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61 Rivington Street (The Library)Recorded sales & closing prices

61 Rivington Street, New York, NY 10002

12 recorded closings, 2021–2022. Sortable and searchable below.

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Recorded closings
12
Date range
2021–2022
Median $/sf
$2,376
2022 · adjusted · 2 sales
Listing discount
0.7%
median, from last ask
Monthly carry/sf
$1.80
≈ $1,807/mo · recent
Price range
$1.16M – $4.12M
Price shift · median $/sf · floor-adjusted
Since 2021
▲ +0%
10-Year
not enough data
Since 2022
▲ +0%
1-Year
▲ +0%

Change in the building’s median $/sf over each window, on a floor-adjusted basis — standardized to the building’s average floor, so it reflects price rather than which floors happened to sell. This is a different method from The Roebling Index, which publishes plain medians and applies no floor adjustment; the two are not interchangeable. Floor adjustment standardizes for floor only. It does not control for condition, size, exposure, renovation or the mix of what happened to trade. (2022 marks the rate-shock inflection.) Like-for-like repeat-sale figures to follow.

The Library launched sales in June 2021, and the sellout was fast: all eleven residences closed between January 2021 and January 2022. Since then the building has been close to dormant in the public record — one subsequent deed appears across the eleven lots through the third quarter of 2026, and it does not read as an arm's-length resale.

There is therefore effectively no same-building resale record. A valuation has to be built from the original closings adjusted forward and from the surrounding Lower East Side condominium set — the boutique post-2015 inventory and the small group of downtown adaptive-reuse conversions — priced per square foot with explicit adjustments for the absence of any tax abatement and for the building's minimal staffing.

Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.

The complete recorded-sale history for The Library, compiled from NYC Department of Finance transfer records, with apartment-by-apartment detail from The Roebling Research Library. Across sales with a public asking price, the building carries a median listing discount of 0.7% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.

Price per square foot over time

12 sales with a known square footage, by closing date.

$1,309$2,002$2,694'21'222A · $2,132/sf · 20211A · $1,520/sf · 20213A · $2,055/sf · 20214A · $2,030/sf · 2021PHA · $2,030/sf · 20212B · $1,918/sf · 20211B · $1,383/sf · 20212C · $2,047/sf · 20213B · $1,949/sf · 2021PHB · $1,940/sf · 20212A · $2,132/sf · 20224B · $2,620/sf · 2022
Each dot is one recorded sale with a known interior square footage, plotted by closing date against price per square foot. The line is the median $/sf each year, adjusted to a floor-standardized (average-floor) unit — so it reflects price movement, not which floors happened to sell that year. Individual sale prices in the table below are unadjusted — and you can click any dot to jump straight to that sale.
Median, 2022 (floor-adjusted)$2,376/sfevery bar sits above or below this · 0%

The vertical premium

Time-adjusted price per square foot by floor group, against the recent median. These figures reflect the apartments that traded and do not isolate the value of light, views, layout or condition.

Floors 3–4 4 sales
+0%
Floors 1–2 6 sales
-3%

Premium by line

Time-adjusted price per square foot by line, against the recent median. Line groups are not floor-controlled and do not isolate the value of light, outlook, layout or condition.

Line A 5 sales
+1%
Line B 4 sales
-5%

Recent closings

The building’s 10 most recent market sales.

DateUnitApartmentPrice$/sfvs. Ask
Jan 19, 20224B2 BR · 2 BA · 1,006 sf$2,635,426$2,620+0.3%
Jan 6, 20222A1 BR · 1 BA · 544 sf$1,160,000$2,132-7.2%
Nov 16, 2021PHB3 BR · 2 BA · 1,997 sf$3,875,000$1,940-1.0%
Nov 15, 20213B2 BR · 2 BA · 1,044 sf$2,034,658$1,949+2.0%
Nov 10, 20212B1 BR · 1 BA · 692 sf$1,326,975$1,918-4.6%
Nov 10, 20211B1,788 sf$2,472,506$1,383—
Nov 10, 20212C2 BR · 2 BA · 1,046 sf$2,141,575$2,047+4.5%
Nov 9, 2021PHA3 BR · 2 BA · 2,030 sf$4,121,751$2,030-0.7%
Oct 21, 20214A1 BR · 1 BA · 763 sf$1,548,953$2,030+3.3%
Oct 14, 20213A2 BR · 2 BA · 1,211 sf$2,488,162$2,055-1.4%

The retrade record

Lines that have changed hands more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.

2A · 544 sf+0%
$1,160,000 ($2,132/sf) 2021 → $1,160,000 ($2,132/sf) 2022

Every recorded sale

Sort any column; filter by unit or keyword. Prices are the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance. Every sale sits in one of three states: counted in the building’s medians and trend; shown but excluded as a non-arms-length or nominal transfer; or shown and ⚑ flagged for review — a possible duplicate filing or an extreme $/sf outlier, held out of the statistics pending manual verification rather than allowed to move them.

12 recorded sales
Apartment
Jan 19, 20224BSponsor Sale2 BR · 2 BA1,006$2,635,426$2,620+0.3%
Jan 6, 20222A1 BR · 1 BA544$1,160,000$2,132-7.2%
Nov 16, 2021PHBSponsor Sale3 BR · 2 BA1,997$3,875,000$1,940-1.0%
Nov 15, 20213BSponsor Sale2 BR · 2 BA1,044$2,034,658$1,949+2.0%
Nov 10, 20212BSponsor Sale1 BR · 1 BA692$1,326,975$1,918-4.6%
Nov 10, 20211BSponsor Sale1,788$2,472,506$1,383—
Nov 10, 20212CSponsor Sale2 BR · 2 BA1,046$2,141,575$2,047+4.5%
Nov 9, 2021PHASponsor Sale3 BR · 2 BA2,030$4,121,751$2,030-0.7%
Oct 21, 20214ASponsor Sale1 BR · 1 BA763$1,548,953$2,030+3.3%
Oct 14, 20213ASponsor Sale2 BR · 2 BA1,211$2,488,162$2,055-1.4%
Feb 24, 20211ASponsor Sale1,320$2,006,393$1,520—
Jan 6, 20212ASponsor Sale1 BR · 1 BA544$1,160,000$2,132—

The latest qualifying transfer in our compiled records for this building is from 2022. The dataset is current through September 2026; that does not by itself establish that no later sale occurred.

Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00415-7503; 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. Storage, parking, and commercial units are excluded from all figures. Floor- and line-level $/sf are time-controlled (each sale measured against the building’s going rate at the time of sale) and expressed at today’s pricing, so they isolate the floor or line premium rather than blend two decades of market movement.

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