- Year built
- 1900
- Type
- Front apartment building and rear carriage-house apartments
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Shared garden, bicycle storage, private storage and intercom
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $498K
- Recent range
- $406K – $500K
- Listing discount
- 2.9%
- Recorded transfers
- 25
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328 West 17th Street is part of a four-address Chelsea cooperative with front and rear apartments separated by garden space. The carriage-house homes sit behind the street building and are approached through the shared garden. That arrangement gives buyers two distinct settings within one ownership structure: rooms facing West 17th Street and homes deeper inside the block.
The cooperative also has a documented financial recovery behind its present resale market. Habitat Magazine traced its 1987 conversion under developer John Siegel, the original sponsor's failure and the restructuring that followed. A 1996 workout paid debts and provided credit; by Habitat's 2007 account, individual shareholders had become the majority and the property had completed extensive repairs.
The wider cooperative originally had 64 apartments. Habitat reported 59 in 2007 after combinations, while the current city count for the 328 tax lot is 17. The entrance address and the overall cooperative therefore describe different scales of ownership.
Architecture and unit composition
The street building rises five stories and is a walk-up. The rear carriage house contains eight apartments. Its access route passes through the front building and across the garden, placing the rear homes beyond the street frontage. Front and rear homes have different approaches, exposures and stair climbs.
The inventory includes studios, compact one-bedrooms, larger floor-through layouts and combined homes. Some one-bedroom plans retain a long, railroad-like arrangement, with rooms running through the apartment. Other homes have more open living areas. Exposed brick, tall windows and surviving fireplace surrounds appear in the interiors, but their condition and function depend on the apartment's renovation.
Smaller rear apartments have traded with areas around 450 square feet, while larger homes have been represented at approximately 700–900 square feet. The garden is common outdoor space. A garden view from an apartment does not assign that owner a private portion of the courtyard.
The two-building arrangement also makes floor labels less useful as a measure of the approach to a home. Rear apartments involve the garden passage as well as stairs inside the carriage house; the relevant route begins at the street entrance.
Building operations
The cooperative maintains the shared garden, bicycle room and storage areas. Private storage is available within the property. Intercom access serves the buildings, and the walk-up circulation avoids the operating costs of passenger elevators.
The financial restructuring was consequential to the cooperative's physical maintenance. Habitat's 2007 history describes repairs to roofs and masonry, an increased focus on capital planning, and commercial and storage income contributing to the recovery. Those are dated milestones in the property's history, not statements of today's reserve balance or repair schedule.
The four-address structure means the apartment is part of a corporation with multiple building envelopes and common facilities. A purchaser at 328 participates in that wider cooperative, even when the apartment occupies a small rear structure. The exact share allocation governs the owner's contribution to the corporation's costs.
Policy framework
Pets: Allowed — confirm with the managing agent.
Pied-à-terre: Allowed — confirm with the managing agent.
Subletting: Permitted after two years of ownership, subject to the cooperative's conditions — confirm with the managing agent.
In-unit laundry: European-style washer/dryer installation is permitted subject to approval — confirm with the managing agent.
Recent sales
Recent transfers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2025 | 2F | 1 BA | $406,000 | +1.8% | |
| Jul 24, 2024 | 2E | 1 BR · 1 BA | $500,000 | -23.1% | |
| Aug 16, 2023 | 2R | 1 BR · 1 BA · 450 sf | $495,000 | $1,100/sf | -2.9% |
| Jun 23, 2022 | 4W | 1 BR · 1 BA | $850,500 | +6.4% | |
| May 10, 2022 | 5E | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,500,000 | -6.0% | |
| May 10, 2021 | 3E | 1 BR | $590,000 | +5.4% | |
| Oct 27, 2020 | 2W | 1 BR · 1 BA · 700 sf | $685,000 | $979/sf | -2.0% |
| Nov 18, 2016 | 5E | 2 BR · 900 sf | $1,237,500 | $1,375/sf | -1.0% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2023): a median $1,100/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 1.0% 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 1-00740-0047) 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 on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
Comparable buildings
- 331 West 14th Street — A nearby prewar cooperative for comparing smaller apartments within older Chelsea buildings.
- 340 West 19th Street — A prewar cooperative with a more concentrated single-address inventory.
- 333 West 22nd Street — An older low-rise cooperative for buyers considering townhouse-scale architecture.
- Chelsea Arms — A larger prewar cooperative with a purpose-built apartment-house form.
- Chelsea Hall — Another established cooperative of meaningful scale, with a different building layout and service comparison.
- 458 West 20th Street — A small older cooperative useful for comparing walk-up-era Chelsea ownership and limited apartment inventories.
More Chelsea buildings
- Radio City Lofts (322 West 52nd Street) — 1930 condominium
- The Colonnade, 324 West 23rd Street — 1911 condominium
- 326 West 22nd Street — co-op
- 329 West 21st Street — 1900 co-op
- 331 West 14th Street — 1900 co-op
- Chelsea Court Equities, 332–334 West 19th Street — 1910 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Chelsea — read The Roebling Team Guide to Chelsea.
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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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