76 Schermerhorn Street (The Symon)

The 59 residences run from one-bedrooms through four-bedroom spreads, with three penthouses crowning the setbacks and select units carrying private terraces. Studio DB's interior specification — marble baths in patterned Carrara and Bardiglio, brass fittings, engineered wood floors, warm millwork — reads boutique-hotel rather than developer-standard, and has photographed as the building's signature in the resale market. Ceiling treatment, arched fenestration at the top floors, and the masonry palette carry the design argument into the units themselves.

One diligence-grade detail from the offering plan worth knowing: certain residences on floors 4 through 12 have lot-line windows on the east and west façades. They provide real light and views, and every affected unit meets code without them, but lot-line windows are legally amenities that can be lost if adjacent sites build; the plan estimates the closing-up cost per window and assigns it to the unit owner. Buyers of east- and west-facing lines should map the neighboring development envelopes as part of diligence — the standard exercise for mid-block new construction on this seam.

The Symon operates as a boutique full-service condominium: a lobby attended 24 hours a day, a non-resident manager supervising staff, and the amenity floor described above. The building's scale keeps the operation simple — there is no hotel program, no rental wing, and no resource-heavy amenity stack to fund — and common charges are calibrated accordingly. Purchasers from the sponsor contributed two months' common charges to the working capital fund at closing; resale buyers should confirm current closing requirements with the managing agent. No tax abatement is documented in the offering plan; the tax line should be verified on each apartment's tax bill rather than assumed from listings.

The offering plan and its amendments — the plan was amended repeatedly through sellout, largely for pricing and administrative updates — are maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.

Pied-à-terre / LLC / foreign buyers: Permitted (standard condominium).

Subletting: Permitted with conditions; the plan prohibits transient use, and current minimum-term rules should be confirmed with the managing agent.

Parking, storage, and bicycle spaces: Licensed separately rather than deeded with residences; confirm what conveys in any specific resale.

Working capital: Two months' common charges per purchaser at closing under the plan.

Property taxes: No abatement documented; underwrite the current bill on the specific unit.

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.

Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,695/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. 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 3-00271-7502; 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.

Price the seam, not the label. Listings for this building appear under Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, and Boerum Hill depending on the source. What you are buying is the seam itself: district-adjacent character, total transit convenience, with prices and total costs to compare against matched homes in the historic core. Judge value against that, not against either label's comparables alone.

The boutique scale is the product. The building has fifty-nine units, an attended lobby, and a right-sized amenity floor. If you want a climbing wall and a co-working floor, the large Downtown towers are the alternative; they are a different product at a different monthly.

Check the lot-line window map on east and west lines. The plan discloses them on floors 4–12; they are real light today and a development-risk question tomorrow. We map the adjacent envelopes as part of diligence.

Confirm what conveys. Parking (roughly eight automated spaces), storage bins, and bicycle spaces are licensed separately. A resale with parking is a materially different asset on this block.

Underwrite the actual tax bill. The roll shows no exemption; check the unit's actual current bill for any abatement and run the True Monthly Carrying Cost analysis on it.

Market the design credential. Studio DB's interiors and the arched-window masonry façade are the building's identity and photograph distinctively; generic new-development marketing undersells the asset.

Lead with the transit map. Nearly every line in Brooklyn within a short walk is the seam's structural advantage; make it explicit rather than assumed.

Anchor to the sponsor curve and the building's own resales. The comparable set is thin and the building is unusual for its micro-market; line-specific history beats neighborhood averages, and we maintain it.

If parking or storage conveys, price it as a line item. Scarcity at this scale is real and buyers will pay for it — but only if the marketing says it is there.

If you're considering The Symon, also evaluate:

• Boerum Court (96 Schermerhorn Street) — the prewar cooperative alternative on the same block-run; compare verified interior area, total price and co-op requirements
• One Clinton (1 Clinton Street) — Brooklyn Heights' 2019 condominium tower at Cadman Plaza; the full-amenity, full-price alternative inside the Heights
• 110 Livingston Street — the landmark McKim, Mead & White conversion two blocks east; prewar volume in condominium form
• 75 Livingston Street — the Art Deco tower cooperative at Court Street; the character alternative with co-op governance
• 77 Livingston Street — high-rise cooperative neighbor on the same corridor
• The Lookout Hill Condominium (199 State Street) — boutique condominium peer on the State Street row
• 166 Montague Street — small condominium conversion in the district core; the inside-the-Heights boutique alternative