- Year built
- 1889
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 6
- Floors
- 7
- Amenities
- Keyed elevator; private penthouse terraces
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District Extension
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Subletting by shareholders
- Permitted
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not stated
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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.
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.
- Subletting by shareholders
- PermittedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Pied-à-terre ownership
- Not verified
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Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not statedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- In-unit washer/dryer
- 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 →Recent sales
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 (recorded) 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). 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.
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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.
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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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