- Year built
- 1865
- Type
- Cooperative
- Amenities
- Keyed elevator, in-home laundry and part-time superintendent
- Landmark status
- Individual landmark; in the Tribeca East Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
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About the building
50 White Street occupies the 48–50 White Street portion of the Woods Mercantile Buildings, developed by Samuel and Abraham Wood as commercial storehouses. The upper façade is marble, with a cast-iron ground floor, repeated window bays and projecting cornices. The complex's pediment carries its name and the date 1865. Its architecture reflects the area's nineteenth-century textile and dry-goods trade.
The cooperative has full-floor lofts reached by a keyed elevator, with broad living spaces, tall ceilings and windows at both ends. Interior partitions create varying bedroom and office arrangements. A later penthouse and mezzanine were added through signed-off DOB alterations, which also reconfigured the elevator shaft. In-home laundry and a part-time superintendent support the residential use of the former commercial building.
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 | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 2025 | 2NS | 4 BR · 2 BA | $4,320,000 | +23.6% |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00193-0010). 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
The exterior combines marble and cast iron under individual landmark protection. Repairs require material-specific work, and the small cooperative bears the cost of maintaining the historic façade. A purchaser should distinguish its stone-restoration obligations from ordinary brick pointing when assessing a proposed exterior project.
Comparable buildings
- 9 White Street: Another small cooperative in a nineteenth-century Tribeca building.
- 47 Walker Street: A nearby prewar cooperative with a larger loft inventory.
- 35 Mercer Street: A small historic loft cooperative toward SoHo.
- 399 Washington Street: A similarly limited cooperative association in a prewar building.
More Tribeca buildings
- 47 Walker Street — 1867 condop
- 48 Beach Street — 1905 condominium
- 50 Franklin Street — 2007 condominium
- 49 Chambers Street — 1912 condominium
- 49 Murray Street — 1858 condominium
- 49–51 Warren Street — 1854 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Tribeca — read The Roebling Team Guide to Tribeca.
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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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