- Year built
- 1877
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 15
- Pets
- Cats and dogs are permitted under the condominium rules
- Subletting
- Permitted under the condominium declaration
- Pied-à-terre
- Generally allowed in condominiums; not confirmed for this building
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- Doorman (hours not stated)
Every recorded sale at this building, 2016–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $2,146
- floor-adjusted, 4 sales
- Listing discount
- 6.7%
- Recorded sales
- 32
- On record
- 2016–2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 57 Greene 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.
57 Greene Street is one of the most architecturally pedigreed addresses on one of the world's most intact cast-iron streetscapes. Built in 1877 as a dry-goods and silk warehouse for E. Oelbermann & Co. — one of the great 19th-century silk-commission houses — it was designed by Edward H. Kendall in a red-brick neo-Grec and Queen Anne idiom. That masonry façade is itself notable: most of Greene Street is lined with cast-iron fronts, and Kendall's brick-and-stone building reads as a deliberate counterpoint within the SoHo–Cast Iron Historic District.
The building's commercial life tracked SoHo's transformation. Oelbermann occupied it until 1913; it later housed Ault & Wiborg, once the largest printing-ink maker in the world (and the patron of poster art by Toulouse-Lautrec, Louis Rhead, and Will Bradley), and then the General Display Case Co. from the 1920s into the 1970s. In 2016 it was converted into a boutique 15-unit condominium — the kind of small, design-conscious loft building that defines premium SoHo living.
Architecture and unit composition
Kendall's six-story warehouse provides the deep floor plates, tall ceilings, and large windows that make SoHo lofts distinctive. The 2016 conversion produced 15 residences with floor allocations to confirm from the approved plans, ranging from roughly 1,900-square-foot two-bedrooms to a multi-floor penthouse approaching 3,600 square feet. Apartments combine the bones of a landmark loft — columns, volume, and light — with contemporary kitchens, baths, and in-unit laundry.
The building offers a landscaped common roof deck, a part-time (weekday) doorman, and resident storage; it does not have a fitness center, which is typical for a boutique loft conversion of this size.
Building operations
57 Greene operates as a small, staffed loft condominium with a part-time doorman and a live-in superintendent. With only 15 units carrying the building's amenity package and the maintenance demands of an 1877 landmark, common charges reflect both the staffing and the systems of a historic structure. As with any loft conversion, buyers should review the offering plan, current financials, board minutes, and any reserve study during due diligence, and confirm the condition of building systems and the roof.
Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Common charges + taxes, per room
- $1,158 per room a monthMedian of 5 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Common charges + taxes, per square foot
- $2.84 per square foot a monthMedian of 5 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Common charges alone, per square foot
- $0.98 per square foot a monthMedian of 10 listings since October 2023 that give the annual taxSource: listing records, refreshed October 2026
- Real estate taxes alone, per square foot
- $1.86 per square foot a monthMedian of 10 listings since October 2023 that give the annual taxSource: listing records, refreshed October 2026
Common charges plus real estate taxes, combined into one monthly figure the way New York condominium listings show them. Add a mortgage payment for the monthly outlay. The split into common charges and taxes comes from the listings that also give the annual tax, a different sample, so the two lines need not add up exactly to the combined median; a tax abatement can hold taxes below the full amount until it expires. A summary of recorded sales and listings, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Doorman (hours not stated)Source: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Package room
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of Buildings elevator records
- Amenities noted
- Roof deck, bike storage, 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. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $38,740/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $140
- Modeled exposure split equally across 23 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; condominium owners are typically charged by each unit's common-interest percentage.
- At the 15 residences in our building profile: $0 – $215. The two counts differ; confirm the count with the building.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Recent sales
57 Greene trades as a condominium, so pricing is read on a price-per-square-foot basis. Sponsor sales ran from the 2016–2017 conversion, and the building has since produced a thin but meaningful resale record — illustrative recent activity has ranged from two-bedrooms in the mid-single-digit millions to the penthouse trading in the eight-figure range. With only 15 units, transactions are infrequent and highly apartment-specific: floor, ceiling height, exposure, and finish level drive most of the variation. We underwrite each unit against the building's own history and the prime-SoHo loft set rather than neighborhood averages.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2026 | 5A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,953 sf | $4,200,000 | $2,151/sf | -6.7% |
| Apr 30, 2026 | PHA | 4 BR · 4 BA · 3,597 sf | $10,500,000 | $2,919/sf | -3.7% |
| Feb 13, 2026 | 4DLOFT | 3 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,407 sf | $5,150,000 | $2,140/sf | -5.5% |
| Jan 29, 2026 | 2E | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,450 sf | $3,150,000 | $2,172/sf | -9.4% |
| Jan 26, 2026 | 2D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,630 sf | $3,250,000 | $1,994/sf | -7.1% |
| Jun 7, 2023 | 2D | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,630 sf | $2,450,000 | $1,503/sf | -2.0% |
| Dec 22, 2022 | 5C | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,768 sf | $3,550,000 | $2,008/sf | +1.6% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 5B | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 2,069 sf | $5,380,000 | $2,600/sf | +7.7% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $2,146/sf (floor-adjusted) across 4 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 6.7% 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.
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 1-00486-7503; 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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At the recent median sale of $4.67M (6 sales in the past 24 months, since October 31, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $191,038 to close, or 4.1% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $70,125
- Mortgage recording tax: $67,495
- Title insurance: $21,038
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $32,380
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
This is a landmark loft in a boutique building. A six-story 1877 warehouse on Greene Street, fully converted, with apartment-specific loft layouts and a roof deck — but no gym, and a part-time rather than 24-hour doorman.
Loft selection is apartment-specific. Light, ceiling height, and layout vary by floor in a building this old. View units in person and at different times of day.
Underwrite a historic conversion properly. Review financials, reserves, roof and façade condition, and building systems during diligence.
Condo flexibility is real. Pied-à-terre, investor, and foreign-buyer use permitted; subletting allowed under the declaration. Plan for the typical 20% minimum down.
Mansion tax thresholds apply. At SoHo loft pricing, the $1M, $2M, and higher cliff thresholds routinely apply — run the numbers with the Mansion Tax Calculator.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the architecture and the address. Kendall's landmark warehouse, the intact Greene Street streetscape, and the apartment's documented loft layout are the differentiators.
Price to the building's own comps. With 15 units, the persuasive evidence is 57 Greene's own trades adjusted for floor, exposure, and finish, supplemented by the prime-SoHo loft set.
Reach the design-conscious downtown buyer. Demand for landmark SoHo lofts is national and international; marketing should reach both audiences.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 57 Greene Street, also evaluate:
- 93 Greene Street — Henry Fernbach cast-iron loft condominium one block north on the same street
- 40 Mercer Street — established full-service SoHo luxury condominium
- 10 Sullivan Street — design-led new-development condo at the SoHo border
- 55 Sullivan Street and 57 Thompson Street — boutique SoHo condominiums for a smaller-building contrast
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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