357 Grand Street
357 Grand Street, New York, NY 10002
Lower East Side
BBL 1003110013 · BIN 1077604
- Year built
- 1960
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $688K
- Recent range
- $600K – $775K
- Listing discount
- 2.3%
- Recorded transfers
- 633
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357 Grand Street is one of the towers of the Seward Park Cooperative, part of Cooperative Village — the cluster of labor-sponsored, member-owned housing that lines Grand Street between the Williamsburg Bridge approach and the East River. Built at the end of the 1950s by the United Housing Foundation and designed by Herman J. Jessor — the architect behind much of the city's mid-century cooperative stock — Seward Park was conceived as durable, affordable ownership housing for working families. It is one of the largest and most enduring cooperatives in lower Manhattan.
The reason 357 Grand belongs on a buyer's radar today is its evolution from limited-equity to full-equity ownership. For decades the cooperative held resale prices below market in exchange for tax abatements; in the mid-1990s the shareholders voted to reconstitute the corporation, and over a phased transition the price ceilings were removed. The building now trades at full market value — but it retains the low carrying charges and conservative, not-for-profit management of its cooperative origins. That pairing of market ownership and labor-cooperative economics is unusual and valuable.
For a buyer, the practical takeaway is space at a price the rest of Manhattan rarely offers. The apartments are real one-, two-, and three-bedroom homes on a quiet landscaped superblock, two blocks from the East River esplanade and steps from the Lower East Side's restaurants, markets, and nightlife.
Architecture and unit composition
357 Grand is a 21-story brick tower in the plain, light-and-air idiom Jessor applied across the cooperative-housing movement — efficient floor plates, cross-ventilation, and no decorative excess. The Seward Park towers stand on a landscaped superblock with planted courtyards and gated private parks, a green campus carved into one of the densest districts in Manhattan, which gives the buildings their quiet, settled character.
Inside, the apartments are the asset: well-proportioned layouts with solid plaster construction, genuine foyers, and the room sizes that mid-century building delivered and contemporary construction rarely matches. Upper-floor homes capture open exposures toward the river, the bridges, and the downtown skyline. Because the floor plans repeat cleanly from line to line, value reads consistently across the building — useful in a co-op of this scale.
Building operations
Like the rest of Cooperative Village, 357 Grand is run on the labor-cooperative principle of low overhead and reinvestment rather than profit. The building carries full-time staff and attended entrances, with on-site parking, laundry, community rooms, a playground, and the landscaped grounds shared across the Seward Park towers. Carrying charges are held deliberately low — a defining priority of the cooperative — which is one of the building's strongest selling points relative to comparably sized homes elsewhere in Manhattan.
The building's policies are owner-friendly and clear: pets are permitted, subletting is allowed after an initial ownership period with board approval and a sublet fee, and a transfer fee (flip tax) applies on resale. Qualified buyers may finance under a standard down-payment requirement, and purchases clear through a cooperative board package and interview. These are the settled rules of a stable, owner-occupied community.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2026 | K707 | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,437,000 | -4.1% | |
| Jul 23, 2026 | K1906 | 1 BR · 1 BA | $850,000 | +3.0% | |
| Jul 21, 2026 | H307 | 1 BR · 1 BA · 800 sf | $750,000 | $938/sf | -3.2% |
| Jul 9, 2026 | H1602 | 1 BA · 550 sf | $460,000 | $836/sf | -7.8% |
| Jun 15, 2026 | M505 | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,000 sf | $950,000 | $950/sf | -0.9% |
| Jun 4, 2026 | G1403 | 1 BR · 1 BA · 750 sf | $725,000 | $967/sf | -9.3% |
| May 27, 2026 | M2002 | 1 BR · 1.5 BA | $990,000 | -6.6% | |
| Apr 30, 2026 | 1203 | 1 BR · 1 BA · 800 sf | $775,000 | $969/sf | +0.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $950/sf across 9 sales. Median listing discount 1.8% 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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2011 | G1606 | $350,000 |
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 1-00311-0013) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
This is a space-and-value purchase inside a financially sound, fully reconstituted cooperative. It is a full-equity co-op, so resale prices are set by the market and appreciation belongs to the owner. Carrying charges are intentionally modest, a structural advantage of the cooperative's not-for-profit management that meaningfully improves the monthly carry. Pets are welcome and subletting is permitted after the holding period — flexibility uncommon among conservative co-ops. Plan on a standard board package and interview, a customary down payment, and a transfer fee on resale. We help buyers read the financials, model the true monthly cost, and identify the lines and exposures that hold their value.
What to know if you’re selling
Sell the space and the economics. Genuine multi-bedroom homes with open views at Lower East Side pricing, carried at labor-cooperative maintenance levels, are a rare combination — and that is the story a resale here should tell. Emphasize the full-equity structure: buyers get market ownership without the carrying cost of a conventional luxury building. Benchmark within Cooperative Village and the Lower East Side, comparing floor, exposure, and renovation level against recent trades in the same line. The large, active shareholder base keeps well-positioned listings moving, and the building's stability and amenities reinforce the pitch.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 357 Grand Street, also evaluate other Lower East Side cooperative and condominium inventory:
- 572 Grand Street — a neighboring Cooperative Village tower
- 38 Delancey Street — Lower East Side residential building nearby
- 196 Orchard — newer Lower East Side condominium
- 215 Chrystie Street — downtown condominium tower
- 20 Clinton Street — Lower East Side condominium a few blocks north
- 148 Attorney Street — Lower East Side residential building
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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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