- Year built
- 1900
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 21
- Floors
- 7
- Landmark
- No
- Flip tax
- Not documented; confirm with the managing agent
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 331 West 14th Street 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.
331 West 14th Street is a small prewar elevator co-op on the block where 14th Street shifts from Chelsea to the Meatpacking District. The Gansevoort Market Historic District begins at the Ninth Avenue end of the same block. The building itself is outside the district and not individually designated, so its owners do not face the Landmarks review that governs their neighbors to the west.
The co-op has operated as a cooperative corporation since 1985, and its recorded history shows ordinary, steady ownership. The sponsor sold its final apartments in 2008–2009. Since then, recorded transfers have gone to individual purchasers, and the corporation has financed itself through a cooperative lender, most recently in December 2022. Recorded instruments from that refinancing total $1.25 million, which is modest per apartment.
The public record also shows one structural item buyers should understand. In 2005 the corporation recorded a development agreement and declaration with the owner of the adjoining lot at 333 West 14th Street, and a zoning-lot filing followed in January 2006. The adjoining building is now a nine-unit condominium. Filings like these usually commit a lot's unused development rights to the neighboring site. Buyers should assume this lot's development rights are no longer available to the co-op and confirm the terms with the managing agent.
Architecture and unit composition
The building is a seven-story, 25-foot-wide apartment house on a full-depth 125-foot lot, with about 13,550 gross square feet per DOF. Recorded unit designations run from the first floor through the seventh in A, B and C lines, plus a penthouse-level unit (PHB), a unit designated simply "B", and a 4AB combination completed under a 2008 DOB filing. A 2010 DOB filing covered renovation of the front areaway and basement entry and an expansion of the cellar. A 2017 filing covered façade restoration. Individual apartments have been renovated throughout, according to DOB alteration records from 2008 to 2015. The apartment mix, from recorded transfers and DOB filings, runs from studios to combined full-floor-width units.
Building operations
Listing records describe a virtual doorman, an elevator, a laundry room, garden access and paid storage. The building's managing agent, staff arrangement and current budget are not documented in public records. With no financial statements on file, the key diligence items are the most recent audited statements, the reserve balance, the terms of the 2022 underlying mortgage, the status of the building's façade cycle, and any planned capital work.
Recent sales
331 West 14th Street trades in Chelsea's small prewar co-op tier, priced per room. Recorded share transfers occur about once a year, with the combined 4AB and the upper-floor lines anchoring the top of the building's range. With so few trades, line and floor matter more than any building-wide average. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent transfers at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2026 | 4AB | $1,250,000 |
| Aug 2, 2021 | 7A | $895,000 |
| Dec 24, 2019 | 4AB | $1,074,500 |
| Sep 20, 2017 | PHB | $910,000 |
| Jul 6, 2017 | 4AB | $979,000 |
| May 16, 2017 | 7A | $875,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00738-0018) 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.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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What to know if you’re buying
Prepare a full board package. Expect a standard Manhattan co-op application and interview. Listing records say the board accepts guarantors and parents buying with or for children, which widens the financing options. Confirm the down-payment minimum and debt-to-income standards with the managing agent before you bid.
Ask for the underlying mortgage terms. The 2022 refinancing is recorded, but its rate and maturity are not. Both affect maintenance and your exposure to future assessments.
Ask about the 2005 development-rights agreement. Get a summary of the 2005 agreement with 333 West 14th Street and confirm whether any consideration or obligation continues.
Confirm the sublet and pied-à-terre rules in writing. "Flexible" in listing records is not a policy. Get the current sublet terms, any sublet fee, and the flip tax before you sign a contract.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with location and outdoor access. An elevator, garden access and a position a short walk from the High Line at the Ninth Avenue end of 14th Street set the building apart from many small West 14th Street walk-ups.
Have the board package answers ready. A buyer's first questions will be financing ceiling, sublets and flip tax. Having those from the managing agent at listing shortens the path to board approval.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 331 West 14th Street, also evaluate:
- 85 Eighth Avenue — the 117-unit 1973 co-op on the same block; the larger postwar alternative
- 345 West 14th Street — new-construction condominium a few doors west; the condominium comparison on the block
- 366 West 15th Street — converted warehouse condominium on the same tax block
- 652 Hudson Street — 14-unit 1900 co-op in the Meatpacking District; the same vintage and scale
- 217 West 14th Street — prewar 14th Street building of similar scale, under condominium tenure
- 340 West 19th Street — 26-unit prewar Chelsea co-op
- 247 West 12th Street — 24-unit prewar co-op in the West Village, a few blocks south
More Chelsea buildings
- 315 West 36th Street — 1926 condominium
- 319 West 18th Street (Chelsea Arms) — 1928 co-op
- Radio City Lofts (322 West 52nd Street) — 1930 condominium
- 333 West 22nd Street — co-op
- 339 West 55th Street (339 West 55th Street) — 1919 co-op
- 340 West 19th Street — 1920 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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