301 West 53rd Street (Fifty Third and Eighth)
301 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019
Hell's Kitchen
BBL 1010447501 · BIN 1025400
- Year built
- 1980
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 247
- Floors
- 25
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- 24-hour doorman and concierge, a furnished roof deck with grills and open city views, a landscaped courtyard garden, a windowed fitness center, a residents' lounge, a children's playroom, a parking garage, bicycle storage, valet cleaning service, and a live-in superintendent
- Pets
- Pet-friendly — verify current terms with the managing agent
- Flip tax
- None documented — verify against the by-laws at offer stage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2015–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf (floor-adjusted)
- $1,525
- Listing discount
- -0.4%
- Recorded sales
- 301
- On record
- 2015–2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at Fifty Third and Eighth would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
Fifty Third and Eighth is a full-service condominium delivered through the gut renovation and conversion of a 1980 rental tower on the northwest corner of Eighth Avenue and West 53rd Street. The building sits at the seam between Hell's Kitchen and Midtown West — between the Theater District to the south and Columbus Circle, the Hearst Building, and Central Park's southwest corner to the north. For buyers, it offers renovated, individually owned condominium product with modern finishes on a corner Eighth Avenue site, at a per-foot below the new-construction towers a few blocks east and north.
The building's thesis is location and condominium flexibility at a mid-market Midtown West price point. The block has improved substantially since the tower was built, anchored by World Wide Plaza to the south and the Columbus Circle corridor to the north, with the A/C/E, B/D, and 1 lines and the Theater District within a short walk. Combined with condominium flexibility — pied-à-terre use, investor purchasers, and subletting under the by-laws — Fifty Third and Eighth appeals to buyers who want ownership and building services in central Midtown without the pricing of the Billionaires' Row corridor to the east.
Architecture and unit composition
The original 1980 building — designed by Liebman & Liebman with Schuman Lichtenstein & Claman — is a brown-brick mid-rise notable for its broad entrance stairs, a one-story stone base, and street-level retail. The condominium conversion, led by BP Architects with interiors by ASH NYC and landscape by Terrain NYC, reworked the interiors and common spaces to a contemporary standard. The roughly 247–252 residences run from one- through three-bedroom layouts, many with open, pass-through kitchens and open city exposures through large windows. Finishes introduced in the conversion include white lacquer kitchen cabinetry, white quartz countertops, gas ranges, and marble bathrooms; as with any converted building, finish level and renovation quality vary line to line.
Building operations
Fifty Third and Eighth runs as a full-service condominium: a 24-hour doorman and concierge, a furnished roof deck with grills and open city views, a landscaped courtyard garden, a windowed fitness center, a residents' lounge, a children's playroom, a parking garage, bicycle storage, valet cleaning service, and a live-in superintendent. Common charges reflect the service level and amenity package; the offering plan and current house rules are on file in The Roebling Research Library.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $26,654/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $9
- Modeled exposure split equally across 247 units (the city tax-lot count). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
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, with repairs due by the deadline stated in the filing. 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).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
Fifty Third and Eighth trades in the mid-market band of the Midtown West / Hell's Kitchen condominium market, with pricing that sits below the new-construction towers along Eighth Avenue and the Columbus Circle corridor. The condominium conversion and modern finishes support pricing relative to older co-op stock in the neighborhood, while the per-foot remains accessible for central Midtown ownership. Apartment-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence; hedge any building-wide per-foot figure against the specific line, floor, and exposure of the unit in question.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2026 | 9K | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,040 sf | $1,675,000 | $1,611/sf | -4.3% |
| Aug 20, 2026 | 13J | 1 BR · 1 BA · 678 sf | $942,800 | $1,391/sf | -1.6% |
| Jul 28, 2026 | 10C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 861 sf | $1,310,000 | $1,521/sf | -3.0% |
| Jun 16, 2026 | 7K | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,040 sf | $1,640,000 | $1,577/sf | -8.9% |
| Jun 12, 2026 | 8I | 1 BR · 1 BA · 667 sf | $895,000 | $1,342/sf | -0.4% |
| May 15, 2026 | 18J | 1 BR · 1 BA · 678 sf | $950,000 | $1,401/sf | -0.6% |
| Apr 14, 2026 | 13E | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,040 sf | $1,680,000 | $1,615/sf | -4.0% |
| Apr 9, 2026 | 7A | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,040 sf | $1,520,000 | $1,462/sf | +0.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,525/sf (floor-adjusted) across 8 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 -0.4% over ask.
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 1-01044-7501). 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.
At the recent median sale of $1.28M (14 sales since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $55,998 to close, or 4.4% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $12,800
- Mortgage recording tax: $18,480
- Title insurance: $5,760
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $18,958
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
Read the conversion line by line. This is a gut-renovated 1980 tower, not ground-up new construction. Finish level, layout efficiency, and renovation quality vary by line — inspect the specific unit rather than relying on the building-wide marketing.
Confirm the exposure. Open city views run through large windows on higher floors, but light and outlook vary substantially by floor and orientation on this corner Eighth Avenue site.
Condo flexibility is real. Pied-à-terre, investment use, and subletting are accommodated under the declaration and by-laws; closings run on a condominium timeline of roughly 30 to 45 days.
Model the full carry. Common charges plus property taxes plus utilities and insurance — run the complete monthly number, and confirm the tax treatment and any abatement status at offer stage.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with location and condominium ownership. A corner Eighth Avenue site between the Theater District and Columbus Circle, with individually owned condominium flexibility, widens the buyer pool relative to neighborhood co-op stock.
Position against Midtown West, not Billionaires' Row. Your comparable set is the surrounding Midtown West and Hell's Kitchen condominiums, not the Central Park-front trophy market to the east.
High floors and open exposures carry the premium. View, floor, and outlook drive the per-foot spread on this site.
Closing timelines are condo-fast. 30 to 45 days from contract to closing.
Comparable buildings
- 347 West 57th Street — nearby Midtown West condominium
- 301 West 57th Street — nearby Columbus Circle-adjacent condominium
- 500 West 53rd Street — nearby Hell's Kitchen condominium on the same street
- 135 West 52nd Street — nearby Midtown condominium to the east
- 555 West 59th Street (The Element) — amenity-rich condominium near Columbus Circle
More Chelsea buildings
- 270 West 19th Street (The Sedona) — 2004 condominium
- 291 Seventh Avenue — 1907 condominium
- 300 West 30th Street — 2020 condominium
- 301 West 57th Street (Central Park Place) — 1988 condominium
- 304 West 55th Street — 1941 co-op
- 305 West 18th Street — 1950 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Chelsea — read The Roebling Team Guide to Chelsea.
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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