30 Crosby Street (The Loft)

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.

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.

The staffing model is a budget consideration, but thirteen residences do not establish high charges per square foot; compare actual charges, allocations and consistently measured apartment areas. Read the operating budget and the reserve position rather than the amenity list.

The lot sits inside the SoHo–Cast Iron Historic District, designated August 14, 1973 — the original district, not one of the later extensions. Covered exterior alterations need a Landmarks Preservation Commission permit; ordinary maintenance may be exempt. Where a DOB permit is needed, obtain the required LPC approval first. In practice that means one of three instruments: a Certificate of Appropriateness, which requires review by the full Commission at a public hearing for work beyond staff authority; some changes to visible features can qualify for staff approval under LPC rules; 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.

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 intended to resolve both the certificate and the Joint Live-Work Quarters classification carried since 2001. The application alone does not establish the cost or timing of resolution. Have the buyer's attorney confirm with the managing agent the current certificate of occupancy, the pending application's scope and any DOB objections, the work or approvals still outstanding, the board's expected timetable, and whether any cost has been assessed against unit owners.

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: Not documented; confirm in the declaration, bylaws and house rules, including minimum lease terms for subletting.

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. Check the specific unit's current bill for any abatement and underwrite from it.

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.

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.

Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $2,207/sf (floor-adjusted) across 2 sales. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 4.1% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00473-7502; 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.

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 requiring a DOB permit also needs LPC review. Depending on scope, façade work can qualify for staff approval; work beyond staff authority requires a Certificate of Appropriateness and public hearing. Ordinary maintenance may be exempt. Confirm the route before setting a schedule.

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.

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.

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