- Year built
- 1851
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 1401
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2024
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,805
- Listing discount
- 8.6%
- Recorded sales
- 16
- On record
- 2003–2024
This is one of the oldest surviving commercial buildings in Tribeca, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission says so in as many words: 41-43 Warren Street is the earliest store-and-loft building in the Tribeca South Historic District Extension, built c.1851-54, at the moment the city's dry-goods trade was pushing north and west of City Hall Park into what had been a residential district. Thomas Suffern, a Pearl Street merchant, had bought the land from Trinity Church in 1825 and lived on it for a decade; when he moved to Washington Square North he kept the property for rent, then redeveloped it in the early 1850s as an investment. The designation report leaves open the possibility that the 1820s house was not demolished but enlarged and reconstructed into the loft building — which would make part of this structure older than its 1854 date implies.
What survives is a marble front, six bays wide, in the Italianate manner: round-arched windows with molded architraves, sills in a continuous band, an elaborate bracketed marble cornice, and at the ground floor the fluted cast-iron columns of a storefront supplied by the Architectural Iron Works Co. The designation report's judgment is that although the storefront has been altered, "the facade remains remarkably intact." Marble is the point. Most of Tribeca's surviving 1850s lofts are brick or cast iron; a full marble elevation of this width is scarce.
The building stayed in commercial hands for a very long time. ACRIS records it moving out of the Suffern estate in 1920, through a foreclosure and a series of owners in the 1930s and 1940s, and into a single realty corporation in 1943 — where it remained until August 1998, when that corporation sold to the entity that carried out the residential conversion. Fifty-five years of one owner is why so much original fabric survived.
The conversion is compact and legible in the record: alteration work through 2000, a condominium declaration recorded November 8, 2001, and sponsor sales of the residential units from December 2001 through November 2002 to six unrelated purchasers, each with independent purchase-money financing. The result is a six-apartment building — one full floor per residence — above two commercial condominium units at and below grade. The Tribeca South Historic District Extension was designated in November 2002, a year after the declaration, so the conversion was completed before the facade came under Landmarks jurisdiction; everything done to the exterior since has not.
Architecture and unit composition
The historic block is five stories of marble over the cast-iron base. Above it the building now rises to seven levels in Department of Finance and PLUTO records, with the top residence a duplex penthouse that Department of Buildings filings place on the seventh and eighth levels. That upper construction is not described in the LPC designation report, which surveyed the building as five stories, and we have not established when the additional floors were built — a question to answer from the certificate of occupancy rather than from marketing copy.
Residences run one to a floor from the second up, with the double-width lot producing an unusually generous window count for a Tribeca loft: six bays at the front, with openings front and rear on each level. Ceiling heights, column lines and window rhythm are the original loft's; interiors have been substantially reworked by individual owners since the conversion, including a full penthouse renovation in 2013 and again after flood damage in 2015, and a renovation of the fourth-floor residence in 2020.
Building operations
This is a boutique building run lean, as six-unit condominiums are. Listing records describe a virtual doorman system rather than staffed lobby coverage, a visiting superintendent, direct elevator entry into the residences, and common roof deck and terrace space. There is no amenity program in the new-development sense, and the common-charge structure reflects that.
The recent capital record in Department of Buildings filings is ordinary and well documented: sidewalk and vault waterproofing in 2010, a boiler flue extension in 2013, and a 2015 facade program covering stone patching, crack repair, sill replacement, stucco repair, brick replacement and flashing under a sidewalk shed and pipe scaffold, with a hoist installed in 2016. For a marble-fronted building of the 1850s inside a historic district, facade cycles are the dominant long-run capital item; ask for the current Local Law 11 filing status and the board's plan for the next cycle.
Policy framework
The condominium's transactional terms — pet policy, pied-à-terre, subletting and any minimum lease term, financing limits, and any flip tax or transfer fee — are not documented in the records reviewed, and no offering plan for this building was located in either the Compass Offering Plan Library or The Roebling Research Library. Condominium ownership means the board's right of first refusal rather than a board interview, and the practical constraint in a six-unit building is usually the house rules rather than the declaration. Ask the managing agent for the current rules, the most recent audited financials, and any assessment history before contract.
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
The building trades as full-floor Tribeca loft product with a landmark marble facade, in the Civic Center corner of the neighborhood rather than its northern core — a location distinction that matters to pricing. Comparison should run against other small pre-Civil War loft conversions on the Warren, Murray and Chambers Street blocks, in dollars per square foot, and not against Tribeca's amenity-heavy new-development towers, which carry an entirely different common-charge structure. Six units also means thin trading volume: individual sales here are events rather than data points, and a seller should expect the market to price the building off a small number of comparables. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 2024 | SUBC | $550,000 | -18.5% | ||
| Dec 6, 2022 | 7 | $7,000,000 | off-mkt | ||
| Sep 28, 2021 | SUBC | $675,000 | -28.6% | ||
| Sep 1, 2021 | 2 | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,625 sf | $4,305,000 | $1,640/sf | +7.8% |
| Jul 8, 2021 | PH | 4 BR · 3.5 BA · 3,300 sf | $6,500,000 | $1,970/sf | -18.2% |
| Aug 25, 2020 | 4 | 4 BR · 3 BA · 2,638 sf | $4,100,000 | $1,554/sf | off-mkt |
| Jun 20, 2019 | 6 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 2,058 sf | $4,420,000 | $2,148/sf | -6.0% |
| Aug 8, 2018 | 5 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 2,455 sf | $3,950,000 | $1,609/sf | -11.2% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2021): a median $1,805/sf across 2 sales. The building has traded as recently as 2024. Median listing discount 8.6% 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 1-00133-7505) 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
There is no J-51 to burn off. Many Tribeca loft conversions of this era carry a J-51 exemption and abatement that steps down over a decade or more, and buyers who miss the schedule underwrite a tax bill that is about to rise. This building carries none. Your tax line is your tax line.
Establish when the upper floors were added. The Landmarks report describes a five-story building; the city carries seven, and the penthouse duplex spans the seventh and eighth levels. Get the certificate of occupancy and confirm the legal floor count and unit configuration for the residence you are buying.
Landmark discipline applies now even though it did not during the conversion. The Extension was designated in November 2002, after the condominium was declared. Anything you want to do to the marble front, the storefront or the roofline visible from Warren Street now requires a Certificate of Appropriateness.
Ask about the facade cycle. A marble facade of the 1850s inside a historic district is a recurring capital obligation. The last documented program ran in 2015-16. Ask for the current Local Law 11 status, the engineer's report and the reserve position before you bid.
Underwrite the six-unit governance. With six residential owners and two commercial units, one dissenting owner is a meaningful bloc. Read the minutes and the last two audits.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the record, not the adjective. The earliest store-and-loft building in the Tribeca South Historic District Extension, attributed to John W. Ritch, with a marble Italianate front and a Badger cast-iron base. That is documented in the Landmarks designation report and it survives buyer diligence.
State the tax position plainly. No J-51, no abatement schedule, no step-up coming. In a market where Tribeca buyers have learned to ask, a clean answer is worth money.
Do not let buyers conflate the building with its neighbors. 41-43 Warren sits on Block 133 alongside 37 Warren Street, a separate 1931 Art Deco building with its own condominium; 8 and 12 Warren Street sit on a different block entirely. Correct the record early, and have the facade file — the 2015-16 stone and masonry program, the current Local Law 11 filing, the reserve position — ready before you list.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 41 Warren Street, also evaluate:
- 37 Warren Street — the immediate neighbor on the same block, a 1931 Art Deco loft restored and crowned with penthouse floors in an early-2010s conversion; the closest like-for-like on the street
- 101 Warren Street — the large full-service Tribeca condominium a few blocks west; the amenity comparison
- 212 Warren Street — new-development condominium at the western edge of the neighborhood
- 87 Chambers Street — nineteenth-century loft conversion one block south, at similar scale
- 105 Chambers Street — Chambers Street loft condominium in the same Civic Center pocket
- 157 Chambers Street — boutique Chambers Street loft building
- 66 Reade Street — small Tribeca loft conversion two blocks north
- 97 Reade Street — boutique Reade Street loft condominium
- 65 Worth Street — nineteenth-century store-and-loft conversion in the Tribeca East district
- 85 West Broadway — loft conversion at the corner of the same corridor
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Tribeca — read The Roebling Team Guide to Tribeca.
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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