33 Rector Street
33 Rector Street, at West Street · Financial District
Financial District
BBL 1000177502 · BIN 1000792
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2006–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,043
- Listing discount
- 4.0%
- Recorded sales
- 10
- On record
- 2006–2025
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Henry Otis Chapman designed this narrow office building for the Union Sulphur Company. Its later condominium conversion placed an entire apartment on each residential floor, with direct elevator entry and multiple exposures. At the western edge of the Financial District, the building's broad side windows and upper-floor outlook distinguish these lofts from apartments organized around an interior office-building corridor.
Architecture and unit composition
A rusticated limestone base supports a tan-brick shaft, with limestone returning at the top below a bracketed cornice. The classically divided façade preserves the appearance of a compact commercial tower. The lobby contains a tablet commemorating Herman Frasch, the Union Sulphur Company's founder and first president.
Typical homes span roughly 2,160 to 2,170 square feet. The full-floor plans permit two- and three-bedroom arrangements, separate dining areas and large living rooms. High ceilings and oversized windows carry the former office scale into the residential interiors. North, south and west exposures occur together within individual apartments, and some higher homes look toward the Hudson River and harbor.
Two keyed elevators open directly into the apartments. The absence of a conventional residential corridor makes the arrival sequence part of the loft: the entrance foyer, living area and bedroom circulation occupy one continuous floor plate. Owners have arranged the internal rooms differently, so bedroom count varies despite the repeated overall footprint.
Building operations
The building has part-time doorman and concierge service, an on-site superintendent, bicycle facilities and video intercom security. Central air conditioning and in-unit laundry are present in the residences. The entrance has steps before the elevator access, an important distinction from a level sidewalk-to-apartment route.
The property combines thirteen residential tax lots with two commercial lots. All residential owners hold one apartment each in the current DOF roll. The commercial component remains part of the condominium's wider allocation of common building costs.
Policy framework
Pets: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Recent sales
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 2025 | 10 | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,162 sf | $2,255,000 | $1,043/sf | +12.8% |
| Apr 24, 2023 | 7 | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,170 sf | $1,950,000 | $899/sf | -14.3% |
| Apr 8, 2020 | 9 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 2,170 sf | $2,400,000 | $1,106/sf | -4.0% |
| May 31, 2018 | 11 | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,166 sf | $2,825,000 | $1,304/sf | -4.2% |
| Dec 27, 2016 | 4 | 2 BR · 2,170 sf | $2,750,000 | $1,267/sf | off-mkt |
| May 20, 2016 | 12 | 2 BR · 2,170 sf | $2,950,000 | $1,359/sf | -6.3% |
| Sep 26, 2014 | 4 | 2 BR · 2,170 sf | $2,350,000 | $1,083/sf | -1.5% |
| Jul 11, 2014 | 12 | 2 BR · 2,170 sf | $2,450,000 | $1,129/sf | -2.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $1,043/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 4.0% 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 1-00017-7502) 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
Two lifts serve a very small association. Maintaining two elevators benefits the full-floor access arrangement but concentrates their shared cost across relatively few residences and the commercial ownership. An apartment's common-interest allocation and the split of elevator expenses are more consequential here than the apartment count alone suggests.
Comparable buildings
- 114 Liberty Street — Another small prewar condominium conversion with a similar ownership scale.
- 50 Pine Street — A prewar condominium in a compact downtown tower.
- The Fulton Building — A larger conversion with a comparable vertical form.
- Fultonhaus — A small-inventory condominium in a former commercial building.
- Warren Lofts — A farther loft conversion that offers a useful comparison for large apartments and prewar commercial architecture.
More Financial District buildings
- 30 Park Place / Four Seasons Private Residences — 2016 condominium by Robert A.M. Stern Architects
- 30 Warren Street (30 Warren Street) — 2017 condominium
- 31 North Moore Street (31 North Moore Street) — condominium
- No. 33 Park Row — 2016 condominium
- 38 Warren Street (The Keystone Building) — 1900 condominium
- 40 Broad Street (The Setai Wall Street) — condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Financial District — read The Roebling Team Guide to Financial District.
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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