130 Fulton Street (The Fulton Building)

The original nine floors carry the architecture: rusticated limestone through the fourth floor, tan brick and terra cotta above, band courses at the fourth, fifth, and ninth floors, the curved corner stack with its bowed glass, the fourth-floor arched corner window, and the eighth-floor oculus. The four added floors are deliberately quiet — plain beige masonry, slightly set back — and hold the building's terraced units; architectural critics have been unkind to the addition's proportions, but it is invisible from the sidewalk's vantage and it is where the private outdoor space lives.

With roughly 20 market apartments across 13 floors, most floors hold one or two residences. The units are loft-format one- to three-bedrooms drawn from the building's office floor plates — high ceilings, oversized windows (curved at the corner lines), and in-unit washer/dryers throughout. The corner lines above the mid-floors get the building's best light, down Fulton and up Nassau; the addition floors trade historic detail for terraces and longer views.

This is a boutique condominium with the following reported services: an attended lobby (listing records conflict on the staffing hours — verify), fitness room, common roof deck, and resident storage. There is no garage and no amenity floor beyond these basics; the absence of those facilities alone does not establish low common charges, which should be assessed from current budgets and bills. One structural note from the offering plan on file: the sponsor reserved the unconditional right to rent rather than sell units, and the plan warned purchasers that owner-occupants might not control the board — standard mid-2000s conversion language, but it makes the current owner-occupancy and investor mix a live diligence question two decades on. The plan's sixth amendment records the initial closing in June 2006 and 17 units conveyed within the first month; the full amendment set is on file.

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 (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,087/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 4.3% 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 1-00079-7502; 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.

Compare the specific loft and total cost. Boutique scale, loft proportions and in-unit laundry are features to assess alongside reliable interior area, dated comparable sales and actual carrying costs; they do not establish a discount to Tribeca or other Financial District conversions.

Understand the unit you're buying: original floors versus addition. The historic floors carry the curved glass, ceiling heights, and detail; the addition floors carry terraces and newer envelope construction. They are different products at different bases — same-line history matters more than building-average pricing.

Ask the investor-mix question. The sponsor's reserved rental right and the building's small size make the owner-occupant ratio, board composition, and any remaining sponsor or commercial-unit interests a first-order diligence item. We verify against the offering plan and amendments on file.

Calibrate the service expectations. An attended lobby and a fitness room — not a full-service amenity program. Compare actual common charges, reserves and included services with specific alternatives; package logistics and staffing hours should be confirmed in person.

The corner is loud and connected in equal measure. Fulton Street is a working pedestrian spine with considerable foot traffic and the transit hub a block west. Visit at multiple hours; the connectivity that makes the location valuable is also its noise source.

Lead with the architecture and the year. An 1893 De Lemos & Cordes corner building with curved bowed-glass windows is a story almost nothing else in the district's value tier can tell. Use the firm's Macy's and Siegel-Cooper pedigree precisely — it survives buyer fact-checking.

Position against the district's conversions, not its towers. Your buyer is cross-shopping the named conversions and Deco lofts nearby. Present the roughly 20 market residences and authentic 19th-century fabric; establish any per-foot price difference from dated, matched sales using reliable areas.

Be precise about the unit's floor provenance. Buyers and appraisers will distinguish original-floor lofts from addition-floor units; ambiguity costs credibility. We market the line's specific attributes — glass, ceilings, terrace rights — against same-segment comparables.

If you're considering 130 Fulton Street, also evaluate:

• 1 Wall Street Court — the Cocoa Exchange; the closest like-for-like boutique pre-war corner conversion in the district
• 99 John Street — Deco Lofts conversion two blocks south; the larger-scale alternative
• 20 Pine Street — Armani/Casa-designed conversion; the design-led step-up
• 15 Broad Street — Philippe Starck's Downtown; the district's big-amenity conversion benchmark
• 25 Broad Street — the Broad Exchange Building; grand-scale pre-war conversion
• 1 Wall Street — the Ralph Walker Art Deco tower; the district's top-tier conversion
• 130 William Street — David Adjaye's arched-window tower; the new-construction alternative on the same blocks
• 15 William Street — glass condo tower; the contemporary full-amenity alternative