36 Bleecker Street (The Schumacher)
36 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012
- Year built
- 1885
The Schumacher is, per Carter Horsley, "one of the city's most spectacular and artistic residential conversions of a mid-rise commercial building" — a 2015 Morris Adjmi conversion of an 1885 Schumacher & Ettlinger Lithography building. Horsley's signature line: "Eat your hearts out, residents of 40 Bond Street."
The structural identity rests on three features. First, the Edward E. Raht Romanesque Revival composition — "corbelled brick layering, ornamental overhangs, radiating lintels, some turrets and the 5th and 6th floors have arched windows." Second, the Morris Adjmi conversion with Higgins Quasebarth preservation — Adjmi found a drawing by Raht of a pediment from a Union Club competition and used it to fashion a replacement. Third, the Ken Smith Workshop landscape — "the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to Manhattan" per developer Stillman, with diagonal evergreen-and-clematis cables, two fountains, and a Jeff Koons sculpture from resident Alberto Mugrabi.
Recent sales
Penthouse B (4-bed duplex, 4,546 sf), Penthouse C (4-bed, 3,527 sf), Mansion 3 (3-level, 4-bed, 4,342 sf) headline. Original sponsor sales 2015-2017 hit $2.5K-$3.5K/sf; secondary market trades sticky given small (21-unit) building and design-collector buyer base.
What to know if you’re buying
The Morris Adjmi conversion architecture is real institutional context.
The 1885 Raht Romanesque Revival original is real architectural-history pedigree.
The Ken Smith Workshop courtyard is structurally distinguishing.
The Christophe Côme lobby commissioned by Cristina Grajales is real institutional art context.
The Alberto Mugrabi Jeff Koons sculpture in the courtyard is real institutional art context.
The 21-unit boutique scale supports operational intimacy and design-collector buyer profile.
The Horsley "eat your hearts out 40 Bond residents" comparative reading anchors competitive positioning.
Comparable buildings
- 40 Bond Street — Herzog & de Meuron 2007; immediate NoHo trophy peer
- 25 Bond Street — BKSK 2008; nearby NoHo trophy peer
- 40 Bleecker Street — Rawlings 2019; nearby NoHo peer
- Devonshire House (28 East 10th) — Roth / 2011 condo; nearby Greenwich Village peer
- 1 Fifth Avenue — Helmle & Corbett 1929; nearby Greenwich Village peer
The Roebling Team at The Schumacher
Corey Cohen · The Roebling Team at Compass 646.939.7375 · c.cohen@compass.com
Sources: CityRealty (Carter Horsley review, building 54872); Morris Adjmi Architects; Field Condition (December 2015); Alexei Barrionuevo, NYT, April 14, 2013; NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers.