130 Eighth Avenue (814 Carroll Street)
130 Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Park Slope, Brooklyn
BBL 3010710014 · BIN 3024928
- Year built
- 1950
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 72
- Floors
- 8
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Not publicly documented — confirm against the current house rules
The corner of Eighth Avenue and Carroll Street held one of the great Park Slope houses. Charles Feltman — the Coney Island restaurateur credited with putting a frankfurter in a split roll — commissioned Montrose W. Morris, the architect the Slope's wealthy went to, and got a palatial Romanesque Revival pile in the early 1890s. It stood for roughly sixty years. In 1950 it came down, and this building went up on the site.
That sequence is the whole economic history of Eighth Avenue compressed into one lot. The single-family mansions that made the avenue's reputation were unaffordable to maintain by the Depression, unsellable as houses after the war, and worth more as land than as architecture. What replaced them put seventy-two households where one family had lived. The marketing language of the day, quoted in the building's history, put it as a new era in which luxury had to be balanced by economy — which is a fair description of what the building is: a full-service address with door staff, an elevator and a garage, wrapped in a brick envelope that spends nothing on ornament.
The 1973 designation of the Park Slope Historic District then froze the result. The LPC's own report describes this building without enthusiasm, as an unadorned brick apartment house, and that assessment is worth understanding rather than resenting. The district was drawn around a coherent Victorian streetscape and it swept in the twentieth-century intrusions along with everything else. The practical consequence for a shareholder is identical either way: window replacement, façade repair, entrance alterations and rooftop work at this address require Landmarks approval, on the Landmarks calendar, whatever the Commission thinks of the design. Under the R7B contextual zoning that now governs the block, permitted bulk is 3.0 FAR and this building carries roughly 5.04 — nothing of the kind will be built beside it again.
The service model is the second reason to look here. Park Slope's cooperative stock is overwhelmingly self-managed brownstone conversions and small elevator buildings without staff. A full-time attended lobby inside the historic district is scarce, and a below-grade garage is scarcer still — parking is effectively unbuildable inside a designated district, so the supply that exists is the supply that was built before 1973. Both are documented for this address and both should be verified specifically for the apartment you are considering.
The cooperative is young by neighborhood standards. Solico 130 bought from Park Carroll Co. in June 1986 and did not close the conversion until August 1988, well after the wave that took most of the avenue's rental prewars co-op between 1980 and 1986. Thirty-eight years of shareholder governance is still a long record, but it is shorter than the buildings this one competes with, and the corporation's early financial history is correspondingly thinner.
Architecture and unit composition
Eight stories of brick on an 11,800-square-foot corner lot, holding roughly 59,520 square feet of floor area. The design does its work with massing rather than detail: chamfered windows turn the corner instead of a decorative quoin, and the Carroll Street elevation steps back rather than holding a flat streetwall, which gives the apartments on that side light and gives the block a break in scale. Against the Romanesque and Renaissance Revival houses immediately around it the building reads as plainly of 1950, and it does not pretend otherwise.
The apartments follow the early postwar plan: entry foyers, defined living and dining space in the larger lines, bedrooms off a hall, and a mix weighted toward one- and two-bedrooms with a smaller set of larger corner layouts. Ceiling heights and detail are postwar rather than prewar, and buyers who want plaster mouldings and parquet borders are shopping the wrong building. What this stock delivers instead is efficient square footage, good closet counts, and windows placed for light rather than for period proportion. Within the building the price spread is set by floor, by whether an apartment holds a corner or the Carroll Street setback, and by renovation state.
Because the property sits inside the historic district, the window program is a Landmarks matter rather than a shareholder decision. Ask what the co-op's current window policy is, whether a building-wide replacement has been approved or discussed, and what the Commission has permitted here before.
Building operations
130 Eighth Avenue Owners Corp. has run the building since the November 1988 closing. The documented operation — full-time door staff, a resident superintendent, elevators, a below-grade garage and an accessible lobby — is a staffed model, and it costs what staffed models cost. Seventy-two apartments carrying that payroll is a workable ratio, better than the district's forty-unit buildings and thinner than the ninety-plus buildings a block away, and it should be tested against the actual maintenance figure rather than assumed.
The garage deserves specific diligence. It is documented for the building and it is a genuine differentiator inside a historic district, but the Department of Finance's land-use record carries no garage area for the lot. Establish with management how many spaces exist, whether they are licensed to shareholders or operated commercially, what the charge is, how the waitlist works and how the income is treated in the budget.
For a 1950 masonry building now well past seventy, the capital agenda is predictable and should be diligenced by document rather than by description: FISP/Local Law 11 façade cycles, roof and parapet, elevator modernization, boiler and distribution, and windows. The corporation's recorded credit agreement with Apple Bank for Savings, executed in December 2018 at $2,000,000, is a useful anchor for the debt conversation, but the current position belongs in the financial statements. Ask for the last two FISP filings, the reserve balance, the assessment history, the underlying mortgage terms and maturity, and the board's five-year capital plan. The corporation's financial statements are maintained in The Roebling Research Library and reviewed with clients during diligence; no managing agent is asserted here and the agent of record should be confirmed with the board.
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 transfers 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 |
|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2026 | 6E | $750,000 |
| Jul 2, 2025 | 1F | $675,000 |
| Mar 5, 2025 | 6B | $800,000 |
| Dec 16, 2024 | 8C | $1,299,000 |
| Apr 13, 2023 | 4B | $710,000 |
| Dec 6, 2022 | 3A | $1,025,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 3-01071-0014) 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
Establish the garage before you value the apartment. Spaces, terms, waitlist and cost. Inside a historic district this is the least replaceable thing the building owns, and the DOF file does not confirm it — management does.
Read the Landmarks position on windows. The building is in the 1973 district. Replacement is a Commission matter, and what the co-op has already been permitted to do sets the cost and calendar of what you can do.
Price the period honestly. A 1950 plan inside a Victorian district is a specific product. It wins on light, layout and services and it does not win on detail. Comp it against buildings that make the same trade.
Ask for the debt and capital file. A recorded $2,000,000 credit agreement from 2018 is a starting point, not an answer. Get the current mortgage terms and maturity, the reserve balance, the FISP history and the five-year plan.
Get all five policies in writing. Pets, sublets, flip tax, financing standard and the garage rule. None is on the public record for this building.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with staff and parking. A full-time attended lobby and a below-grade garage inside the Park Slope Historic District is a combination almost no competing listing can write. Confirm the specifics, then market them first.
Tell the site's story. The Feltman mansion by Montrose W. Morris stood on this corner until 1950. That is the kind of provenance a Park Slope buyer responds to, and it costs nothing to state accurately.
Have the building's answers ready. Because the policy framework is not public, the seller who can hand a buyer written confirmation of the pet, sublet, financing, flip-tax and garage rules removes the friction that stalls these deals.
Comp on two tracks. Anchor to the staffed elevator co-ops for carrying cost and to the Eighth Avenue prewars for location, and use matched 2025-forward sales rather than the building average.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 130 Eighth Avenue, also evaluate:
- 140 8th Avenue — the 1936 Art Deco co-op immediately south on the same blockfront; the district's largest interwar building and the closest possible location comparable
- 220 Berkeley Place — the 1955 postwar co-op two blocks north; the nearest peer on plan logic and period
- 209 Lincoln Place — the ten-story 1928 co-op with its own parking lot; the other district address where off-street parking is part of the deal
- 225 Lincoln Place — six-story 1920s co-op with a documented flip tax and sublet framework
- 235 Lincoln Place — 1937 co-op at smaller scale inside the same district
- 40 Prospect Park West — 1942 park-front co-op just outside the district line
- 35 Prospect Park West — 1929 eighteen-story park-front co-op; the tall prewar alternative
- 20 Plaza Street East — 1940 full-service co-op on the Grand Army Plaza arc, outside the district; the staffed-building alternative
- 420 12th Street (Ansonia Court) — the Ansonia Clock Factory conversion in the 2012 Extension; loft volume in Park Slope
- 300 8th Avenue — the 1920 co-op down the avenue, just outside the district line; the entry-price alternative on the same street
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