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259 Elizabeth Street (Empire Condominium)Recorded sales & closing prices
259 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY 10012
19 recorded closings, 2004–2025. Sortable and searchable below.
- Recorded closings
- 19
- Date range
- 2004–2025
- Median $/sf
- $1,894
- Listing discount
- 1.7%
- Monthly carry/sf
- $1.81
- Price range
- $550K – $1.1M
Change in the building’s median $/sf over each window, on a floor-adjusted basis — standardized to the building’s average floor, so it reflects price rather than which floors happened to sell. This is a different method from The Roebling Index, which publishes plain medians and applies no floor adjustment; the two are not interchangeable. Floor adjustment standardizes for floor only. It does not control for condition, size, exposure, renovation or the mix of what happened to trade. (2022 marks the rate-shock inflection.) Like-for-like repeat-sale figures to follow.
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, compare actual entry prices, apartment sizes, condition and carrying costs, accounting for this building's 1980s construction and current use rules. 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, with apartment-by-apartment detail from The Roebling Research Library. Across sales with a public asking price, the building carries a median listing discount of 1.7% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.
Price per square foot over time
14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2025 | 5D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 600 sf | $1,080,000 | $1,800 | -4.0% |
| Nov 1, 2021 | 6C | 483 sf | $1,020,000 | $2,112 | — |
| Aug 10, 2021 | 3B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 700 sf | $920,000 | $1,314 | -7.9% |
| Dec 4, 2019 | GRDNB | 1 BR · 1 BA · 650 sf | $1,100,000 | $1,692 | +0.0% |
| Jan 23, 2015 | 2C | 1 BR · 450 sf | $700,000 | $1,556 | — |
| Feb 12, 2014 | 5A | 1 BR · 1 BA · 450 sf | $805,000 | $1,789 | — |
| Jun 7, 2013 | 4D | 718 sf | $700,000 | $975 | — |
| Jun 7, 2013 | 4B | 723 sf | $700,000 | $968 | — |
| Dec 6, 2010 | 6A | 1 BR · 450 sf | $589,000 | $1,309 | — |
| Nov 18, 2009 | 3C | 483 sf | $550,000 | $1,139 | — |
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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2025 | 5D | 1 BR · 1 BA | 600 | $1,080,000 | $1,800 | -4.0% |
| Sep 5, 2024 | 5A | 1 BR · 1 BAoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,090,000 | — | -0.9% |
| Nov 1, 2021 | 6C | 483 | $1,020,000 | $2,112 | — | |
| Aug 10, 2021 | 3B | 1 BR · 1 BA | 700 | $920,000 | $1,314 | -7.9% |
| Dec 4, 2019 | GRDNB | 1 BR · 1 BA | 650 | $1,100,000 | $1,692 | +0.0% |
| Feb 27, 2019 | 2C | 1 BRoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $950,000 | — | -3.9% |
| Sep 12, 2018 | 1B | 2 BR · 1 BAoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,510,000 | — | -2.3% |
| Jan 23, 2015 | 2C | 1 BR | 450 | $700,000 | $1,556 | — |
| Feb 12, 2014 | 5A | 1 BR · 1 BA | 450 | $805,000 | $1,789 | — |
| Oct 2, 2013 | 4ASponsor Sale | 2 BRoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,485,000 | — | +0.7% |
| Jun 7, 2013 | 4D | 718 | $700,000 | $975 | — | |
| Jun 7, 2013 | 4B | 723 | $700,000 | $968 | — | |
| Dec 6, 2010 | 6A | 1 BR | 450 | $589,000 | $1,309 | — |
| Nov 18, 2009 | 3C | 483 | $550,000 | $1,139 | — | |
| Feb 26, 2007 | 4C | non-market transfer (excluded from $/sf & trends) | 723 | $280,000 | — | — |
| May 19, 2006 | 5A | 1 BR · 1 BA | 450 | $560,000 | $1,244 | — |
| Oct 3, 2005 | 3D | 450 | $659,000 | $1,464 | — | |
| Jan 21, 2005 | 3B | 1 BR · 1 BA | 700 | $625,000 | $893 | +8.7% |
| May 6, 2004 | 5D | 1 BR | 575 | $565,000 | $983 | -1.7% |
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00508-7501; 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. 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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