81 Wooster Street
77–81 Wooster Street, between Spring and Broome Streets, extending through to 391–393 West Broadway, in SoHo within the Greenwich Village corridor
SoHo
BBL 1004870016 · BIN 1007312
- Year built
- 1889
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 14
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Elevator with direct access to lofts
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2024
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,106
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded sales
- 18
- On record
- 2004–2024
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81 Wooster Street occupies a warehouse extending through the block from Wooster Street to West Broadway. John B. Snook & Sons designed the building in 1889–1890. Its two street frontages, substantial commercial base and unusually deep floor plates form a fourteen-residence cooperative with three commercial units. The corporation takes its name from the West Broadway address, while homes on the eastern side trade under Wooster Street.
The old warehouse accommodates very large lofts, including homes with several thousand square feet on a single level. Residential divisions sit within the original broad industrial floors. Some interiors preserve tin ceilings and maple flooring; others have been extensively rebuilt during successive ownerships.
Architecture and unit composition
The six-story building retains the proportions of a late-nineteenth-century commercial warehouse. Tall window openings serve the deep interior spaces, and elevator access leads directly into residences. The Wooster Street frontage faces east, while the opposite frontage faces West Broadway. Apartments occupying only part of the building do not necessarily have exposure to both streets.
The residential layouts include open artist lofts and enclosed multi-bedroom homes. Several transferred apartments have measured approximately 3,000 to 4,000 square feet; larger configurations also exist. Bedrooms and internal rooms have been arranged within floor plates originally designed for commercial use. The mix of preserved industrial interiors and later residential build-outs means that a three-bedroom description can refer to substantially different amounts of interior space.
Building operations
The residential and commercial portions belong to one cooperative corporation. The three commercial interests make the treatment of storefront work, common building systems and shared structural repairs a material part of ownership. A purchaser's share allocation and proprietary lease establish how that home's obligations relate to the rest of the corporation.
Historic-district controls apply to the building's street-facing fabric on both frontages. Work affecting its exterior windows, storefronts or rooftop profile can involve LPC review as well as ordinary building approvals. The warehouse's existing floor area also exceeds the residential FAR permitted by its current zoning.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 2024 | 3WO | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 3,600 sf | $3,980,000 | $1,106/sf | -0.4% |
| Apr 21, 2022 | 2WM | 3 BR · 3 BA · 4,000 sf | $6,600,000 | $1,650/sf | -5.6% |
| Oct 22, 2015 | — | 3 BR | $4,195,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jun 29, 2012 | 3WO | 3,600 sf | $4,300,000 | $1,194/sf | -4.4% |
| Sep 5, 2010 | 3 | 2 BR · 3,400 sf | $2,350,000 | $691/sf | off-mkt |
| Jun 21, 2010 | 3 | 2 BR · 3,400 sf | $2,650,000 | $779/sf | +0.0% |
| May 7, 2008 | 2WO | 3 BR · 3,000 sf | $4,750,000 | $1,583/sf | +0.0% |
| Jan 20, 2008 | LOWERROOF | $500,000 | +0.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2024) cleared a median $1,106/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
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 1-00487-0016) 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; square footage on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
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Comparable buildings
- 169 Spring Street — A similarly scaled loft cooperative in a neo-Grec brick store-and-loft building.
- 80 Wooster Street — A former commercial storehouse with monumental arches and terra-cotta detail, converted to cooperative lofts.
- 101 Wooster Street — An 1890s elevator cooperative with brick, stone, cast iron and terra cotta in its commercial façade.
- 93 Mercer Street — A limestone-fronted commercial loft conversion whose cooperative also owns a second building.
- 451 West Broadway — A two-building industrial conversion with ground-floor commercial space and loft apartments above.
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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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