75 Livingston Street
75 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002650001 · BIN 3002543
- Year built
- 1926
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 105
- Floors
- 30
- Landmark
- Designated
- Subletting
- Board consent required under proprietary lease; terms not publicly documented
- Washer / dryer
- Dryer venting into building ducts prohibited; through-wall AC prohibited; garbage disposals prohibited (house rules)
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated House rules on file, undated (post-conversion)). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
75 Livingston Street is Brooklyn's skyline made residential. When the 66-74 Court Street Realty Corporation commissioned Abraham J. Simberg's tower in the mid-1920s, Court Street was in the middle of its skyscraper decade — the short run of years when downtown Brooklyn's banks, civic institutions, and professional offices built a genuine high-rise district around Borough Hall. Simberg's design was among the most ambitious of the group: a neo-Gothic setback tower rising 30 stories and 343 feet, with limestone tracery framing triple-height openings at the base, patterned brickwork on the shaft, and terra-cotta ornament marking each of five primary setbacks above a 13-story base. The massing shows the 1916 zoning resolution worked as an aesthetic instrument rather than a constraint — projecting pavilions, chamfered corners, and secondary setbacks carry the tower to a crown that remains one of the most recognizable silhouettes on the Brooklyn skyline. The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce became the building's most prominent tenant, and its name attached to the tower for half a century.
The building's second act is what makes it singular in the Brooklyn Heights cooperative canon. In October 1979 — decades before "office conversion" became a downtown Brooklyn planning theme — the sponsor Associates 66, a joint venture of Jacques de Roquancourt and 66 Court St. Developers, Inc., began converting the office tower to apartments, and the cooperative offering plan followed in September 1981. The conversion format was unusual and remains consequential for buyers today: every apartment was delivered as an open-space unit with a finished kitchen and bath and plumbing roughed for a second bathroom, and purchasers designed and built their own bedroom and partition layouts. Forty years on, the result is a tower where two apartments on the same line can live entirely differently — some preserved as loft-format open plans, others fully partitioned into two- and three-bedroom layouts.
The third act came in 2011, when the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District — the city's formal recognition that downtown Brooklyn's 1910s–1920s office towers constitute a coherent architectural ensemble. 75 Livingston is one of the district's anchor buildings. Designation was debated within the cooperative at the time, and it carries the obligations any landmarked co-op knows well: façade and window work requires LPC review, and the shareholders collectively steward a piece of the city's architectural record. It also fixes the building's setting permanently — the tower's ornament, and the district around it, are protected.
For buyers, the practical proposition is distinctive: prewar-tower scale, harbor and skyline views from upper floors that very little of brownstone Brooklyn Heights can offer, and cooperative economics priced in dollars per room rather than the per-square-foot register of the borough's condominium stock — all positioned directly above the Borough Hall transit hub, with Montague Street and the core Heights blocks beginning across Court Street.
Architecture and unit composition
The tower's 105 apartments stack across 30 stories that step back as they rise, which gives the upper half of the building an unusually high proportion of terrace, corner, and multiple-exposure units for a prewar tower. The offering plan's engineering statement documents the underlying fabric: structural steel with concrete fireproof floors, poured concrete foundations, and the original bank of four passenger elevators. Setback roof areas were allocated with specific apartments under the plan, and several upper-floor units carry private terrace rights as a result.
Because the 1981 conversion sold open space rather than finished layouts, unit composition resists the usual line-by-line summary. Apartments range from studio and one-bedroom formats through large multi-bedroom combinations, with layout quality driven by the original build-out (and subsequent renovations) rather than by the line position alone. Ceiling heights and window scale reflect the building's office origins — a real advantage in the lower, triple-height-base floors and the tower floors alike. Diligence on any specific apartment should include the alteration history: the quality of the original owner build-out is the single biggest variable in the building's resale stock.
The Chamber of Commerce tower's ornament rewards attention. The white terra-cotta and Gothic tracery of the crown are visible from the harbor and from lower Manhattan; the cooperative has invested in façade restoration campaigns over multiple decades under LPC oversight, and Local Law 11 cycles on a 30-story ornamented tower are a permanent feature of the building's capital planning.
Building operations
Heights 75 Owners Corp. operates the building with a 24-hour doorman, resident superintendent, and porter — the staffing structure established at conversion. Laundry rooms were built on alternating floors under the offering plan, tenant storage occupies the sub-cellar, and the cooperative owns the street-level commercial space, whose rent contributes to the operating budget. The corporation carries an underlying mortgage, and shareholder tax-deduction letters in The Roebling Research Library document per-share interest and real-estate-tax allocations in the ordinary course. Audited financial statements, house rules, and the offering plan with amendments 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2026 | 20A | $2,999,995 |
| Feb 10, 2026 | 9B | $950,000 |
| Dec 11, 2025 | 28A | $1,900,000 |
| Sep 10, 2025 | 6C | $1,782,917 |
| Aug 26, 2025 | 30A | $2,450,000 |
| May 13, 2025 | 14C | $2,050,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-00265-0001) 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
Layouts are bespoke — underwrite the build-out, not the line. The 1981 open-space conversion means two same-line apartments can differ completely in partition quality, kitchen and bath placement, and storage. Review the alteration file for the specific unit.
The views are the moat. Upper-floor apartments look over the historic district to the harbor, the bridges, and lower Manhattan. Within the protected Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District and beside the low-rise Heights, the view envelope is unusually stable for a tower.
It is a landmarked co-op — plan for it. LPC review governs façade and window work, and Local Law 11 cycles on an ornamented 30-story tower are a recurring capital item. Review the building's current façade and capital project status in diligence.
Confirm the policy file early. Flip tax, sublet terms, and financing limits are not publicly documented. Get the current house rules, policy resolutions, and two years of financials before offer.
Transit is a genuine amenity. The Borough Hall / Court Street complex (2, 3, 4, 5, R, and nearby A, C, F service) sits at the building's doorstep — among the best subway positions of any Brooklyn cooperative.
What to know if you’re selling
Sell the history and the silhouette. The Chamber of Commerce provenance, the Simberg neo-Gothic crown, and the 2011 historic district designation position the building in a different register from generic postwar co-op stock — use them.
Document your build-out. Because the building's apartments began as open space, a well-executed, board-approved renovation with a clean alteration file is a pricing asset. Assemble approvals and drawings before listing.
Price against tower comparables. The right peer set is elevator co-op and conversion stock with views and full service rather than the townhouse-scale cooperatives west of Clinton Street. Same-building, same-exposure trades anchor best.
Prepare buyers for co-op pacing. Board package, interview, and a conventional cooperative closing timeline apply. Transparent financial disclosure shortens the path.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 75 Livingston Street, also evaluate:
- 77 Livingston Street — the neighboring prewar tower cooperative; the most direct comparable on the block
- 110 Livingston Street — 1926 McKim, Mead & White former Elks Club and Board of Education headquarters, converted to condominium; the condo alternative in the same civic-center fabric
- One Clinton (1 Clinton Street) — new-development condominium at Cadman Plaza; the modern-tower view alternative
- Boerum Court (96 Schermerhorn Street) — prewar cooperative south of Livingston Street at a more accessible price point
- The Symon (76 Schermerhorn Street) — boutique new-development condominium nearby
- 40 Clinton Street — substantial prewar Heights cooperative two blocks west
- 11 Schermerhorn Street — small prewar cooperative on the Heights side of Schermerhorn
- The Lookout Hill (199 State Street) — boutique condominium alternative near the State Street row
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