69 Pierrepont Street

Eight stories of brick across a 77.71-foot frontage, on a lot running nearly 129 feet deep — a footprint 78 by 100 feet, leaving a rear yard. Its recorded floor area works out to a ratio of 5.42 against a permitted residential 3.44 under current R7-1 zoning; that simple comparison does not establish legal zoning floor area or what future work would be permitted.

Apartments are numbered rather than lettered — 11, 32, 42, 53, 63, 81, 83 — and the numbering does not map cleanly onto floors in the DOB record, so unit identification should be taken from the share schedule rather than inferred. The filing record shows a long history of combination filings: 40 and 41 in 2003, 42 and 45 in 2011, 51 and 52 in 2001, 62 and 65 in 2000, 70 and 71 in 2007. Where completed, that work has produced a mixed inventory, in which line-to-line comparison matters less than the specific apartment's footprint, exposure and condition.

Exposures split between the Pierrepont Street front, looking south across low rowhouse fabric, and north and east elevations facing into the block's interior. Exterior work of every kind, windows included, runs through the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

61-69 Pierrepont Owners Corp. has operated the building since the 1988 closing, and DOB filings name BPC Management as agent of record across a span running from 2001 to 2020 — an unusually long single-agent relationship for a Brooklyn co-op, and a reasonable proxy for administrative stability. Current management should be confirmed directly.

The capital record is the most informative part of the public file. Pointing and brick replacement on the Pierrepont Street front elevation in 2004; heavy-duty sidewalk sheds during façade repair in 2004–05, and again in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2019; rear façade repairs to the north and east elevations in 2014; and, in 2015, partial replacement of the east parapet under LPC permit docket #170863, with pipe scaffolding and a debris chute filed alongside. The filings and permit show work was filed and approved, not its completion or the façade's current condition; ask for the latest FISP report.

Mechanically, a 2008 filing covers burner replacement and the addition of natural gas as an alternate fuel to the existing number-two oil system — a dual-fuel conversion of the kind many Brooklyn co-ops made in that period, and a favorable one for operating cost. Ask for the current boiler service record, the reserve balance, the underlying mortgage terms and the assessment history alongside the FISP file.

Recent sales

Recent transfers at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. 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 (2025): a median $1,750/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 0.8% 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 3-00236-0011). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. 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.

Verify the apartment against the share ledger, not the number on the door. The numbering does not read cleanly off floors, and four decades of combinations mean recut share allocations. Your attorney should confirm shares, the combination approval history, and the certificate of occupancy status for any merged unit.

The façade record is a strength — read it anyway. A 2015 LPC-permitted parapet replacement and a steady twenty-year shed-and-repair rhythm suggest active maintenance. Ask for the FISP filings, the scope of the 2014 rear-elevation work, and what the board has scheduled next.

Board policy is entirely undocumented here. Pets, subletting, pied-à-terre use, financing minimums and any transfer fee should be obtained in writing before you sign.

Price renovation risk honestly. This is a late-converted building with a genuinely mixed renovation vintage. Budget the work, and use the condition spread as negotiating ground rather than discovering it at contract.

Sell the apartment and the block. Describe the home using its unit plan and the building's 78 feet of Pierrepont Street frontage. The roughly 1,380 gross-square-foot-per-apartment ratio is not an interior apartment measurement.

Do not overstate the building name. "The Van Anden" circulates in building directories but is not documented in LPC records or city filings. Using it is fine; presenting it as historical fact invites a correction from a well-prepared buyer's attorney.

Lead with the capital record. Provide the 2015 Landmarks parapet permit alongside completion evidence and the latest façade report; the permit history does not establish current condition.

Comp against the district's mid-size prewar elevator set. The right comparables are the eight-to-ten-story interwar co-ops on Pierrepont, Henry and Hicks — not the staffed Montague corridor buildings above, and not the six-story walk-up-scale stock below.

If you're considering 69 Pierrepont Street, also evaluate:

• 66 Pierrepont Street — The Woodhull, the 1910 Pelham co-op directly across the street; the block's original apartment house
• 35 Pierrepont Street — Freehof's 1929 nine-story co-op with an attended-elevator lineage; the service alternative on the same street
• 160 Henry Street — 1924 ten-story elevator co-op on the same tax block, at nearly identical unit count
• 187 Hicks Street — Florence Court, the 1900 co-op on the same block's Hicks Street frontage
• 145 Hicks Street — Mansion House, the large 1935 co-op on the same block; the full-scale alternative
• 70 Clark Street — postwar co-op at the block's Clark Street end
• 9 College Place (Love Lane Mews) — the condominium conversion inside the same block; the ownership-form alternative
• 1 Pierrepont Street — 26-unit prewar co-op at the Promenade end of the street
• 15 Clark Street — prewar co-op peer one block north