- Year built
- 1855
- Type
- Cooperative
- Amenities
- Fireplaces; garden and terrace space with certain homes
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Chelsea Historic District Extension
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Subletting by shareholders
- Not permitted
- Pied-à-terre
- Permitted
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not stated
- Washer/dryer
- Permitted
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2023
- $1,293
- 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 0.5%
- Recorded sales
- 8
- On record
- 2004–2026
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About the building
428 West 23rd Street is a four-home cooperative in a nineteenth-century Chelsea brownstone. Its façade combines a rusticated base, arched openings, keystones, projecting window details and a cornice. The house was built in 1855 and lies within the Chelsea Historic District Extension, designated in 1981. Its exterior is subject to LPC review.
The apartment types include a garden duplex, a parlor-level floor-through and an upper duplex with north- and south-facing terraces. Skylights bring additional light into the upper home. Fireplaces and air conditioning are present in the building's apartments, and the cooperative permits in-unit laundry subject to its current rules. Private outdoor space is attached to individual homes; the garden and roof-level terraces occupy different parts of the house.
Sublet and pied-à-terre policy
A condominium owner leasing a unit and a co-op shareholder subletting are different rules, and a building-wide rule is different from a restriction on one apartment. This is the building's rule; confirm it for the specific apartment.
- Subletting by shareholders
- Not permittedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Pied-à-terre ownership
- PermittedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
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Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not statedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- In-unit washer/dryer
- PermittedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
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Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 limits apply to a building on its own. It is still covered if it shares a tax lot or condominium board with buildings totaling over 50,000 sq ft; confirm on DOB’s covered-buildings list.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
Recent transfers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2026 | 4D | 2 BR · 2 BA | $2,425,000 | -2.8% | |
| May 27, 2026 | 1A | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $2,150,000 | -14.0% | |
| Mar 23, 2023 | 4D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,500 sf | $1,940,000 | $1,293/sf | +2.4% |
| Aug 6, 2014 | 1A | 3 BR · 1,500 sf | $2,250,000 | $1,500/sf | +2.5% |
| Feb 25, 2008 | B | 2 BR · 1,223 sf | $1,090,000 | $891/sf | -0.5% |
| May 21, 2004 | PH4D | 3 BR · 1,500 sf | $1,150,000 | $767/sf | +0.0% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2023): a median $1,293/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 0.5% 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 1-00720-0061). 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 on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
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What to know if you’re buying
Façade work across four homes. DOB issued a façade-repair permit in 2025 for work including stone replacement and brick repointing at the front and rear. A permit doesn't mean the work is done. The project's current stage and allocation of costs matter here because only four apartments share the cooperative's exterior-maintenance obligations, and the designated façade requires historically appropriate work.
Comparable buildings
- 419 West 22nd Street — A similarly small prewar cooperative for comparing townhouse maintenance and ownership scale.
- 450 West 23rd Street — A historic co-op on the same street with a slightly larger apartment inventory.
- 461 West 22nd Street — A low-rise prewar cooperative offering a close tenure and scale comparison.
- Anderson House — A nineteenth-century cooperative with more homes sharing the building's costs.
More Chelsea buildings
- 422 West 20th Street — 1895 condominium by Neville & Bagge
- 426 West 23rd Street — 1856 co-op
- 428 West 19th Street — 2025 condominium by BKSK Architects
- 429 West 22nd Street — 1855 co-op
- 430 West 23rd Street — 1855
- 433 West 24th Street (West 24th Owners Corp.) — 1920 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Chelsea — read The Roebling Team Guide to Chelsea.
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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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