889 Broadway (The Gorham Building)Recorded sales & closing prices
889 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
25 recorded transfers, 2005–2025. Sortable and searchable below.
Co-ops are normally measured by price per room, since square footage is not officially recorded for them. This building is shown in price per square foot because most of its sales carry documented footage, which makes the sharper measure the honest one here.
- Recorded transfers
- 25
- Date range
- 2005–2025
- Median $/sf
- $1,119
- Listing discount
- 3.0%
- Monthly carry/sf
- $0.81
- Price range
- $775K – $3.3M
Change in the building’s median $/sf over each window, adjusted to a floor-adjusted basis — standardized to the building’s average floor, so it reflects price rather than which floors happened to sell. (2022 marks the rate-shock inflection.) Like-for-like repeat-sale figures to follow.
889 Broadway trades as a Ladies' Mile loft cooperative, a category with its own economics. Loft co-ops price on per-room and per-share logic rather than the per-square-foot logic that governs the converted condominiums a few blocks west, and they trade at a discount to those condominiums for structural reasons: board approval, financing limits, sublet restriction, and the absence of the resale flexibility a condominium confers. Against the prewar apartment co-ops on the East 19th Street corridor, this building offers loft scale and dual landmark provenance; against the condominium loft conversions on West 17th through West 21st Streets, it offers a lower entry and a harder purchase process.
Two conditions belong in the pricing rather than in the disclosure schedule. The first is the facade: an UNSAFE status standing since 2023 with a landmark-supervised restoration underway, across seventeen apartments, is a capital exposure. The second cuts the other way — the ground-floor retail is genuine support for maintenance in a building this small, and its lease terms are worth knowing. Market statements should be indexed to the last complete year rather than the partial current one, which is thin in a building producing a handful of transfers a year. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The complete recorded-sale history for The Gorham Building, compiled from NYC Department of Finance transfer records and verified listing data, then enriched apartment-by-apartment by The Roebling Team research desk. Across sales with a public asking price, the building carries a median listing discount of 3.0% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.
Price per square foot over time
13 sales with a known square footage, by closing date.
Recent closings
The building’s 10 most recent market sales.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | $/sf | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2025 | PHA | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,975,000 | -1.0% | |
| Mar 29, 2024 | 4A | 3 BR · 1.5 BA · 1,850 sf | $2,100,000 | $1,135 | -12.3% |
| Mar 20, 2024 | 3B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,380,000 | — | |
| Jun 3, 2021 | 4B | 2 BR · 3 BA | $3,150,000 | -7.1% | |
| May 21, 2021 | 6C | 2 BR · 2 BA | $775,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jul 17, 2018 | 2C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 1,400 sf | $1,897,350 | $1,355 | -36.6% |
| Feb 2, 2016 | 3B | 1 BR | $1,440,000 | -9.7% | |
| Jan 21, 2015 | 1A | $4,000,000 | — | ||
| Sep 9, 2014 | 5B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,600 sf | $2,795,000 | $1,747 | -6.7% |
| Jul 16, 2012 | 4B | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $2,800,000 | -1.8% |
The retrade record
Lines that have changed hands more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Every recorded sale
Sort any column; filter by unit or keyword. Prices are the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance. Every sale sits in one of three states: counted in the building’s medians and trend; shown but excluded as a non-arms-length or nominal transfer; or shown and ⚑ flagged for review — a possible duplicate filing or an extreme $/sf outlier, held out of the statistics pending manual verification rather than allowed to move them.
| Apartment | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2025 | PHA | 2 BR · 2 BA | — | $1,975,000 | — | -1.0% |
| Mar 29, 2024 | 4A | 3 BR · 1.5 BA | 1,850 | $2,100,000 | $1,135 | -12.3% |
| Mar 20, 2024 | 3B | 1 BR · 1 BA | — | $1,380,000 | — | — |
| Jun 3, 2021 | 4B | 2 BR · 3 BA | — | $3,150,000 | — | -7.1% |
| May 21, 2021 | 6C | 2 BR · 2 BA | — | $775,000 | — | +0.0% |
| Jul 17, 2018 | 2C | 1 BR · 1 BA | 1,400 | $1,897,350 | $1,355 | -36.6% |
| Feb 2, 2016 | 3B | 1 BR | — | $1,440,000 | — | -9.7% |
| Jan 21, 2015 | 1A | — | $4,000,000 | — | — | |
| Sep 9, 2014 | 5B | 2 BR · 2 BA | 1,600 | $2,795,000 | $1,747 | -6.7% |
| Jul 16, 2012 | 4B | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | — | $2,800,000 | — | -1.8% |
| May 31, 2012 | 5B | 2 BR | 1,600 | $1,800,000 | $1,125 | -9.8% |
| Feb 29, 2012 | 5A | 3 BR | 2,500 | $3,300,000 | $1,320 | -5.6% |
| Sep 27, 2011 | 2A | 2 BR | 1,400 | $820,000 | $586 | — |
| Jun 28, 2011 | 3A | 2 BR | 2,400 | $2,950,000 | $1,229 | +0.9% |
| Feb 14, 2011 | 1CCo-op Sponsor Transfer | — | $900,000 | — | — | |
| Aug 24, 2010 | 3B | 1 BR | — | $825,000 | — | -1.8% |
| Apr 21, 2010 | 3C | 945 | $780,000 | $825 | -11.4% | |
| Feb 16, 2010 | PH8A | 2 BR | 1,275 | $1,450,000 | $1,137 | -3.0% |
| Oct 18, 2007 | 3A | 2 BR | 2,400 | $2,670,000 | $1,113 | -2.9% |
| Mar 7, 2006 | 3C | 945 | $650,000 | $688 | — | |
| Nov 2, 2005 | 6B | 3 BR | 2,150 | $2,200,000 | $1,023 | +0.2% |
| Oct 18, 2005 | 5B | 2 BR | 1,600 | $1,786,326 | $1,116 | — |
| May 31, 2005 | 8A | 2 BR | 2,000 | $1,750,000 | $875 | -7.7% |
| May 31, 2005 | 7B | 1 BR | 900 | $912,500 | $1,014 | -1.4% |
| Apr 22, 2005 | 3A | 2 BR | 2,400 | $2,400,000 | $1,000 | +4.6% |
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00848-0012) 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. Storage, parking, and commercial units are excluded from all figures. Floor- and line-level $/sf are time-controlled (each sale measured against the building’s going rate at the time of sale) and expressed at today’s pricing, so they isolate the floor or line premium rather than blend two decades of market movement.
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