The Dandy
704–706 Broadway, between East 4th Street and Astor Place · NoHo
NoHo
BBL 1005457502 · BIN 1008790
- Year built
- 1894
- Type
- Condominium
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Passenger and freight elevators, full-time superintendent, video access and private storage
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at The Dandy 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.
The Dandy occupies a ten-story commercial building designed by De Lemos & Cordes for Adolf Boskowitz. Built in 1894–1895 as a store and warehouse, it now contains large loft residences above a commercial base. The broad Broadway frontage and deep floor plates support full-floor homes of a scale uncommon in a condominium with so few residences.
The property converted to artist lofts in the 1990s. Its legal history is tied to NoHo's former manufacturing zoning and joint living-work quarters for artists, a distinction that remains relevant to purchases today.
Architecture and unit composition
A steel and cast-iron frame supports a Renaissance Revival exterior. Limestone and granite columns articulate the base, with brick and terra-cotta ornament above. Large window openings and substantial ceiling heights reflect the building's original commercial use.
Typical loft floors span roughly 4,800 to 5,000 square feet. The penthouse extends across multiple levels and includes substantial private outdoor areas. Passenger and freight elevators serve different access needs, including the movement of large furnishings and equipment through the building.
Individual renovations have divided the broad interiors into bedroom suites, living areas and work spaces. The depth of the floor plates means room placement depends on access to perimeter windows; expansive internal area does not give every enclosed room the same natural light.
Building operations
A full-time superintendent, video access and storage support the residential component. The commercial premises has a separate tax lot and a separate entrance from the upper floors. Both residential and nonresidential uses share the larger building envelope.
A documented façade restoration addressed the Broadway, south and east elevations. Work included masonry repointing, repairs to stone and terra-cotta ornament, replacement of missing decorative elements and reinforcement of corroded steel near fire-escape landings. The project illustrates the range of materials maintained within this historic structure. That project's completion doesn't reflect the present status of later façade cycles.
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 21, 2025 | 8FL | $7,750,000 |
| Sep 5, 2024 | 4FL | $4,950,000 |
| Dec 26, 2012 | 9FL | $8,125,000 |
| Feb 26, 2008 | 2FL | $5,100,000 |
| Dec 28, 2007 | 2FL | $2,473,306.33 |
| Oct 15, 2007 | 10FL | $18,029,375 |
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 1-00545-7502) 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.
Buying here? Condo closing costs with a mortgage typically run 3 to 6% 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
City Planning and Community Board 2 records document artist live/work use in the upper floors. A buyer must establish the approved use of the particular loft: the 2021 neighborhood rezoning did not automatically convert existing artist quarters to unrestricted residential use. Where conversion is required, DOB and City Planning approvals and an amended certificate of occupancy are part of the process. The applicable status can differ between homes in the same building.
Comparable buildings
- 382 Lafayette Street — A small historic loft condominium nearby.
- 27 Great Jones Street — Condominium ownership in a lower-rise NoHo loft building.
- 19 Bond Street — A limited apartment inventory within nineteenth-century commercial architecture.
- The NoHo Star — Another small condominium in a historic commercial building.
- Robbins & Appleton Building — A landmark loft conversion with more residences and a lower building profile.
More East Village + NoHo buildings
- 644 Broadway (Bleecker Tower) — 1889 co-op
- 652 Broadway — 1906
- 684 Broadway — 1905 co-op
- 710 Broadway — 1894 co-op
- 716 Broadway — 1890 co-op
- 718 Broadway — 1908 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across East Village + NoHo — read The Roebling Team Guide to East Village + NoHo.
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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