- Year built
- 1940
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Elevator, landscaped common garden, laundry, bicycle storage, live-in superintendent, video-entry system
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $740K
- Recent range
- $730K – $750K
- Listing discount
- 2.1%
- Recorded transfers
- 54
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Chelsea Court puts a shared lawn and landscaped garden behind a five-story cooperative at West 21st Street and Ninth Avenue. The outdoor area is a substantial part of the property: it has seasonal furniture and space for residents to gather, and several apartments look directly into its planting. The building also has an elevator and a resident superintendent.
Its housing stock includes studios, one-bedrooms, two-bedrooms and larger combinations. Smaller apartments account for much of the resale history. That mix gives buyers access to the building's common outdoor space across several apartment sizes, including compact homes without private terraces.
The address is on Chelsea's west side, with the Eighth Avenue subway corridor to the east and the High Line to the west. The building sits at the avenue end of West 21st Street; garden-facing rooms and street-facing rooms consequently have distinct outlooks.
Architecture and unit composition
City records date the building to 1940. Its five-story height and varied apartment sizes produce a broad range of internal plans within a relatively low building. The smallest recorded homes are studios; one-bedroom layouts include separate kitchens, and larger configurations include apartments assembled from adjoining residences.
High ceilings and wood floors appear throughout the apartment inventory. Some one-bedroom plans place the bedroom toward the rear garden. Others have street exposures, making the direction of the principal rooms a meaningful distinction when comparing apartments on the same floor.
Combined homes have also traded, including a top-floor configuration substantially larger than the building's typical one-bedroom. The larger inventory is limited, so a combined apartment's number of rooms and arrangement should be evaluated against other combinations in the cooperative. The common garden is shared space available to the building's residents.
Building operations
A live-in superintendent supports the elevator building. The common facilities include laundry and bicycle storage, and entry is served by a video-access system. Residents reach the garden through the building; it is a separate amenity from the public parks in the surrounding neighborhood.
An assessment began in October 2023 and remained in place in 2025. For a purchase here, establish whether that specific assessment has ended and whether the quoted maintenance includes it. A historical expectation that it would end is insufficient to treat it as removed.
Policy framework
Pets: Permitted with board approval — confirm with the managing agent.
Pied-à-terre ownership: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Garden use: Barbecue use is permitted — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2025 | 2G | 1 BR · 1 BA | $750,000 | -3.2% | |
| Jul 8, 2024 | 4L | 1 BR · 1 BA | $730,000 | -2.7% | |
| Aug 10, 2022 | 4D | 1 BA | $430,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jul 5, 2022 | 1C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $645,000 | -0.8% | |
| Feb 16, 2022 | 3M | 1 BR · 1 BA | $720,000 | -3.9% | |
| Apr 7, 2021 | 3C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $700,000 | -4.8% | |
| Aug 14, 2020 | 4G | 1 BR · 1 BA | $720,000 | +0.0% | |
| May 31, 2019 | 1A | 1 BR · 1 BA · 550 sf | $630,000 | $1,145/sf | -3.1% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2019): a median $1,145/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 2.1% 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 1-00744-0003) 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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Comparable buildings
- Chelsea Court Tower — A nearby prewar cooperative with a taller profile and a comparable overall residential scale.
- The Henry — A low-rise cooperative alternative with a somewhat smaller inventory east of Eighth Avenue.
- Chelsea Arms — A prewar cooperative close in residential scale, several blocks to the south.
- Chelsea Gardens — A larger cooperative with similarly low-rise massing along the 23rd Street corridor.
- London Towne House — A substantially larger postwar cooperative for buyers comparing a taller building near Ninth Avenue.
More Chelsea buildings
- 350 West 53rd Street (The Lumiere) — 2005 condominium
- 353–355 West 29th Street — co-op
- 356 West 36th Street (Chelsea) — 1926 co-op
- 360 West 22nd Street (London Towne House) — 1963 co-op
- 365 West 20th Street (Chelsea Court Tower) — 1928 co-op
- 366 West 15th Street — 1905 condominium by SHoP Architects
The neighborhood
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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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