Brooklyn • New York
Brooklyn Heights Real Estate
The Bluff Above the Harbor
Homes in Brooklyn Heights changed hands at a median of
$1,250,000
across 238 recorded sales in the rolling 12 months ended June 30, 2026.
- Condominium
- $2,800,00057 recorded sales, 23.9% of the total
- Co-operative
- $782,000168 recorded sales, 70.6% of the total
- One-Family House
- —13 recorded sales — below the 20 this site requires before publishing a median.
- Recorded sales, not listings. A deed reaches the public roll weeks to months after the parties agree: this file ended June 30, 2026 and was read on August 17, 2026. It is not a reading of the market this week.
- A co-operative transfer conveys shares in a corporation, not real property, so it is not a deed and reaches this file only through the transfer-tax filing. DOF’s coverage of co-ops is correspondingly inconsistent: the consideration is not always stated, and the square footage never is. 24 of the 192 co-op rows filed here (12.5%) carry no usable price and are absent from this sample. Co-ops are most of the recorded activity in this neighbourhood, so that gap moves the pooled figure above, not just the co-op line.
- No neighbourhood-wide price per square foot is published. DOF records gross square footage as zero for condominium and co-operative units, so only 13 of 238 sales here carry a usable figure — houses, in a market measured in apartments. A per-foot median drawn from them would describe 5.5% of the sales and read as though it described all of them.
- Conveyances at or under $10,000 are excluded as non-market: deeds into a trust or between relatives, corrections, and $0 transfers. 49 rows were dropped on that basis.
- Deeds conveying more than one home are excluded — a bulk or sponsor sale is one transaction, not one home’s price. None were found in this window.
- No active-listing count and no days on market. Both describe live inventory, which exists only in an MLS; neither can be derived from recorded sales, so both render as an em dash rather than as a figure we inferred.
- Drawn from ZIP 11201, then narrowed to the sales DOF itself labels BROOKLYN HEIGHTS. A ZIP is a mail route, not a neighbourhood. A further 516 recorded sales in that ZIP carry another label — 157 in DOWNTOWN-FULTON FERRY, 111 in DOWNTOWN-FULTON MALL, 75 in DOWNTOWN-METROTECH, 73 in COBBLE HILL — and are not counted here.
- Only the ownership forms above are counted. 39 other recorded sales in this area are out of scope — chiefly 10 walk-up rental buildings, 9 two-family houses, 4 office buildings, 4 condo parking. Condo co-ops (DOF class R9) are a unit in a condominium whose shares are held by a co-operative — both forms at once — so they are counted as neither rather than misfiled into one.
NYC Department of Finance Rolling Sales, rolling 12 months ended June 30, 2026.
About Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn Heights was laid out for Manhattan commuters in the 1820s, once Robert Fulton’s steam ferry made the crossing dependable, and that is where the phrase “America’s first suburb” comes from. What is unusual is how much of it survived: some six hundred houses standing from before the Civil War, Greek Revival and Italianate and Gothic Revival in brick and brownstone, on short streets that run out to a bluff above the harbour. In 1965 it became the first historic district New York City designated, which is why a cornice line still runs unbroken down a whole block. Most of what changes hands here, though, is co-operative apartments in prewar buildings; the houses are a smaller and slower market sitting on top of that one.
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Getting to Brooklyn Heights
- Subway
- The 2 and 3 stop at Clark Street inside the neighbourhood, with the 4 and 5 at Borough Hall and the R at Court Street a few minutes further on. Wall Street is around ten minutes and Midtown around twenty-five. Clark Street is reached by elevator from the old Hotel St George building rather than by stair, which is worth knowing in advance of the periods when the elevators are out for replacement.
- By Car
- The Brooklyn–Queens Expressway runs beneath the Promenade on a cantilever, and the Brooklyn Bridge and the Battery Tunnel are both minutes away. Off-street parking is rare enough on the historic blocks that where it exists it is usually priced separately from the apartment.
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