- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 6
- Floors
- 8
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Tribeca North Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Leasing by owners
- Permitted with conditions
The Laight House Condominium sales history: 10 recorded sales
Every recorded sale at this building, 2013–2023
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2023
- $2,262
- 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 5.2%
- Recorded sales
- 10
- On record
- 2013–2023
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Laight Street west of Hudson is the quiet edge of Tribeca North — a short run of block-front lofts and converted warehouses between the Holland Tunnel approaches and the river, with Hudson River Park two blocks west and the neighborhood's restaurant core a few minutes east. The Laight House sits mid-block, eight stories of red brick with an arched loggia at the top floor, and it is easy to mistake for a converted loft. It is not one.
That is the fact this page exists to establish. The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a new building at 50–52 Laight Street by Certificate of Appropriateness in August 2006. The Type 1 alteration filed the same year took the site from one story to eight and from zero dwelling units to six, and a companion filing removed the roof and interior structure while retaining portions of the side, rear and façade walls. Construction ran through the late 2000s under a vertical-enlargement permit — sidewalk sheds, a personnel hoist and pipe scaffolding are all in the permit record — and the first temporary certificate of occupancy did not issue until September 2013, with the final following in January 2016. PLUTO's "1920" describes the freight building and garage that used to be here. What you would buy is a 2010s building behind a retained historic wall, designed to sit inside a historic district.
The practical consequences run in the buyer's favor. Systems, elevator, plumbing, glazing and envelope date from the new construction; current condition still needs recent engineering reports. Floor-to-ceiling dimensions and layouts were designed rather than inherited. The building carries no Interim Multiple Dwelling status, no Loft Board history, and no joint living-working quarters for artists designation on the certificate of occupancy. The residential units are ordinary J-2 dwelling units. Confirm the current certificate, approved use and any occupancy-history issues for the specific unit; this does not establish comparative contract delays elsewhere.
The consequence that runs the other way is tax. The assessment roll shows no exemption here — no J-51, no 421-a, no 485-x on record for a new building in a landmark district — but abatements apply at the bill level, so check the apartment's tax bill. A buyer comparing carrying costs against a 421-a-era Tribeca condominium should compare each unit's actual charges and taxes.
Architecture and unit composition
Eight stories, roughly 95 feet to the roof, on an assembled lot of about 3,550 square feet — the combination of 50 and 52 Laight. Total building area runs about 14,980 square feet, of which roughly 11,630 is residential and 3,345 commercial.
The residential program is one apartment per floor. Units R2 through R6 occupy floors two through six, and the penthouse sits above, with the arched loggia and French doors that give the building its street identity. Reported full-floor areas are roughly 1,900 to 2,000 square feet; verify the unit's measured area, front and rear windows and landing arrangement against its actual plan. The commercial unit occupies the ground floor and cellar.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission docket for the site is short after completion — sidewalk certificates in 2013, an interior-alteration certificate in 2014, the ground-floor commercial fit-out approvals in 2018, and an expedited interior certificate in 2026.
Building operations
This is a boutique building without staff amenity. There is an elevator, a lobby shared with the ground-floor commercial unit, and a small association — seven units in total, six of them residential — so capital costs are shared among the units in the percentages the declaration sets; review the current budget, reserves and any assessments.
No audited financial statement for the condominium was located in either document library, so we will not characterize its reserve position or common-charge history. Ask for the last two years of financials, the current insurance certificate, the Local Law 11 façade status, and the allocation of common expenses between the residential units and the commercial unit. In a building this small, the commercial unit's share of common charges and its access rights through the lobby are among the most consequential things in the declaration.
The 2018 change of the ground-floor space from Group C to Group B occupancy, filed in connection with an ambulatory diagnostic and treatment use, is worth a direct question. A medical or clinical tenancy brings daytime foot traffic, waste and signage considerations that a retail tenancy does not, and the terms governing it sit in the declaration and the unit's lease rather than anywhere public.
Policy framework
Nothing about this condominium's house rules is published, and we will not guess. As a condominium the building has no co-op board interview, and leasing by owners is permitted with conditions. The recorded transfer history includes conveyances to corporate purchasers, to limited liability companies and into revocable trusts, which shows past entity purchases, not current policy. Financing limits, pied-à-terre use, the presence of a right of first refusal, the sublet rules, the pet policy, the alteration agreement and the move-in requirements all have to come from the managing agent in writing before contract.
Sublet and pied-à-terre policy
A condominium owner leasing a unit and a co-op shareholder subletting are different rules, and a building-wide rule is different from a restriction on one apartment. This is the building's rule; confirm it for the specific apartment.
- Leasing by owners
- Permitted with conditionsBoard approvalSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Pied-à-terre ownership
- Not verified
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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.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. A filed Safe grade is not a guarantee of current condition: owners still maintain the facade and, where required, observe parapets each year. Future inspection timing (Local Law 49 of 2025 changed the cycle framework from October 1, 2026), repair and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed September 2026.
421-a Tax Abatement
- Last year of benefit
- FY2022
- Fully taxed from
- FY2023 (2022–23)
- Program
- 421-a (10-year)
The 421-a benefit has run its term, so taxes on these units have stepped up toward the full assessed amount. Get the current tax bill for the specific apartment and compare its tax component with any older listing: an earlier carrying-cost figure may reflect the benefit, or different common charges and assessments. Treat a comparable sale made while the abatement was still running as priced under different taxes.
Source: NYC Dept. of Finance property-tax exemption records (421-a), refreshed 2026-09-06 · The Roebling Research Library. Confirm the exact step-up schedule on the building’s DOF tax bill. Years shown are NYC tax years, which start July 1 — FY2023 runs July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. The benefit last appears on the 2022 assessment roll, which is what dates the end of the term.
The 421-a Expiration Wave — our study of when these benefits expire citywide, and what the resale record shows about pricing as they do.
Recent sales
This is a clean for-sale condominium, confirmed unit by unit in ACRIS. The sponsor conveyed all six residential units individually between September and November 2013, to six separate and unrelated purchasers, with individual purchase-money mortgages. Every unit has traded at least once since — the sixth floor three times, most recently in 2026 — and the second, third, fourth and fifth floors have all changed hands to unrelated parties. The commercial unit was sold out of the sponsor separately in 2014 and resold in 2018. There is no bulk transaction, no single holder of the residential stock, and no rental wrapper.
Pricing here reads per square foot against Tribeca's boutique full-floor condominium set rather than against the loft-conversion stock: buyers are paying for a private floor, new construction, and a landmark-district address. Compare dated sales with similar floor layouts, exposures and renovation condition; assess the penthouse loggia and outdoor space separately before assigning a premium. Assess the current tax bill, association finances and ground-floor commercial tenancy alongside matched sales before attributing a price effect to those factors. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Recent closings 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 2023 | 5 | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,945 sf | $4,400,000 | $2,262/sf | -2.2% |
| Aug 23, 2022 | R6 | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,945 sf | $5,350,000 | $2,751/sf | -2.6% |
| Nov 19, 2015 | R6Sponsor Sale | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,814 sf | $4,900,000 | $2,701/sf | — |
| Nov 19, 2015 | 6 | 3 BR · 1,945 sf | $4,900,000 | $2,519/sf | -1.9% |
| Oct 28, 2013 | PHSponsor Sale | 3 BR · 2,761 sf | $5,931,306 | $2,148/sf | -4.3% |
| Sep 20, 2013 | R5Sponsor Sale | 1,814 sf | $2,574,136 | $1,419/sf | — |
Market read. Most recent trades (2023) cleared a median $2,262/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. Median listing discount 5.2% 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 1-00219-7506; 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
Buy it as new construction, not as a loft. The 2006 Certificate of Appropriateness was for a new building. Systems, envelope and layouts date from the late 2000s and early 2010s. That is the value proposition, and it is also what your inspection should be scoped to.
The roll shows no exemption. Check the apartment's tax bill for any abatement and underwrite the actual tax line. Do not compare monthly carry against an abated Tribeca condominium without normalizing.
Ask about the ground-floor unit. The 2018 occupancy change to Group B in connection with a medical use is on the record. Establish the current tenancy, the lobby access rights, and the commercial unit's share of common charges.
Get the financials. For a seven-unit association, review two years of statements, the reserve position, any assessment in force, and the Local Law 11 status.
Confirm the certificate of occupancy for your unit. The final certificate issued in January 2016 for six dwelling units. Have counsel confirm nothing has changed since.
169 Hudson Street is a different building. It sits on the same block — Block 219 — and shares nothing with this condominium: separate declaration, separate unit lots, separate transfer record. So do 429 Greenwich, 39 Vestry, 35 Vestry and 31 Vestry. Block-level data pulls conflate them; ACRIS does not.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 52 Laight Street, also evaluate:
- 44 Laight Street — the immediate neighbor on the same block front; the closest like-for-like on the street
- 28 Laight Street — loft condominium a few doors east; the conversion alternative on Laight
- 79 Laight Street — the larger, amenitized Laight Street alternative
- The Sterling Mason (71 Laight Street) — the corridor's marquee conversion-plus-addition; the step-up in price and service
- 169 Hudson Street — twelve-residence loft condominium on the same block; separate building, separate condominium
- 39 Vestry Street — new-development condominium on the same block; the ground-up comparison
- 11 Beach Street — boutique Tribeca North condominium of similar scale
- 19 Beach Street — small full-floor loft condominium nearby
- 60 Collister Street — boutique building on a quiet Tribeca side street; the closest comparison for privacy and scale
- 7 Hubert Street — small Tribeca North condominium; the value-tier full-floor alternative
More Tribeca buildings
- 49–51 Warren Street — 1854 condominium
- 50 Walker Street — 1857 condop
- 51 Walker Street — 2005 condominium by CetraRuddy Architects
- 52 Lispenard Street — 1867 condominium
- 52 Thomas Street — 1928 condominium
- 53 Warren Street — 1854 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Tribeca — read The Roebling Team Guide to Tribeca.
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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