room and per-square-foot basis both — this building usually wins the second comparison.
Check the lot-line windows. If the apartment carries one, understand which wall it sits on and what the adjoining lot could support. Your attorney should look for the alteration approval and any related easement or agreement.
Ask for the mechanical and façade record together. The 2011 boiler legalization and the 2008 cornice removal are both signals to request the capital file: FISP cycles, roof, parapet, boiler, and any assessment history since.
Nothing about board policy is public. Pets, subletting, pied-à-terre use, financing minimums and any transfer fee are undocumented for this building. Get all of it in writing before you sign.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with The Woodhull and with Pelham. Almost no Heights apartment building of this size can name both an architect and a building name, and fewer still can claim to be the block's original apartment house. That is a listing line no competitor on the street can copy.
Put the square footage in the headline. Buyers shopping the district's prewar co-ops are comparing room counts. Give them the gross-square-foot figure and let the comparison do the work.
Prepare the Landmarks file. Window replacements, façade work and any street-visible alteration run through the LPC. A clean, complete permit history converts buyer caution into confidence; gaps become price negotiation.
Comp against the large-apartment prewar set, not the six-story tier. The right comparables are the district's generously sized prewar elevator co-ops. Pricing against compact 1920s inventory will leave money on the table.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 66 Pierrepont Street, also evaluate:
- 69 Pierrepont Street — the 1930 elevator co-op directly across the street; the same block front twenty years later
- 35 Pierrepont Street — Freehof's 1929 nine-story co-op with an attended-elevator lineage; the service alternative on the same street
- 205 Hicks Street — condominium on the same tax block; the ownership-form alternative at this corner of the district
- 20 Pierrepont Street — boutique prewar co-op at the Promenade end of the street
- 1 Pierrepont Street — 26-unit prewar co-op peer
- 187 Hicks Street — Florence Court, the 1900 co-op one block north; the closest peer in vintage
- 160 Henry Street — 1924 ten-story elevator co-op two blocks east at similar unit count
- 57 Montague Street (The Breukelen) — the Heights' large full-service prewar co-op, one block south
- 103 Montague Street — mid-size co-op on the same tax block's Montague frontage
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How to read the facts on this page. Items attributed to an offering plan describe the building as it was offered at that filing — unit mix, square footage, the amenity program as planned. They are not a statement about how the building operates today. Tax and compliance figures are sourced separately to current City records and carry their own dates. House rules, staffing and fee policy can change by board resolution without any public filing: treat every policy line here as a starting point for diligence and confirm it with the managing agent. Where this page compares one building or neighborhood to another, that is our analysis of the recorded record — it names the measure, the period and the sample it rests on, and it is an observation about medians rather than a prediction about any particular apartment.
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