- Year built
- 1911
- Type
- Condominium
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Pets permitted on a case-by-case basis; no documented weight or breed limit
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 113 West 17th Street would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
113 West 17th Street is a converted prewar loft building on a quiet central-Chelsea block between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. The structure dates to 1911, when it was built as a theatrical-costume manufacturing warehouse for the Brooks Van Horn costume company, one of the major names in American theatrical and film costuming. In 1982 the warehouse was converted to residential lofts, joining the wave of industrial-to-residential conversions that gave Chelsea and the Flatiron-adjacent blocks much of their loft housing stock.
The appeal is the architecture the original use left behind: nine-to-twelve-foot ceilings, oversized south-facing windows, exposed brick, structural steel columns and original wood beams. These are full loft floor plates rather than apartments cut down to maximize unit count — the building holds roughly 35 residential lofts across six stories, three to four per floor, which keeps hallways quiet and many homes flexibly configured as two- and three-bedroom layouts.
For buyers, this is condominium ownership in a corridor where much of the comparable prewar inventory is co-op. That means flexible financing, a right-of-first-refusal closing rather than a co-op board package and interview, and customary latitude on subletting, pieds-à-terre, and trust or entity purchases — paired with genuine loft character a few steps from the 1, F and M trains and the shops and restaurants of central Chelsea.
Architecture and unit composition
The building is a six-story masonry loft structure with the proportions of its 1911 industrial origins intact. Residences read as true lofts — high ceilings, big windows, exposed brick and steel, and original timber beams — with several top-floor duplex penthouses carrying private roof terraces of 900 square feet and more. Layouts run toward open, loft-style two- and three-bedroom configurations, and live/work arrangements are part of the building's character. Apartments carry in-unit washer/dryers consistent with a converted loft building of this era.
Building operations
113 West 17th Street operates as a self-secured loft condominium. Entry is controlled by a virtual doorman / video-intercom system rather than an attended lobby, with a full-time superintendent handling day-to-day building operations and packages. A keyed passenger elevator serves the residential floors, and the building provides a bike room and basement storage. There is no shared gym, common roof deck or on-site parking; the building carries roughly 9,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space within its tax lot. Pets are permitted on a case-by-case basis with no documented weight or breed limit. As at any boutique self-managed loft building, financing terms and any sublet specifics should be confirmed against current building rules at offer stage.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $19,304/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $46
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Recent sales
113 West 17th Street is a small loft condominium, and turnover is correspondingly light — a converted building of roughly 35 residences produces only a handful of resales in a normal year, and visible inventory is thin and quickly absorbed. Pricing tracks the central-Chelsea loft-condominium market and scales with floor, ceiling height, light, the degree of interior renovation, and private outdoor space — the penthouse-level duplexes with private roof terraces sit at the top of the range. At a building this size, closed comparables are best read unit by unit rather than as a building average.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Recent closings at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2005 | 175C | 1,200 sf | $1,200,000 | $1,000/sf |
| Jan 28, 2005 | 172A | 1,280 sf | $1,375,000 | $1,074/sf |
| Aug 18, 2004 | 185A | 1,745 sf | $1,850,000 | $1,060/sf |
| Jul 14, 2004 | 183B | 1,380 sf | $1,075,000 | $779/sf |
Market read. Most recent trades (2005) cleared a median $1,037/sf across 2 sales.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00793-7501) 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; square footage from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
What to know if you’re buying
The buying case rests on architecture and structure: real loft volume — high ceilings, oversized windows, exposed brick and steel — inside a condominium that offers flexible financing, a straightforward right-of-first-refusal closing, and latitude to sublet, hold as a pied-à-terre, or purchase through a trust or LLC. In a corridor where much of the elegant prewar stock is co-op, that flexibility is a genuine differentiator.
Diligence should focus on the things that matter in a small, self-managed converted loft building: the reserve fund and recent capital projects, the façade and roof maintenance history (particularly for the top-floor units with private terraces), the elevator's service record, and the specifics of any unit's storage and outdoor-space assignment. Because the building is boutique and self-secured, confirm the current financing policy and any sublet terms in writing before you commit.
What to know if you’re selling
Sellers lead with loft character and condominium flexibility — a combination that the prewar co-op competition on the surrounding blocks cannot match. The pitch is the architecture (ceiling height, light, original detail), the central-Chelsea location steps from the 1, F and M lines, and the freedom of condo ownership.
Pricing should be benchmarked against the other boutique Chelsea loft condominiums rather than the larger full-service towers, with adjustments for floor, light, renovation level, and private outdoor space. Because resale supply is naturally limited by the small unit count, a well-prepared, accurately priced listing tends to find its buyer when it is shown to capture the loft lifestyle that defines the building.
Comparable buildings
If you're weighing 113 West 17th Street, these nearby Chelsea loft and boutique condominium buildings make a useful comparison set:
- 126 West 22nd Street — boutique prewar loft conversion, keyed-elevator privacy
- 125 West 22nd Street — full-service boutique Chelsea condominium with garden
- 55 West 17th Street — Chelsea condominium on the same corridor
- 151 West 17th Street — nearby West 17th Street condominium
- 100 West 18th Street — boutique condominium a block north
- 124 West 23rd Street — newer full-service Chelsea condominium for scale comparison
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Chelsea — read The Roebling Team Guide to Chelsea.
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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