- Year built
- 1863
- Type
- Cooperative
- Amenities
- Elevator; cooperative-owned retail
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
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About the building
47 Howard Street is a through-block Italianate commercial building dating to about 1863, with frontage on both Howard and Canal Streets. Its five-story, three-bay stone-and-iron exterior belongs to the early commercial fabric of the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. The property became a residential loft cooperative and retains retail space whose rent contributes to the corporation's income.
The residential floors include broad lofts with elevator access. At the top, a roughly 3,000-square-foot home combines high ceilings, several exposures and exclusive roof rights. The cooperative is self-managed, so its small shareholder group oversees both the residential building and its commercial tenancy.
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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 2026 | PH | 1 BR · 1.5 BA · 3,000 sf | $3,900,000 | $1,300/sf | -2.4% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,300/sf (recorded) across 1 sale.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00231-0003). 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
Exclusive roof rights and the difference between built and permitted floor area do not themselves authorize a rooftop addition. Work above this designated building would also depend on the proprietary lease, cooperative consent, LPC approval and applicable building regulations; the roof-rights agreement should establish maintenance responsibility as well as use.
Comparable buildings
- 35 Mercer Street — Another small cooperative formed from a nineteenth-century SoHo commercial building.
- 14 Wooster Street — An elevator loft cooperative with substantial former industrial floor plates.
- 47 Walker Street — A historic loft condop with a distinct commercial component.
More SoHo buildings
- 110 Mercer Street — 1869 co-op
- 210 Lafayette Street — 2006 condominium
- 311 West Broadway — 2007 condominium by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates
- 456–458 Broome Street — 1867 co-op
- 69 Wooster Street — 1868 co-op
The neighborhood
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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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