233 East 17th Street
233 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003
Gramercy Park
BBL 1008987502 · BIN 1087451
- Year built
- 1877
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 13
- Floors
- 5
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2007–2024
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,685
- Listing discount
- 2.0%
- Recorded sales
- 29
- On record
- 2007–2024
The public record gets this building's age wrong by seventy years, and the correction is the point. City land records date the property to 1948. LPC's own building database — the authority for anything inside a historic district — records two nineteenth-century campaigns on this site: an 1877 building by E. T. Littell and an 1883 addition by Charles Coolidge Haight, both Victorian Gothic, both classified as a charitable institution. Haight is a consequential figure in New York's Gothic Revival, and his hand here is documented rather than attributed.
What was built was the St. John Baptist House, the mother house and novitiate of the Episcopal Sisterhood of St. John the Baptist, on land acquired from the Stuyvesant family's holdings in 1877. Institutional use continued for well over a century: the Salvation Army occupied the property, and DOB filings from 2003 record the Hazelden Foundation as owner. The building's second life as housing began in April 2005, when the sponsor filed the Alteration Type 1 that converted the occupancy to residential and cut the dwelling count from fourteen to thirteen. Closings began in 2007.
That history is why the plans here do not resemble a converted apartment house. A sisterhood house with a chapel produces volumes that no residential architect would have drawn: ceiling heights running from roughly ten to thirteen feet across the building, and — per listing records — a residence occupying the former chapel across four levels around a double-height room with ceilings in the low twenties. Eight of the thirteen residences have private gardens or terraces, and the three penthouses have roof terraces of their own. This is a thirteen-unit building with more variety in it than most buildings ten times its size.
A note on nearby addresses. 350 East 18th Street is a separate building on a different tax block and is unrelated to this property despite the proximity. The two should not be conflated.
Architecture and unit composition
Five floors of red brick and stone in the Victorian Gothic manner, across 74 feet of East 17th Street frontage on an irregular lot. Roughly 26,700 square feet of built area, all residential — there is no commercial component in the condominium. The 1877 and 1883 sections read as one property from the street and are recorded as one tax lot.
Thirteen residences: lines 1 through 10 on the lower levels and three penthouses above. The distribution of outdoor space is unusual for a converted institutional building — private gardens and terraces attached to eight residences, roof terraces on all three penthouses. DOB records a roof deck modification in 2008 and a roof pergola in 2009, both filed by the condominium. Listing records for the building describe wood-burning fireplaces and in-unit washer-dryers in the residences; both should be confirmed line by line rather than assumed across the building, because the conversion worked with existing masonry and flues and the results are unlikely to be uniform.
Ceiling height is the building's defining feature and it varies by residence. Anyone underwriting a purchase here should be looking at the specific plan and section for that unit, not at a building average.
Building operations
Thirteen residences do not support a doorman, and this page will not imply one. What the record documents is the maintenance of a landmarked nineteenth-century masonry envelope. DOB filings show a sidewalk shed and pipe scaffold in August 2012, exterior renovations including masonry restoration and flashing installation in 2013, repairs to the exterior entry stair and the interior lobby floor in 2014, and a temporary construction fence in 2015 — a Local Law 11 cycle running through the middle of the last decade, executed on a building where every exterior decision goes through LPC.
That is the honest operating picture for a buyer: a small condominium, a protected 1870s and 1880s façade, and a capital program that arrives in cycles rather than continuously. Neither an offering plan nor audited financial statements for this building are in our library, so this page makes no claim about reserves, assessments, common charges or the current capital plan. Those documents exist and the managing agent has them; obtain them.
Policy framework
We hold no offering plan, by-laws or house rules for this condominium, and this section states only what the record supports.
Taxes are unabated. No J-51 and no exemption of any kind attaches to the condominium's tax lot or to any of its thirteen unit lots. Monthly carry is common charges plus full real estate taxes, with no benefit period running down behind it. That makes the carry predictable, and it makes the building compare differently against Gramercy conversions that still hold an abatement — run the comparison rather than assume parity.
Landmark constraint is real and applies to every exterior element. Windows, ironwork, entry stairs, roof-level structures visible from the street, terrace railings and any façade work require LPC review in addition to DOB permitting. That governs both the building's capital work and any alteration an owner contemplates on a terrace or at a window line.
Subletting, pets, pied-à-terre use and entity ownership are set by the by-laws and house rules. Condominium regimes of this vintage and size are generally permissive, but "generally" is not a policy — confirm each term with the managing agent before you offer.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $19,728/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $126
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
Thirteen residences produce a thin recorded market: a small number of transfers a year, and long gaps in individual lines. The spread within the building is wide, because the product is genuinely different from unit to unit — a garden-level residence with private outdoor space, a mid-building floor with the conversion's tall ceilings, and a penthouse with its own roof terrace are three separate propositions. Pricing in this building follows plan, ceiling height, outdoor space and condition; a single per-square-foot figure for Gramercy or Stuyvesant Square will not carry you far here. Intra-family and trust transfers appear in the recorded history alongside arm's-length sales and should not be read as market evidence. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2024 | 6 | 3 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,196 sf | $3,700,000 | $1,685/sf | -5.0% |
| Dec 10, 2021 | 7 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,850 sf | $2,975,000 | $1,608/sf | -0.7% |
| Dec 3, 2021 | 8 | 3 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,196 sf | $3,872,500 | $1,763/sf | -2.2% |
| Jul 30, 2018 | PH2 | 2 BR · 1,140 sf | $3,000,000 | $2,632/sf | +0.2% |
| May 19, 2016 | 6 | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,196 sf | $3,600,000 | $1,639/sf | +0.0% |
| Mar 28, 2016 | PH2 | 2 BR · 1,140 sf | $2,775,000 | $2,434/sf | -2.6% |
| Oct 19, 2015 | 4 | 3 BR · 2,273 sf | $3,300,000 | $1,452/sf | -8.3% |
| Apr 17, 2015 | 2 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,720 sf | $2,250,000 | $1,308/sf | -2.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2024) cleared a median $1,685/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 2.0% 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.
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 1-00898-7502) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
Read the section, not the summary. The single most valuable diligence document for this building is the architectural plan and section for the specific residence. Ceiling heights, mezzanine and double-height conditions, fireplace flues and the geometry of private outdoor space are all unit-specific consequences of a nineteenth-century institutional shell.
Underwrite the taxes at full freight. There is no J-51 and no abatement here, so nothing burns off and nothing steps up. Model the real number with the True Monthly Carrying Cost Calculator.
Get the financials and the capital plan. We do not hold them. In a thirteen-unit condominium with a landmarked masonry envelope, the reserve position and the façade cycle are the material questions. Ask specifically what has been done since the 2013–2015 exterior program and what is next.
Price the LPC process into any renovation. Interior work is a DOB matter; anything touching the exterior is not. If your plans involve windows, terraces or roof-level structures, add LPC review to your timeline before you sign.
Confirm the fireplaces. Working wood-burning fireplaces appear in listing records for the building. In a converted institutional structure, that is a flue-by-flue question, and it should be answered in writing.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the documented history. This is an 1877 Littell building with an 1883 Charles Coolidge Haight addition in the Stuyvesant Square Historic District, built as a sisterhood house. That is verifiable from LPC's own records, and it is a far stronger story than the "1948" that a buyer's cursory property search will return. Correct it early.
Sell the volume. Ceiling heights, the double-height chapel condition, and the private outdoor space are what separate this building from the corridor's converted apartment houses. Photograph and describe them precisely.
Assemble the building file before the first showing. Offering plan, current financials, current budget, capital history and LPC permit history for any work done to the residence. Buyers in a landmarked district ask about approvals, and an unprepared answer costs time and price.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 233 East 17th Street, also evaluate:
- 203 East 16th Street — condominium converted from a historic parish house on Stuyvesant Square; the closest analogue in origin, scale and district
- 117 East 18th Street — boutique Gramercy condominium one block north
- 211 East 18th Street — cooperative on the adjacent block; the co-op alternative in the same few streets
- 130 East 18th Street — cooperative converted in 1984; a longer-established building in the corridor
- 157 East 18th Street — cooperative converted in 1991, at similar neighborhood positioning
- 200 East 16th Street — cooperative directly on the Stuyvesant Square blocks
- 49 East 21st Street — prewar loft conversion condominium; the same conversion logic applied to different fabric
- 121 East 22nd Street — newer Gramercy condominium; the full-amenity contrast at a higher carry
- 105 East 19th Street — cooperative near Gramercy Park; a different ownership structure nearby
- 350 East 18th Street — ground-up condominium on a separate block to the east; the new-construction alternative
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Gramercy — read The Roebling Team Guide to Gramercy.
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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