433 West Street (West Village)
433 West Street, New York, NY 10014
BBL 1006380004 · BIN 1078335
- Year built
- 1899
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Pet friendly — cats and dogs permitted
The former Enoch Morgan's Sons Co. soap factory sales history: 31 recorded sales
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 (floor-adjusted)
- $1,409
- Listing discount
- 3.0%
- Recorded sales
- 31
- On record
- 2003–2024
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433 West Street is one of the surviving industrial structures on the far West Village waterfront — the former Enoch Morgan's Sons Co. soap factory, the maker of the once-famous "Sapolio" scouring soap. John B. Snook & Sons designed the factory, which reached its seven-story height in an 1899 expansion; its clean white-brick façade was reportedly meant to evoke the company's soap and candle products. In 1978, in the wave of West Village industrial conversions, the building became a residential co-op of roughly three dozen loft apartments — a direct, characterful example of the neighborhood's manufacturing past adapted for living.
For a buyer, 433 West Street is the industrial loft co-op done authentically: real loft proportions inside a genuine 19th-century factory building, on the Hudson River waterfront, fronting Hudson River Park and the greenway, with west-facing homes taking direct river and sunset outlooks across the West Side Highway. It is a small, quiet building with the kind of provenance and light that define far West Village loft living, at the relative value a cooperative offers against a comparable condominium.
Architecture and unit composition
The building is a seven-story white-brick industrial structure — a genuine 19th-century factory, expanded to its present height in 1899 to the design of John B. Snook & Sons, whose work appears elsewhere in the far West Village. It carries no landmark ornament; its character is the industrial fundamentals — masonry mass, large windows, and the loft-scale interiors that its factory origins produced.
The roughly thirty-four to thirty-five residences are loft apartments, converted from factory floors in 1978. As with any loft building, ceiling height, window line, and exposure drive the experience: west-facing homes take direct Hudson River and sunset light across the highway, while other lines trade on the volume and character of the loft interiors. The building's waterfront position is its defining feature — an outlook and a quiet uncommon even within the West Village.
Building operations
433 West Street runs as a small residential cooperative with the practical service set of a converted loft building, including an elevator. It is pet friendly, permitting both cats and dogs. As a cooperative, purchases are subject to board review and the building's financing and residency policies; a buyer should plan for a board package and interview, and confirm the building's specific down-payment, subletting, and residency terms during due diligence. The character of a small loft co-op is precisely that — a close-held, owner-run building rather than a large amenity operation.
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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 2024 | LOFT2C | 2 BR · 2 BA | $2,095,000 | +0.0% | |
| Oct 17, 2024 | 6B | 3 BR · 2 BA | $3,400,000 | -2.7% | |
| Sep 5, 2024 | PHC | 2 BR · 2 BA | $3,875,000 | -3.0% | |
| Jun 25, 2024 | 3A | 3 BR · 2 BA | $2,600,000 | -10.3% | |
| Mar 2, 2023 | 5D | 3 BR · 2 BA | $3,800,000 | +10.3% | |
| Sep 20, 2021 | 1B | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,116 sf | $2,500,000 | $1,181/sf | +0.2% |
| Jun 24, 2021 | 2D | 3 BR · 2 BA · 2,200 sf | $3,600,000 | $1,636/sf | +0.0% |
| Jul 1, 2020 | 4B | 3 BR · 2 BA · 2,442 sf | $2,650,000 | $1,085/sf | -11.7% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2021): a median $1,409/sf (floor-adjusted) across 2 sales. The building has traded as recently as 2024. Median listing discount 3.0% 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 1-00638-0004). 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.
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
This is a cooperative, so plan for a board process. A purchase runs through a board package and interview, and the building maintains financing and residency policies typical of a small West Village loft co-op. Confirm the building's down-payment, subletting, and residency terms during due diligence, and plan for a primary-residence purchase and a standard board review.
Know the building's identity. This is the former Enoch Morgan's Sons soap factory — a genuine 19th-century industrial loft building, distinct from the nearby Westbeth artists' housing further up West Street. Its provenance and waterfront position are the reasons to buy here.
Ceiling height, light, and the river are the on-site distinctions. The west-facing, river-view lofts with strong volume and light are the homes that hold value best. Benchmark against far West Village loft cooperatives.
The location is the far West Village waterfront. Directly on Hudson River Park and the greenway, near Bank and Bethune Streets, with the 1 train at Christopher Street–Sheridan Square and the A/C/E and L at 14th Street a walk east. Quiet, residential, and defined by the river.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with provenance and the waterfront. A genuine 19th-century soap-factory loft building on the Hudson, fronting Hudson River Park, is a distinctive story — the building's character and location do real work in a sale.
Benchmark against far West Village loft co-ops. Turnover here is measured, so recent in-building history and comparable West Village loft cooperatives together form the reference set; ceiling height, window line, exposure, river outlook, and renovation status determine where a unit lands, on a price-per-room basis.
Prepare the board package early. A clean, complete package and a well-qualified, primary-residence buyer move a co-op sale through the board efficiently — we manage that process end to end.
Position the loft interiors. Volume, light, and the river outlook are the differentiators; foreground them, along with the building's authenticity, against newer and more generic waterfront inventory.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 433 West Street, also evaluate nearby West Village loft and waterfront cooperatives:
- 176 Perry Street — West Village waterfront building
- 165 Charles Street — Hudson-facing West Village condominium
- 95 Christopher Street — West Village cooperative
- Westbeth (55 Bethune Street) — the landmark artists' housing complex nearby
- 385 West 12th Street (Superior Ink) — West Village waterfront condominium
More West Village buildings
- 397 West 12th Street — 2007 condominium
- 400 West 12th Street (Superior Ink) — 2009 condominium by Robert A.M. Stern Architects
- 421 Hudson Street (The Printing House) — 1908 condominium
- 442 Hudson Street (a/k/a 85–89 Barrow Street) — 1924 co-op
- 451 Hudson Street — 1828 co-op
- 482 Hudson Street — 1938 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across West Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to West Village.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
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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