- Year built
- 1910
- Type
- Condominium
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Video intercom; private outdoor space in selected homes
Every recorded sale at this building, 2016–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $828
- Listing discount
- 2.5%
- Recorded sales
- 21
- On record
- 2016–2025
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159 West 126th Street joins two older Harlem townhouses into one condominium. The redevelopment combined and vertically expanded the houses, with work underway in 2014 and apartment closings following in 2016. The resulting building preserves a townhouse-scale street presence while accommodating garden duplexes, middle-floor apartments and smaller upper homes. It stands just north of the 125th Street commercial corridor.
Architecture and unit composition
The conversion retained the paired-house footprint and added residential space above. Middle-floor apartments generally run around 900 to 1,018 square feet, while several upper homes are closer to 700 square feet. Garden duplexes extend onto a lower level and have private rear outdoor space.
Layouts include homes with both north and south exposures, and exposed brick remains in some interiors. Outdoor areas vary by apartment: gardens serve the base, while balconies and terraces occur elsewhere. The garden duplexes' lower levels provide recreation or work space; that additional area is not equivalent to another above-grade bedroom.
Building operations
The building is a walk-up with video-intercom entry. Stair access matters especially for upper apartments and for homes arranged on two levels. In-unit laundry appears across the resale inventory, and some apartments have central air.
All twelve residential lots are separately owned in the current tax roll, with the largest owner holding one home. The condominium carries no recorded tax abatement. Its present operating profile therefore differs from its launch period primarily through ordinary building expenses and apartment taxes, without an active construction incentive reducing the latter.
Policy framework
Pets: Allowed — confirm with the managing agent.
Recent sales
Recent closings 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 2025 | 3B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,018 sf | $842,500 | $828/sf | -4.3% |
| May 13, 2024 | 1B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 951 sf | $870,000 | $915/sf | -1.0% |
| Apr 12, 2019 | 4A | 2 BR · 1 BA · 702 sf | $780,000 | $1,111/sf | -8.2% |
| May 18, 2016 | 3B | 2 BR · 1,018 sf | $949,000 | $932/sf | +0.0% |
| May 16, 2016 | 5B | 2 BR · 727 sf | $654,922 | $901/sf | -10.2% |
| May 10, 2016 | 2B | 1,018 sf | $1,017,231 | $999/sf | off-mkt |
| May 10, 2016 | 2A | 2 BR · 981 sf | $945,954 | $964/sf | -3.0% |
| May 5, 2016 | 3A | 981 sf | $915,406 | $933/sf | off-mkt |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $828/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 2.5% 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 1-01911-7503) 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
Buying here? Condo closing costs with a mortgage typically run 3 to 6% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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Comparable buildings
- Mount Morris Court — A prewar condominium alternative with a larger association in central Harlem.
- The Normandie — Another older-building condominium conversion, with a taller apartment-house form.
- 1 Mount Morris Park West — A larger prewar condominium offering a park-front setting.
- Windows on 123 — A nearby modern condominium alternative with a different architectural character.
- Brownstone Lane — A larger condominium development useful for comparing townhouse-oriented forms of ownership in Harlem.
More Harlem buildings
- The Semiramis, 137 Central Park North — 1901 condominium
- 145 Central Park North — 2018 condominium
- 155 West 126th Street — 1900 condominium
- The Morellino, 159 West 118th Street — 1900 condominium
- The Mirada, 161 East 110th Street — 2008 condominium by Karl Fischer Architects
- Rosa Parks Condominium, 163 Saint Nicholas Avenue — 2003 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Harlem — read The Roebling Team Guide to Harlem.
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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