75 Poplar Street (Bridge Harbor Heights)
75 Poplar Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
BBL 3002077502 · BIN 3250373
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 56
- Floors
- 4
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Condominium framework; current rules should be confirmed with management during diligence
- Flip tax
- none disclosed in reviewed portion of plan; confirm current
- Subletting
- standard condominium framework per by-laws; current minimum-lease rules unverified
- Pied-à-terre
- permitted (standard condominium)
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 1987). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
Condominiums are structurally scarce in Brooklyn Heights — the district's housing stock reorganized overwhelmingly into cooperatives during the 1980s — and 75 Poplar Street is one of the few places the neighborhood produced condominium ownership, deeded parking, and shared landscaped grounds in a single offering. Bridge Harbor Heights Condominium II is the larger half of a planned two-condominium community developed by Bridge Harbor Heights Associates on roughly 1.4 acres at the northern tip of the district, on land carved from the Cadman Plaza Urban Renewal Area. Its sibling, Condominium I at 55 Poplar Street, closed its first units in August 1987; Condominium II followed with 56 residential units and 24 parking spaces, the two regimes bound together by a home owners association that maintains the grounds, the shared heating plant, and the superintendent's residence — an HOA-plus-condo structure common in suburban development and genuinely rare inside a New York City historic district.
The offering itself was a hybrid of preservation and construction: the plan describes one newly built building and one rehabilitated structure whose fabric was already roughly a century old at the time, marketed together as 75 Poplar Street across the parcel's 68–81 Poplar Street frontage. The program's urban-renewal DNA shows in its public obligations — the sponsor's principals retained a parcel developed as a playground open to the public and to P.S. 8 students under a covenant that ran until 2002 — and in the low-rise, landscaped site plan that reads more garden community than apartment house.
The location argument has only strengthened since 1988. The north Heights was the quiet end of the district when these units first closed, with the Fulton Ferry waterfront below still industrial. Today Brooklyn Bridge Park runs the length of the shoreline downhill, the DUMBO retail and restaurant economy sits a five-minute walk east, and the High Street A/C provides a one-stop ride to Lower Manhattan. Poplar Street itself remains what it was: a tucked-away, low-traffic block at the district's edge, with the Heights' fruit-street core beginning one block south.
Architecture and unit composition
The community's buildings are low-rise and brick-clad, scaled to the surrounding rowhouse fabric at approximately four stories, arranged on the through-block site with the landscaped common areas, parking, and drainage program described in the plan's engineering documents (areaways along the Henry Street and Cadman Plaza West frontages daylight the below-grade recreation spaces). Two elevators serve the residential units — a meaningful convenience distinction from the walk-up character of much of the surrounding historic stock. Apartments range from one-bedroom lines through larger family layouts, with the unit mix skewing toward practical two-bedroom plans; electricity is sub-metered by unit. Interiors trade at the full range of condition — original late-1980s finish through full renovations — and condition drives pricing here as much as line.
Building operations
The operating structure is the building's most distinctive feature and worth a buyer's attention: unit owners pay condominium common charges to Bridge Harbor Heights Condominium II and HOA dues (collected together, accounted separately) to the Bridge Harbor Heights Home Owners Association, which splits its budget evenly with Condominium I and maintains the shared grounds, heating system, and the superintendent — who serves both condominiums and lives on site in a unit the HOA purchased for that purpose. The arrangement delivers small-building intimacy with shared-cost efficiencies, and it means diligence should cover two sets of financials, not one. Current management details, budgets for both the condominium and the HOA, and the capital-project picture are maintained in The Roebling Research Library and reviewed 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 closings 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 2, 2025 | 5D | $1,835,000 |
| May 27, 2025 | 2J | $1,500,000 |
| Jan 29, 2025 | PS17 | $1,720,000 |
| Sep 4, 2024 | 2F | $1,770,000 |
| Sep 21, 2023 | 1D | $1,725,000 |
| Dec 30, 2022 | 2L | $750,000 |
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 3-00207-7502) 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 into two budgets. Condominium common charges and HOA dues together are the real carrying number; review both budgets and both reserve positions during diligence.
Parking is a separately deeded asset. Confirm exactly what conveys — unit, space, or both — and price the space explicitly.
Condo flexibility is the point. No board interview, entity-friendly ownership, condominium closing timelines — in this district, that combination is the scarce commodity.
The vintage requires condition diligence. Late-1980s construction and a rehabilitated historic structure mean unit-by-unit variation; review the community's capital history and any façade program with the same care as the apartment itself.
Landmarks applies to the envelope. Exterior alterations clear LPC in addition to the condominium's own approvals.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the ownership structure. "Brooklyn Heights condominium" is a short sentence that removes the district's largest transactional barrier; make it the first line of the marketing.
Price the parking separately and say so. Space-included comparables and space-excluded comparables are different data sets; conflating them costs sellers money in both directions.
Sell the north Heights trajectory. Brooklyn Bridge Park below, DUMBO's amenity economy east, High Street A/C around the corner — the location story has compounded for two decades and belongs in the narrative.
Present the HOA clearly. Sophisticated buyers will find the two-budget structure in diligence regardless; a clean explanation up front, with both budgets in the data room, keeps deals on schedule.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 75 Poplar Street, also evaluate:
- 55 Poplar Street — Bridge Harbor Heights Condominium I; the sibling regime across the shared grounds
- 20 Henry Street — boutique condominium conversion at the Heights' north edge; the character alternative
- 9 College Place (Love Lane Mews) — mews condominium in the central Heights; the district's other rare condo format
- 28 Old Fulton Street — cooperative in the Fulton Ferry fabric downhill, east of the bridge approach
- 90 Furman Street — Brooklyn Bridge Park waterfront condominium; the premium park-front tier
- 360 Furman Street (One Brooklyn Bridge Park) — large-format warehouse-conversion condominium on the park
- 50 Bridge Park Drive (Quay Tower) — the park's contemporary condominium tower; new-development finish tier
- 1 Main Street (The Clock Tower Building) — DUMBO's trophy loft condominium, a short walk east
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