- Year built
- 1890
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 23
- Floors
- 12
- Landmark
- No
- Financing
- Up to 80% of the purchase price, per listing records; co-purchasing permitted
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at The McIntyre Building. LPC records it as the MacIntyre Building, and the lobby's mosaic floor also spells it "Mac Intyre." Both spellings circulate 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.
Ewen McIntyre opened a drugstore at Broadway and 18th Street in the 1840s. By 1890 the corner sat at the center of the Ladies' Mile shopping district, and he hired Robert Henderson Robertson to replace his store with a twelve-story office building. It opened in 1892. The critic Montgomery Schuyler called it "unscrupulously picturesque." The description still fits: Romanesque arches, Gothic finials, Byzantine columns and a corner tower, all in one facade.
The building's residential life started informally. The office floors held wholesalers and manufacturers' showrooms into the 1930s, with a bank at street level. In the 1970s a group of artists bought the building and moved in without a residential certificate of occupancy, per historical accounts. They later legalized the apartments and organized the building as a cooperative. That history puts it in the same family as the Flatiron and Union Square loft co-ops. These are large, raw-proportioned apartments in a commercial frame, and their paperwork was built backward from occupancy.
The result is a 23-apartment cooperative in one of the most elaborate buildings on the district's Broadway spine. It sits at the corner, looks south to Union Square, and has twelve-foot ceilings behind oversized windows. It is small enough that one capital decision moves every shareholder's maintenance. That is the structural fact a buyer should understand first.
Architecture and unit composition
The facade combines limestone, brick and terra cotta over a steel frame. The carving includes grotesques, animals and Celtic knotwork. The building's restoration was substantial: an exterior program carried out around 2006–2008, including repair of the original wood windows rather than replacement, and the New York Landmarks Conservancy gave the work its Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award in 2010. As part of the Ladies' Mile Historic District, any work on the exterior, roof or storefront needs LPC approval first. Current DOB filings describe it as an existing twelve-story landmark building.
Recorded share transfers and DOB filings identify apartments on the third through eleventh floors, in 01, 05 and 07 lines. That suggests two to three apartments on a typical floor, with the corner line picking up the Union Square exposure. Ceiling heights run about twelve feet, per listing records. Owners have combined apartments vertically. The 2015 third- and fourth-floor combination produced a duplex with an internal stair, so the unit count is not fixed. The ground floor, a former bank, is about 5,600 square feet of commercial space. Get the terms of that lease from the managing agent, since commercial rent is part of the co-op's income.
Building operations
- Underlying mortgage: ACRIS records a consolidation and extension agreement dated December 2022, which brought the co-op's underlying mortgage to $11.5 million, including $3.2 million of new borrowing. Across 23 apartments, that is meaningful leverage for a building this size. The rate and maturity are not in the public record. Get both from the financial statements before you sign a contract.
- Facade: Under the city's facade inspection program, the building filed UNSAFE in Cycle 6 (2007, amended to SAFE in 2009) and SWARMP (safe with a repair and maintenance program) in Cycle 7 (2013). It filed UNSAFE again in Cycle 8 (2018), amended to SAFE in 2021. Its Cycle 9 filing, in August 2023, was SAFE. DOB NOW records a 2025 permit for structural vault repair, sidewalk replacement and masonry repair in the cellar.
- Heating plant: In August 2026 the co-op filed to replace the boiler and burner and install new gas service. Ask whether the work is funded from reserves, from the 2022 borrowing or by an assessment.
- Tax benefits: No J-51 or other building-level abatement appears on the lot. Eligible shareholders receive the standard co-op tax abatement individually.
Recent sales
874 Broadway trades as a Flatiron loft co-op, so the useful frame is price per room adjusted for ceiling height and exposure, not the prewar-apartment-house benchmark. Share transfers are infrequent, at one or two a year, and ACRIS records them going to separate, unrelated buyers. The corner apartments and the combined duplexes set the top of the range, and the smaller interior apartments the bottom. Sales in comparable Ladies' Mile co-ops are the right comparison set; condominium loft conversions nearby trade at a tenure premium. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent transfers 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2026 | 501 | $2,500,000 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | 907 | $770,830 |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 607 | $1,295,000 |
| Nov 7, 2024 | 301 | $2,250,000 |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 807 | $1,910,000 |
| Oct 15, 2021 | 505 | $1,120,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00847-0024) 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.
At the recent median sale of $2.25M (4 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $42,675 to close, or 1.9% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $28,125
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $14,550
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
Underwrite the debt. An $11.5 million underlying mortgage in a 23-apartment co-op is the first number to understand. Get the rate, maturity and amortization from the most recent financial statements, and ask what share of maintenance goes to debt service.
Ask about the heating plant and the cellar work. The 2025 vault and sidewalk repair and the 2026 boiler replacement are capital projects. Ask how they are funded and whether an assessment is planned.
Confirm the paperwork. The building's history is a legalized loft conversion. Ask for the certificate of occupancy and confirm your apartment's legal layout. This matters most for a combined or duplexed apartment.
The board package is standard co-op. Expect full financial disclosure, reference letters and an interview. Financing up to 80% and pied-à-terre use are reported in listing records. Confirm both, plus the sublet policy, flip tax and any restriction on trust or LLC purchases, with the managing agent before you make an offer. Post-closing liquidity requirements are not documented; ask.
Landmark approval is part of any renovation. Window, rooftop and exterior mechanical work needs LPC approval, on top of the board's alteration agreement.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the building. Few loft co-ops come with a named architect, a Landmarks Conservancy restoration award and a corner on Union Square. Put the history in the listing.
Prepare the financial answers. Buyers' attorneys will go straight to the 2022 mortgage and the 2026 boiler work. Get the board's current figures from the managing agent before you list.
Know the policy stack. Buyers treat 80% financing and allowed pied-à-terre use in a downtown loft co-op as selling points. Confirm both in writing and state them up front.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 874 Broadway, also evaluate:
- 889 Broadway (The Gorham Building) — landmarked Ladies' Mile loft co-op one block north
- 832 Broadway — individually landmarked full-floor loft co-op south of Union Square
- 12 West 18th Street (The Randolph) — 1885 Ladies' Mile building, the condominium alternative
- 140 Fifth Avenue — turn-of-the-century loft building converted to residences in 1977
- 105 Fifth Avenue (The Folio House) — Flatiron loft co-op
- 15 Union Square West — 1870 commercial building converted to condominium on the square
- 16 West 19th Street — early-1900s Flatiron loft building
- 15 West 17th Street — small Ladies' Mile loft building nearby
More Flatiron buildings
- 372 Fifth Avenue — 1910 co-op
- The Crown Building / Aman New York Residences (730 Fifth Avenue) — 1921 condominium by Warren & Wetmore
- 828 Seventh Avenue — 1912 co-op by George and Edward Blum
- 889 Broadway (The Gorham Building) — 1883 co-op
- 1031 Sixth Avenue (1031 Avenue of the Americas) — 2004 condominium
- 10 Madison Square West, 1107 Broadway — condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Flatiron — read The Roebling Team Guide to Flatiron.
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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