53 Crosby Street
53 Crosby Street, between Broome and Spring Streets, SoHo, south of NoHo
SoHo
BBL 1004820007 · BIN 1007210
- Year built
- 1889
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 6
- Floors
- 7
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Keyed elevator; private penthouse terraces
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About the building
Horgan & Slattery designed 53 Crosby Street in 1889–90 as a six-story store, loft and warehouse building. Its Queen Anne façade combines patterned brick, terra-cotta panels, rusticated granite columns and an ornate metal cornice with a central gable. Glass, typewriter, clothing and paper businesses occupied the building during its commercial life. Cooperative use began in 1980, and a rooftop addition received DOB sign-off in 2015.
The six residences include full-floor lofts reached by a keyed elevator, a ground-floor duplex incorporating cellar space, and a multilevel penthouse with five private terraces. Broad interior floor plates allow several bedrooms within the loft volume. Outdoor space belongs to the penthouse, while the lower duplex gains additional enclosed space beneath street level. The original iron fire escape remains part of the historic street façade.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 2025 | 1 | 2 BR · 3.5 BA · 4,200 sf | $3,800,000 | $905/sf | -2.6% |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 2 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 2,275 sf | $3,725,000 | $1,637/sf | -15.3% |
| Mar 3, 2017 | PH | 3 BR · 2,700 sf | $6,525,000 | $2,417/sf | -5.4% |
| Apr 14, 2015 | 2 | 2 BR · 2,275 sf | $3,000,000 | $1,319/sf | +0.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $905/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 4.7% 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.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00482-0007) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. 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.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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What to know if you’re buying
A 2009 alteration incorporated cellar space into the ground-floor duplex. Its total interior area therefore spans two legally distinct levels; the approved cellar use determines whether any downstairs room may lawfully be used for sleeping.
Comparable buildings
- 37B Crosby Street — A similarly small prewar loft cooperative on the same street.
- 45 Crosby Street — A larger cooperative in another historic Crosby Street loft building.
- 242 Lafayette Street — A small prewar cooperative offering loft ownership nearby.
- 35 Mercer Street — Another six-residence cooperative in a nineteenth-century commercial building.
More East Village + NoHo buildings
- 50 Avenue A (Hearth House) — 1920 condop
- 51 St. Marks Place — 1920 co-op
- 52 East 4th Street (52E4) — 2007 condominium
- 54 Bleecker Street (The NoHo Star) — 1896 condominium
- Bond Street Lofts — condominium
- 60 Greene Street — 1871 condominium
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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