30 Crosby Street (The Loft)
30 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10013
SoHo
BBL 1004737502 · BIN 1079134
- Year built
- 1878
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 13
- Floors
- 7
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Permitted per listing records; confirm the house rules
Every recorded sale at this building, 2001–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $2,207
- Listing discount
- 3.4%
- Recorded sales
- 25
- On record
- 2001–2026
The building most SoHo buyers now know as The Loft was never meant to be seen. Crosby Street between Grand and Broome was a service alley: every building on the west side of that block was built as the back of something that faced Broadway or Broome. The LPC designation report says so plainly — the facades on this block all serve as secondary entrances to buildings facing Broadway. What is now the front door of a thirteen-residence condominium was, in 1878, the loading side of Levy Bros. & Co.'s store and lofts at 472 Broadway.
That accident of orientation is the whole point. The Broadway half of the structure was cut down and refaced in a 1934 alteration and today reads as an unremarkable low commercial building. The Crosby half was left alone — twelve bays of brick and stone, high loft windows, cast-iron elements at the ground floor, exactly the utilitarian rhythm the designation report describes. When residential conversion came to SoHo, the untouched service elevation turned out to be the valuable half of the building, and the Broadway address turned out to be the one nobody wanted.
The conversion itself was done carefully. Landmarks Development Inc. filed the change-of-use application in December 2000 with Joseph Pell Lombardi as architect of record — a preservation architect, and the choice shows in the result. The five original stories were converted to residential and a two-story addition was built on the roof to hold two penthouses. Thirteen residences came out of roughly 55,700 square feet, which is the arithmetic that defines the building: nothing here is small. The mid-building A and B homes run about 4,100 to 4,200 square feet each on half-floor plates, the M-level residences 3,000 to 4,300, and the two penthouses roughly 5,800 apiece, per Department of Finance records.
The units were created as Joint Live-Work Quarters for Artists — the classification SoHo residential conversions carried under the old M1-5A and M1-5B zoning, and the reason DOB filings here through 2006 describe apartment renovations as work in a JLWQA. That framework changed in December 2021, when the City Council adopted the SoHo/NoHo Neighborhood Plan, mapped this lot as M1-5/R9X inside the new Special SoHo-NoHo Mixed Use District, permitted residential use as of right, and created a path to convert conforming Joint Live-Work Quarters to unrestricted residential use. In August 2026 a no-work Alteration Type 1 application was filed for this building to obtain a new certificate of occupancy classifying it as R-2 residential and to administratively close out the 2000 conversion job. That filing is worth understanding before you buy here, and it is discussed below.
Thirteen units, a single elevator with keyed landings, a doorman, a garden and a wine room: the operating model is a small building running a service level normally associated with a much larger one. That is a favorable ratio to use and an unfavorable one to fund, and it is the first thing to look at in the budget.
Architecture and unit composition
The Crosby elevation is twelve bays wide across a lot 100 feet on the street and roughly 100 feet deep — unusually broad for the district, and the reason the floor plates support two large residences per level rather than one. The facade is brick and stone with cast-iron work at the ground floor, and the designation report is candid that the Broadway-facing buildings on this block got the ornament while Crosby got the function. Interiors carry what the conversion preserved and what the structure gave: heavy timber, cast-iron columns and wide-plank floors appear in the residences, and the original loft window openings drive the light.
The stack, per the recorded condominium unit-lot schedule, runs three residences at the M level (M1, M2, M3), paired A and B homes on floors two through five, and PH-A and PH-B in the two-story rooftop addition. M1 and M2 were combined under a 2020 alteration, which is why a building described as thirteen residences functions as twelve. The penthouses are the largest homes and the only ones created new in 2001 rather than carved out of the 1878 structure — a distinction worth holding onto, because their finishes, ceiling geometry and outdoor space follow a different logic from the loft floors below. A demountable roof pergola was permitted at the accessory roof terrace in 2019.
Capital work on the envelope has been recurring rather than dramatic: a sidewalk shed and facade repair in 2013–2014 including brick and window-sill replacement, a rooftop chiller replacement in 2018, and a sidewalk replacement permitted by Landmarks in 2025 and signed off that September.
Building operations
Thirteen units, one elevator, an attended lobby with 24-hour doorman coverage, keyed elevator landings, a bamboo garden, a party and tasting room, a wine cellar and common storage, per brokerage and listing records. Facade cycle filings under Local Law 11 report the building Safe in Cycle 8 (2019) and Safe With a Repair and Maintenance Program in Cycle 9, filed December 2022 — meaning conditions were identified that require repair within the cycle. Ask for the Cycle 9 report, the scope and cost of the remediation, and whether it has been funded from reserves or assessed.
Common charges in a building with this staffing model spread across thirteen residences will run high per square foot by definition. Read the operating budget and the reserve position rather than the amenity list.
Landmark status — read this before you plan any work
The lot sits inside the SoHo–Cast Iron Historic District, designated August 14, 1973 — the original district, not one of the later extensions. Every exterior alteration requires a Landmarks Preservation Commission permit issued before the Department of Buildings will issue its own. In practice that means one of three instruments: a Certificate of Appropriateness, which requires review by the full Commission at a public hearing and is the instrument for anything that changes the appearance of a facade visible from a public thoroughfare — new windows, storefront changes, rooftop additions, through-wall louvers on a visible elevation; a Certificate of No Effect, issued at staff level where the work does not affect protected features; or a Permit for Minor Work for in-kind repair and similar items.
The building's own record shows how that plays out. LPC permits on this lot are overwhelmingly Certificates of No Effect for interior alterations — 2001, 2015, 2016 — plus a Permit for Minor Work in 1998 and another in 2025 for sidewalk replacement. Interior renovation inside a unit is normally a staff-level review and not a serious obstacle. Anything that touches the Crosby facade is a different exercise, on a different timetable, with a different probability of approval. Buyers underwriting a gut renovation with new window openings, exterior venting or a terrace enlargement should price the Landmarks process, not assume it.
Certificate of occupancy — the open item
Department of Buildings records show that the 2000 conversion job produced a series of temporary certificates of occupancy, the last of them issued November 1, 2013, and no final certificate on file. In August 2026 a no-work Alteration Type 1 application was filed expressly to obtain a new certificate of occupancy and administratively close out the original conversion application, changing the occupancy classification to R-2.
This is a real diligence item, not a technicality. A building operating on an expired temporary certificate can complicate financing with some lenders, and the pending filing is the vehicle that resolves both the certificate and the Joint Live-Work Quarters classification carried since 2001. It is also, on the evidence, a housekeeping exercise the building is actively pursuing rather than a distressed situation. Ask the managing agent for the current status of that application, the board's expected timetable, and whether any cost has been assessed against unit owners.
Policy framework
Ownership form: Condominium. Purchases close through a board right of first refusal rather than a cooperative approval, which produces a faster and more predictable timetable — 30 to 45 days is typical.
Pets: Permitted per listing records. Confirm weight and breed limits in the house rules.
Pied-à-terre, subletting, LLC, trust and foreign ownership: All permitted under the standard condominium framework. Minimum lease terms for subletting should be confirmed with the managing agent.
Flip tax: Not documented in public records. Confirm any resale capital contribution before pricing a sale.
Real estate taxes: No exemption of any kind appears on the residential unit lots in the current assessment roll. Underwrite full unabated taxes on the specific unit against the current bill.
Occupancy classification: Units were created as Joint Live-Work Quarters for Artists in 2001. A 2026 filing seeks a new certificate of occupancy as R-2. Confirm the current status with the managing agent and with counsel before contract.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $9,014/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $58
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 filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the engineer identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair before the next inspection cycle. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
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).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
The Loft trades as a large-format SoHo loft condominium, and the comparable set is small: full-floor and half-floor prewar loft product inside the Cast Iron district with a doorman. Pricing is properly expressed in dollars per square foot, and because residences here run from roughly 3,000 to 5,800 square feet, headline prices sit well above the SoHo median while the per-foot figure is more moderate than the ticket suggests. The building's own inventory is thin — thirteen lots, few of them ever available at once — so line-specific and floor-specific analysis matters more than a building average.
Two structural facts separate the sticker price from the true monthly number here: there is no tax abatement, and the service model is expensive per unit. Both should be modelled against the current tax bill and the current operating budget rather than against neighborhood assumptions. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Recent closings at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 2026 | 4B | 3 BR · 3 BA · 4,123 sf | $9,000,000 | $2,183/sf | -3.2% |
| Jan 20, 2026 | 4A | 3 BR · 3 BA · 4,123 sf | $9,200,000 | $2,231/sf | -3.1% |
| Jun 21, 2024 | 5B | 3 BR · 4 BA · 4,164 sf | $9,925,000 | $2,384/sf | -9.4% |
| Feb 24, 2022 | 2B | 3 BR · 3 BA · 4,164 sf | $8,600,000 | $2,065/sf | -3.4% |
| Sep 7, 2021 | 3B | 3 BR · 3 BA · 4,164 sf | $8,325,000 | $1,999/sf | -4.9% |
| Apr 29, 2021 | M2 | 3 BR · 3 BA · 3,000 sf | $4,850,000 | $1,617/sf | -19.1% |
| Mar 15, 2021 | M1 | 3 BR · 4 BA · 3,523 sf | $5,300,000 | $1,504/sf | -24.2% |
| Oct 17, 2019 | M1 | 3 BR · 4 BA · 3,523 sf | $7,750,000 | $2,200/sf | -3.1% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $2,207/sf across 2 sales. Median listing discount 3.4% 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 1-00473-7502) 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; square footage from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
What to know if you’re buying
Ask for the certificate-of-occupancy status first. Temporary certificates ran to 2013 and a new application was filed in August 2026. Get the status, the timetable and the cost allocation in writing before you go to contract.
Understand the Joint Live-Work Quarters history. The units were created under the old SoHo artist-certification framework. The 2021 rezoning opened a path to unrestricted residential use, and the 2026 filing appears to be that path. Have counsel confirm where your specific unit stands.
Price the Landmarks process into any renovation. Interior work is generally a Certificate of No Effect. Facade work is a Certificate of Appropriateness with a public hearing. These are not the same project.
Read the Cycle 9 facade report. The building filed Safe With a Repair and Maintenance Program in December 2022. Repairs required within a cycle are a funded obligation somewhere — reserves or assessment.
Check the address you are actually buying. City and mailing records use 30 Crosby Street, 30–36 Crosby Street and 472 Broadway for the same tax parcel. Title, insurance and tax records may not agree on their face.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the plates. Half-floor lofts of 4,100-plus square feet with two-per-floor privacy inside the Cast Iron district are a genuinely scarce product. That is the argument no newer building can copy.
Get ahead of the certificate of occupancy. Sophisticated buyers and their counsel will find it. Presenting the pending application, its purpose and its status up front is materially better than letting it surface in diligence.
Price against SoHo loft condominiums, not against SoHo generally. The right comparable set is doorman loft conversions of similar scale in the district, not the smaller boutique inventory that sets the neighborhood median.
Be precise about square footage. Department of Finance figures, offering-plan figures and marketing figures for loft residences frequently diverge. Pick a source, state it, and stay with it.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 30 Crosby Street, also evaluate:
- 40 Mercer Street — Jean Nouvel's glass condominium in SoHo; the contemporary alternative at similar unit scale and a very different architectural argument
- 105 Wooster Street — boutique loft building on a cobblestoned Cast Iron district block; the smaller-scale SoHo loft comparison
- 139 Wooster Street — SoHo loft condominium in the district core
- 160 Wooster Street — full-floor SoHo loft product; the closest peer on plate size
- 107 Greene Street — cast-iron loft conversion on one of the district's signature blocks
- 477 Broome Street — 1873 cast-iron loft, twenty residences; the cooperative alternative with different financing and policy rules
- 565 Broome Street — Renzo Piano's SoHo towers; the full-amenity new-development alternative
- 27 Wooster Street — small SoHo loft condominium south of Grand
- 303 Mercer Street — larger loft-district condominium with a fuller staffing model
- 225 Lafayette Street — loft conversion on the district's eastern edge
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Greenwich Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to Greenwich Village.
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.
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