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236 West 26th Street (The Capitol Building)Recorded sales & closing prices
236 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001
65 recorded transfers, 2003–2026. Sortable and searchable below.
Co-ops are normally measured by price per room, since square footage is not officially recorded for them. This building is shown in price per square foot because most of its sales carry documented footage, which makes the sharper measure the honest one here.
- Recorded transfers
- 65
- Date range
- 2003–2026
- Median $/sf
- $945
- Listing discount
- 2.2%
- Monthly carry/sf
- $1.40
- Price range
- $360K – $5.2M
Change in the building’s median $/sf over each window, on a floor-adjusted basis — standardized to the building’s average floor, so it reflects price rather than which floors happened to sell. This is a different method from The Roebling Index, which publishes plain medians and applies no floor adjustment; the two are not interchangeable. Floor adjustment standardizes for floor only. It does not control for condition, size, exposure, renovation or the mix of what happened to trade. (2022 marks the rate-shock inflection.) Like-for-like repeat-sale figures to follow.
The Capitol Building trades as a Chelsea loft cooperative rather than as a Chelsea apartment building, and the buyer pool reflects that: people who want floor plate, light and ceiling height, who are comfortable with a mixed residential-commercial corporation, and who are not looking for a doorman. Pricing inside the building is driven by how much of the floor a unit takes, its exposure on the plate, ceiling height, and whether the unit was renovated to a residential standard or still carries its manufacturing bones.
Against the loft condominiums on adjacent blocks, the trade-off is the familiar one: cooperative share ownership with a board and a financing ceiling, at a discount to condominium pricing, in a building that has more original fabric than most of the converted stock nearby. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The complete recorded-sale history for The Capitol Building, compiled from NYC Department of Finance transfer records, with apartment-by-apartment detail from The Roebling Research Library. Across sales with a public asking price, the building carries a median listing discount of 2.2% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.
Price per square foot over time
32 sales with a known square footage, by closing date.
Recent closings
The building’s 10 most recent market sales.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | $/sf | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2026 | 8SE | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,881,000 | -5.7% | |
| Oct 17, 2025 | 2E | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 4,000 sf | $3,750,000 | $938 | -1.3% |
| Jul 9, 2025 | 12E | 2 BR · 2 BA | $3,180,000 | -20.4% | |
| May 14, 2024 | 4NW | 1 BR · 2 BA · 1,293 sf | $1,510,000 | $1,168 | +0.7% |
| Jun 22, 2023 | 2E | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 4,000 sf | $3,700,000 | $925 | -9.8% |
| Oct 3, 2022 | 5SE | 1 BR · 1 BA · 2,100 sf | $1,620,000 | $771 | -4.6% |
| Jun 17, 2022 | 2W | 4 BR · 4.5 BA · 4,200 sf | $4,375,000 | $1,042 | -9.8% |
| Oct 25, 2019 | 2W | 4 BR · 4.5 BA · 4,200 sf | $4,575,000 | $1,089 | -1.6% |
| Feb 2, 2018 | 10NW | 2 BR · 2 BA | $2,200,000 | -9.8% | |
| Jan 27, 2016 | 4012NE | 4 BA · 5,000 sf | $4,450,000 | $890 | -9.1% |
The retrade record
Lines that have changed hands more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Every recorded sale
Sort any column; filter by unit or keyword. Prices are the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance. Every sale sits in one of three states: counted in the building’s medians and trend; shown but excluded as a non-arms-length or nominal transfer; or shown and ⚑ flagged for review — a possible duplicate filing or an extreme $/sf outlier, held out of the statistics pending manual verification rather than allowed to move them.
| Apartment | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2026 | 8SE | 2 BR · 1 BA | — | $1,881,000 | — | -5.7% |
| Oct 20, 2025 | 5NW | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,600,000 | — | — |
| Oct 17, 2025 | 2E | 3 BR · 2.5 BA | 4,000 | $3,750,000 | $938 | -1.3% |
| Jul 9, 2025 | 12E | 2 BR · 2 BA | — | $3,180,000 | — | -20.4% |
| May 14, 2024 | 4NW | 1 BR · 2 BA | 1,293 | $1,510,000 | $1,168 | +0.7% |
| Jun 22, 2023 | 2E | 3 BR · 2.5 BA | 4,000 | $3,700,000 | $925 | -9.8% |
| Oct 3, 2022 | 5SE | 1 BR · 1 BA | 2,100 | $1,620,000 | $771 | -4.6% |
| Jun 17, 2022 | 2W | 4 BR · 4.5 BA | 4,200 | $4,375,000 | $1,042 | -9.8% |
| Dec 20, 2021 | 9SE | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $2,525,000 | — | — |
| Oct 25, 2019 | 2W | 4 BR · 4.5 BA | 4,200 | $4,575,000 | $1,089 | -1.6% |
| Aug 14, 2018 | G1 | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $2,650,000 | — | — |
| Aug 10, 2018 | 9W | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $7,075,000 | — | — |
| Feb 2, 2018 | 10NW | 2 BR · 2 BA | — | $2,200,000 | — | -9.8% |
| Sep 5, 2017 | 9W | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $500,000 | — | — |
| Jan 29, 2016 | 4SW | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,475,000 | — | — |
| Jan 29, 2016 | 4NE | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,475,000 | — | — |
| Jan 29, 2016 | 4SE | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,500,000 | — | — |
| Jan 27, 2016 | 4012NE | 4 BA | 5,000 | $4,450,000 | $890 | -9.1% |
| Jun 26, 2015 | 9W | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $5,200,000 | — | — |
| Jun 26, 2015 | 903905 | 3 BR · 4 BA | 4,400 | $5,200,000 | $1,182 | -10.3% |
| May 20, 2015 | 3NE | 2 BR | 1,813 | $1,400,000 | $772 | -6.4% |
| Mar 27, 2015 | 8SE | — | $1,632,000 | — | +2.0% | |
| Dec 11, 2014 | 8SW | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,601,000 | — | — |
| Nov 25, 2014 | 901 | 2 BR · 2 BA | 1,400 | $1,675,000 | $1,196 | +11.7% |
| Nov 25, 2014 | 9SE | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,675,000 | — | — |
| Oct 22, 2014 | 11NW | 2 BR · 2 BA | 1,800 | $3,100,000 | $1,722 | +24.2% |
| Mar 29, 2013 | 7W | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $400,000 | — | — |
| Mar 29, 2013 | 7NW | 3 BR · 2.5 BAoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | 2,350 | $1,800,000 | $766 | — |
| Aug 9, 2012 | 10SE | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | 1,150 | $1,350,000 | $1,174 | — |
| Mar 15, 2012 | 202 | 3 BR | 4,200 | $3,750,000 | $893 | +0.0% |
| Mar 15, 2012 | 2W | 4 BRnon-market transfer (excluded from $/sf & trends) | 4,200 | $2,150,000 | — | — |
| Mar 15, 2012 | 2W | 4 BRnon-market transfer (excluded from $/sf & trends) | 4,200 | $1,211,933 | — | — |
| Jan 24, 2012 | 901 | 2 BRoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | 1,400 | $1,335,000 | $954 | — |
| May 11, 2011 | 3SE | 2 BR | 1,425 | $1,200,000 | $842 | +0.0% |
| May 7, 2010 | 5NE | 2 BR | 1,450 | $999,000 | $689 | -16.4% |
| May 6, 2010 | 302 | 1 BR | 1,250 | $979,000 | $783 | +0.0% |
| Apr 28, 2010 | 3SW | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $989,000 | — | — |
| Apr 6, 2010 | 2E | 3 BR | 3,850 | $2,630,000 | $683 | -5.9% |
| Jun 2, 2009 | 10SE | 1,150 | $890,000 | $774 | -6.3% | |
| Jan 22, 2009 | 603 | 2 BR · 2 BA | 1,750 | $1,790,000 | $1,023 | -4.5% |
| May 1, 2008 | 10NW | 2 BR · 2 BAoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,810,000 | — | — |
| May 1, 2008 | 1003 | 2 BR | 1,686 | $1,845,000 | $1,094 | +0.0% |
| Nov 30, 2007 | 401 | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,800,000 | — | — |
| Aug 16, 2007 | 1003 | 2 BR | 1,686 | $1,800,000 | $1,068 | +6.2% |
| Apr 2, 2007 | 701 | 3 BR | 2,717 | $2,560,000 | $942 | +0.0% |
| Mar 27, 2007 | 7SE | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $2,750,000 | — | — |
| Jan 17, 2007 | 1102 | 1 BR | 850 | $995,000 | $1,171 | +0.0% |
| Jan 12, 2007 | 11SW | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $995,000 | — | — |
| Dec 1, 2006 | 5NW | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,150,000 | — | — |
| Jul 28, 2006 | 6NW | 2 BR | 1,750 | $1,740,000 | $994 | -3.3% |
| Feb 2, 2006 | 604 | 2 BR | 1,200 | $900,000 | $750 | -2.7% |
| Feb 2, 2006 | 502S | 1 BR | 1,256 | $1,100,000 | $876 | +0.0% |
| Jan 31, 2006 | 5SW | 2 BR · 1 BAoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,127,000 | — | — |
| Dec 7, 2005 | 11NW | 2 BR · 2 BA | 1,800 | $1,712,500 | $951 | -4.6% |
| Nov 13, 2005 | 602 | 3 BR | 1,800 | $975,000 | $542 | +0.0% |
| Feb 16, 2005 | 903 | 3 BR | 4,400 | $3,495,000 | $794 | +0.0% |
| Feb 15, 2005 | 9W | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $2,609,250 | — | — |
| Feb 15, 2005 | 9NE | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,065,750 | — | — |
| Jul 16, 2004 | 803 | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $926,000 | — | — |
| May 28, 2004 | 7SW | 1 BA | 1,300 | $360,000 | $277 | ask unverified |
| May 28, 2004 | 701 | 3 BRnon-market transfer (excluded from $/sf & trends) | 2,717 | $880,000 | — | — |
| May 25, 2004 | 12W | 3 BRoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | 2,200 | $1,185,000 | $539 | — |
| Jan 15, 2004 | 1003 | 2 BR | 1,686 | $850,000 | $504 | +0.0% |
| Nov 14, 2003 | 1005 | 2 BR | 1,800 | $1,100,000 | $611 | — |
| Jun 26, 2003 | 1002 | 2 BR | 1,300 | $799,000 | $615 | — |
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00775-0060). 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 on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate. Storage, parking, and commercial units are excluded from all figures. Floor- and line-level $/sf are time-controlled (each sale measured against the building’s going rate at the time of sale) and expressed at today’s pricing, so they isolate the floor or line premium rather than blend two decades of market movement.
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