83 Walker Street
83 Walker Street, New York, NY 10013
Tribeca
BBL 1001957502 · BIN 1090537
- Year built
- 2014
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 9
- Floors
- 9
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Not documented in public records — confirm with the managing agent
Every recorded sale at this building, 2019–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,837
- Listing discount
- 4.3%
- Recorded sales
- 9
- On record
- 2019–2026
Walker Street east of Broadway is the seam where Tribeca stops being Tribeca. The blocks north are Chinatown wholesale; the blocks west are the cast-iron store-and-loft fabric that the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated as the Tribeca East Historic District in 1992. 83 Walker sits on a 24-foot lot inside that district, and almost everything interesting about the building follows from that.
New construction inside a Manhattan historic district is rare, slow, and heavily mediated, and the paper trail here shows exactly how slow. LPC records for this tax lot run back to a Certificate of No Effect in 1994 on the earlier building, a Status Update Letter in 2003, and a first Certificate of Appropriateness for a new building issued in November 2003. That scheme did not get built. A second new-building application filed in 2009 was withdrawn at staff level in 2011. A second Certificate of Appropriateness — the one that produced the building standing today — was approved in July 2011, amended in 2013 and again in 2017, and closed out with a Notice of Compliance in October 2017. Fourteen years elapsed between the first approval and the sign-off.
What the Commission approved is a serious piece of contextual design rather than a compromise. Morris Adjmi's elevation inverts the logic of a cast-iron front: the deep column-and-spandrel grid that would have been assembled from bolted iron castings next door is here cast as one continuous board-formed concrete frame, with the bays reading as recessed rather than projecting. It is the same rhythm, the same proportion, and the same shadow depth as the 1860s buildings on either flank, executed in the material and the tolerances of 2015. On a 24-foot lot with a single street elevation, that facade is the entire architectural argument.
The plan is the other half of the building. Nine residences across nine floors means one apartment per floor above the ground-and-cellar duplex, each reached by a key-locked elevator that opens into the apartment. There is no common corridor above the lobby. For buyers, that is the trade the building offers: a full-floor loft-proportioned residence with private-landing arrival, in a district where comparable floor plates almost always come inside a nineteenth-century conversion with the compromises that carries.
Architecture and unit composition
The lot measures 24 feet across a building depth of about 70 feet, which sets the plate. Residences run full-floor from the second floor up, with the ground-floor unit extending down into the cellar as a duplex and the top residence marketed as the penthouse. Listing records describe ceilings near nine and a half feet, custom red oak floors, exposed brick, and mahogany-framed bay windows detailed for acoustic performance — a necessary specification on a block that still carries commercial loading traffic.
The building has one street elevation and no protected exposures on either flank. 81 Walker Street next door is a nineteenth-century loft, now a commercial condominium; 85 Walker is a five-story walk-up. Neither is likely to be redeveloped inside the historic district, which is a durable — if not absolute — protection of the building's light and air on the Walker Street side. A buyer should still confirm which windows in a specific residence are lot-line windows.
Building operations
83 Walker is a self-contained boutique condominium with no staffed lobby. The service model is a video-intercom entry, a separate package room off the double-height lobby, a key-locked elevator, and a common roof terrace. Nine units is a very small denominator for building expenses, so common charges per square foot are the number to test rather than the amenity list, which is short by design. Ask for the current operating budget, the reserve position, and the Local Law 11 facade cycle status before contract.
Policy framework
Ownership form: Condominium. Transfers close through the board's right of first refusal rather than a cooperative-style approval, which produces the shorter and more predictable timeline typical of the form.
Pied-à-terre, subletting, LLC, trust and foreign ownership: Permitted under the standard condominium framework. Minimum lease term, if any, should be confirmed in the house rules.
Pets and flip tax: Neither is documented in public records for this building. Confirm both with the managing agent before pricing a purchase or a sale.
Real estate taxes: No exemption of any kind appears on this lot. Underwrite full unabated taxes from day one on the specific unit.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 emissions caps apply. No regulatory capital pressure from this law specifically, current or 2030.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
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).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
The sponsor's sell-out at 83 Walker was unusually protracted. ACRIS shows the first sponsor deeds recorded in 2019 — roughly two years after the Landmarks sign-off — and sponsor closings continuing at a pace of roughly one to two units a year through 2026, with one unit still unsold at the time of writing and one early resale recorded. Buyers should read that pattern for what it is: a nine-unit building marketed patiently rather than a distressed one. It also means same-building comparables are thin, and pricing has to be built line by line rather than from a building average.
The relevant comparable set is boutique full-floor Tribeca East product — new construction and high-specification loft conversions on Walker, White, Lispenard and Canal — rather than the larger amenitized Tribeca condominiums west of Broadway, whose economics and buyer pool are different. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Recent closings 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2026 | 6 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,397 sf | $2,613,489 | $1,871/sf | +0.7% |
| Apr 14, 2026 | 4 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,397 sf | $2,565,990 | $1,837/sf | +4.7% |
| Apr 1, 2026 | 5 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,397 sf | $2,550,000 | $1,825/sf | off-mkt |
| Jul 23, 2024 | 8Sponsor Sale | 1,397 sf | $2,371,443 | $1,698/sf | off-mkt |
| Sep 8, 2023 | 1 | 4 BR · 4 BA · 2,597 sf | $3,215,362 | $1,238/sf | -13.0% |
| May 9, 2022 | PHSponsor Sale | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,397 sf | $2,775,093 | $1,986/sf | -2.6% |
| Jun 13, 2019 | 2 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,397 sf | $1,850,000 | $1,324/sf | -7.3% |
| Apr 15, 2019 | 5 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,397 sf | $2,200,000 | $1,575/sf | -4.3% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,837/sf across 3 sales. Median listing discount 4.3% 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 1-00195-7502) 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; square footage from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
What to know if you’re buying
Correct the year built before you underwrite. PLUTO says 2014. The Landmarks sign-off is October 2017 and the first closings are 2019. Any automated valuation, insurance quote or capital-cycle assumption built on 2014 will be off.
Underwrite full taxes. There is no abatement here, and there never was one. This is the single largest gap between the headline price and the true monthly carrying number.
Nine units is the operating story. A small denominator funds the same facade, roof, elevator and Local Law 11 obligations as a larger building. Read the budget and the reserves, not the amenity list.
The historic district cuts both ways. It protects the streetscape and the low-rise neighbors, and it also means any future exterior work — windows, roof terrace changes, mechanical equipment — requires a Landmarks permit. Factor that into renovation planning.
Walk the block at street level and at night. Walker Street between Broadway and Lafayette is a genuine border condition. It is the reason the pricing works, and it is not for everyone.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the plate and the arrival. A full-floor residence with a keyed elevator landing, inside a designated district, is a specific and scarce product. Market it against boutique Tribeca East inventory, not against generic downtown condominium stock.
Document the architecture. The Certificate of Appropriateness history and the Adjmi authorship are verifiable facts that survive attorney diligence and that most competing listings on the block cannot claim.
Get ahead of the tax number. Buyers comparing against abated new construction elsewhere will find the unabated bill in diligence. Present it up front alongside a carrying-cost analysis.
Same-building comparables are thin and mostly sponsor sales. Sponsor pricing on a slow sell-out is not a clean resale comparable. Price from the line, the floor, and the condition.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 83 Walker Street, also evaluate:
- 51 Walker Street — Walker 51, a 2005 boutique condominium on the same street; the closest new-construction peer by scale and address
- 44 Lispenard Street — 1860s store-and-loft conversion one block north, inside the same historic district; the conversion alternative
- 46 Lispenard Street — adjoining 1860s loft conversion; small-building economics on the same block face
- 52 Lispenard Street — two combined loft buildings with a vertical enlargement; a district-approved addition rather than a district-approved new building
- 37 Lispenard Street — late-nineteenth-century Néo-Grec loft converted as a boutique condominium
- 53 White Street — 1850s loft conversion with a two-floor rooftop addition, around the corner
- 55 White Street — 1861 loft conversion; the prewar full-floor alternative
- 81 White Street — two nineteenth-century store-and-loft buildings converted together
- 86 Canal Street — 2012 ground-up construction just north on the Chinatown side; the new-construction alternative outside the district
- 51 Canal Street — 1941 building converted to condominium; the value-tier comparison on the same border
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Tribeca — read The Roebling Team Guide to Tribeca.
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.
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