- Year built
- 2016
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 21
- Floors
- 11
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Generally pet-friendly; confirm specifics at offer stage
- Subletting
- Permitted under the condominium bylaws
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed
Every recorded sale at this building, 2018–2022
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf (floor-adjusted)
- $2,094
- Listing discount
- 1.9%
- Recorded sales
- 24
- On record
- 2018–2022
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 209 West 14th Street would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
209 West 14th Street is a boutique full-service condominium completed in 2016 on the Chelsea–Greenwich Village seam, on the busy but well-connected 14th Street corridor between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Designed by Goldstein, Hill & West Architects across eleven stories, the building delivers just 21 residences behind an amenity package — spa, plunge pool, rooftop garden, fitness center, attended lobby — more often associated with much larger towers. It was conceived as a small, service-rich building for buyers who want new-construction living without moving into a high-density development.
The appeal is that combination: a genuinely boutique count paired with full-service staffing and resort-style amenities, in a location that puts nearly every downtown and Midtown subway line within a few blocks. For a buyer who wants the flexibility of condominium ownership, the finish level of a 2016 building, and hotel-adjacent amenities in a 21-home setting, 209 West 14th Street is a distinctive fit.
Building operations
209 West 14th Street operates as a full-service condominium: a full-time doorman and concierge staff the lobby, and the spa, fitness center, rooftop garden, and other amenities are maintained through the common charges. As a condominium, the building offers deeded, fee-simple ownership. There is no co-op board interview; a purchase clears through the condominium's right of first refusal, and financing is arranged directly between the buyer and lender without co-op-style caps. Pied-à-terre use, investment ownership, and subletting are permitted under the bylaws, and the building is generally pet-friendly. Any transfer fee and the specific sublet terms should be confirmed at offer stage.
Architecture and residences
Goldstein, Hill & West designed 209 West 14th Street as a contemporary eleven-story mid-rise, scaled to its 14th Street frontage and delivering the light and volume of new construction. The 21 residences run to larger one- to three-bedroom homes, with interiors carrying the specification level expected of a 2016 building: oversized windows, generous ceiling heights, and modern kitchens and baths, with full new-building mechanical systems beneath.
Because the building is small and each floor holds only a couple of homes, layouts, exposures, and light vary from unit to unit, and pricing tracks those differences. The amenity floors — rooftop garden, spa and plunge pool, fitness center, drawing room — give the building a service depth unusual at this residence count.
The 14th Street corridor
209 West 14th Street sits on one of downtown Manhattan's most connected blocks. The 14th Street corridor threads the border of Chelsea and Greenwich Village and is served by a dense cluster of subway lines — the 1/2/3 and A/C/E within a couple of blocks, the F/M and L nearby — putting Midtown, the Financial District, and Brooklyn all within a short ride. The surrounding streets carry the restaurants, shops, and cultural life of both Chelsea and the Village, while the building's own block delivers the convenience of that hub with the privacy of a boutique building.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $4,293/yr
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $30,725/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $17 – $122
- Modeled exposure split equally across 21 units (the city tax-lot count). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Recent sales
Condominium pricing at 209 West 14th Street is read on a per-square-foot basis, not against a neighborhood average. With only 21 residences, resale volume is inherently thin, and pricing is driven by the specifics of each home — floor, exposure, layout, outdoor space, and light — rather than a single building-wide figure. Underwrite a residence on its own footage and condition against the right comparable tier of new-construction full-service condominiums, not on the broad Chelsea average.
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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 2022 | 6A | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,713 sf | $3,995,000 | $2,332/sf | off-mkt |
| Aug 26, 2022 | 2C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 804 sf | $1,550,000 | $1,928/sf | -8.8% |
| Nov 7, 2019 | 3B | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,402 sf | $3,285,000 | $2,343/sf | -1.9% |
| Oct 15, 2019 | 5B | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,378 sf | $2,945,000 | $2,137/sf | -7.2% |
| Sep 3, 2019 | 2A | 3 BR · 3.5 BA · 1,850 sf | $3,768,812.5 | $2,037/sf | -2.1% |
| Aug 23, 2019 | TH | 3 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,081 sf | $4,700,000 | $2,259/sf | -5.1% |
| Jul 8, 2019 | PH | 3 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,653 sf | $8,415,000 | $3,172/sf | -6.0% |
| Jun 7, 2019 | 5A | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,733 sf | $3,850,000 | $2,222/sf | -0.6% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2022) cleared a median $2,094/sf (floor-adjusted) across 2 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 1.9% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2014 | — | $26,750,000 |
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 1-00764-7504). 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.
Buying here? Condo closing costs with a mortgage typically run 3 to 6% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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What to know if you’re buying
The buying path is a condominium path: no board interview, a right-of-first-refusal clearance, and financing arranged directly with your lender. Diligence centers on the offering plan and any amendments, the building's financial statements and reserve position, and the bylaws and house rules — with attention to how the amenity-heavy program is funded through the common charges. Within the building, floor, exposure, layout, and light drive value.
The reasons to buy are the pairing of a boutique 21-home count with full-service staffing and resort-style amenities, the finish level of a 2016 building, and one of downtown Manhattan's most transit-rich locations — all with the flexibility of condominium ownership.
What to know if you’re selling
The story is service at boutique scale: a 21-residence, full-service condominium with a spa, plunge pool, and rooftop garden — an amenity depth rare at this count — on a supremely connected 14th Street block. Pricing is apartment-specific, so the right approach is to position the individual home's narrative and benchmark it against the correct comparable tier of new-construction full-service condominiums, rather than the broad neighborhood number. With only 21 homes, comparable supply is limited, which favors a well-prepared seller.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 209 West 14th Street, also look at these Chelsea and West-teens boutique buildings:
- 101 West 14th Street — Chelsea condominium on the 14th Street corridor
- 217 West 14th Street — boutique 14th Street condominium nearby
- 245 West 14th Street — Chelsea condominium for comparison
- 210 West 19th Street — a boutique prewar Art Deco condominium
- 100 West 18th Street — Chelsea condominium for comparison
- 224 West 18th Street — boutique Chelsea building nearby
More Chelsea buildings
- 200 Eleventh Avenue (The Sky Garage) — 2010 condominium
- Chelsea Royale (200 West 24th Street) — 2004 condominium
- 201 West 17th Street — 2000 condominium by Kutnicki Bernstein Architects
- 210 West 19th Street — 1939 condominium
- 210 West 21st Street — 1902 co-op
- 211 West 18th Street — 2000 condominium by CetraRuddy Architects
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Chelsea — read The Roebling Team Guide to Chelsea.
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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