15 Renwick Street

Eleven stories on a 9,000-square-foot lot, roughly 50,000 square feet of building, 31 residences. The elevation is a rhythm of deep charcoal aluminum fins with wood-grained window inserts set between them and copper panels running the ground floor — a material palette closer to a private house than to the glass boxes that went up across downtown in the same cycle, and a deliberate rebuttal to them.

Residences run predominantly two- and three-bedroom through the main stack. The three townhomes at the base each carry a private yard and their own entry sequence, and they trade as a distinct product from the tower units — larger, ground-connected, and priced on a different logic. The four penthouse duplexes at the top of the building carry the largest terraces and roof decks and should be compared with matched transactions before asserting a price premium.

Interiors were delivered with Poliform kitchens in walnut, Miele, Sub-Zero and Dacor appliances, wide-plank walnut floors, floor-to-ceiling glass, Waterworks fixtures, Crestron home automation, and herringbone statuary marble baths. Common areas carry Emperador marble and wood panelling that echoes the exterior fins. Nearly a decade on, that specification has aged well, but a buyer should still evaluate the condition of the Crestron systems specifically — ask which components remain original, their support status and any repair or replacement estimates.

Private outdoor space is distributed unevenly across the building. A yard, a terrace, a balcony and a roof deck are not interchangeable at resale, and the specific outdoor configuration on a given unit is a first-order pricing input rather than a bullet point.

15 Renwick runs as a full-service condominium: 24-hour doorman, fitness center with a boxing gym, a landscaped garden, described as a Zen garden and designed by HM White Site Architects, a roof deck, a residents' lounge, private storage units, and an on-site parking garage with optional private parking. The garage is a genuine differentiator in Hudson Square, where on-site parking in a boutique building is uncommon, and the parking units are separately deeded condominium lots rather than a rented amenity — three parking unit lots exist in the condominium and they transfer independently.

The twelve storage unit lots work the same way. They are separately deeded, they transfer independently, and in practice they are often conveyed together with a residence in a single deed. That has a practical consequence for anyone reading raw ACRIS on this building: a recorded consideration may cover a residence plus one or more storage or parking lots, so headline transfer amounts pulled from public records do not always describe the apartment alone.

Compare actual common charges, taxes and assessments with specific neighborhood alternatives, accounting for doorman, garage, gym and garden costs and the declaration’s allocations among residential, parking and storage units. Request the current operating budget, the reserve position, and any assessment history during diligence — the building is now approaching a decade of operation, which is the point in a new building's life when the first significant capital items typically surface.

Ownership form: Condominium. Transfers close through a right-of-first-refusal waiver rather than a cooperative board approval; 30 to 45 day closings are typical.

Pied-à-terre, subletting, LLC, trust and foreign ownership: All permitted under the standard condominium framework. Minimum lease terms for subletting should be confirmed against the by-laws.

Pets: Governed by the house rules; confirm current policy with the managing agent.

Minimum down payment: 20 percent per listing records.

In-unit washer/dryer: Permitted; residences are equipped.

Parking and storage: Separately deeded condominium units. Confirm whether a specific residence conveys with a parking or storage unit, and price it separately — these lots carry their own common charges and taxes.

Flip tax: Not documented in public records. Confirm any resale capital contribution with the managing agent before pricing a sale.

Real estate taxes: The 421-a exemption that applied through the 2018/19 roll no longer appears on any residential unit lot in the FY2023 through FY2027 rolls. Underwrite full unabated taxes and run True Monthly Carrying Cost analysis against the current bill on the specific unit.

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 $1,957/sf (recorded) across 3 sales. Median listing discount 3.6% 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 1-00594-7510; 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.

Reconcile billing-lot and individual-unit records. PLUTO shows zero residential units at this BBL and addresses the lot as 23 Renwick Street. The building has 31 residences, plus 3 parking and 12 storage units, and the DOB new-building application says so. Check the data and definitions actually used by any valuation model; a billing-lot count discrepancy alone does not establish that its output is wrong.

The 421-a is gone. It applied through 2018/19 and appears nowhere in the current rolls. Underwrite full taxes; do not model a step-down that has already happened.

Price the outdoor space specifically. Yards, terraces, balconies and roof decks are distributed unevenly across 31 residences; evaluate their size, usability, rights and maintenance obligations alongside floor, exposure, layout and condition.

Confirm what conveys. Parking and storage are separate deeded units with their own charges. Establish in writing whether either travels with the apartment.

Check the Crestron. Test the installed system and ask for its age, service history, support status and repair or replacement estimates.

The building is not 22 Renwick. The two condominiums share a block and nothing else. 15 Renwick is the 31-residence ODA building with a doorman and a garage; 22 Renwick Street is the 17-residence Philip Johnson Alan Ritchie building across the street, with a different service model, a different developer history and different economics. Aggregator data confuses them regularly.

Canal Street is one block south. The block itself is quiet; the Holland Tunnel approach shapes the neighborhood's western edge. Test specific exposures for sound.

Lead with the block and the service package. A one-block street, 31 residences, a full-time doorman, an on-site garage and 8,300 square feet of private outdoor space are specific features to compare with other Hudson Square buildings.

Correct the record before a buyer's analyst does. City data reports zero residential units and a different street address. Handing a buyer the DOB and assessment records up front removes an objection that would otherwise surface late.

Be direct about taxes. The abatement has expired. Presenting the current full bill alongside True Monthly Carrying Cost analysis is a stronger position than letting a buyer discover a number they did not model.

Use the corridor for comparables. With 31 residences, same-building comps are thin outside the penthouse tier. The boutique Hudson Square, west-SoHo and north Tribeca condominium set, adjusted for outdoor space and floor, is the right anchor.

Sell the neighborhood's trajectory. The 2013 rezoning, Disney's headquarters at 4 Hudson Square, and Google's expansion into St. John's Terminal have changed the daytime economy of these blocks; buyers can assess their own routes to nearby workplaces without assuming a documented shift in the building’s buyer population.

If you're considering 15 Renwick, also evaluate:

• 22 Renwick Street (Renwick Modern) — the 17-residence Philip Johnson Alan Ritchie condominium directly across the street; the same block, a leaner service model, and private outdoor space for every unit
• 219 Hudson Street (Everly) — 14-residence 2022 condominium one block south at Hudson and Canal; larger average floor plates, no staffed lobby
• 565 Broome Street — Hudson Square's full-amenity flagship; an alternative for comparing scale, services and dated sales
• 70 Charlton Street — larger Hudson Square condominium with a deep amenity program; the full-service alternative at scale
• 2 King Street — cooperative at the SoHo and Hudson Square seam; different financing, approval and subletting rules
• 421 Hudson Street (The Printing House) — the large Hudson Street conversion north of Houston; amenity-rich, far larger, with conversion history to underwrite
• 443 Greenwich Street — Tribeca loft condominium built around privacy and on-site parking; an alternative for comparing privacy, parking and dated sales
• 250 West Street — Tribeca waterfront warehouse conversion; volume and history in place of new construction
• 161 Hudson Street — 24-residence 1911 warehouse conversion; the boutique loft alternative
• 255 Hudson Street — mid-2000s Hudson Square new construction; the previous development cycle's answer to the same location