- Year built
- 1900
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Storage and video intercom
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $785K – $810K
- Listing discount
- 1.7%
- Recorded transfers
- 24
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133 East 15th Street is a small walk-up cooperative with an unusually varied apartment mix: compact studios and one-bedrooms, split-level homes and a substantially larger garden residence. Its four-story form stands just east of Union Square, between Irving Place and Third Avenue.
The address also has a documented early-twentieth-century public history. It housed the Russian People's House, a meeting and educational center that was raided in November 1919 during the first Red Scare. Contemporary newspaper accounts identify the East 15th Street address directly.
Architecture and unit composition
The apartments include duplex and triplex layouts with rooms divided across short internal flights. In some configurations, a living area, sleeping level and kitchen occupy different heights. Ceiling heights vary between the main rooms and lofted areas.
Period elements include exposed brick and fireplaces. Some homes have balconies or other outdoor space, while the garden accommodation at the base has a much larger footprint than the compact apartments above. In-unit laundry appears in renovated homes.
The building is a walk-up, and internal apartment stairs add another circulation difference for the split-level inventory.
Building operations
The cooperative is self-managed and has a live-in superintendent, storage and a video-intercom entrance. Those services operate within a small residential association. The building is taxed as Class 2, and no building-wide abatement is identified.
Although the address lies near designated properties around Union Square, it is not itself a landmark or part of a historic district. The surrounding block includes individual landmarks, which do not extend protection to this tax lot.
Policy framework
Pets, pied-à-terre purchases, guarantors and co-purchasing: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Subletting: Permitted after two years of ownership and residency, subject to cooperative approval — confirm with the managing agent.
Flip tax: 1.5%, payable by the seller — confirm with the managing agent.
Recent sales
Recent transfers 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 | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 2023 | 3D | 1 BR · 1.5 BA · 800 sf | $810,000 | $1,013/sf | -7.8% |
| Feb 2, 2022 | 2A | 1 BA | $400,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jan 31, 2020 | 3D | 1 BR · 800 sf | $784,500 | $981/sf | -1.8% |
| Jul 10, 2018 | 3A | 1 BR · 1.5 BA | $669,888 | -2.5% | |
| May 24, 2017 | 3C | 1 BR · 700 sf | $885,000 | $1,264/sf | -1.7% |
| Apr 7, 2017 | 1C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $779,000 | -5.6% | |
| Jan 13, 2016 | 1A | 1 BR · 1.5 BA · 600 sf | $525,000 | $875/sf | +0.0% |
| Nov 6, 2015 | 2A | 1 BA | $330,000 | +0.0% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2023): a median $1,013/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 1.8% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
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 1-00871-0030) 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 on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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Comparable buildings
- 132 East 19th Street — A small prewar cooperative with a taller apartment-house form.
- 105 East 19th Street — A low-rise cooperative alternative a few blocks north.
- Onyx Court — A similarly sized prewar cooperative with a more formal apartment-house design.
- 48 Gramercy Park North — A smaller cooperative for buyers considering limited-unit associations.
- 48 East 13th Street — A prewar cooperative with loft-oriented accommodation near Union Square.
More Gramercy buildings
- Gramercy Plaza (130 East 18th Street) — 1962 co-op
- 132 East 19th Street — 1910 co-op
- 132 East 30th Street — 2010 condominium
- 135 East 39th Street — 1930 co-op
- 137 East 15th Street — co-op
- 137 East 28th Street — 1927 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Gramercy — read The Roebling Team Guide to Gramercy.
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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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