19 Bond Street

On Bond Street the building presents two bays: a recessed storefront on decorated cast-iron columns under a wide stone entablature with an incised frieze, and above it four floors of grouped windows divided by brick pilasters on stone bases with incised or plain stone lintels. The Lafayette flank runs the depth of the building with lot-line windows, molded stone sills and flat lintels. On Jones Alley, five bays of painted brick sit over cast-iron columns and a stone lintel, with a loading dock still in place. The LPC report describes the building as largely intact to its late-nineteenth-century appearance.

There are ten residences plus a commercial unit. The recorded unit designations describe the plan precisely: A, B and C lines on the second through fifth floors, with the B line running as a duplex — recorded transfers show units designated 2/3B and 4/5B — and the C line at the top having been extended into a triplex in a 2016 combination. Two lower-floor combinations were done earlier, in 2000 and 2004. Which is to say: a small building whose apartments have been rearranged individually over twenty-five years, so no two are quite the same and the "unit count" is stable only because the condominium's unit lots are.

This is a ten-unit condominium with no staffing to speak of and a commercial condominium unit at the base. Common charges cover a small envelope with three exposed elevations, which is the operative fact for anyone underwriting the building. The DOB record shows the ordinary maintenance history of a well-kept small loft: masonry repairs and re-roofing in 2010, a sidewalk shed and pipe scaffold campaign in 2011, hot-water boiler and storage-tank replacement in 2014 under a permit that cites the original 1985 alteration, and air-conditioning work in 2017. Because the building is landmarked, exterior work requires Landmarks Preservation Commission approval in addition to DOB permits, and in a ten-unit building that timeline and that cost fall on a very small owner base.

There is no J-51 benefit here and never was one on the record we can reach, which is genuinely unusual for a mid-1980s Manhattan loft conversion. It means the real-estate tax line has always been the full line, with nothing phasing in or out.

Condominium mechanics: no board interview and no unreviewable approval, but a right of first refusal exercisable by the board on a sale or a lease. The declaration and by-laws — not the public record — govern financing, subletting, pets, and whether trusts, LLCs and foreign purchasers are accommodated. None of that is published. Get the declaration, the by-laws and any amendments, the current rules, and the most recent financial statements from the managing agent before contract, and read the ground-floor commercial unit's rights along with them.

Recent sales

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00529-7503) 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.

Read the joint living-work framework, then read the certificate of occupancy. The condominium was declared with joint live/work quarters for artists, per the LPC designation report. Your attorney should confirm the current certificate-of-occupancy language and ask the managing agent directly how the building treats a purchaser who is not a certified artist. In a NoHo loft this is the diligence item that actually matters, and it is easy to skip because condominium purchases move faster than co-op purchases.

Search under both street numbers. The city addresses the tax lot as 17 Bond Street; ACRIS records the same apartments under 17 and 19. A title search or a records review run under only one number will miss half the file.

Ten units and a landmarked corner building. Three exposed elevations, Landmarks jurisdiction over all of them, and ten owners to share the cost. Ask for the last several years of financial statements, the reserve balance, any live or contemplated assessment, and the facade cycle — including the most recent Local Law 11 filing.

Understand the commercial unit. Roughly 3,000 square feet of ground-floor and cellar space is a separate condominium unit with its own rights and its own share of common expenses. Read what it can and cannot do, and what it contributes.

No abatement, and none coming. There is no J-51 on this lot. Underwrite the tax line as-is.

Confirm the plan of your specific apartment. Units here have been combined into duplexes and a triplex across several decades of individual alterations. Ask for the DOB sign-off history for your unit, not just the offering plan's original Schedule A.

Name the architecture, precisely. Peter L. P. Tostevin, 1879–80, for Bouton and Smith; the only Neo-Grec store-and-loft in the NoHo Historic District Extension, per the Landmarks Preservation Commission's own designation report. On a block where every other building has a design story, this is the one that is genuinely singular — and most listings never say it.

Sell the corner. Three exposures on Bond, Lafayette and Jones Alley, with the Lafayette windows opened in the late twentieth century. Light on two or three sides is the scarce commodity in a NoHo loft, and it is a physical fact rather than a claim.

Get the diligence file assembled before you list. The declaration and by-laws, the current rules, recent financials, the reserve position, the facade record, the certificate of occupancy and the alteration history for your unit. In a ten-unit building, buyers' counsel reads all of it.

Position against the block, not the neighborhood. Your buyer is comparing this to the boutique condominiums up Bond Street and to the loft cooperatives on Great Jones and Bleecker. The pitch is the oldest building on the block, protected, with condominium mechanics — and the joint living-work framework disclosed early rather than discovered late.

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

• 7 Bond Street — landmarked Second Empire cast-iron loft condominium, the nearest historic-loft peer with condo mechanics
• 1 Bond Street — the landmarked 1880 Robbins & Appleton cast-iron loft condominium; the same vintage, a block west
• 22 Bond Street — six-residence corten-steel boutique condominium directly across the street
• 41 Bond Street — DDG's bluestone-clad boutique condominium of full-floor homes
• 25 Bond Street — boutique loft-style condominium setting the block's top-end pricing
• 40 Bond Street — Herzog & de Meuron's 2007 condominium; the block's design benchmark
• 27 Bleecker Street — 1888 loft on the same tax block, converted in 1985 to artists' joint living-work cooperative; the closest peer on conversion framework, cooperative rather than condominium
• 27 Great Jones Street — ten-residence loft condominium formed in 1998 from two nineteenth-century buildings
• 43 Great Jones Street — 1892–93 Romanesque Revival loft co-op of full-floor residences
• 285 Lafayette Street — the Hawley & Hoops chocolate-factory loft condominium; the larger full-floor alternative