- Year built
- 1852
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Courtyard garden; laundry; bicycle and apartment storage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $795K
- Recent range
- $599K – $875K
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 29
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The Muffin House takes its name from Samuel Bath Thomas's English-muffin bakery, which operated here in the early twentieth century. The old oven survives beneath the courtyard; its rediscovery during residential work was covered by The New York Times in 2006. Today, the cooperative's front building and rear house are separated by a landscaped, cobblestone-paved courtyard.
Architecture and unit composition
LPC identifies the front house as an 1852 building erected for George Webb. It originally incorporated a ground-floor shop and an eastern passage leading to an older house at the rear. The ground floor was remodeled over time, while the upper stories retained much of their original vernacular character.
The present cooperative includes apartments in the front building and homes reached through the courtyard. One-bedroom layouts, duplexes and combined apartments appear in its resale inventory. Some upper homes have roof rights or developed roof space, and the rear-house apartments have their own relationship to the garden and rooftops.
The surviving brick oven is part of the property's earlier commercial fabric. It extends below the courtyard between the buildings, an unusual physical remnant of the former bakery within a residential cooperative.
Building operations
The building is a walk-up with shared laundry, bicycle storage and apartment storage. The courtyard provides common outdoor space and circulation to the rear homes. The cooperative conversion dates to 1982.
Its historic-district designation governs exterior work on the protected property. The combination of front and rear structures also makes the location of an apartment important: approaches, stairs and exposures differ between the street building and the garden side.
Policy framework
Financing: Up to 80%, requiring at least 20% down — confirm with the managing agent.
Pets and subletting: Allowed — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 2025 | 1B | 1 BR · 1.5 BA | $875,000 | -2.2% | |
| Oct 31, 2024 | 3A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $599,000 | +0.0% | |
| May 29, 2024 | 3B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $795,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jan 4, 2024 | PHB | 1 BR · 1 BA | $850,000 | +0.0% | |
| Nov 14, 2022 | 2M | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,150 sf | $1,325,000 | $1,152/sf | -14.5% |
| Feb 17, 2022 | 4M | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,135,000 | -8.8% | |
| Oct 21, 2021 | 3B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 550 sf | $790,000 | $1,436/sf | +1.9% |
| Apr 1, 2021 | 4B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $735,000 | -4.4% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2022): a median $1,152/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 1.5% 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 1-00744-0018) 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; square footage on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
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What to know if you’re buying
Roof rights within a historic district: A right to use or improve roof space does not itself authorize a new deck or addition. A purchase involving undeveloped roof rights needs to separate the cooperative's permission from any LPC and DOB approvals required for the proposed work.
Comparable buildings
- 333 West 22nd Street — A small prewar cooperative with a similarly low-rise Chelsea setting.
- 228 West 21st Street — A smaller walk-up cooperative alternative on a nearby residential block.
- Anderson House — A nineteenth-century house cooperative with a limited apartment inventory.
- 458 West 20th Street — A same-street historic cooperative with a larger association.
- 461 West 22nd Street — A smaller cooperative for comparing the responsibilities of house-scale ownership.
More Chelsea buildings
- 331 West 14th Street — 1900 co-op
- Chelsea Court Equities, 332–334 West 19th Street — 1910 co-op
- 333 West 22nd Street — co-op
- 339 West 55th Street (339 West 55th Street) — 1919 co-op
- 340 West 19th Street — 1920 co-op
- 341 West 29th Street — 1846 condominium
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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