Brooklyn Heights.
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Homes
in Brooklyn Heights.

The numbers for Brooklyn Heights cover the Brooklyn Heights area of the city's land use records: 14,457 homes in 1,264 residential buildings. Prewar buildings, finished before 1940, hold 69 percent of the homes, and the median year built is 1926. That group takes in the Federal and Greek Revival row houses and brownstones of New York's first historic district, and the apartment houses near Montague Street. Elevator buildings hold 51 percent of homes and walk-ups a quarter; co-ops, found in both kinds of building, account for 38 percent. The median home sits in a building 6 floors tall, towers of 20 floors or more hold 16 percent, and only 12 percent of homes are in buildings completed in 2000 or later.

A Brooklyn Heights pickup depends on the kind of building. Co-ops hold 38 percent of the homes, and a co-op board or its managing agent often decides when vendors may come and which entrance they use, so ask before you book and note the answer under Building access on the tag. From a row house the rug leaves by the front door and down the stoop, and inside, the stair may be narrow; give the floor and the rug's length. If your block has nowhere to pull up, tell us the closest clear spot.