65 Nassau Street
65 Nassau Street, New York, NY 10038
BBL 1000657501 · BIN 1001106
- Year built
- 1898
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 27
- Floors
- 10
- Landmark
- In a historic district
- Amenities
- Elevators (recently replaced), central and multi-floor laundry, live-in superintendent, video-intercom entry, common storage; select units with private outdoor space. No doorman, no gym
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 (floor-adjusted)
- $794
- Listing discount
- 2.5%
- Recorded sales
- 40
- On record
- 2003–2025
Own an apartment here? See what it would sell for.
A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 65 Nassau 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.
65 Nassau Street is one of the Financial District's early loft conversions and one of its most boutique ownership buildings. A turn-of-the-century corner loft structure with a restored terra-cotta facade, it was converted to a residential cooperative in 1980 — well ahead of the wave of FiDi office-to-residential conversions that came decades later — and today holds just 27 to 28 loft homes across 10 or 11 floors. In a corridor increasingly defined by large rental conversions and amenity condominiums, a small pre-war loft co-op is a structurally scarce product: full loft-scale space, high ceilings, and oversized windows at a boutique unit count.
The building's ownership structure is worth understanding at the outset. The residences above the ground floor are a cooperative — the recorded owning entity is 65 Nassau Owners Corp, and apartments trade as co-op shares. The ground-floor retail is held separately as a commercial condominium, which is why the address carries a condominium-category tax lot in city records. For a buyer, the practical point is simple: you are buying co-op shares in a small pre-war loft building, not a condominium apartment.
For buyers, the thesis is scarce boutique loft ownership at accessible pricing: turn-of-the-century loft space, an early-conversion co-op, and a location on top of one of Lower Manhattan's major transit hubs.
Architecture and unit composition
The building rises 10 to 11 stories as a corner loft structure with a restored terra-cotta facade — turn-of-the-20th-century commercial architecture carried into residential use. The 27 or so loft homes run from studios and one-bedrooms of roughly 600 to 720 square feet up through two-bedrooms in the 850-to-1,325-square-foot range, including a top-floor penthouse. The corner "A/B" lines are the light-filled, view-facing lofts. Interiors carry the loft signatures — high ceilings, oversized windows, hardwood floors — with open city and skyline outlooks from the upper floors. This is genuine loft-scale space at a boutique unit count; the appeal is volume and light in a small building.
Building operations
This is boutique co-op ownership: recently replaced elevators, a live-in superintendent, central and multi-floor laundry, video-intercom entry, and common storage, with a new entry canopy among recent building upgrades. There is no doorman and no gym. With fewer than 30 residential owners, the common charges spread across a narrow base, and governance is intimate. As with any cooperative, the board package, house rules, and building financials should be reviewed carefully; we obtain current documents from the managing agent for clients at offer stage.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $15,631/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $47
- Modeled exposure split equally across 28 units (the city tax-lot count). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified 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).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Management & transfer contacts
- Flip tax
- 1% of gross sales price
- Sublet policy
- Allowed with board approval; sublet fee 25% of maintenance monthly
- Notable fees
- Co-op. Max financing 80%. App processing $650 + board $150; credit $150/applicant; move-in/out deposits $500 + fees $100; refinance $350. Pets under 30 lbs
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 2025 | 3C | 2 BR · 1 BA | $750,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jan 22, 2024 | 8B | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | $825,000 | -2.9% | |
| Jul 28, 2023 | 10B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $869,000 | +0.0% | |
| Oct 30, 2022 | 8A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $515,000 | -5.5% | |
| Jan 12, 2022 | 4C | 2 BR · 1 BA | $765,000 | -1.3% | |
| Oct 7, 2021 | 6C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $492,000 | -14.4% | |
| Jun 23, 2021 | 2C | 1 BA · 720 sf | $500,000 | $694/sf | -13.0% |
| Apr 17, 2020 | 9C | 2 BR · 1 BA | $720,000 | -24.1% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2021): a median $794/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 2.5% 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 1-00065-7501). 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.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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What to know if you’re buying
Understand the ownership structure. The residences are a cooperative (65 Nassau Owners Corp); the ground-floor retail is a separate commercial condominium. You are buying co-op shares — confirm the co-op's financials, house rules, and the relationship to the retail condo during diligence.
Loft scale is the product. High ceilings, oversized windows, and open space in a boutique building — price the loft volume and light against the corridor's newer, smaller-windowed conversions.
Few units means a narrow base. With under 30 owners, review the budget, reserve posture, and any assessment history closely — small buildings carry low fixed costs but limited room to absorb a capital surprise.
Verify the policy stack. Pet, sublet, and financing specifics are thinly documented publicly. We verify against the offering documents and managing agent during diligence.
The transit hub is the location story. The building sits on top of the Fulton Transit Center — a genuine convenience, and a diligence point on ground-floor retail activity. Walk the block at different hours.
What to know if you’re selling
Market the scarcity and the volume. A boutique pre-war loft co-op is rare in a corridor of large conversions; lead with the loft scale, the terra-cotta character, and the early-conversion pedigree.
Explain the ownership structure cleanly. Buyers and their attorneys will want the co-op/retail-condo distinction laid out clearly — get ahead of it in the marketing and the board package.
Use adjacent-building comps. With fewer than 30 units, the building's own history is thin; FiDi loft and conversion trades are the right comparison set, adjusted for the loft layout premium.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 65 Nassau Street, also evaluate the loft-conversion and boutique ownership stock across the Financial District — pre-war and turn-of-the-century conversions offering loft-scale space near Lower Manhattan's transit core, benchmarked against the corridor's larger amenity conversions. We maintain the current comparable set in The Roebling Research Library.
More Financial District buildings
- 55 Liberty Street (Liberty Tower) — 1909 co-op
- 55 Wall Street (Cipriani Club Residences) — 1841 condominium
- 56 Pine Street (Financial District) — 1894 condominium
- 67 Liberty Street — 1920 condominium
- The Croft, 71 Nassau Street — 1905 condominium
- 75 Wall Street (The Residences at 75 Wall Street) — 1987 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Financial District — read The Roebling Team Guide to Financial District.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
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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