76 Schermerhorn Street (The Symon)
76 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn
BBL 3002717502 · BIN 3426107
- Year built
- 2019
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 59
- Floors
- 12
- Landmark
- No
- Subletting
- Permitted, standard condominium framework; no transient use per plan
- Pied-à-terre
- Permitted (condominium)
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 2019). Reported and subject to confirmation. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
The Symon is the best recent test of a simple proposition: that a boutique masonry condominium, scaled and detailed to the brownstone borough, can hold its own on a block that belongs administratively to Downtown Brooklyn. The sponsor — 70 Schermerhorn Owner LLC, a venture of Lonicera Partners and Orange Management with The Davis Companies — filed the offering plan in August 2019 for 59 residences on the south side of Schermerhorn between Court Street and Boerum Place. Colberg Architecture served as design architect and architect of record, with Studio DB shaping the interiors and the façade direction, and the result is deliberately un-towerlike: warm brick above a gray stone base, arched windows at the bottom and top of the composition, layered cornice lines, and setbacks that hold the building to twelve stories in a district zoned for considerably more.
The location deserves honest framing, because it is the building's economics. Schermerhorn Street at Court is not the leafy core of the Heights; it is the working seam where the historic district's row houses give way to courts, schools, and the Transit Museum, with Borough Hall's transit cluster — the 2/3/4/5, R, and A/C within a few blocks — as the practical center of gravity. What the seam buys is value and convenience: boutique new construction at pricing the district core cannot produce, essentially every subway line in Brooklyn within a ten-minute walk, and Atlantic Avenue's restaurant spine, the Heights, and Boerum Hill all functioning as the immediate neighborhood. The Symon's buyer has consistently been the household that shops Brooklyn Heights for character and Downtown for efficiency and lands, deliberately, between.
Within that market, the building's differentiators are texture and restraint. The unit mix runs one- to four-bedrooms averaging around 1,160 square feet — family-scaled rather than investor-scaled — with three penthouses and private outdoor space on select residences. The amenity set is right-sized to 59 units: attended lobby around the clock, fitness room, lounge, playroom, ground-floor terrace, and a landscaped roof terrace whose harbor-and-skyline view is the building's best shared asset. The automated parking — roughly eight spaces licensed separately — is scarce enough to be a line item in any resale where it conveys.
For sellers, The Symon's proposition is the boutique-new-construction scarcity of its micro-market: post-2020 masonry condominium product at this scale is thin on the Heights/Downtown seam, and the nearest structural competitors are either much larger towers or much older conversions.
Architecture and unit composition
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.
Building operations
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, so the tax line is at full assessment and should be verified unit by unit 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 2025 | 4C | $1,550,000 |
| Sep 5, 2025 | 2C | $1,515,000 |
| Mar 29, 2024 | 5A | $2,160,000 |
| Feb 22, 2024 | 10B | $2,395,000 |
| Aug 4, 2023 | 2A | $2,275,000 |
| Jul 7, 2023 | 4D | $1,887,020.9 |
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 3-00271-7502) 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
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, and a basis meaningfully below the historic core. Judge value against that, not against either label's comparables alone.
The boutique scale is the product. Fifty-nine units, an attended lobby, and a right-sized amenity floor produce low-friction operations and neighbors who own rather than trade. 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 full taxes. There is no abatement; run the True Monthly Carrying Cost analysis on the unit's actual current bill.
What to know if you’re selling
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.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering The Symon, also evaluate:
- Boerum Court (96 Schermerhorn Street) — the prewar cooperative alternative on the same block-run; more space per dollar, co-op mechanics
- 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
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