1 Bond Street (Robbins & Appleton Building)
1 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012
- Year built
- 1879
- Type
- Condominium — 18 joint living-work units plus 1 commercial unit per the offering plan
- Units
- 18
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Pet-friendly per brokerage records
- Financing
- Brokerage records indicate up to 90 percent financing permitted — verify at offer stage
- Flip tax
- Not documented — verify against the by-laws
Every recorded sale at this building, 2022–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Recorded sales
- 23
- On record
- 2022–2025
The Robbins & Appleton Building is one of the finest cast-iron facades in New York — important enough that the city designated it an individual landmark in 1979, twenty years before the NoHo Historic District existed around it. Stephen Decatur Hatch's French Second Empire design, with its slate mansard and torch-bearing portico, was built in 1879–80 as a watchcase factory for the agents of the American Waltham Watch Company, with the publishing house D. Appleton & Co. on the lower floors. The history runs deep and occasionally reads like fiction: the building replaced an earlier Hatch-designed cast-iron store destroyed in a spectacular 1877 fire, after which — as The New York Times recounted in a 1998 "Streetscapes" column — the watch company processed the ashes and reclaimed more than $65,000 in gold.
As a residence, the building is the rare individual-landmark loft condominium: 18 joint living-work units behind a protected facade at the corner of Broadway and Bond, on a block that has since become NoHo's marquee residential street. The 1987 conversion (sponsor Baco Development Corp.; offering plan on file in The Roebling Research Library) preserved the loft envelope — cast-iron columns, arched window walls, 10-to-17-foot ceilings — and the building has traded ever since as authentic pre-war loft stock against the newer boutique condos that arrived on Bond Street in the 2000s.
The cultural register is real and press-documented. Actor Anthony Rapp owned his loft studio here for more than two decades — The New York Times covered the 2021 sale of the first apartment he ever bought — and Kristen Stewart's 2017 purchase of a 3,000-square-foot loft in the building was widely reported. On a street whose newer buildings court exactly this buyer, 1 Bond offers the original article.
Architecture and unit composition
The facade is the asset: five stories of cast iron organized in repeated bays of deeply recessed round-arched windows between slim colonnettes, beneath a slate mansard whose dormer pavilions give the roofline its silhouette. The landmark designation (and the surrounding historic district) protects all of it — exterior alterations require Landmarks approval, which is both the guarantee of the block's character and a practical constraint owners should understand before planning window or rooftop work.
Inside, the 18 lofts run from roughly 1,200-square-foot studios and one-bedrooms to combined units over 3,000 square feet. The mansard level holds the building's trophy inventory — duplexes under the slate roof with ceilings to 17 feet and, on select units, private roof decks. Light comes through oversized arched windows on the Broadway and Bond exposures; interiors retain cast-iron columns and the irregular, character-forward floor plates of a true factory conversion. Renovation quality varies unit to unit, from preserved-raw artist lofts to architect-gut renovations — a spread that has been visible in the building's press-covered sales.
Building operations
This is a self-service boutique condominium: no doorman, no staffed lobby, no amenity floor — an elevator building with keyed access, run lean by a small board. Buyers coming from full-service buildings should price in the trade: materially lower common charges against package logistics and no staff. The units carry a joint living-work designation from the conversion era; for most residential buyers this is invisible in daily life, but your attorney should review the designation and the offering plan (on file with us) during diligence.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $15,463/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $72
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 closings 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 2025 | 7 | $8,995,000 |
| Nov 10, 2025 | — | $5,750,000 |
| Oct 23, 2025 | 3B | $2,600,000 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | 2W | $10,380,000 |
| Jul 16, 2025 | — | $12,000,000 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | — | $5,700,000 |
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 1-00529-7504) 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
You are buying the landmark. The facade, the mansard, the block — these are protected assets that cannot be replicated on Bond Street again. The premium over generic downtown loft stock is rational; the discount to the street's starchitect condos is the value case.
Understand the joint living-work framework. The offering plan conveys joint living-work units, a conversion-era zoning designation common to NoHo lofts. Have your attorney confirm the current certificate of occupancy posture and what it means for your intended use.
No staff means no staff. Self-managed boutique mechanics: packages, renovations, and approvals run through a small board of neighbors. Common charges are low; the service layer is you.
Renovation runs through Landmarks. Interior work is conventional, but anything touching the envelope — windows, rooftop, mechanicals visible from the street — involves LPC review. Budget timeline accordingly, and review the alteration history during diligence.
Verify the policy stack. Pet, sublet, financing, and fee specifics are thinly documented publicly. We verify against the offering plan and board documents on file during diligence.
What to know if you’re selling
Market the provenance, specifically. Hatch, 1880, individual landmark since 1979, the Waltham/Appleton history, the gold-from-the-ashes story — this building has the best narrative on the block, and the buyer pool for Bond Street lofts responds to narrative. Use it with precision, not adjectives.
Position against the new Bond Street. Your buyer is cross-shopping 25 Bond, 40 Bond, and 22 Bond. The pitch is authenticity plus relative value: original cast iron and 17-foot mansard ceilings at a meaningful discount per foot to new boutique product.
Condition transparency wins. The building's spread between raw and renovated lofts is wide and known. Price honestly to condition and line; same-building comparables are thin, so adjacent-building loft comps matter more here than in larger buildings.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 1 Bond Street, also evaluate:
- 40 Bond Street — Herzog & de Meuron's 2007 boutique condo; the street's starchitect benchmark
- 25 Bond Street — 2005 boutique loft-style condo; sets the block's top-end pricing
- 10 Bond Street — Selldorf-designed 2016 boutique condo
- 22 Bond Street — six-unit boutique condo of duplexes with private outdoor space
- 21 Bond Street — 1893 loft co-op over retail; the closest like-for-like historic loft comp
- 7–9 Bond Street — the neighboring building erected to emulate this one's Second Empire design
- 652 Broadway and 33 Bleecker Street — classic NoHo loft co-ops around the corner; the co-op alternatives in the same loft stock
The Roebling Team at 1 Bond Street (Robbins & Appleton Building)
The Roebling Team at Compass works NoHo, Greenwich Village, and the broader downtown loft market as a core practice area. We publish this building profile because Bond Street buyers and sellers deserve building-specific intelligence — landmark mechanics, conversion documentation, and loft-stock comparables — not generic neighborhood commentary.
If you're considering a transaction at 1 Bond Street, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.