- Year built
- 1867
- Type
- Cooperative
- Amenities
- Keyed elevator access, video intercom, fitness room, bicycle room and private basement storage
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Tribeca East Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Flip tax
- Tiered or formula; see fees
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $1,369
- floor-adjusted, 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded sales
- 20
- On record
- 2004–2026
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17 White Street is the residential address for a broad Second Empire store-and-loft building at 13–19 White Street. Built for Henry Lewis and Joseph Frailey Smith in the late 1860s, it presents an approximately 85-foot sandstone frontage assembled from adjoining sections. Its mansard roof and tall window openings make it a distinctive part of the Tribeca East streetscape.
The 1984 cooperative conversion retained commercial space at the base and divided the upper floors into loft residences. The inventory includes both relatively compact lofts and homes occupying very large floor plates. That variation remains central to the building: an apartment of roughly 1,200 square feet and one exceeding 4,000 square feet can belong to the same cooperative without offering similar room arrangements or circulation.
Architecture and unit composition
The building's western section has shallow-arched windows, pilasters and paneled vertical piers. A projecting cornice and mansard roof cap the upper stories. LPC describes masonry construction with cast-iron elements. The unified street frontage conceals a building developed in sections, with different interior spans and apartment divisions behind it.
Inside, the loft vocabulary includes tall ceilings, timber beams, substantial windows and columns with Corinthian capitals. Some homes retain tin ceilings and original wood floors. Larger floor-through layouts have windows facing north and south, with broad living areas extending between structural columns. Interior rooms and alcoves can sit well back from the perimeter windows, so the relationship between an open loft area and an enclosed bedroom is consequential.
The range extends from open lofts with a home office to multibedroom residences and combined apartments. Upper-level homes can have mezzanines, skylights and unusually tall volumes beneath the roof. These are features of particular layout types within the cooperative, not a repeated plan on every floor. In-home washers and dryers, central air conditioning and fireplaces appear in the residential mix.
Building operations
A keyed elevator provides controlled access to the residential floors, supplemented by a video intercom. The building has an on-site superintendent, a fitness room, a bicycle room and private locked basement storage. The storage allocation matters in a loft where an open plan may devote much of its floor area to living space.
Ground-floor commercial tenants contribute income to the cooperative. That revenue is part of the building's operating structure, alongside shareholder maintenance. Commercial lease expirations, renewal terms and vacancies can therefore affect the residential budget even when the apartment's own condition has not changed.
The protected sandstone façade and mansard roof are shared capital responsibilities. Exterior work must follow the historic district's requirements. The association also maintains the elevator and other common systems serving a building originally designed for commercial use.
Policy framework
Pets: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Financing: Minimum down payment of 20% — confirm with the managing agent and the buyer's lender.
Application and transaction fees
Fees below are from building management's published schedule, as of September 2026. They are shown as published, item by item; no total is added because the total depends on the transaction. Deposits are listed apart from nonrefundable charges.
- Terms
- 2% of purchase price if owned for more than 5 years; 5% if owned less than 5 years
- Paid by
- Buyer
Source: building management's published schedule, as of September 2026
Purchase
2 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Processing FeePaid to the building | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $650 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Credit Check FeePer applicant | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $200 per applicant | Refundable Non-refundable |
Management updates its schedule without a public filing. The date is when management last updated the page, not when a rule changed. Confirm the current schedule with management before you apply.
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Building staffing and amenities
- Virtual or video entry
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Fitness room, bike storage, storageSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $3,383/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $12
- Modeled exposure split equally across 24 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Recent sales
Recent transfers 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 | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2026 | 3B | 3 BR · 2 BA · 4,200 sf | $5,750,000 | $1,369/sf | +0.0% |
| Apr 27, 2022 | 5C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 1,164 sf | $1,800,000 | $1,546/sf | +0.0% |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 2B | 3 BR · 3.5 BA · 4,200 sf | $6,300,000 | $1,500/sf | -6.7% |
| Jun 27, 2019 | 5AD | 2 BR · 3 BA · 2,725 sf | $4,625,000 | $1,697/sf | -2.6% |
| Nov 29, 2017 | 3A | 4 BR · 3 BA · 3,000 sf | $4,300,000 | $1,433/sf | -4.4% |
| Jan 27, 2017 | 5A | 2 BR · 1,178 sf | $1,800,000 | $1,528/sf | -2.7% |
| Jul 17, 2008 | 3A | 4 BR · 3,000 sf | $4,500,000 | $1,500/sf | +0.0% |
| Jun 24, 2008 | PH6A | 2 BR · 2,533 sf | $3,160,000 | $1,248/sf | -12.1% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,369/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. 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. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
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 1-00178-0025). 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 on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
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What to know if you’re buying
Mezzanine and combined-loft layouts need their own approval history. Where a home spans former apartment boundaries or adds an intermediate level, establish that the current layout matches the cooperative's consent and the applicable DOB approvals. The building's deep commercial floor plates also make legal light and ventilation particularly relevant to enclosed sleeping rooms.
Comparable buildings
- 10 Leonard Street: A nearby historic loft cooperative with a smaller residential inventory.
- 45 Lispenard Street: Another prewar cooperative for comparing large downtown loft layouts.
- Collect Pond House: A larger loft cooperative in a taller commercial building.
- 84 Hudson Street: A historic cooperative with more residences sharing the building's expenses.
- Main Duane: A smaller cooperative conversion in a nineteenth-century building.
- 47 Walker Street: A closer comparison for loft architecture but with a much smaller association.
More Tribeca buildings
- 11 Jay Street — 1893 condop
- 11 North Moore Street — 2015 condominium by Morris Adjmi Architects
- 12 Warren Street — 1900 condominium by DDG
- 14 Leonard Street — 1873 condominium
- 14 White Street — condominium
- 16 Desbrosses Street — 1940 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Tribeca — read The Roebling Team Guide to Tribeca.
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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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