52 East 4th Street (52E4)Recorded sales & closing prices
52 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
36 recorded closings, 2009–2026. Sortable and searchable below.
- Recorded closings
- 36
- Date range
- 2009–2026
- Median $/sf
- $1,654
- Listing discount
- 2.6%
- Monthly carry/sf
- $4.27
- Price range
- $560K – $4.6M
Change in the building’s median $/sf over each window, on a floor-adjusted basis — standardized to the building’s average floor, so it reflects price rather than which floors happened to sell. This is a different method from The Roebling Index, which publishes plain medians and applies no floor adjustment; the two are not interchangeable. Floor adjustment standardizes for floor only. It does not control for condition, size, exposure, renovation or the mix of what happened to trade. (2022 marks the rate-shock inflection.) Like-for-like repeat-sale figures to follow.
52E4 sold out from the sponsor between mid-2009 and 2010 — a launch that ran directly into the worst of the downturn — and has traded steadily on resale since. Deeds have been recorded across essentially every residential line, with full-floor and penthouse units transacting most often.
On a per-square-foot basis the building prices with downtown boutique new-development inventory rather than with the prewar co-op and loft stock that surrounds it. Three factors drive the spread within the building: floor plate (the split fourth and fifth floors are a different product from the full-floor stack), private outdoor space, and whether a parking unit conveys. The absence of any tax abatement is now a neutral fact rather than a negative one — every unit is on the same full-tax footing, which makes intra-building comparison cleaner here than in buildings still stepping through a phase-out. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The complete recorded-sale history for 52E4, compiled from NYC Department of Finance transfer records, with apartment-by-apartment detail from The Roebling Research Library. Across sales with a public asking price, the building carries a median listing discount of 2.6% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.
Price per square foot over time
34 sales with a known square footage, by closing date.
Recent closings
The building’s 10 most recent market sales.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | $/sf | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2026 | 4N | 1 BR · 1 BA · 680 sf | $1,125,000 | $1,654 | -13.1% |
| Nov 17, 2025 | 11 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,359 sf | $2,700,000 | $1,987 | — |
| Jan 30, 2025 | PH1 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,359 sf | $2,650,000 | $1,950 | -10.2% |
| Dec 18, 2023 | 4N | 1 BR · 1 BA · 680 sf | $1,270,000 | $1,868 | -1.9% |
| Jun 23, 2022 | 5S | 1 BR · 1 BA · 784 sf | $1,250,000 | $1,594 | +0.1% |
| Dec 27, 2021 | 8 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,359 sf | $2,950,000 | $2,171 | -7.5% |
| Sep 23, 2021 | PH3 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,317 sf | $4,600,000 | $3,493 | — |
| Jun 14, 2017 | 10 | 2 BR · 1,359 sf | $3,250,000 | $2,391 | — |
| Apr 26, 2017 | 4N | 1 BR · 680 sf | $1,425,000 | $2,096 | +0.0% |
| Mar 7, 2017 | 7 | 2 BR · 1,359 sf | $2,900,000 | $2,134 | -3.3% |
The retrade record
Lines that have changed hands more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Every recorded sale
Sort any column; filter by unit or keyword. Prices are the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance. Every sale sits in one of three states: counted in the building’s medians and trend; shown but excluded as a non-arms-length or nominal transfer; or shown and ⚑ flagged for review — a possible duplicate filing or an extreme $/sf outlier, held out of the statistics pending manual verification rather than allowed to move them.
| Apartment | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2026 | 4N | 1 BR · 1 BA | 680 | $1,125,000 | $1,654 | -13.1% |
| Nov 17, 2025 | 11 | 2 BR · 2 BA | 1,359 | $2,700,000 | $1,987 | — |
| Jan 30, 2025 | PH1 | 2 BR · 2 BA | 1,359 | $2,650,000 | $1,950 | -10.2% |
| Dec 18, 2023 | 4N | 1 BR · 1 BA | 680 | $1,270,000 | $1,868 | -1.9% |
| Jun 23, 2022 | 5S | 1 BR · 1 BA | 784 | $1,250,000 | $1,594 | +0.1% |
| Dec 27, 2021 | 8 | 2 BR · 2 BA | 1,359 | $2,950,000 | $2,171 | -7.5% |
| Sep 23, 2021 | PH3 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | 1,317 | $4,600,000 | $3,493 | — |
| Mar 10, 2020 | 4S | 1 BAoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $782,800 | — | +0.0% |
| Jun 14, 2017 | 10 | 2 BR | 1,359 | $3,250,000 | $2,391 | — |
| Apr 26, 2017 | 4N | 1 BR | 680 | $1,425,000 | $2,096 | +0.0% |
| Mar 7, 2017 | 7 | 2 BR | 1,359 | $2,900,000 | $2,134 | -3.3% |
| Feb 2, 2016 | 5N | 1 BR | 949 | $1,642,000 | $1,730 | — |
| May 8, 2015 | 11 | 2 BR | 1,359 | $3,140,000 | $2,311 | — |
| Jan 9, 2015 | 8 | 2 BR · 2 BA | 1,359 | $2,980,000 | $2,193 | -16.6% |
| Jul 30, 2014 | 6 | 2 BR | 1,359 | $3,100,000 | $2,281 | -22.5% |
| Feb 28, 2013 | 8 | 2 BR | 1,359 | $2,600,000 | $1,913 | — |
| Nov 28, 2012 | 9 | 2 BR · 2 BA | 1,359 | $2,675,000 | $1,968 | -9.3% |
| Sep 4, 2012 | 4N | 1 BR | 681 | $1,250,000 | $1,836 | — |
| Aug 10, 2012 | 10 | 2 BR | 1,359 | $2,990,000 | $2,200 | -0.3% |
| Jul 19, 2010 | 3Sponsor Sale | non-market transfer (excluded from $/sf & trends) | 3,775 | $2,000,000 | — | — |
| May 19, 2010 | 4SSponsor Sale | 400 | $560,038 | $1,400 | +6.7% | |
| May 6, 2010 | 5NSponsor Sale | 1 BR | 917 | $1,323,725 | $1,444 | -1.9% |
| Jan 27, 2010 | 5SSponsor Sale | 1 BR | 784 | $1,120,075 | $1,429 | -2.6% |
| Dec 10, 2009 | PH15Sponsor Sale | 2 BR | 1,317 | $3,250,000 | $2,468 | +0.0% |
| Dec 10, 2009 | PH14Sponsor Sale | 2 BR | 1,359 | $2,675,000 | $1,968 | +0.0% |
| Nov 30, 2009 | 9Sponsor Sale | 2 BR | 1,359 | $1,900,000 | $1,398 | -17.2% |
| Nov 25, 2009 | PH3Sponsor Sale | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | 1,317 | $3,054,750 | $2,319 | — |
| Nov 10, 2009 | PH2Sponsor Sale | 1,359 | $2,494,712 | $1,836 | — | |
| Nov 6, 2009 | 10Sponsor Sale | 2 BR | 1,359 | $2,168,872 | $1,596 | -5.7% |
| Oct 1, 2009 | 8Sponsor Sale | 2 BR | 1,359 | $2,000,000 | $1,472 | -8.0% |
| Oct 1, 2009 | 11Sponsor Sale | 2 BR | 1,359 | $2,160,000 | $1,589 | -10.0% |
| Sep 22, 2009 | 4NSponsor Sale | 1 BR | 681 | $1,095,000 | $1,608 | — |
| Aug 31, 2009 | PH1Sponsor Sale | 2 BR · 2 BA | 1,359 | $2,548,003 | $1,875 | — |
| Aug 21, 2009 | 7Sponsor Sale | 2 BR | 1,359 | $2,095,000 | $1,542 | — |
| Jul 16, 2009 | 6Sponsor Sale | 2 BR | 1,359 | $2,593,000 | $1,908 | — |
| Jun 19, 2009 | 12Sponsor Sale | 2 BR | 1,359 | $2,500,000 | $1,840 | +0.0% |
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00459-7502; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans. Storage, parking, and commercial units are excluded from all figures. Floor- and line-level $/sf are time-controlled (each sale measured against the building’s going rate at the time of sale) and expressed at today’s pricing, so they isolate the floor or line premium rather than blend two decades of market movement.
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