252 West 30th Street
252 West 30th Street, New York, NY 10001
BBL 1007797501 · BIN 1014307
- Year built
- 1927
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 24
- Floors
- 15
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Pet-friendly; confirm specifics at offer stage
- Subletting
- Permitted under the condominium bylaws
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf (floor-adjusted)
- $997
- Listing discount
- 8.3%
- Recorded sales
- 28
- On record
- 2005–2025
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 252 West 30th 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.
252 West 30th Street is an Art Deco loft condominium on the vibrant seam where North Chelsea meets Midtown South and NoMad. Built in 1927 as an industrial loft building and converted to condominium ownership in 1986, it is one of the neighborhood's earlier and more established adaptive-reuse conversions — a genuine pre-war loft building rather than a new-construction approximation. The location is a true crossroads: within reach of Penn Station, the Hudson Yards district, the flower-and-fashion blocks of the West 30s, and the restaurant density of Chelsea proper.
For the buyer who wants a real live/work loft — column-free floor plates, tall ceilings, and the flexibility to combine home and studio — the proposition is specific and increasingly scarce. This is a 15-story building of just 24 lofts, financially solid and well managed, where ownership is by deed and the loft architecture is the genuine article.
Building operations
The condominium is described as financially solid and well managed, with a full-time superintendent and both passenger and freight elevators — the freight elevator a meaningful practicality for a live/work building. There is no doorman, appropriate to the building's loft character and a factor in keeping common charges contained. The building is pet-friendly.
As a condominium, ownership is by deed rather than shares. Purchases avoid the share-loan structure and interview process of a cooperative; financing is a matter between buyer and lender; and pied-à-terre, investment, and subletting uses are permitted under the bylaws. Because this is a live/work building with some commercial tenancy, buyers should confirm the specific use permissions, any transfer fee, and sublet terms against the current bylaws at offer stage.
Architecture and residences
Built in 1927 in the Art Deco idiom of its era, the building carries the DNA of a 1920s industrial loft: column-free floor plates, tall (roughly 10-foot) ceilings, and large windows that frame city views and pour in light. The 1986 conversion delivered residential lofts that retain the flexibility of the original structure — homes ingeniously configured for convertibility, where a two-bedroom can become a three, and where the live/work format supports both residential and working use. Renovated units run to a high finish level: ebony-stained hardwood floors, updated kitchens and baths, and the open volume that only a true loft provides.
The 24-loft count keeps the building intimate for its height — a small, low-density community across 15 floors, with the operational simplicity that scale allows.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $12,829/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $45
- Modeled exposure split equally across 24 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 →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2025–30. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Management & transfer contacts
- Notable fees
- Waiver of Right of First Refusal $350; next month's common charge due at closing
Recent sales
Condominium pricing is read on a per-square-foot basis, and 252 West 30th trades as a boutique Art Deco loft condo — column-free layouts, tall ceilings, and the flexibility premium that both deeded ownership and a live/work format command. With only 24 lofts, resale volume is thin: a handful of closings in an active year. Pricing is driven by floor, exposure, ceiling height, loft footprint, and renovation condition rather than by any neighborhood average. The genuine loft character and live/work flexibility are part of the value story. When underwriting a purchase or a list price, capture the specific loft's square footage, light, ceiling height, and finish level rather than leaning on a neighborhood headline number.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 2025 | 12 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 2,000 sf | $1,825,000 | $913/sf | -16.9% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 5B | 3 BR · 3 BA · 1,800 sf | $1,725,000 | $958/sf | -3.4% |
| Jan 30, 2024 | 6B | 3 BR · 1 BA · 1,711 sf | $1,900,000 | $1,110/sf | -20.0% |
| Feb 8, 2022 | 11A | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,000 sf | $1,325,000 | $1,325/sf | -21.8% |
| Jul 29, 2021 | 4B | 4 BR · 2 BA · 1,800 sf | $1,675,000 | $931/sf | -11.6% |
| Apr 5, 2021 | 8A | 2 BR · 1.5 BA · 1,600 sf | $1,660,000 | $1,038/sf | -16.8% |
| Nov 20, 2019 | PH15 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 2,100 sf | $2,065,641 | $984/sf | off-mkt |
| Sep 5, 2019 | 3B | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,750 sf | $2,200,000 | $1,257/sf | -8.1% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $997/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. 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 8.3% 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 1-00779-7501). 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
This is a condominium, so the path is straightforward: no board interview, financing set by your lender, and a review of the building's financials, reserve, and bylaws during due diligence. Because the building is a live/work loft condominium with commercial tenancy, read the bylaws carefully on permitted use, any transfer fee, and sublet terms, and confirm them at offer stage. Given the building's 1927 vintage and 1986 conversion, review the condominium's reserve and any planned capital work on the façade, roof, elevators, and building systems.
The reasons to buy are the loft and the flexibility: a genuine column-free Art Deco loft with tall ceilings, live/work latitude, deeded ownership, and a well-managed boutique building at a true Chelsea/NoMad crossroads.
What to know if you’re selling
The story is the authentic Art Deco loft and the live/work flexibility. Column-free floor plates, tall ceilings, and a convertible layout — inside a deeded, well-managed condominium — is a specific, marketable proposition that sells to buyers who want a real loft with working latitude. Pricing is an apartment-specific exercise: square footage, floor, ceiling height, light, and condition drive the number. We position the loft-and-live/work narrative, benchmark against the right tier of boutique Chelsea and Midtown-South loft condominiums, and market to the buyer who values this exact combination.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 252 West 30th Street, also look at these Chelsea and Midtown-South boutique and loft buildings:
- 130 West 30th Street — pre-war Chelsea building on the same street
- 249 West 29th Street — boutique Chelsea condominium nearby
- 250 West 27th Street — Chelsea loft-style condominium
- 215 West 28th Street — Chelsea condominium nearby
- 144 West 27th Street — a prewar loft building converted to full-floor condominium
More Chelsea buildings
- 251 West 19th Street — 1910 condominium
- 252 Seventh Avenue (The Chelsea Mercantile) — 1906 condominium
- 252 West 17th Street — 1985 condominium
- 253 West 16th Street (Chelsea Hall) — 1929 co-op
- 254 West 25th Street — 1925 co-op
- Chelsea Gardens (255 West 23rd Street) — co-op
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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