Astor Place Tower
445 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003
BBL 1005447502 · BIN 1087152
- Year built
- 2005
- Type
- Condop
- Units
- 39
- Floors
- 21
- Ownership structure
- Cooperative; the city classifies the tax lot as a condominium (a condop structure)
- The Roebling Team's building profile
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- Full-time doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $1,756
- floor-adjusted, 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 4.3%
- Recorded sales
- 91
- On record
- 2005–2026
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445 Lafayette (Astor Place Tower / Sculpture for Living) is Charles Gwathmey's 2005 curved-glass tower at Astor Place — a building that divided architectural opinion on arrival and has stayed divisive since, which is part of what makes it worth understanding before you buy in it.
Gwathmey Siegel also designed the Guggenheim Museum addition. Astor Place Tower contains 39 residences at the Astor Place crossing.
Architecture and building operations
Gwathmey Siegel's 2005 design produced a 21-story curved-glass curtain wall tower at the Astor Place / Lafayette Street intersection. The 39-unit configuration distributes across the building's floors. Critical reaction at completion was mixed — the curve and the curtain wall drew both praise for their sculptural ambition and objections to the building's fit against the low-rise Astor Place streetscape.
Operations: 24-hour doorman; concierge; fitness center; spa; private storage.
Policy framework — verify via The Roebling Research Library
- Type: Land-lease condop (cooperative with condominium-style rules)
- Pets: Verify with managing agent
- Pied-à-terre: Verify with managing agent
- Subletting: Verify with managing agent
- Financing: Verify with managing agent and lender; ground-lease buildings can limit lender options
- LLC/trust/foreign buyers: Verify against the offering plan
- Right of first refusal / transfer procedure: Verify against the offering plan
- Closing costs: Verify treatment (transfer taxes, mortgage recording tax) with closing counsel; do not assume condominium treatment
Specific policy framework should be verified against the Roebling Research Library's offering plan and house rules at engagement.
Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Maintenance, per room
- $1,892 per room a monthMedian of 5 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Maintenance, per square foot
- $5.05 per square foot a monthMedian of 5 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Maintenance as recorded with each sale. A co-op's maintenance already covers the building's real estate taxes and the building's own mortgage, if it has one; add your own loan payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Full-time doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Concierge
- YesSource: recent listing records
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of Buildings elevator records
- Amenities noted
- Fitness room, spa, storageSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $80,564/yr
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $209,143/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $172 – $447
- Modeled exposure split equally across 39 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. A filed Safe grade is not a guarantee of current condition: owners still maintain the facade and, where required, observe parapets each year. Future inspection timing (Local Law 49 of 2025 changed the cycle framework from October 1, 2026), repair and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed September 2026.
Recent sales
Recent closings 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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2026 | 9C | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,449 sf | $2,500,000 | $1,725/sf | +0.0% |
| Nov 19, 2025 | 12C | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,449 sf | $2,730,000 | $1,884/sf | -5.7% |
| Jun 12, 2025 | 14B | 3 BR · 3.5 BA · 3,174 sf | $5,500,000 | $1,733/sf | -8.3% |
| Sep 20, 2024 | 8B | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,681 sf | $2,975,000 | $1,770/sf | -0.8% |
| May 31, 2024 | 14A | 3 BR · 4 BA · 2,248 sf | $3,725,000 | $1,657/sf | -6.9% |
| Nov 28, 2023 | 9A | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,248 sf | $3,275,000 | $1,457/sf | -27.2% |
| Feb 22, 2023 | 9B | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,681 sf | $3,075,000 | $1,829/sf | -5.4% |
| Nov 7, 2022 | 5B | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,681 sf | $2,950,000 | $1,755/sf | +7.3% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,756/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. 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 4.3% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Full closing history with price-per-square-foot over time, the complete retrade record, and every line that has traded.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00544-7502; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
Closed rents at Astor Place Tower, last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| 2 bedroom | 3 | $17,500 |
3 closed leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease June 2025. Based on few leases. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
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At the recent median sale of $2.73M (3 transfers in the past 24 months, since October 21, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $48,675 to close, or 1.8% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $34,125
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $14,550
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
The curved-glass curtain wall is structurally distinguishing.
The Astor Place location anchors the East Village / NoHo border.
Comparable buildings
- 21 Astor Place — Harney 1890 / Elad 2003 conversion; same-block NoHo peer
- 40 Bond Street — Herzog & de Meuron 2007; nearby NoHo trophy peer
- 25 Bond Street — BKSK 2008; nearby NoHo trophy peer
- 111 East 14th Street (Zeckendorf Towers) — Davis Brody 1987; nearby East Village peer
- Stewart House (70 East 10th) — Mayer 1960; nearby Greenwich Village peer
Sources: The Roebling Research Library (offering plans, house rules, financial statements, board minutes, internal transaction records); NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers; publicly recorded NYC building data.
More NoHo buildings
- 306 Mott Street — 1988 condominium
- 344 Bowery — 1892 condominium
- 382 Lafayette Street — 1895 condominium
- 620 Broadway — 1858 co-op
- 644 Broadway (Bleecker Tower) — 1889 co-op
- 652 Broadway — 1906
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across NoHo — read The Roebling Team Guide to NoHo.
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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