- Year built
- 1881
- Type
- Condominium
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Doorman, elevator and intercom
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 56 Crosby Street would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
About the building
56 Crosby Street occupies a nineteenth-century commercial building extending through to Broadway. Lamb & Wheeler designed the structure in 1881–1882; Surtsey Realty Corporation converted it to condominium ownership in 2000. On Crosby Street, red brick, tall windows, curved iron fire escapes and a bracketed cornice preserve its commercial character. The Broadway frontage contains a substantial separately owned retail space, while the residential entrance is on Crosby Street.
The apartments are large lofts with broad living rooms, tall ceilings and widely spaced structural columns. Some interiors retain Corinthian-style column capitals and arched brickwork. Conventional loft floors and larger penthouse configurations coexist, with private outdoor space in the upper homes. Ceiling heights vary considerably, from roughly twelve feet to substantially taller upper-level spaces. Renovations and combinations have produced different room arrangements within the original commercial floor plates.
Recent sales
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent closings at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 2026 | 2A | $9,100,000 |
| Jan 10, 2025 | 4A | $8,650,000 |
| Oct 1, 2024 | C1 | $26,900,000 |
| Apr 16, 2024 | 5B | $8,200,000 |
| Jan 22, 2016 | 3B | $7,950,000 |
| Jul 25, 2013 | 5A | $6,495,000 |
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 1-00483-7502) 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.
At the recent median sale of $9.1M (3 sales since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $425,391 to close, or 4.7% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $204,750
- Mortgage recording tax: $131,381
- Title insurance: $40,950
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $48,310
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 retail component is substantial. The Broadway commercial space comprises approximately 20,000 square feet and has traded separately from the homes. The condominium's allocation of façade, roof and other shared expenses between the commercial interest and the residential owners is a consequential part of ownership here.
Comparable buildings
- 77 Mercer Street — Another small prewar condominium for buyers seeking loft ownership in SoHo.
- The Loft, 30 Crosby Street — A nearby Crosby Street conversion with a somewhat larger residential association.
- 115 Mercer Street — A similarly small condominium within a nineteenth-century commercial building.
- The Brewster Carriage House — A boutique historic conversion with condominium ownership and a comparable association scale.
More Tribeca buildings
- 55 Leonard Street — 1915 condominium
- 55 Warren Street — 1854 condominium
- 55 White Street — 1861 condominium
- 56 Leonard Street — 2015 condominium by Herzog & de Meuron
- 56 Warren Street — 1880 co-op
- 57 Laight Street — 1892 co-op
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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