242 Lafayette StreetRecorded sales & closing prices
242 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012
13 recorded transfers, 2005–2025. 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
- 13
- Date range
- 2005–2025
- Median $/sf
- $1,567
- Listing discount
- -2.5%
- Monthly carry/sf
- $2.31
- Price range
- $1.21M – $2.2M
Change in the building’s median $/sf over each window, adjusted to a floor-adjusted basis — standardized to the building’s average floor, so it reflects price rather than which floors happened to sell. (2022 marks the rate-shock inflection.) Like-for-like repeat-sale figures to follow.
The eight apartments trade individually as share transfers, and they trade regularly: distinct units have changed hands to separate, unrelated purchasers across 2005, 2011, 2012, 2015 — a year in which four different apartments transferred — and again in 2022, 2023 and 2025. That is a functioning resale market in a building with only eight shareholders, which is worth noting, because loft cooperatives of this size frequently go a decade without a trade.
Pricing separates on floor, ceiling height, condition and light rather than on layout, since the plates are close to identical north and south. SoHo loft cooperatives price per room and per square foot well below the district's condominium conversions, and the discount here reflects the ordinary co-op factors — board approval, financing limits, no staff — compounded by the JLWQA question and the small shareholder base. Buyers underwriting against condominium comparables on Crosby or Wooster should expect and demand that gap. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The complete recorded-sale history for The Work of Art Lofts, compiled from NYC Department of Finance transfer records and verified listing data, then enriched apartment-by-apartment by The Roebling Team research desk.
Price per square foot over time
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 2025 | 4S | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,350 sf | $2,115,000 | $1,567 | -7.8% |
| Mar 3, 2023 | 3S | 2 BR · 1.5 BA · 1,350 sf | $2,200,000 | $1,630 | +5.0% |
| Jun 6, 2022 | 2N | 1 BR · 1 BA · 1,340 sf | $2,075,000 | $1,549 | -2.4% |
| Oct 31, 2017 | 1N | $8,000,000 | — | ||
| Sep 2, 2015 | 3N | 1 BR · 1,300 sf | $800,000 | $615 | — |
| Jun 29, 2015 | 5N | $2,480,333 | — | ||
| Jun 17, 2015 | 2S | 2 BR · 1,350 sf | $1,875,000 | $1,389 | +10.6% |
| May 7, 2015 | 5S | $2,396,000 | — | ||
| Mar 18, 2015 | 4N | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,300 sf | $1,910,000 | $1,469 | +6.4% |
| Jan 5, 2012 | 4S | 2 BR · 1,350 sf | $1,412,500 | $1,046 | +0.0% |
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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 2025 | 4S | 2 BR · 1 BA | 1,350 | $2,115,000 | $1,567 | -7.8% |
| Mar 3, 2023 | 3S | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | 1,350 | $2,200,000 | $1,630 | +5.0% |
| Jun 6, 2022 | 2N | 1 BR · 1 BA | 1,340 | $2,075,000 | $1,549 | -2.4% |
| Oct 31, 2017 | 1N | — | $8,000,000 | — | — | |
| Sep 2, 2015 | 3N | 1 BR | 1,300 | $800,000 | $615 | — |
| Jun 29, 2015 | 5N | — | $2,480,333 | — | — | |
| Jun 17, 2015 | 2S | 2 BR | 1,350 | $1,875,000 | $1,389 | +10.6% |
| May 7, 2015 | 5S | — | $2,396,000 | — | — | |
| Mar 18, 2015 | 4N | 2 BR · 2 BA | 1,300 | $1,910,000 | $1,469 | +6.4% |
| Jan 5, 2012 | 4S | 2 BR | 1,350 | $1,412,500 | $1,046 | +0.0% |
| Feb 16, 2011 | 3N | 1 BR | 1,300 | $1,210,000 | $931 | -6.9% |
| Mar 1, 2006 | 1A | — | $1,100,000 | — | — | |
| Mar 29, 2005 | 3N | 1 BR | 1,300 | $1,250,000 | $962 | +8.7% |
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00496-0030) 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 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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