165 Chambers Street
165 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007
BBL 1001407501 · BIN 1066317
- Year built
- 1987
- Type
- Condominium
- Landmark
- In a historic district
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2005
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf (floor-adjusted)
- $1,006
- Recorded sales
- 9
- On record
- 2004–2005
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at The Tribeca would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
165 Chambers Street is the loft wing of The Tribeca — a full-service condominium completed in 1987 that fused two pre-existing five-story loft buildings with a new stone-and-glass tower around a landscaped courtyard. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, a firm known for contextual and preservation work, the complex was among the wave of 1980s residential development that turned the industrial Greenwich Street corridor into one of Manhattan's most sought-after residential neighborhoods. The building spans a mid-block site with frontages on Chambers, Reade, and Greenwich Streets, and sits directly across from Washington Market Park and PS 234 — a location that has anchored its appeal to downtown families for decades.
For a buyer, the 165 Chambers Street wing is the most distinctive product in the building: full-floor loft residences reached by a key-locked elevator that opens directly into the home, delivering the private-landing living that Tribeca buyers prize, inside a full-service condominium rather than a bare loft co-op. It combines the openness and light of a Tribeca loft with genuine building services — a combination that is scarcer than either on its own.
Architecture and unit composition
The Tribeca reads as a considered piece of contextual architecture. The central tower rises eleven stories in stone and glass, with large windows and a rounded corner that nods to the cast-iron vocabulary of the surrounding historic district, while the two flanking five-story loft buildings — one of them the 165 Chambers Street wing — preserve the neighborhood's low-rise industrial scale. The three structures wrap a planted interior courtyard that gives the complex its light and its quiet.
The residences run from studios and one- and two-bedrooms in the tower to the full-floor loft homes in the 165 Chambers Street wing, where a single residence occupies each floor and the elevator opens directly into the apartment. These full-floor lofts carry the open proportions, generous glass, and flexible layouts that define the best downtown product; renovation status and exposure drive much of the spread between homes. Across the building, the loft-influenced layouts and the courtyard light are the recurring draws.
Building operations
The Tribeca runs as a full-service condominium despite its boutique scale — a full-time doorman and concierge, a live-in resident superintendent, elevators, a common roof deck, the landscaped central courtyard, a bike room, resident storage, central laundry, and a package room. The building does not have an in-house gym or on-site parking, which are the trade-offs of its size and vintage; buyers who require those amenities should weigh that against the private-landing loft product and the service level. As a condominium, purchases are governed by the declaration and bylaws rather than a co-op board approval process, which keeps closings and residency flexibility straightforward.
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the engineer identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair, with repairs due by the deadline stated in the filing. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
Pricing at The Tribeca tracks the Tribeca condo market, with layout, floor, light, and renovation status driving the spread. As a true condominium, value is best read on a price-per-square-foot basis and benchmarked against the neighborhood's loft and boutique-condo inventory. The full-floor, private-landing residences in the 165 Chambers Street wing are the building's signature product and generally command a premium over the tower's smaller studio-to-two-bedroom homes, reflecting the scarcity of full-floor loft living inside a full-service building. Turnover is modest given the building's size, so a well-prepared buyer or seller benefits from disciplined comparable analysis across Tribeca rather than relying solely on in-building trades.
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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2005 | 4E | 519 sf | $495,000 | $954/sf |
| Jul 14, 2005 | 3H | 955 sf | $999,000 | $1,046/sf |
| Jun 29, 2005 | 4K | 1,247 sf | $1,500,000 | $1,203/sf |
| May 4, 2005 | 4A | 820 sf | $1,315,000 | $1,604/sf |
| Apr 1, 2005 | 9F | 429 sf | $440,000 | $1,026/sf |
| Jan 10, 2005 | 8C | 541 sf | $490,000 | $906/sf |
| Dec 21, 2004 | 7D | 990 sf | $935,000 | $944/sf |
| Sep 28, 2004 | 2H | 955 sf | $807,250 | $845/sf |
Market read. Most recent trades (2005) cleared a median $1,006/sf (floor-adjusted) across 6 sales. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above.
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 1-00140-7501). 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.
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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What to know if you’re buying
This is a condominium, so the process is straightforward. Purchases run through the declaration and bylaws rather than a co-op board package and interview, which generally means faster closings and more flexibility on financing, pied-à-terre use, and investment ownership than a comparable co-op — subject to the building's governing documents, which we review at the diligence stage.
The 165 Chambers wing is the differentiated product. The full-floor, private-landing loft residences are the reason to focus here; understand which line and floor you are buying, the exposure onto the courtyard versus the street, and the renovation status, because those drive value most.
Weigh the amenity trade-offs. The building is full-service but has no in-house gym and no on-site parking. For many downtown buyers the private-landing loft product and full-time staffing outweigh that; for others it is a factor worth pricing in.
Location does real work. Directly across from Washington Market Park and PS 234, steps from the 1/2/3 and A/C at Chambers Street, and a few blocks from Hudson River Park — this is core family Tribeca. Benchmark against the neighborhood's loft and boutique-condo inventory.
What to know if you’re selling
The private-landing loft story is the marketing core. A full-floor residence with direct elevator entry inside a full-service Tribeca condominium is a distinctive, easy-to-tell story, and it separates the 165 Chambers wing from ordinary tower product.
Benchmark on price per square foot across Tribeca. As a condominium, value is read per square foot; recent in-building sales are the first reference, with the wider Tribeca loft and boutique-condo market as the frame.
Light, ceiling volume, and renovation status set the top of the range. High-floor, well-exposed, turn-key homes should anchor positioning; the courtyard, roof deck, and full-time staffing are amenities worth foregrounding.
Condominium mechanics keep the sale clean. No board package or interview means a well-qualified buyer can move efficiently to closing — we manage the process end to end.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 165 Chambers Street, also evaluate nearby Tribeca buildings:
- 157 Chambers Street — Tribeca condominium on the same block
- 100 Reade Street — Tribeca loft-style condominium
- 101 Warren Street — the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed Tribeca condominium
- 200 Chambers Street — full-service Tribeca condominium
- 275 Greenwich Street — one of Tribeca's first full-service condominium
More Tribeca buildings
- 157 Chambers Street — 2007 condominium
- 158 Chambers Street — co-op
- 161 Hudson Street (161 Hudson Street) — 1911 condominium
- 165 Hudson Street (Spice Lofthouse) — 1907 co-op
- Duane Park Lofts, 166 Duane Street — 1911 condominium
- 169 Hudson Street — 1893 condominium by James E. Ware
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Tribeca — read The Roebling Team Guide to Tribeca.
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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