- Year built
- 1915
- Type
- Condominium
- Landmark
- Designated
387 Greenwich Street is Tribeca loft living in its most authentic form. Built in 1915 as a warehouse for the import of coffee, tea, and spices, the building was meticulously converted to residential use in 2001, becoming a boutique condominium of just 33 homes. It is the kind of building that drew buyers to Tribeca in the first place — real industrial bones, generous scale, and the quiet privacy of a small loft house, on one of the neighborhood's most desirable corners.
Tribeca trades on exactly this character, and original conversions of this caliber are finite. The Fischer Mills Building keeps its warehouse vocabulary — masonry, beamed ceilings, cast-iron columns, and oversized factory windows — while delivering the layouts and systems of a modern condominium. The intimate scale ensures privacy and discretion, qualities the neighborhood's well-known residents have long prized.
For buyers, the proposition is scarce: an authentic, large-format loft in a boutique Tribeca condominium, with the ownership flexibility a condominium provides, steps from Hudson River Park, SoHo, and the neighborhood's celebrated dining and retail.
Building operations
As a condominium, The Fischer Mills Building offers the ownership flexibility downtown buyers want. Financing is flexible — there are no co-op-style financing caps. There is no board admissions process — purchases clear through a right-of-first-refusal rather than a board package and interview. Pied-à-terre, trust, LLC, and investment purchases are customary at a Tribeca loft condominium, and resale and subletting are materially freer than in a cooperative. The building's Tribeca historic-district setting means exterior changes run through Landmarks review, which protects the façade and the streetscape buyers are paying for.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $48,097/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $121
Facade safety — Local Law 11
Safe to live in today — but the last inspection flagged repairs that are due on a deadline, so facade work and its cost are coming. Whether that’s a real concern depends on the scope, the timing, and how the building plans to pay for it — reserves or an assessment — which is exactly what we’d dig into for you.
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent). Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library.
See the full facade history →Recent sales
With 33 loft homes, turnover at 387 Greenwich is low — typically only a handful of resales in a given year. Scarcity is central to value: authentic large-format lofts in boutique Tribeca conversions do not come to market often, and the full-floor and terraced homes anchor the top of the range. Tribeca loft condominiums trade at some of the strongest per-square-foot levels downtown. The live /sales record for this BBL captures recorded transfers as they occur; for current value, the right comparison is the building's own closings and the best Tribeca loft conversions nearby.
What to know if you’re buying
Underwrite the specific loft. Value here is driven by floor, exposure, ceiling height, outdoor space, and renovation quality far more than by any building average — a terraced full-floor home and a smaller simplex are very different propositions. The condominium structure is a real advantage: flexible financing, no board interview, and the customary acceptance of pied-à-terre, trust, and LLC purchases. Diligence centers on the offering plan, the condominium's financials and reserve, any planned capital work on a century-old masonry building, and the home's specifics. We help buyers read the building, weigh the comparison set, and structure the purchase.
What to know if you’re selling
The pitch is authenticity and scale: a 1915 warehouse conversion with genuine loft volume — beamed ceilings, cast-iron columns, oversized windows — in a boutique Tribeca condominium of just 33 homes. The marketing job is to present the specific loft's volume, light, and outdoor space and to benchmark against the best Tribeca conversions, not against newer glass product. Because each home is distinct, accurate positioning and staging that read the loft volume correctly are what separate a strong result from an average one.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 387 Greenwich Street, also evaluate these Tribeca loft buildings:
- 443 Greenwich Street — a landmark Tribeca loft condominium
- 415 Greenwich Street — a Tribeca loft conversion
- 505 Greenwich Street — a Tribeca / Hudson Square condominium
- 125 Greenwich Street — a downtown condominium tower
The Roebling Team at The Fischer Mills Building
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in Tribeca loft condominiums and the surrounding downtown corridors, where value turns on the specific home — its volume, light, and outdoor space — rather than a building average. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers at 387 Greenwich Street deserve building-specific intelligence: the architecture, the ownership structure, and the market context. A 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.
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