259 Bowery
259 Bowery, between East Houston and Stanton Streets · Lower East Side
BBL 1004277501 · BIN 1078064
- Year built
- 1910
- Type
- Condominium
- Amenities
- Keyed elevator; visiting superintendent; private outdoor space in selected homes
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $1,451
- 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 7.9%
- Recorded sales
- 9
- On record
- 2005–2026
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About the building
259 Bowery is a commercial-building conversion with loft residences above street-level space. Charles Saulson developed the residential conversion around 2000, with Fritz Johnson as architect. The property incorporates an older Victorian eclectic street frontage with incised window hoods and a bracketed cornice. Later alterations changed the internal residential arrangement: a second-floor office was combined with an apartment through a DOB filing signed off in May 2023.
The homes include full-floor lofts, a substantial duplex and upper accommodation with terraces. A keyed elevator opens directly into residential space. Large living and dining areas, high ceilings and front-to-rear exposures reflect the building's commercial origins. Some layouts incorporate balconies and fireplaces, while the uppermost accommodation has access to several roof terraces. Apartment combinations create significant differences in size across the small inventory.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 limits apply to a building on its own. It is still covered if it shares a tax lot or condominium board with buildings totaling over 50,000 sq ft; confirm on DOB’s covered-buildings list.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
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 2, 2026 | 2 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 2,240 sf | $3,250,000 | $1,451/sf | -4.4% |
| Sep 16, 2024 | 5 | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,450 sf | $1,950,000 | $1,345/sf | -11.4% |
| Apr 26, 2024 | 3 | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 3,700 sf | $5,300,000 | $1,432/sf | -11.7% |
| May 24, 2017 | 3 | 3 BR · 3,700 sf | $5,150,000 | $1,392/sf | -2.8% |
| Jan 23, 2015 | 2A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 2,240 sf | $3,500,000 | $1,563/sf | — |
| Aug 1, 2012 | 3 | 2,250 sf | $4,950,000 | $2,200/sf | — |
| Sep 28, 2011 | 6 | 1,394 sf | $2,321,000 | $1,665/sf | — |
| May 12, 2005 | 3 | 2,250 sf | $3,869,350 | $1,720/sf | — |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,451/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. Median listing discount 7.9% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
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 1-00427-7501; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
The elevator serves only a handful of homes. Repair and replacement costs fall on a small condominium association, alongside the obligations allocated to its commercial space. The expense allocation and voting interests therefore matter substantially to each owner's participation.
Comparable buildings
- 34 Prince Street: A small condominium created from a historic institutional building, with a similarly limited residential inventory.
- The Brewster Carriage House: A nearby prewar conversion with loft accommodation and a larger group of condominium owners.
- 19 Bond Street: A nineteenth-century store-and-loft building converted to condominiums, with comparable commercial origins.
More Lower East Side buildings
- 222 LES Tower + Lofts, 222 East Broadway — condominium by SLCE Architects
- 242 Broome Street — 2016 condominium
- One Manhattan Square (252 South Street) — 2019 condominium
- 263 Bowery — condominium
- 287 East Houston Street (287/LES) — 2017 condominium
- 328 Grand Street — condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Lower East Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Lower East Side.
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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