- Year built
- 2018
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 7
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Elevator, furnished common roof deck with river and skyline views, package room, bike room, private storage
- Pets
- Permitted per listing records
Every recorded sale at this building, 2019–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Recorded sales
- 16
- On record
- 2019–2026
253 East 7th Street is part of the small wave of boutique condominiums that brought new-construction ownership to the eastern blocks of the East Village — a market where condo product is structurally scarce. East of Avenue B, the housing stock is overwhelmingly tenement-era rental and co-op fabric; full-service condominium alternatives barely exist, and the handful of boutique buildings that do — this one, and the Flowerbox Building down the block at 259 East 7th — trade on that scarcity. For buyers who want East Village character with condominium mechanics (no board interview, conventional financing, sublet freedom), the choice set on a given day is often this short.
The building itself is a disciplined piece of infill. Isaac & Stern Architects replaced a four-story townhouse — demolished in late 2015 — with a six-story gray-brick building whose window hierarchy (large openings above, smaller punched openings on the first two floors) reads as a modern paraphrase of the block's pre-war elevations; design press received it as deliberately contextual. With roughly 9,000 square feet of residential space across seven residences, most apartments run floor-through, which buys the cross-light and privacy of a townhouse floor inside a doorman-free elevator building.
The block matters as much as the building. East 7th Street between C and D is one of Alphabet City's quiet, tree-lined streets — the Flowerbox Building made it briefly famous in the 2000s — with Tompkins Square Park a block and a half west and the East River waterfront, in the midst of the city's multi-year coastal-resiliency rebuild of the park and esplanade, one block east. The corridor's restaurant and bar economy is dense but concentrated on the avenues, leaving the mid-block residential.
Architecture and unit composition
The seven residences sort into three products: compact one-bedrooms of roughly 709 square feet on the lower floors (the A-line), floor-through two-bedroom residences above — topping out around 1,653 square feet on the fifth floor — and the south-facing duplex Townhouse Residence at the base, roughly 1,632 square feet with two bedrooms, three baths, a solarium, and a private backyard. Floor-to-ceiling windows run throughout, ceilings exceed nine feet, and the finish package (quartz, integrated Bosch, wine refrigeration, Grohe/Toto baths, in-unit laundry) is consistent across lines per the sponsor's marketing records. City records carry eight residential units against the seven marketed residences — most plausibly a counting artifact of the duplex — and the offering plan on record with the Attorney General settles the formal unit schedule.
Building operations
This is self-service boutique condominium living: no staff, keyed and smartphone-intercom access, an elevator, a package room, a bike room, private storage, and the furnished common roof deck. Common charges price accordingly — the trade for the absence of a staff layer. With seven units, the condominium board is effectively a handful of neighbors; governance is informal by design, and buyers should review the budget, reserve posture, and any sponsor-held units during diligence.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 emissions caps apply. No regulatory capital pressure from this law specifically, current or 2030.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent closings at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2026 | 2 | $1,475,000 |
| Feb 4, 2026 | TH | $2,400,000 |
| Jun 17, 2025 | 2A | $1,125,000 |
| Mar 26, 2024 | — | $2,000,000 |
| Sep 18, 2023 | 4A | $1,075,000 |
| Oct 5, 2022 | G | $3,250,000 |
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 1-00377-7505) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
You are buying condo mechanics in a co-op neighborhood. No board interview, 20 percent minimum down per listing records, and rental flexibility under the condominium framework — in a part of the East Village where almost everything else for sale is a co-op with a board. That structural freedom is a durable component of the value here; confirm current sublet and policy terms against the by-laws.
Underwrite the flood-zone question directly. City records flag the parcel within the preliminary FEMA flood-map area, as is true of much of Alphabet City east of Avenue C. The practical diligence items are the building's flood insurance, mechanical locations, and the resale market's experience since the East River resiliency work began — your attorney and insurance broker should address all three before contract.
Seven units means seven-unit governance. Budgets are small, reserves are thin by definition, and a single major repair is shared seven ways. Review the financials and ask about the roof, facade, and elevator service history — standard boutique-condo discipline.
Price the transit honestly. The L at First Avenue and the F at Second Avenue are both a real walk west; the M14 select bus service and the river esplanade are the daily infrastructure. Buyers commuting to midtown should test the route at rush hour.
The comp set is short — use it precisely. The Flowerbox Building and the handful of east-of-B boutique condos are the relevant benchmarks, not the broader East Village condo average. We maintain the line-level history in the Research Library.
What to know if you’re selling
Market the scarcity, not the square footage. New-construction condominium product east of Avenue B is structurally limited, and your buyer's alternatives are few. The marketing should say so plainly: floor-through layouts, condo mechanics, and a block the neighborhood's own market history (the Flowerbox era) already validated.
Lead with the floor-through light. Cross-light from floor-to-ceiling glass on a low-rise, tree-lined block is the product's emotional core — photograph it at the right hour.
Anchor to the building's own history. With only seven residences, the building's launch and resale record is the cleanest pricing anchor available; the per-foot spread between the one-bedroom lines and the full-floor residences is wide and should be respected rather than averaged.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 253 East 7th Street, also evaluate:
- The Flowerbox Building (259 East 7th Street) — the 2007 eight-unit condominium that established this block's boutique-condo market
- 143 Avenue B (The Christodora House) — the neighborhood's landmark condominium tower on Tompkins Square Park
- 1 Avenue B — condominium alternative at the Houston Street end of the avenue
- 438 East 12th Street (Steiner East Village) — the full-amenity East Village condominium; the scale-and-services alternative
- 115 East 9th Street (The St. Mark) — the west-of-Third alternative for the same buyer pool
- 172 East 4th Street (Ageloff Tower) — pre-war East Village co-op; the co-op alternative at a lower basis
- 111 East 14th Street (Zeckendorf Towers) — the Union Square condominium fallback with full services
The Roebling Team at 253 East 7th Street
The Roebling Team at Compass works the East Village and the broader downtown condominium market as a core practice area. We publish this building profile because 253 East 7th Street buyers and sellers deserve building-specific intelligence — sponsor history, boutique-condo governance, and a precisely drawn comp set — not generic neighborhood commentary.
If you're considering a transaction at 253 East 7th Street, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.