- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 244
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Permitted; verify current policy at offer stage
- Subletting
- Permitted under standard condominium board procedures; verify at offer stage
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed
130 William Street is the first New York City residential project designed by Sir David Adjaye and Adjaye Associates — the international architectural practice whose substantial cultural and institutional portfolio includes the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC (2016) and substantial work across the global cultural-institutional commission market. The 66-story residential tower in the central Financial District, on William Street between Fulton and John Streets, was completed for residential occupancy in 2022 from a design by Adjaye Associates with Hill West Architects as executive architect, and developed by the Lightstone Group.
The building's signature architectural feature — the substantial textured concrete-and-bronze exterior, with the deeply set arched windows that punctuate the building's principal facades at each floor — distinguishes 130 William Street from the substantial curtain-wall composition characteristic of most contemporary Manhattan supertall residential buildings. The substantial textured material treatment, the substantial arched-window articulation that produces the building's distinctive rhythmic exterior, and the substantial Lower Manhattan location together produce an architectural composition substantively distinct from the surrounding contemporary new-development inventory.
The building's resident roster across its 2022 opening and subsequent years has anchored a substantial portion of the contemporary Financial District / Lower Manhattan high-end residential demographic. The buyer pool clusters in several recognizable patterns: finance and technology professionals for whom the substantial Financial District location matches the professional commuting context; international buyers for whom the building's architectural significance and the central Lower Manhattan location produce a buyer-compatible residential register; primary-residence and pied-à-terre buyers for whom the substantial contemporary residential register produces an appropriate residential context; and the broader downtown residential demographic for whom the substantive Adjaye architectural attribution and the substantial amenity infrastructure are substantive value drivers. The specific resident composition, by the operational privacy of condominium ownership and the relatively recent occupancy of the building, is less publicly visible than the resident demographics of longer-established buildings.
For buyers, 130 William Street represents a specific position within the Manhattan luxury market: the architecturally most-distinctive Financial District contemporary residential building, with the substantive Adjaye Associates architectural attribution, the substantial Lower Manhattan and City Hall-area location, and the residential character that the building's design and Financial District location together produce.
Architecture and unit composition
Adjaye Associates' design for 130 William Street addressed several specific design challenges that the Financial District site, the surrounding pre-war commercial fabric, and the substantial residential program brief produced. The Financial District context — the historic Wall Street commercial corridor immediately south and the City Hall Park civic context immediately north — anchors substantial pre-war commercial architecture (the dense Beaux-Arts and early-twentieth-century office buildings that dominate the surrounding blocks) within which any new substantial residential building must operate.
The design solution organized the building around the substantial textured concrete-and-bronze exterior that has become the building's principal architectural identity. The substantial arched-window articulation — with each floor of the building's principal facades expressed through substantial deeply set arched windows arranged in a substantial rhythmic pattern — produces an architectural register that engages substantially with the surrounding pre-war commercial fabric without attempting to replicate the historic exterior detailing. The substantial textured-concrete material treatment of the building's exterior surfaces produces a material register that engages substantively with the substantial limestone-and-stone architectural character of the surrounding Financial District.
The interior architectural and finish program is calibrated to the upper register of the contemporary Lower Manhattan luxury residential market. Apartment configurations vary across the building's 244 units, with substantial ceiling heights, substantial deep-set arched-window exposures, custom kitchen and bathroom design programs, and the interior architectural register characteristic of contemporary Manhattan luxury residential development.
The building's amenity program — substantial across the building's various amenity levels — includes the substantial amenity infrastructure characteristic of the contemporary supertall residential building.
Building operations
130 William Street operates as a full-service condominium with the substantial amenity infrastructure that the building's 66-story scale and the Lightstone Group development positioning support. The 24-hour doorman, concierge, and full-time residential management infrastructure anchor the building's operational standard.
The amenity package is substantial and includes substantial wellness facilities (a substantial swimming pool, spa and treatment facilities, a comprehensive fitness center, and the broader wellness-amenity infrastructure characteristic of the contemporary supertall residential market), substantial residents' dining and event facilities, a residents' library, a media room, dedicated children's playroom infrastructure, and substantial outdoor terrace and rooftop infrastructure with substantial Lower Manhattan skyline exposures. The amenity calibration is at the upper register of the contemporary Lower Manhattan inventory.
The condominium operates under standard condominium governance. Application processing for new purchasers follows the standard condominium procedural framework. Building policies on financing, subletting, pied-à-terre use, and other operational matters operate under the condominium framework with the building-specific policies set in the offering plan and the condominium's by-laws; specific policies should be confirmed against current materials during due diligence.
What to know if you’re buying
The architectural distinction is the structural feature. 130 William Street's combination of the Adjaye Associates architectural attribution — the firm's first NYC residential commission — the substantial textured-concrete-and-bronze exterior, the substantial arched-window architectural articulation, and the substantial Financial District location together constitute the building's structural premium.
Apartment inventory is heterogeneous. The building's 244 units across 66 stories produce substantial variation in apartment configuration, floor, exposure, and ceiling height. Pricing requires apartment-specific comparable analysis at the apartment-line level.
The Lower Manhattan location is a substantive component of the buyer experience. The building's central Financial District location places residents within walking distance of the substantial Lower Manhattan commercial infrastructure (the broader Wall Street commercial district, the substantial Battery Park City and Financial District residential and commercial register, the substantial Lower Manhattan dining and cultural infrastructure), within easy access of the substantial subway-and-transit infrastructure that the Financial District supports, and within proximity of the substantial City Hall Park and surrounding civic infrastructure.
The pricing tier is meaningfully below the Park-and-Fifth and Billionaires' Row inventory. Buyers prioritizing the substantial architectural distinction at substantially more accessible pricing than the comparable uptown inventory will find 130 William Street appropriately positioned within the broader contemporary Manhattan luxury market.
Financing and use flexibility is substantively greater than the equivalent uptown cooperative inventory. The condominium form supports financing percentages, holding structures, and use cases that the comparable Park-and-Fifth-Avenue tier-one cooperative inventory does not accommodate. Our Co-op vs Condo guide covers the structural distinction.
Confirm specifics directly with management. Pet policy, alteration-agreement scope, working-capital contribution, the building's current financial profile, and recent operational matters should all be confirmed against current materials during due diligence.
What to know if you’re selling
Marketing should foreground the architectural distinction. 130 William Street's structural premium derives in substantial part from the Adjaye Associates architectural significance and the substantial textured-exterior register. Apartment-specific marketing should foreground the specific architectural features of the unit — the floor, the exposure, the arched-window articulation, and the configuration — that distinguish it within the building's inventory.
Pricing requires apartment-level comparable analysis. Recent comparables on the specific apartment line, floor, and exposure should anchor the marketing approach.
The buyer pool is architecturally and downtown-residentially calibrated. 130 William Street's buyer pool concentrates in the architecturally-engaged segment of the contemporary downtown Manhattan residential market, with substantial overlap with the broader Financial District residential buyer demographic.
Board approvability is procedural at a condominium. The condominium's review of prospective purchasers is procedural rather than substantive.
Closing timelines are condominium-standard. Plan for 45–60 days from contract through closing under typical financing and due diligence circumstances.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 130 William Street, also evaluate:
- 56 Leonard Street — Herzog & de Meuron's Tribeca supertall, the broader downtown architecturally significant new-construction benchmark
- 108 Leonard Street — adjacent Tribeca condominium with a comparable downtown architectural register at smaller scale
- 70 Vestry Street — Robert A.M. Stern Tribeca-waterfront condo, comparable downtown architectural register at a different price tier
- 443 Greenwich Street — boutique Tribeca conversion with substantial design-led downtown demographic overlap
- 155 Franklin Street — adjacent Tribeca boutique conversion serving overlapping downtown buyer profile
- One Manhattan Square — adjacent Lower East Side / downtown contemporary supertall, larger amenity package at comparable downtown price tier
- 195 Hudson Street — comparable downtown boutique condominium with substantial design register
The Roebling Team at 130 William
The Roebling Team at Compass works the Manhattan trophy-tier new-development inventory as a structural element of our luxury practice, with substantive engagement in the contemporary Lower Manhattan residential market. We publish this building profile because 130 William Street buyers and sellers deserve building-specific intelligence — architectural attribution, the substantial Financial District context, transactional context, and the structural-evaluation considerations that distinguish trophy-tier new development.
If you're considering a purchase or sale at 130 William Street, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point. We'll bring the full context this page provides plus the transactional specifics your situation requires.
Corey Cohen · The Roebling Team at Compass 646.939.7375 · c.cohen@compass.com