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
- Pets
- Condominium framework; current rules should be confirmed with management during diligence
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Pied-à-terre
- Permitted
- Flip tax
- Tiered or formula; see fees
Bridge Harbor Heights Condominium II sales history: 38 recorded sales
- 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
- No restriction documented; confirm occupancy rules in the by-laws and house rules
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.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2000–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $1,268
- 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 1.6%
- Recorded sales
- 38
- On record
- 2000–2026
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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.
Policy framework
Purchaser review: No cooperative-style board approval; purchases run through the condominium's application and right-of-first-refusal process. Confirm the review period in the declaration and bylaws.
Subletting and pied-à-terre: Pied-à-terre use is permitted; subletting is not documented. Confirm leasing rules, current minimum-lease terms and any board-adopted registration requirements in the declaration, bylaws and house rules.
Parking: Deeded parking-space units convey and trade; a space materially affects value and should be priced explicitly in any transaction.
HOA obligations: Membership is mandatory and dues run with the unit; review the HOA budget alongside the condominium budget.
Flip tax / transfer fee: None disclosed in the portion of the plan reviewed; confirm current fees at offer stage.
Property taxes: Original plan-era abatements are long expired; underwrite the current full-assessment bill.
Application and transaction fees
- Terms
- None disclosed in reviewed portion of plan; confirm current
Source: The Roebling Research Desk's building record, 1987
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Sublet and pied-à-terre policy
A condominium owner leasing a unit and a co-op shareholder subletting are different rules, and a building-wide rule is different from a restriction on one apartment. This is the building's rule; confirm it for the specific apartment.
- Leasing by owners
- Not verified
- Pied-à-terre ownership
- PermittedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
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Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Common charges + taxes, per room
- $387 per room a monthMedian of 3 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Common charges + taxes, per square foot
- $1.57 per square foot a monthMedian of 3 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Common charges plus real estate taxes, combined into one monthly figure the way New York condominium listings show them. Add a mortgage payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- GarageSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as Unsafe — conditions requiring prompt corrective action. The owner must install any public protection the inspector specifies (a sidewalk shed, construction fence or structural netting, depending on the condition) and make the repairs. Review the subsequent filings, the repair status, and the building’s board and financial materials — we pull the repair scope and funding picture for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2025–30. 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 data last refreshed October 2026.
Recent sales
Recent closings 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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2026 | GE | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,400 sf | $1,775,000 | $1,268/sf | +7.6% |
| May 19, 2025 | 2J | 2 BR · 1.5 BA · 1,080 sf | $1,500,000 | $1,389/sf | +1.7% |
| Jan 16, 2025 | 1H | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,200 sf | $1,720,000 | $1,433/sf | +4.2% |
| Aug 19, 2024 | 2F | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,200 sf | $1,770,000 | $1,475/sf | +6.9% |
| Nov 22, 2021 | 3C | 2 BR · 1,160 sf | $1,360,000 | $1,172/sf | -2.5% |
| May 19, 2017 | 1J | 950 sf | $1,050,000 | $1,105/sf | — |
| Apr 12, 2017 | 1D | 950 sf | $1,385,000 | $1,458/sf | — |
| Mar 27, 2017 | 1L | 1 BR · 650 sf | $790,000 | $1,215/sf | -6.9% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,268/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. Median listing discount 1.6% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
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 3-00207-7502; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
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At the recent median sale of $1.72M (3 sales in the past 24 months, since October 31, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $71,515 to close, or 4.2% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $17,200
- Mortgage recording tax: $24,833
- Title insurance: $7,740
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $21,742
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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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.
The condominium form is the point. There is no co-op board interview, and pied-à-terre use is permitted; confirm ownership-entity rules and the review period in the declaration, bylaws and house rules.
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. State the condominium tenure clearly, then describe the actual application, waiver and financing requirements without ranking co-op approval as the district's largest transaction barrier.
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
More Brooklyn Heights buildings
- 73 Remsen Street — co-op
- 75 Henry Street (Whitman Close) — 1967 co-op
- 75 Livingston Street — 1926 co-op
- 76 Remsen Street — 1922 co-op
- 76 Schermerhorn Street (The Symon) — 2019 condominium
- 77 Livingston Street (The Robert Livingston) — 1964 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Brooklyn Heights.
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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