- Year built
- 2001
- Type
- Condominium
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2002–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $2,056
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded sales
- 10
- On record
- 2002–2025
Almost everything on the north Tribeca blocks that looks like a loft is one. 19 Beach Street is not. The building on this site was demolished in the spring of 2000 and a seven-story building went up in its place, finished in 2001 with six full-floor residences and a ground-floor commercial unit. It is a purpose-built loft building — the plate, the ceiling height and the light are engineered rather than inherited.
That distinction is the whole argument for the building, and it cuts both ways. What a buyer gets is loft geometry without loft compromises: a clean 3,000-plus-square-foot floor plate with a southwest corner and a 48-foot living room, ceilings just over ten feet, floor-to-ceiling glass, French balconies, wood-burning fireplaces, and an elevator that opens with a key directly into the apartment. What a buyer does not get is the cast-iron provenance, the timber and column structure, or the arched window openings that drive pricing three blocks east in SoHo. The building trades on plan and privacy, not on history.
The scale is the second point. Six residences means six owners. There is no doorman, no amenity floor, no staffed lobby, and no meaningful denominator across which to spread a capital event. Buildings of this size run on a superintendent, a managing agent and a small board, and their financial character is closer to a large co-op building's than to a full-service condominium's. Buyers used to serviced towers should read the budget and the reserve before they read the floor plan.
The third point is regulatory, and it is a genuine advantage. This block is outside every Landmarks district in Tribeca. The Tribeca North Historic District stops to the west. Exterior work — windows, façade repair, roof equipment, terraces — proceeds through the Department of Buildings alone. In a neighborhood where most comparable inventory sits inside a historic district, that removes a whole layer of cost and delay from any alteration.
Architecture and unit composition
The lot is a narrow 2,996-square-foot interior parcel on Beach Street. The building rises seven stories and 21,516 square feet, which works out to roughly 3,000 to 3,500 square feet per residence — an unusually generous ratio for a lot this size, and the reason each floor reads as a single house.
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.
Building operations
This is a six-residence building without staff coverage in the doorman sense. Operations are lean by design: superintendent-level service, a managing agent, and a small board. There is a common roof deck.
The consequences follow arithmetically. Common charges per foot are typically modest relative to full-service Tribeca condominiums, because there is little to fund. But any capital item — roof, façade, elevator, boiler — lands on six residential units and one commercial unit rather than sixty. 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. None of that is in the public record, and at this scale all of it is material.
Policy framework
Ownership form: Condominium. Transfers clear through a board right of first refusal rather than a cooperative approval, which produces a faster and more predictable closing timeline.
Pied-à-terre, subletting, LLC, trust and foreign purchasers: Permitted under the standard condominium framework. Any minimum lease term or rental cap should be confirmed with the managing agent.
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: The built floor-area ratio exceeds the district's residential maximum. That is not a defect on its face, but the basis for it is not visible in public records, and any buyer should have counsel read the certificate of occupancy and the offering plan on the point.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 emissions caps apply. No regulatory capital pressure from this law specifically, current or 2030.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →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 before the next inspection cycle. 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).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
The sponsor conveyed the six residences to six separate, unrelated buyers between February and June 2002, and the ground-floor commercial unit to a distinct entity that September. There was no bulk sale and no single owner holding the residential inventory, then or since.
Turnover has been low. Several residences have traded only once or twice in more than twenty years, and holding periods of ten to sixteen years are the norm rather than the exception. That is characteristic of full-floor buildings: owners who want the plate do not find easy substitutes.
Pricing here should be read per square foot against Tribeca full-floor loft inventory rather than against the neighborhood's full-service condominium towers, which carry amenity and staff costs that this building does not. The building's advantages — full-floor privacy, keyed elevator, wood-burning fireplaces, corner exposure, no Landmarks jurisdiction — and its constraints — no doorman, no amenities, a six-unit denominator — both belong in the comparison. Market statements should be indexed to the last complete year. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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 27, 2025 | 3 | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 3,015 sf | $6,200,000 | $2,056/sf | -4.6% |
| Jan 31, 2022 | PH | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 3,015 sf | $7,300,000 | $2,421/sf | -2.6% |
| Oct 4, 2021 | 3 | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 3,015 sf | $4,898,000 | $1,625/sf | +0.0% |
| Jul 31, 2018 | 6 | 3 BR · 3,015 sf | $5,500,000 | $1,824/sf | +0.0% |
| Apr 19, 2012 | 3 | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 2,980 sf | $3,550,000 | $1,191/sf | off-mkt |
| Dec 7, 2011 | 5 | 3 BR · 3,015 sf | $3,595,000 | $1,192/sf | +0.0% |
| Oct 9, 2007 | PH | 3 BR · 3,068 sf | $5,100,000 | $1,662/sf | off-mkt |
| Jun 20, 2005 | 5 | 3 BR · 2,980 sf | $2,950,000 | $990/sf | off-mkt |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $2,056/sf across 1 sale. 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 1-00212-7502) 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.
Notable residents
The actress Mariska Hargitay purchased the penthouse from the sponsor in June 2002 and sold it in October 2007 for $5.1 million, 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.
What to know if you’re buying
This is new construction, not a conversion. The prior building was demolished in 2000. Structure, systems and envelope date to 2000–2001, which is a different underwriting problem from a nineteenth-century loft — younger systems, but none of the redundancy of heavy masonry and timber.
No Landmarks jurisdiction. Windows, façade work and rooftop equipment go through the Department of Buildings only. This is a real cost and schedule advantage over most Tribeca loft inventory, and it is worth pricing.
Six units carry everything. Read the budget, the reserve, the LL11 status and the elevator history. At this scale a single capital event is a per-unit number, not a rounding error.
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. The building is denser than current residential bulk rules would allow. Have counsel read the certificate of occupancy and offering plan rather than assuming it away.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the plate, not the period. The argument is a full-floor, corner, keyed-elevator home of roughly 3,000-plus square feet in north Tribeca. Buyers shopping cast-iron provenance are not your buyers; buyers shopping plan and privacy are.
Price against full-floor lofts, not against towers. The right comparable set is boutique full-floor Tribeca inventory. Full-service buildings carry a different cost structure and a different buyer.
Anticipate the operations question. Sophisticated buyers will ask what six units do about a roof or a façade. Having the reserve position and capital history assembled before offers is worth more than any staging decision.
Same-building comparables are thin by construction. Six residences and long holding periods mean pricing has to come from floor-specific analysis and the wider Tribeca full-floor set, not from a building average.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 19 Beach Street, also evaluate:
- 11 Beach Street — the converted loft condominium across the street; the full-amenity alternative on the same block face
- 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
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, 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.
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