1 Bond Street (Robbins & Appleton Building)

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.

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.

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.

Market read. Most recent trades (2024) cleared a median $1,430/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 3.8% 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 1-00529-7504; 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.

• Anthony Rapp — the Rent and Star Trek: Discovery actor owned loft 2A for roughly 23 years; The New York Times covered its 2021 listing as "the first apartment that the actor Anthony Rapp bought"
• Kristen Stewart — purchased a 3,000-square-foot loft in the building in 2017, as first reported by the New York Observer

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.

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.

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