96 Schermerhorn Street (Boerum Court)

The plan allocated 68,700 shares across 104 offered apartments (the superintendent's unit 1A stayed unallocated, producing the 104/105 count), totaling 325 zoning rooms — a mix weighted toward studios and one-bedrooms with a meaningful complement of larger and terrace units at the setbacks. Because the conversion carved apartments out of institutional floor plates, lines do not repeat cleanly floor-to-floor: ceiling height, window scale, and proportion vary more within this building than in any purpose-built peer, and unit-level evaluation matters correspondingly more. The 1980–82 alteration re-windowed the building with double-glazed aluminum units, added two upgraded boilers, a compactor system, and rebuilt roofs; the twelfth- and fourteenth-floor setback roofs became private terraces for bordering apartments.

Boerum Court Owners, Inc. has operated the building since the 1982 closings, currently with FirstService Residential New York as managing agent per the co-op's purchase application. The conversion budget staffed the building for round-the-clock door coverage — superintendent, handyman, porter, and four doormen under the 32B contract — and service level has remained central to the building's identity; current staffing should be confirmed at offer stage. Apartments are individually metered for electricity. The Roebling Research Library holds the two-part offering plan, amendments, bylaws, house rules, current purchase application requirements, and recent financial statements for the building.

Subletting: Board consent by resolution, per the proprietary lease as filed. Current limits and fees should be confirmed with management.

Use: Residential use, with professional use by occupants permitted where lawful, under the lease as filed.

Pets: A pet acknowledgment is part of the current purchase application; confirm specific limits against the house rules.

Application economics: Documented above from the current purchase application — a $700 processing fee, $150 document fee, $100 consumer report fee per applicant, and paired $500 move fees/deposits on each side of the transaction, with a $1,000 seller closing fee.

Estates, trusts, and entities: The current application includes trust, LLC, and estate transfer tracks — an indication these structures are processed in an orderly way; approval remains board discretion.

Flip tax, financing minimums, pied-à-terre: Not publicly documented; confirm at offer stage.

Recent sales

Recent transfers 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 $888/sf (floor-adjusted) across 2 sales. 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 1.9% 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 3-00271-0047). 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 on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.

Evaluate the specific apartment, not the line. Institutional floor plates mean ceiling heights and proportions vary widely by floor and position — the difference between a 10-foot and a 15-foot ceiling in otherwise similar units is the difference between fine and extraordinary.

Price the location honestly, in your favor. You are buying the Downtown/Boerum Hill seam, not the historic district — that is precisely why the per-room price is what it is, with the Heights two blocks away and elite transit at the door.

Service is part of the maintenance. The building has carried full door staff since conversion; confirm current staffing and how it flows through the maintenance before comparing carrying costs against self-service walk-ups.

Confirm policy specifics early. Sublet limits, any flip tax, and financing minimums are board-level facts not stated in the public record; get them from management before offer.

Sell the volume. Ceiling height, window scale, and the St. John's provenance are the differentiators no nearby condo can copy; photograph accordingly and state the heights.

Frame the neighborhood forward. The honest pitch — Downtown convenience, Boerum Hill adjacency, Heights proximity, and the transit map — outperforms straining for a Heights label the block cannot support.

Anchor to the building's own comps. Boerum Court's recent trades, adjusted for ceiling height and terrace rights, price apartments more reliably than district co-op benchmarks that carry a different premium.

Have the application package ready. The requirements are documented and orderly; a prepared seller moves a qualified buyer through board review without drama.

If you're considering Boerum Court, also evaluate:

• 76 Schermerhorn Street (The Symon) — contemporary condominium directly west on Schermerhorn; the new-construction counterpoint
• 11 Schermerhorn Street — boutique prewar co-op at the Heights end of the street, inside the district
• 75 Livingston Street — 1926 neo-Gothic office-to-co-op conversion at Court Street; the closest architectural sibling
• 77 Livingston Street — large co-op neighbor on the Livingston corridor
• 110 Livingston Street — the former Board of Education headquarters, converted to condominiums; the institutional-conversion premise a generation later
• 199 State Street (The Lookout Hill Condominium) — boutique condominium on the Boerum Hill side of the seam
• 138 Pierrepont Street — small district condominium for buyers weighing district address against Boerum Court's space