Congress House

Congress House's apartment plans reflect its early-1960s construction. Entry foyers, separate dining areas and enclosed or galley kitchens occur in the inventory. Hardwood or parquet floors appear in many homes, with kitchen and bathroom finishes altered during successive ownerships.

The one-bedroom inventory includes homes with a substantial living room and a dining area beside the kitchen. Corner positions can provide windows in several directions, including a windowed kitchen. Some lower-floor rooms look toward the trees along the street, while higher-floor apartments have a different relationship to the surrounding roofs.

Studios occupy the smaller end of the range. Their value depends on the shape of the principal room and the position of the kitchen and storage, alongside the outlook. The building also has larger homes that can command materially higher total consideration than the compact apartments.

Some renovations have opened the kitchen more fully to the living area, while other homes retain a separate cooking space. The original postwar shell therefore accommodates different present-day interior arrangements. A renovated open plan and a more intact original layout should be compared for both usable room dimensions and the work each buyer would undertake.

The building has elevator access and video intercom entry. Laundry, bicycle storage and additional storage are common facilities, with a landscaped roof deck above. These are the principal services associated with the property; the entrance system is an intercom arrangement.

Parking is located within the building's garage. Availability and the terms of a space are separate from ownership of an apartment, so a purchase that includes parking should identify that interest specifically. A garage in the building doesn't mean every home comes with an assigned space.

The roof deck is shared across the cooperative. Its planting and outdoor furniture provide a common destination above the street, with an elevated outlook over the surrounding blocks. An upper-floor apartment does not automatically have exclusive rights to the roof outside or above it.

Congress House is in tax class 2 and has no building-level abatement identified. Its current built FAR exceeds the residential allowance shown for the zoning, a common feature of established apartment buildings whose construction predates later rules. The building is not landmark-designated.

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.

Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,050/sf (floor-adjusted) across 3 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. Median listing discount 1.8% 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 1-00520-0029). 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.

• 50 King Street — A nearby postwar cooperative of similar inventory in a taller building on a side street.
• 2 King Street — A similarly low-rise postwar cooperative with fewer apartments.
• Breen Towers — A larger and taller cooperative on the same Houston Street corridor.
• 290 Sixth Avenue — A cooperative of comparable scale with an avenue frontage farther north.
• The Charlton House — A substantially larger postwar cooperative for comparing services and building scale nearby.