8 South Oxford Street
8 South Oxford Street, between DeKalb and Lafayette Avenues · Fort Greene
BBL 3021000042 · BIN 3058893
- Year built
- 1864
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- In-unit laundry; private garden in selected accommodation
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About the building
8 South Oxford Street is a five-residence brownstone cooperative near the southeastern end of Fort Greene Park. Its street façade has tall parlor windows, projecting sills and curved lintels. A brownstone restoration completed in 2012 repaired the exterior with support from a historic-properties loan program. The house remains part of the Fort Greene Historic District, so work to its protected exterior is subject to LPC review.
The apartments include a garden duplex, a parlor-floor home and upper floor-through accommodation. The garden duplex extends over roughly 1,600 square feet with two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Parlor-level rooms retain high plaster ceilings, marble mantels and pocket doors, and a rear sunroom overlooks the garden. Some interiors preserve substantially more of the original townhouse detail than others. Individual laundry is present in renovated homes.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 2024 | 2 | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,625,000 | +12.1% | |
| May 13, 2021 | 4 | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,378,000 | +4.0% | |
| Nov 13, 2020 | 1 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,600 sf | $1,760,000 | $1,100/sf | -2.2% |
| Jul 27, 2018 | 3 | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,325,000 | +20.5% | |
| Mar 21, 2016 | 1 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,600 sf | $1,535,000 | $959/sf | +0.0% |
| Nov 30, 2011 | PARLOR | 1 BR | $799,000 | +0.0% | |
| Dec 17, 2010 | 3 | 2 BR | $680,000 | -0.7% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2020): a median $1,100/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2024. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-02100-0042) 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; square footage on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
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What to know if you’re buying
Five residences share the cost of maintaining the brownstone. A major roof or façade project can produce a concentrated expense for each shareholder. The existing restoration history is useful context for the cooperative's next capital decisions, alongside the allocation of shares among its differently sized homes.
Comparable buildings
- 60 South Oxford Street: A nearby cooperative in the same historic district, with more apartments sharing common expenses.
- 149 Lafayette Avenue: A purpose-built twentieth-century apartment house, offering a different layout and construction comparison within Fort Greene.
- The Richelieu: A larger historic cooperative with an elevator and corner-building exposures.
More Fort Greene buildings
- 60 South Oxford Street — 1930 co-op
- 65 South Oxford Street — 1862 condominium
- 75 Greene Avenue — 1930 condominium
- 96 Rockwell Place — condominium
- The Greene House (383 Carlton Avenue) — 2003 condominium
- The Roanoke, 69–71 South Oxford Street — 1890 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full neighborhood — its buildings, character, and market — read The Roebling Team Guide to Fort Greene.
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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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