382 Lafayette Street
382 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003
NoHo
BBL 1005317502 · BIN 1008508
- Year built
- 1895
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 8
- Floors
- 9
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Permitted subject to board approval per management-sourced records. The same source elsewhere carries a no-pets entry for the building — the two entries conflict, and the house rules should be confirmed with the managing agent
- Financing
- Up to 90 percent of purchase price per management-sourced records
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2023
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,866
- Listing discount
- 4.2%
- Recorded sales
- 11
- On record
- 2004–2023
Eight apartments in a nine-story building is an unusual ratio, and it is the whole argument here. The building went up in 1895–96 as a commercial warehouse designed by Cleverdon & Putzel, a firm that produced a great deal of the Romanesque Revival loft stock in this part of NoHo. When the floors were converted to residences they were not carved up. Each one became a single home. The result is a building where nearly every owner has the full width of the lot, windows on the front and rear, and no shared corridor beyond the elevator landing.
The conversion itself is worth knowing. In July 1981 the building was acquired from 382 Lafayette Realty Corp. by a partnership of Bruce Mailman and John Sugg. Mailman was a downtown figure of some consequence — the founder of The Saint on Second Avenue and of the New St. Marks Baths, and an Off-Broadway theatre owner. The condominium declaration was recorded in June 1989, and ACRIS shows the first unit deeds going out that September. It is a private, small-scale conversion of the kind that produced most of NoHo's early loft ownership, and it is nothing like the sponsor-driven sellouts that came a decade later.
What follows from that is a very slow building. The sponsor partnership did not sell out. It held the ground-floor retail unit until 2015 and the top-floor residence until 2022 — thirty-three years after the declaration — and both finally moved out of the founding partners' estates rather than in a marketed sellout. Recorded transfers across the whole building since 1989 number in the low twenties. A buyer here is not waiting for the next line comparable; there may not be one for years.
The building sits inside the NoHo Historic District, and this is one of the cases where the public data and the primary record agree: LPC's own building database lists 382 Lafayette Street by tax lot as a contributing building, with a 1895–96 construction date, a Cleverdon & Putzel attribution and a Romanesque Revival classification. Any exterior work — windows, storefront, cornice, roof-level anything visible from the street — needs a Certificate of Appropriateness before the Department of Buildings will act on it.
The last thing to understand is what the building does not have. There is no doorman, no staff, no amenity space and no lobby program. Eight owners carry a nine-story masonry building with a landmarked façade, an elevator, and a retail tenant at the base. That structure produces low common charges relative to a serviced building and a high exposure to any single capital event.
Architecture and unit composition
The building occupies an interior lot of roughly 2,680 square feet on the east side of Lafayette Street, running nine stories with roughly 17,800 square feet of gross floor area. The elevation is the standard late-nineteenth-century NoHo warehouse type — masonry, arched openings, a strong vertical rhythm and a plain commercial base — and the LPC classifies it as Romanesque Revival.
Residences occupy floors two through nine. Department of Finance records size seven of the eight residential lots at roughly 1,850 square feet each and the eighth, at the top, at roughly 2,440 square feet. Because each residence is a full floor on a lot with no side exposures, light comes from the Lafayette Street front and the rear. Ceiling heights, column spacing and the condition of the original structure vary floor by floor, since the interiors were built out privately over three decades rather than delivered as a uniform product. Two of the residences have been renovated under Department of Buildings permits within the past decade.
The ground floor is a separate commercial condominium unit of roughly 2,430 square feet, with cellar space. It was re-tenanted under a 2017 alteration filing and traded out of the sponsor partnership's hands in 2015. Its lease income and its capital obligations sit inside the same condominium as the eight residences, which is a material fact for anyone reading the budget.
Building operations
This is a self-managed-scale condominium run through an outside managing agent, with no on-site staff documented in the records reviewed. The capital record is what a buyer should read. Department of Buildings filings show exterior repair work in 2007, a Local Law 11 cycle of sidewalk shed and pipe scaffold in 2015, exterior terrace and roofing-membrane replacement in 2017, sidewalk shed again in 2017, and further façade repairs filed in December 2018. Vault and sidewalk repair was filed in 2013.
That is a normal maintenance cadence for a 130-year-old masonry building, but the denominator matters: eight residential owners and one commercial owner fund all of it. Ask for the reserve position, the current Local Law 11 cycle status, the condition of the elevator, and whether any assessment is live or recently concluded. On a building this size a single façade cycle is a meaningful number per unit.
Policy framework
Ownership form: Condominium. Purchases close through a right of first refusal rather than a cooperative board approval, but management-sourced records for this building describe an application and approval process for subletting and a case-by-case posture on pied-à-terre use — a tighter framework than the condominium default.
Pets: Management-sourced records carry conflicting entries — permitted with board approval in one place, not permitted in another. Confirm the house rules directly with the managing agent before contract.
Subletting: Permitted with a board application and waiver. Short-term rentals and Airbnb are not permitted.
Pied-à-terre and parents purchasing for a child: Both permitted, with board approval case by case.
Guarantors: Permitted, case by case.
Financing: Up to 90 percent of purchase price.
In-unit washer/dryer: Permitted with board approval; residences are equipped.
Flip tax: Not documented in the records reviewed.
Real estate taxes: No exemption or abatement appears on any unit lot in the FY2027 roll, and no J-51 grant appears for this lot in the Department of Finance's historical J-51 file. Underwrite full unabated taxes.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 emissions caps apply. No regulatory capital pressure from this law specifically, current or 2030.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
Recent closings 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 2023 | 4 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 2,050 sf | $3,825,000 | $1,866/sf | -4.4% |
| Sep 22, 2022 | 9 | 2,440 sf | $6,250,000 | $2,561/sf | off-mkt |
| Aug 11, 2022 | 5 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 2,000 sf | $4,275,000 | $2,138/sf | -0.5% |
| Jun 24, 2020 | 7 | 1,850 sf | $2,443,800 | $1,321/sf | off-mkt |
| Nov 30, 2009 | 5 | 2 BR · 2,000 sf | $1,850,000 | $925/sf | -7.3% |
| Oct 3, 2007 | 4 | 2 BR · 2,050 sf | $2,250,000 | $1,098/sf | -9.8% |
| Aug 31, 2005 | 2 | 1 BR · 1,850 sf | $1,750,000 | $946/sf | -4.1% |
| Mar 19, 2005 | 5 | 2 BR · 2,000 sf | $1,295,000 | $648/sf | off-mkt |
Market read. Most recent trades (2023) cleared a median $1,866/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 4.2% 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 1-00531-7502) 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
What to know if you’re buying
Get the certificate of occupancy. No certificate of occupancy for this building appears in the Department of Buildings' published data, and the residential use here dates to a 1980s NoHo loft conversion. Confirm how the residences are classified and whether any joint living-work quarters restriction applies before you sign.
Read the capital record, not the common charges. Low charges in an eight-unit building are a function of having no staff, not of having no obligations. Sidewalk sheds, scaffold and façade filings recur in this building's Department of Buildings history.
The building is landmarked. Window replacement, storefront work and anything visible from Lafayette Street requires a Certificate of Appropriateness. Factor the timeline and the cost into any renovation plan.
Understand the commercial unit. The ground-floor retail unit is part of the same condominium. Its lease, its common-charge share and its capital participation all affect the residential owners.
Expect thin same-building comparables. With eight residences and decades between some trades, valuation here is line-specific and condition-specific work, not an average.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the full-floor plate. One residence per floor in a nine-story NoHo warehouse is the scarce thing, and it is what the buyer pool is actually shopping for.
Document the exterior work. Because the building is small and landmarked, buyers and their attorneys will ask what has been done and what is coming. A clean answer, with the current Local Law 11 status, removes the largest objection.
Correct the public record up front. City permit data for this building carries a stray 40-unit dwelling count. Any automated valuation drawing on it will be wrong. Say so before diligence surfaces it.
Price against small NoHo loft condominiums. Not against serviced new construction, and not against the prewar cooperatives nearby, whose policies, financing rules and buyer pools are different.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 382 Lafayette Street, also evaluate:
- The Silk Building (14 East 4th Street) — the large loft condominium on the same tax block; the full-service alternative at very different scale
- 27 Great Jones Street — small NoHo loft condominium one block south; the closest peer by unit count
- 43 Great Jones Street — boutique NoHo loft building with comparable economics
- 10 Bond Street — Bond Street corridor, small-building ownership with a different tenure structure
- 1 Bond Street (Robbins & Appleton Building) — cast-iron NoHo landmark converted to residences; the architecturally significant alternative
- 22 Bond Street — small Bond Street condominium; similar buyer, newer conversion
- 41 Bond Street — boutique NoHo condominium with a full amenity and service program
- 27 Bleecker Street — nearby loft conversion at comparable scale
- 285 Lafayette Street — Lafayette Street loft condominium further south, larger and serviced
- 295 Lafayette Street (The Puck Building) — the landmark Lafayette Street conversion at the top of the market
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across East Village + NoHo — read The Roebling Team Guide to East Village + NoHo.
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.
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