416 West 52nd Street (Nine52)
416 West 52nd Street, New York, NY 10019
BBL 1010617502 · BIN 1080950
Every recorded sale at this building, 2016–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,021
- Listing discount
- 1.5%
- Recorded sales
- 177
- On record
- 2016–2026
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416 West 52nd Street — marketed as Nine52 — is one of Hell's Kitchen's most distinctive condominiums, an adaptive reuse of a 1940 St. Vincent's Hospital building converted in 2015–2016 into 156 loft-style residences. Developer Gaia Real Estate and Karl Fischer Architects kept the pre-war red-brick institutional shell and its oversized windows and high ceilings, then layered in an amenity program unusually deep for a mid-rise building of this size.
The building's appeal rests on three things: character, amenities, and location. The adaptive-reuse aesthetic — factory-scale windows, high ceilings, and a quiet interior courtyard with a koi pond — gives the homes a texture new construction rarely matches. The amenity set is broad, from a fitness center with yoga and spin rooms to a landscaped roof terrace, wine-tasting room, and co-working space. And the block itself is central Hell's Kitchen at its liveliest — Restaurant Row, Ninth Avenue's food corridor, and the growing gravity of Hudson Yards a few blocks west.
As a true condominium — approved offering plan, documented individual closings, and an active resale market — Nine52 offers the financing latitude, ownership flexibility, and resale liquidity that distinguish condo ownership in a neighborhood historically dominated by tenements and rentals.
Architecture and residences
The building is a seven-story pre-war structure, its institutional bones — the red brick, the oversized windows, the generous floor-to-floor heights — carried into the residential conversion. The interior courtyard with its koi pond is the building's signature quiet space; the landscaped roof terrace is its outdoor amenity.
The 156 condominium residences range from studios through three-bedrooms, with base-level duplex townhouse units among the most distinctive inventory. Finishes in the conversion included stained white-oak floors, in-unit washer-dryers, Caesarstone counters, and Carrara marble baths. The most coveted homes pair the loft-scale volume and light with quiet courtyard exposures or the townhouse-duplex layouts. As condominium units, these residences carry the financing and ownership flexibility their co-op neighbors structurally cannot match.
Building operations and ownership
Nine52 runs as a full-service condominium: a 24-hour attended lobby and concierge, an on-site superintendent, and a deep amenity program — fitness center with yoga and spin rooms, roof terrace, courtyard, wine-tasting room, residents' lounge and library, co-working space, playroom, screening room, bike storage, and parking. It is pet-friendly.
As a condominium, the ownership terms are inherently flexible. Financing is not subject to the caps common at Manhattan co-ops, so buyers can finance to the level their lender allows. There is no co-op board admissions process — a purchase clears through the condominium's right of first refusal rather than a board package and interview. Pieds-à-terre, trust, LLC, and investment purchases are customary, and subletting is materially freer than at surrounding cooperatives. Note that the site sits within the Special Clinton District, the zoning overlay that explains the building's modest height.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- Per unit / month range
- —
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as Unsafe — conditions requiring corrective action, which under FISP means a protective sidewalk shed and repairs. Review the subsequent filings, the repair status, and the building’s board and financial materials — we pull the repair scope and funding picture for you.
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 2025–30. 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, from The Roebling Research Library. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2026 | TH219 | 2 BR · 1.5 BA · 1,400 sf | $985,000 | $704/sf | -21.2% |
| Jul 23, 2026 | 406 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,386 sf | $1,390,000 | $1,003/sf | -4.1% |
| Jul 17, 2026 | 502 | 1 BR · 1 BA · 721 sf | $980,000 | $1,359/sf | -9.3% |
| Jun 16, 2026 | TH213 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 2,046 sf | $1,440,000 | $704/sf | -3.7% |
| May 15, 2026 | 704 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 891 sf | $1,262,500 | $1,417/sf | -2.5% |
| May 7, 2026 | 514 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,093 sf | $1,450,000 | $1,327/sf | -3.0% |
| May 4, 2026 | TH221 | 1 BR · 1.5 BA · 1,270 sf | $989,000 | $779/sf | -5.8% |
| Apr 23, 2026 | 306 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,386 sf | $1,415,000 | $1,021/sf | -0.7% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,021/sf (recorded) across 9 sales. Median listing discount 1.5% 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 1-01061-7502). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. 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.
Closed rents at Nine52, last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | 4 | $3,500 |
| 1 bedroom | 22 | $4,437 |
| 2 bedroom | 10 | $6,525 |
37 closed leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease September 2026. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
At the recent median sale of $1.2M (25 sales since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $53,095 to close, or 4.4% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $12,000
- Mortgage recording tax: $17,325
- Title insurance: $5,400
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $18,370
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
The building offers what much of the neighborhood cannot: condominium ownership with flexible financing, no board admissions gauntlet, loft-scale volume in a genuine pre-war shell, and a serious amenity program. A purchase clears through the condominium's right of first refusal, a far lighter process than a co-op board package.
Make volume, exposure, and layout the center of your diligence. The adaptive-reuse character — high ceilings, oversized windows, quiet courtyard exposures — is the asset; confirm a given apartment's ceiling height, exposure, outdoor access, and renovation state, and weigh the broad amenity set against your needs. Review the condominium's common charges, real-estate taxes, and reserve position. For a buyer who wants character, amenities, and condominium flexibility in Hell's Kitchen, Nine52 is one of the neighborhood's strongest options.
What to know if you’re selling
The adaptive-reuse character and the amenity program are your marketing core. The pre-war shell, the courtyard, the roof terrace, and the townhouse duplexes are differentiators worth naming, and the block's proximity to Restaurant Row and Hudson Yards is part of the story.
Price to volume, exposure, and layout. The loftiest homes, the quiet courtyard exposures, and the townhouse duplexes should be benchmarked against the building's best comparable sales and the broader Hell's Kitchen condominium set, while renovated finishes earn clear premiums. A resale clears through the condominium's right of first refusal on condominium timelines — a faster, more predictable path that is itself a selling point.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 416 West 52nd Street, also evaluate these nearby Hell's Kitchen condominiums:
- 425 West 50th Street — Stella Tower, an Art Deco conversion condominium and the closest true-condo comparable
- 322 West 52nd Street — a Hell's Kitchen condominium on the same block
- 354 West 52nd Street — a nearby West 52nd Street condominium
- 500 West 53rd Street — a full-service condominium a few blocks north
More Hell's Kitchen buildings
- 414 West 51st Street — 1910 condominium
- 414 West 54th Street (The Abbey) — 1986 condominium
- 415 West 55th Street — 1911 co-op
- 419 West 55th Street (Loft 55) — 1911 condop
- The Adelaide, 420 West 47th Street — 1910 co-op
- The Hit Factory (421 West 54th Street) — 1928 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Hell's Kitchen — read The Roebling Team Guide to Hell's Kitchen.
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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