55 Liberty Street (Liberty Tower)
55 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10005
BBL 1000640008 · BIN 1001084
- Year built
- 1909
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 87
- Floors
- 33
- Landmark status
- Individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- Full-time doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2025
- $755
- floor-adjusted, 3 sales
- Listing discount
- 2.3%
- Recorded sales
- 94
- On record
- 2003–2025
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55 Liberty Street (Liberty Tower) is the first FiDi office-to-cooperative conversion — Henry Ives Cobb's 1909 Gothic Revival skyscraper converted by Joseph Pell Lombardi in 1979-80 to one of the very first residential cooperatives in the Financial District. Among FiDi's earliest residential pioneering buildings.
Its claim to primacy is the first-FiDi-office-to-coop-conversion pedigree, completed in 1979-80 ahead of the wave that would follow. The tower it converted carries a Henry Ives Cobb Gothic Revival architectural pedigree, the work of an architect whose broader portfolio runs to substantial late-19th- and early-20th-century commercial and residential commissions. Most striking are the terracotta gargoyles that ornament the facade and rank the building among the most architecturally distinctive Gothic Revival commercial structures in NYC.
Architecture and building operations
Cobb's 1909 design produced a 33-story Gothic Revival skyscraper at 55 Liberty Street with terracotta gargoyles ornamenting the facade. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a designated NYC landmark.
The 1979-80 Joseph Pell Lombardi conversion was the first FiDi office-to-cooperative conversion — a structurally pioneering moment in the residential transformation of the Financial District. The building has a landmark interior penthouse.
Operations: 24-hour doorman; live-in superintendent; private storage.
Policy framework — verify via The Roebling Research Library
- Type: Cooperative — board interview required
- Minimum down: Verify with managing agent
- Pied-à-terre: Verify with managing agent
- Pets: Verify with managing agent
- Subletting: Board approval required
- Board interview: Required
- NYC Landmark + National Register — LPC permits required for any visible facade modification
Specific policy framework should be verified against the Roebling Research Library's offering plan and house rules at engagement.
Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Maintenance, per room
- $1,152 per room a monthMedian of 8 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Maintenance, per square foot
- $2.80 per square foot a monthMedian of 8 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Maintenance as recorded with each sale. A co-op's maintenance already covers the building's real estate taxes and the building's own mortgage, if it has one; add your own loan payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Full-time doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Concierge
- YesSource: recent listing records
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- StorageSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $42,429/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $41
- Modeled exposure split equally across 87 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the engineer identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair, with repairs due by the deadline stated in the filing. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 2025 | 16C | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,350 sf | $800,000 | $593/sf | +0.0% |
| May 19, 2025 | 7AB | 4 BR · 3.5 BA · 3,201 sf | $2,800,000 | $875/sf | -6.5% |
| Apr 28, 2025 | 27D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $470,000 | -5.8% | |
| Mar 13, 2025 | 9B | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,360 sf | $1,910,000 | $809/sf | -9.0% |
| Feb 6, 2025 | PH31A | 4 BR · 4 BA | $1,490,000 | -25.5% | |
| Dec 13, 2024 | 22A | 5 BR · 3 BA · 3,070 sf | $2,525,000 | $822/sf | -2.7% |
| Aug 21, 2024 | PH32 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,700 sf | $1,235,000 | $726/sf | -32.3% |
| Dec 20, 2023 | 24D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 725 sf | $450,000 | $621/sf | +0.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $755/sf (floor-adjusted) across 3 sales. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 2.3% 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 1-00064-0008). 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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At the recent median sale of $1.91M (6 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $33,650 to close, or 1.8% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $19,100
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $14,550
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
The first-FiDi-coop-conversion pedigree is structurally distinguishing. 1979-80 — one of the earliest residential conversions in the Financial District.
The Henry Ives Cobb Gothic Revival architectural pedigree is real institutional context.
The NYC landmark + National Register dual designation provides the most stringent exterior protection.
The terracotta gargoyles ornamenting the facade are real architectural-history credentials.
The 87-unit boutique cooperative configuration supports operational intimacy.
Roebling cross-references the offering plan through the Roebling Research Library during diligence.
Comparable buildings
- 1 Wall Street Court (Cocoa Exchange) — Clinton & Russell 1904 / 2006 conversion; nearby FiDi landmark peer
- 3 Hanover Square (Cotton Exchange) — Donn Barber 1922-23 / 1985 coop conversion; nearby FiDi coop peer
- 25 Broad Street (The Broad Exchange) — Clinton & Russell 1902 / 2019 conversion; nearby Broad Street landmark peer
- Cipriani Club Residences (55 Wall) — McKim Mead & White 1907-10; nearby Wall Street landmark peer
- 1 Wall Street — Walker / Macklowe 2023; nearby FiDi trophy peer
Sources: The Roebling Research Library (offering plans, house rules, financial statements, board minutes, internal transaction records); NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers; publicly recorded NYC building data.
More Financial District buildings
- 48 Beaver Street — 1920 condominium
- 50 Pine Street (50 Pine Street) — 1902 condominium
- 50 West Street — 2017 condominium
- 55 Wall Street (Cipriani Club Residences) — 1841 condominium
- 56 Pine Street (Financial District) — 1894 condominium
- 65 Nassau Street — 1898 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Financial District — read The Roebling Team Guide to Financial District.
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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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