19 Beach Street

The lot is a narrow 2,996-square-foot interior parcel on Beach Street. The building rises seven stories and has 21,516 square feet of reported gross building area, including the commercial unit and shared or structural space. That total does not establish residential interior areas; obtain unit-specific plans or measurements.

The elevation is spare: a flat, modern composition of large window openings and shallow French balconies, without the cornice-and-pier vocabulary of the nineteenth-century buildings around it. Published descriptions call it Bauhaus-derived, which is fair as shorthand for the stripped massing and the horizontal glazing, though no designation report or architectural monograph documents an authorship claim.

Internally the plan is the point. Each residence occupies its full floor and turns a southwest corner, which produces the long, uninterrupted living space that the building was marketed on. Elevator access is private and keyed, so there is no public corridor on residential floors. The ground floor is a separate commercial condominium unit, conveyed to a distinct owner in 2002 and never part of the residential common interest.

This six-residence building has no doorman. Confirm superintendent coverage, management and board arrangements from current operating documents; unit count does not establish those services. There is a common roof deck.

Compare current common charges and the full operating budget with specific alternatives. Capital items — roof, façade, elevator or boiler — are allocated under the declaration among the six residential interests and commercial interest; unit count does not establish equal shares or lower charges. Before contract, ask for the current operating budget, the reserve balance, the Local Law 11 façade cycle status, the elevator's service and modernization history, and whether any assessment has been levied or is contemplated. These current operating details were not established in the reviewed materials.

Ownership form: Condominium. Transfers clear through a board right of first refusal rather than a cooperative approval.

Pied-à-terre, subletting, LLC, trust and foreign purchasers: Not established by the condominium form; confirm each, along with any minimum lease term or rental cap, in the current declaration, bylaws and house rules.

Pets and house rules: Not documented in public records.

Real estate taxes: No building-wide exemption of any kind. Underwrite full unabated taxes on the specific unit against the current bill, then apply the co-op/condo abatement only if the buyer will occupy the unit as a primary residence.

Zoning and bulk: Recorded gross floor area exceeds a simple comparison with the district's residential maximum; that comparison does not establish legal zoning floor area or permitted future work. Have counsel read the certificate of occupancy and the offering plan on the point.

Recent sales

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.

Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $2,056/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00212-7502; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). 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.

The actress Mariska Hargitay purchased the penthouse from the sponsor in June 2002 and sold it in October 2007, per the recorded deeds in ACRIS; the sale was covered at the time by the real-estate press, including DIRT. No current resident is named here.

This is new construction, not a conversion. The prior building was demolished in 2000. Structure, systems and envelope were built in 2000–2001, a different underwriting problem from a nineteenth-century loft; current condition needs recent engineering reports and board materials.

Confirm project approvals. The profile records no landmark designation. For windows, façade work and rooftop equipment, confirm applicable DOB permits, condominium consent and other scope-specific requirements; absence of LPC review does not guarantee lower cost or a shorter schedule.

Check expense allocations. Read the budget, reserve, LL11 status and elevator history, then apply the declaration's allocations among the six residential interests and commercial interest, including any separately assigned obligations.

Test the exposure. The southwest corner is the building's selling point. Walk the specific floor at the time of day you will actually use it, and understand what could be built on the adjacent parcels.

Resolve the FAR question. Recorded gross floor area exceeds a simple comparison with the residential maximum, which does not establish legal zoning floor area or permitted future work. Have counsel read the certificate of occupancy and offering plan rather than assuming it away.

Lead with the plate, not the period. Present the full-floor corner layout and keyed-elevator access in north Tribeca. Establish the specific apartment's interior area from a reliable plan or measurement; building gross area does not establish a 3,000-plus-square-foot residence or define a single buyer audience.

Use relevant comparables across building types. Start with boutique full-floor Tribeca inventory and include relevant full-service apartments, adjusting for plans, condition, services and actual costs rather than excluding them categorically.

Anticipate the operations question. Assemble current reserve information, capital history and declaration-based expense allocations for roof and façade work so buyers can assess those obligations alongside the apartment's presentation.

Assess the available sales evidence. Check dated same-building transactions and their comparability, then supplement with relevant Tribeca sales; six residences do not by themselves establish turnover or holding periods.

If you're considering 19 Beach Street, also evaluate:

• 11 Beach Street — the nearby converted loft condominium; a full-amenity alternative on Beach Street
• The American Thread Building (260 West Broadway) — the large landmarked loft conversion on the same tax block; the opposite trade-off on scale and services
• One York Street — the Enrique Norten building on the same tax block; contemporary construction with full-service operations
• 48 Beach Street — boutique Tribeca condominium a block west; comparable scale and lean operations
• 60 Collister Street — boutique Tribeca loft condominium; similar unit count and full-floor character
• 7 Hubert Street — small Tribeca condominium with full-floor residences
• 471 Washington Street — low-density Tribeca condominium at a larger unit size
• 415 Greenwich Street — the full-service Tribeca loft conversion alternative
• 145 Hudson Street — landmarked Tribeca loft conversion; the historic-district comparison point