155 West 15th Street
155 West 15th Street, New York, NY 10011
Chelsea
BBL 1007910009 · BIN 1014545
- Year built
- 1940
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $2.1M
- Recent range
- $873K – $2.1M
- Listing discount
- 2.6%
- Recorded transfers
- 29
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155 West 15th Street is one of the quiet pleasures of central Chelsea: a small, owner-occupied cooperative on a tree-lined block that trades on space and light rather than marquee staffing. Where most of the buildings on the avenues nearby are mid-century white-brick towers or new-construction glass, 155 West 15th is a low-rise pre-war structure that was reworked into loft-style homes — many of them duplexes and triplexes with double-height living rooms, ceilings reported between roughly 13 and 19 feet, and oversized south-facing windows that pull treetop light deep into the apartments.
The location is the building's other great asset. It sits at the crossroads of three of Manhattan's most walkable neighborhoods — Chelsea to the west, the Flatiron and Union Square to the east, the West Village to the south — with nearly every trunk subway line within a block: the 1, 2, and 3 at Seventh Avenue; the F and M at Sixth; the L at Sixth and 14th; and the A, C, and E a short walk west. For a buyer who wants real square footage, real ceiling height, and a genuine pre-war address without the carrying cost of a full-service tower, this is a rare configuration.
Architecture and unit composition
Built in 1940, the building is a seven-story masonry structure whose interiors are its story. The 39 residences skew toward loft layouts — open, light-flooded volumes rather than the boxy postwar floor plans of the surrounding avenues. The signature homes are the duplexes and triplexes, where double-height living rooms reach ceilings in the 13-to-19-foot range, framed by tall, often original-scale windows with southern exposures and open treetop and skyline views. Several homes carry wood-burning fireplaces, and the building's crown is a penthouse duplex of roughly 3,000 square feet with a private roof terrace of more than 1,000 square feet, open to the Empire State Building and the downtown skyline.
This is a building for people who value volume. The trade-off is intimacy of scale: 39 apartments across seven floors means a small shareholder base, a self-directed board culture, and a building that runs lean rather than amenity-heavy.
Building operations
155 West 15th is run as a streamlined cooperative. A live-in superintendent handles day-to-day operations; there is laundry on every floor, dedicated bicycle storage, and private storage bins — practical infrastructure that suits a loft building of full-time residents. There is no doorman, which is consistent with the building's scale and keeps monthly maintenance disciplined relative to the full-service towers nearby. The building permits in-unit washer/dryers, and it is pet-friendly with board approval — two policies that matter to the loft buyer and that distinguish it from stricter pre-war co-ops uptown.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- Per unit / month range
- —
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
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- Flip tax
- 1% of sale price if resident >10 yrs; 2% if 5-10 yrs; 2.5% if 3-5 yrs; 3% if <3 yrs
- Sublet policy
- Allowed; sublet fee $10/share year 1, $20/share year 2, $30/share year 3
- Notable fees
- Buyer processing $700, seller closing $850 (mail closing $1,100); move-in/out deposits $1,000 refundable; move-in/out fees $500; alteration construction fee $1,250/week
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2026 | 1E | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,260 sf | $2,150,000 | $1,706/sf | -2.3% |
| Mar 11, 2026 | 2I | 1 BR · 1 BA | $872,500 | -2.9% | |
| Dec 1, 2025 | 5D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,350 sf | $2,150,000 | $1,593/sf | -2.3% |
| Oct 18, 2023 | 1F | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,300 sf | $1,450,000 | $1,115/sf | -3.0% |
| Oct 7, 2021 | 1D | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,750,000 | -12.3% | |
| Mar 24, 2021 | 6D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,300 sf | $2,633,336 | $2,026/sf | -2.3% |
| Aug 27, 2020 | 5E | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,890,000 | -5.3% | |
| May 31, 2019 | 2F | 1 BA · 720 sf | $650,000 | $903/sf | -18.8% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,885/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 2.9% 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 1-00791-0009) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
This is a cooperative purchase, which means a board application and interview, a financial package, and the loft-co-op conventions of central Chelsea. The building permits financing and allows washer/dryers; pets are welcome with board approval. Because the homes vary so widely — simplex to triplex, flat-ceiling to double-height — the most important diligence is matching the apartment to how you actually live: the duplexes reward buyers who want a dramatic entertaining floor, while the upper-floor homes reward those chasing light and views. Buyers should review the building's financials, reserve posture, and any sublet and renovation rules with their attorney; as a loft conversion, alteration scope and ceiling/structural details deserve a careful read before contract.
What to know if you’re selling
The selling story here is volume and light in a transit-perfect location — qualities that photograph and show beautifully and that are genuinely scarce in central Chelsea. The double-height duplexes, the fireplaces, the south-facing windows, and the penthouse terrace are the headline features; a sale should lead with the apartment's specific architecture rather than generic neighborhood copy. Pricing is best set against other Chelsea and West Village loft co-ops with comparable ceiling height and outdoor space, not against full-service tower comparables that carry different cost structures. Because turnover is low, a well-prepared listing in this building tends to draw concentrated, motivated buyer interest.
Comparable buildings
If you're weighing 155 West 15th Street, these nearby Chelsea and downtown co-ops and lofts make a useful comparison set:
- 100 West 15th Street — boutique cooperative on the same block
- 250 West 15th Street — Chelsea co-op a few doors west
- 16 West 16th Street — loft-scale cooperative one block north
- 151 West 17th Street — nearby Chelsea cooperative
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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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