- Year built
- 1873
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 20
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- In a historic district
- Pets
- Pet-friendly; confirm specifics at offer stage
- Subletting
- Permitted after an initial ownership period; specific terms set by the board — confirm at offer stage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,652
- Listing discount
- 5.5%
- Recorded sales
- 29
- On record
- 2005–2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 477 Broome Street would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
477 Broome Street is a classic SoHo cast-iron loft building — a six-story structure dating to 1873, originally built to serve the silk and molasses trade that ran through this district when Broome Street was a warehouse corridor rather than a shopping one. It sits between Greene and Wooster in the middle of the SoHo Cast Iron Historic District, the largest concentration of cast-iron architecture in the world and one of the most-photographed streetscapes in Manhattan.
The building matters as a well-preserved, boutique loft cooperative in the district's core. Its 20 residences carry the features buyers come to SoHo for — soaring 11-to-14-foot ceilings, original Corinthian cast-iron columns, and pressed-tin ceilings — inside a restored cast-iron shell. It is a cooperative rather than a condominium, which shapes both the buyer pool and the transaction path, but it is a co-op with a genuine resale market, and the loft product is the draw.
Building operations
477 Broome runs as a boutique, well-managed cooperative — pet-friendly, with elevator service and video-intercom entry, and without the full-service doorman overhead of a larger building. The scale keeps carrying costs and staffing lean, in keeping with a 20-unit loft co-op.
As a cooperative, purchases here go through a board package and interview, and the board sets the maximum financing it will allow — buyers should confirm the financing cap early, because it can be more conservative than a condominium's. Pied-à-terre use, gifting, guarantor, and co-purchase arrangements are handled case by case, subject to board approval. Subletting is permitted after an initial ownership period, on terms the board sets. Buyers should review the co-op's financials and reserve position, and confirm the specific flip-tax, financing, and sublet terms against current building materials at offer stage.
Architecture and residences
The 1873 building presents a restored cast-iron facade typical of the district's finest examples. Behind it, the residences are true SoHo lofts: high ceilings, open floor plates, original ironwork columns left exposed, and pressed-tin overhead. Because these are converted loft floors rather than a purpose-built apartment plan, layouts vary — full-floor and partial-floor units, a duplex penthouse configuration near the top, and a mix of one- and two-bedroom conversions. The building is served by an elevator and video-intercom entry.
As with any loft conversion, the apartments differ substantially in size, ceiling height, light, and level of renovation, so each is underwritten individually rather than against a building average.
The SoHo cast-iron blocks
477 Broome sits at the center of SoHo's protected cast-iron district, on a block that defines the neighborhood's identity. The area pairs landmark architecture with SoHo's flagship retail, galleries, and dining, and with fast access to the N/Q/R, A/C/E, and 1 trains just steps away. It is one of the most sought-after downtown addresses for buyers who want loft space inside a genuinely historic building rather than a modern interpretation of one.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $26,842/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $112
- Modeled exposure split equally across 20 units (the city tax-lot count). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
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 →Recent sales
As a cooperative, 477 Broome is read on a per-room basis rather than strictly per square foot, though the loft nature of the units means ceiling height and open volume factor heavily into value. This is a boutique, thin-resale building — with only 20 residences, closings are infrequent and each one carries weight in the comparable set. Underwriting is done unit by unit, because the loft floors differ so much in size, ceiling height, exposure, and renovation.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2026 | 53 | 1 BR · 1 BA | $2,400,000 | -7.7% | |
| Apr 28, 2025 | 44 | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,278 sf | $2,050,000 | $1,604/sf | -10.9% |
| Apr 23, 2025 | 62 | 2 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,000 sf | $3,400,000 | $1,700/sf | -11.7% |
| Jan 4, 2024 | 34 | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,100 sf | $1,925,000 | $1,750/sf | -2.5% |
| Sep 22, 2022 | 33 | 1 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,947,500 | -2.6% | |
| Aug 11, 2022 | 61 | 2 BR · 2 BA | $4,160,000 | +10.5% | |
| Aug 5, 2019 | 44 | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,278 sf | $1,995,000 | $1,561/sf | -5.0% |
| May 14, 2019 | 22 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,500 sf | $2,250,000 | $1,500/sf | -5.3% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2025): a median $1,652/sf (recorded) across 2 sales. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 5.5% 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 1-00475-7503). 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.
At the recent median sale of $2.4M (3 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $44,550 to close, or 1.9% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $30,000
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $14,550
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
Buying here follows the cooperative path: a board package, a board interview, and a board-set financing cap. Budget the diligence time to review the co-op's financial statements and reserve fund. The reasons to buy are specific — a restored cast-iron loft in the core of the SoHo Cast Iron Historic District, with the ceiling heights and original ironwork that define the neighborhood, at the boutique scale and cooperative pricing that sit below SoHo's condominium loft tier. Confirm the specific unit's ceiling height, renovation condition, and the building's sublet and pied-à-terre posture during due diligence.
What to know if you’re selling
The story is SoHo at its most authentic — an 1870s cast-iron building, cast-iron columns and tin ceilings, in the protected district's heart. Pricing should be apartment-specific: ceiling height, floor, exposure, layout, and renovation drive value, and per-room framing anchors the read. Positioning should reach buyers who specifically want a loft inside a historic cast-iron building and who are comfortable with the cooperative structure — a pool that overlaps with, but is distinct from, the SoHo condominium-loft buyer.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 477 Broome Street, also look at these SoHo boutique buildings:
- 202 Broome Street — nearby downtown boutique building serving an overlapping loft-oriented buyer
- 242 Broome Street — Lower East Side / SoHo-edge boutique building
- 354 Broome Street — nearby boutique building in the SoHo/Nolita transition
- 70 Charlton Street — SoHo/Hudson Square boutique building nearby
- 110 Charlton Street — Hudson Square boutique building serving the SoHo-border buyer
- 173 Grand Street — nearby SoHo/Little Italy boutique building
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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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