259 Elizabeth Street (Empire Condominium)Recorded sales & closing prices
259 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY 10012
14 recorded closings, 2005–2025. Sortable and searchable below.
- Recorded closings
- 14
- Date range
- 2005–2025
- Price range
- $550K – $1.51M
259 Elizabeth trades as a small-unit Nolita condominium priced per square foot, and ownership is spread across individual buyers and single-purpose LLCs, per the DOF roll and ACRIS. Resales come through a few times a year. Pricing within the building depends mostly on private outdoor space, the duplex and loft layouts, and floor; the plain studios and one-bedrooms on the middle floors form the base of the range. Against Nolita's newer boutique condominiums, the building offers the location and condominium flexibility at a lower entry price, with 1980s construction and small layouts as the trade-off. Market statements here are indexed to 2025, the last complete year.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The complete recorded-sale history for 259 Elizabeth Street (Empire Condominium), compiled from NYC Department of Finance transfer records and verified listing data, then enriched apartment-by-apartment by The Roebling Team research desk.
Recent closings
The building’s 10 most recent market sales.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2025 | 5D | $1,080,000 | |
| Sep 12, 2024 | 5A | $1,090,000 | |
| Nov 19, 2021 | 6C | $1,020,000 | |
| Sep 14, 2021 | 3B | $920,000 | |
| Mar 14, 2019 | 2C | $950,000 | |
| Sep 19, 2018 | 1B | $1,510,000 | |
| Feb 5, 2015 | 2C | $700,000 | |
| Oct 18, 2013 | 4A | $1,485,000 | |
| Jun 26, 2013 | 4D | $700,000 | |
| Dec 16, 2010 | 6A | $589,000 |
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2025 | 5D | $1,080,000 | |
| Sep 12, 2024 | 5A | $1,090,000 | |
| Nov 19, 2021 | 6C | $1,020,000 | |
| Sep 14, 2021 | 3B | $920,000 | |
| Mar 14, 2019 | 2C | $950,000 | |
| Sep 19, 2018 | 1B | $1,510,000 | |
| Feb 5, 2015 | 2C | $700,000 | |
| Oct 18, 2013 | 4A | $1,485,000 | |
| Jun 26, 2013 | 4D | $700,000 | |
| Dec 16, 2010 | 6A | $589,000 | |
| Dec 2, 2009 | 3C | $550,000 | |
| Jun 16, 2006 | 5A | $560,000 | |
| Mar 27, 2006 | 3D | $659,000 | |
| Apr 11, 2005 | 3B | $625,000 |
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00508-7501) 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. 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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