- Year built
- 1904
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Key-locked elevator and video intercom
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About the building
40 East 19th Street was built in 1904–05 as a manufacturing loft for Brody, Adler & Koch Company. Architects Sass & Smallheiser also occupied space here, alongside early home-furnishings tenants. The 42-foot-wide stone façade rises through a two-story commercial base, a transitional story, a five-story central section and a decorated upper story. Ionic colonnettes, a central cartouche and shell finials give the building its Beaux-Arts detail. It became a cooperative in 1980.
The residences are large lofts, with full-floor layouts of approximately 3,300 to 3,400 square feet among the homes that have traded. Broad floor plates allow separate bedrooms alongside substantial open living areas. A key-locked elevator provides access, and the building uses a video intercom. The uppermost accommodation includes a multilevel penthouse.
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 30, 2025 | 7 | 3 BR · 4 BA | $5,750,000 | -10.2% | |
| Jun 15, 2022 | 2 | 3 BR · 3 BA · 3,400 sf | $3,950,000 | $1,162/sf | -1.3% |
| Jun 4, 2019 | 7 | 3 BR · 4 BA · 3,300 sf | $4,225,000 | $1,280/sf | -15.4% |
| Aug 25, 2017 | 6 | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 3,300 sf | $4,385,000 | $1,329/sf | -7.7% |
| Jan 26, 2015 | PH | 5 BR | $5,419,459 | off-mkt |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2022): a median $1,162/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 7.7% 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.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00847-0050) 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.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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What to know if you’re buying
The decorative stone front belongs to an eight-residence cooperative. Exterior restoration is subject to the Ladies' Mile designation, and the cost is shared through a small shareholder base. A façade project can involve the carved ornament, metal spandrels and upper cornice as well as the main stone surfaces.
Comparable buildings
- 30 East 21st Street: A nearby small prewar cooperative with a similarly tall loft-building form.
- The Gorham Building: A historic cooperative on the same block for comparing substantial loft residences.
- The McIntyre Building: A larger prewar cooperative with a prominent architectural façade.
- 140 Fifth Avenue: A taller early-twentieth-century cooperative within the Flatiron loft market.
More Flatiron buildings
- 38 West 26th Street — 1909 co-op
- 39 East 29th Street (Twenty9th Park Madison) — 2009 condominium by H. Thomas O'Hara Architects
- 39 West 23rd Street — 2018 condominium by COOKFOX Architects
- 40 West 15th Street — 1903 co-op
- 40 West 17th Street — 1909 co-op by Schwartz & Gross
- 40 West 22nd Street — 1909 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Flatiron — read The Roebling Team Guide to Flatiron.
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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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