- Year built
- 1915
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 44
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Permitted under condominium rules; confirm current terms at offer stage
- Subletting
- Permitted under the condominium declaration; confirm current terms at offer stage
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 8 Prince 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.
8 Prince Street is one of the quieter pre-war condominiums in Nolita — a 1915 red-brick loft building converted to condominium ownership in 1984, occupying a full mid-block parcel between the Bowery and Elizabeth Street. Its defining feature is not the façade but what sits behind it: a landscaped interior courtyard with walkways and a water feature, a genuine rarity for a downtown building of this vintage and scale.
The 44 residences carry the pre-war loft character that draws buyers to this stretch of Nolita — arched openings, unusual ceiling geometries, and the solid masonry construction of the era — inside a boutique building with a canopied entrance and a doorman. It reads as a residential enclave one step removed from the Bowery's traffic, which is a large part of its appeal.
The location is core Nolita: steps from Elizabeth Street's shops and restaurants, the Bowery's gallery and hotel corridor, and the transit convergence at Houston Street. For a pre-war condominium, 8 Prince offers the flexibility buyers want in this neighborhood without the carrying profile of a new-development tower.
Architecture and unit composition
The building rises six stories in a classic 1915 loft envelope. The 44 apartments range from studios and one-bedrooms through larger loft layouts, with the most distinctive units capturing the arched windows and generous ceiling heights that define pre-war conversions of this type. Interiors vary substantially apartment to apartment — original loft character in some, gut renovation in others — and that variation drives most of the pricing spread within the building.
The landscaped courtyard is the architectural signature. Where most downtown loft buildings press flush to the lot line, 8 Prince wraps around planted walkways and a water feature, giving courtyard-facing apartments a quiet, green outlook that is unusual at this price point in Nolita.
Building operations
8 Prince Street operates as a boutique pre-war condominium with a part-time doorman, an elevator, resident storage, and washer/dryer service in the building. The maintained interior courtyard is a shared amenity that also shapes the building's light and quiet. There is no gym and no on-site parking — typical for a converted loft building of this size, where the appeal is character and location rather than a deep amenity package.
As a pre-war building, buyers should review the current financial statements, the reserve study, board minutes, façade and roof history, and any active or planned capital projects during due diligence. Elevator, plumbing, and envelope condition are the standard items to confirm in a building of this age.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $19,308/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $37
- Modeled exposure split equally across 44 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
The courtyard is the differentiator. Courtyard-facing apartments carry a quiet, green outlook that street-facing lofts in Nolita rarely offer. Confirm exactly what a given line sees.
Condition drives price. Renovation quality varies widely across the 44 units. Inspect kitchens, baths, ceilings, and mechanicals, and price against comparable condition.
Know the amenity profile. This is a pre-war condominium with a part-time doorman, elevator, and storage — not a full-service tower. If a gym, full-time staff, or parking are priorities, weigh that up front.
Condo flexibility is real. 30–45 day closings; pied-à-terre, investment, LLC, trust, and foreign-buyer purchases are permitted under the declaration; subletting is allowed. Confirm current sublet and pet rules with management at offer stage.
Mansion tax may apply. Depending on price, the mansion tax and its cliff thresholds can be in play. Run pricing through the Mansion Tax Calculator.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the courtyard and the pre-war character. The landscaped interior and the loft-scale windows are the differentiators against generic downtown inventory. Photography should foreground both.
Presentation matters. Because condition drives the pricing spread, staging and preparation materially affect outcome in a building this heterogeneous.
Closing timelines are condo-fast. 30–45 days from contract to closing.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 8 Prince Street, also evaluate:
- 250 Bowery — Morris Adjmi 2013 boutique condominium nearby on the Bowery
- 285 Lafayette Street — pre-war loft conversion at the Nolita / SoHo edge
- East Village — the broader downtown condominium market
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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