- Year built
- 1931
- Type
- Condominium
- Landmark
- No
99 Wall Street is a clean example of downtown's most enduring reinvention: a 1931 Art Deco office tower carved into a boutique residential condominium. Acquired by The Claremont Group and reimagined for residential use in 2017, the building delivered 52 condominium homes designed by the Dutch architect Piet Boon, with Karl Fisher Architects as architect of record. The result is a 27-story tower that keeps its pre-war bones while offering the layouts, systems, and amenities buyers expect from a contemporary conversion.
The Financial District has spent two decades transforming from a nine-to-five office quarter into a genuine residential neighborhood, and conversions like this one are the engine of that change. 99 Wall sits in the thick of it — close to the water, the East River esplanade, and the dense network of subway lines that radiate out of Lower Manhattan.
For buyers, the proposition is a designer-finished condominium with full amenities and an Art Deco pedigree, at the more attainable pricing the Financial District offers relative to the rest of downtown — with the ownership flexibility a condominium provides.
Building operations
As a condominium, 99 Wall offers the ownership flexibility downtown buyers want. Financing is flexible — there are no co-op-style financing caps. There is no board admissions process — purchases clear through a right-of-first-refusal rather than a board package and interview. Pied-à-terre, trust, LLC, and investment purchases are customary at a condominium of this kind, and resale and subletting are materially freer than in a cooperative. The amenity program is deep for a 52-unit building: a landscaped roof deck, a residents' lounge with a bar and catering facilities, a library, a children's playroom, a fitness center with a sauna, a golf simulator, an attended lobby, a garage, a bike room, and storage.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $40,004/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $65
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The facade passed its last inspection with no required repairs — nothing to budget for here, and no facade assessment on the horizon for roughly five years.
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.
See the full facade history →Recent sales
With 52 condominium homes, turnover at 99 Wall is steady but contained — a handful of resales in a typical year. Pricing reflects the Financial District's relative value within downtown, with the larger upper-floor homes and those with water views at the top of the building's range. The designer finishes and the amenity package distinguish a home here from the district's plainer rental and conversion stock. The live /sales record for this BBL captures recorded transfers as they occur; for current value, compare against the building's own closings and the nearest Financial District condominiums.
What to know if you’re buying
The advantages of a condominium apply in full: flexible financing, no board interview, and the customary acceptance of pied-à-terre, trust, and LLC purchases. The designer finish program and the amenity suite are real differentiators in a neighborhood with a lot of generic product. Diligence on a conversion centers on the offering plan, the common-charge and tax structure, the sponsor's warranty, the building's reserve, and the specifics of the apartment — beamed ceilings and herringbone floors are consistent, but floor and exposure drive value. We help buyers read the plan, weigh the comparison set, and structure the purchase.
What to know if you’re selling
A resale trades on the building's pre-war character, the Piet Boon design, and the depth of the amenity program — a combination that separates it from the Financial District's standard inventory. The marketing job is to present the specific home's finishes, light, and views and to benchmark against the nearest Financial District condominiums. Condominium closing mechanics — a right-of-first-refusal rather than a board process — keep the path predictable and are themselves a selling point to the flexibility-minded downtown buyer.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 99 Wall Street, also evaluate these Financial District buildings:
- 75 Wall Street — a Financial District condominium
- 55 Wall Street — a landmark conversion nearby
- 1 Wall Street — the Art Deco One Wall Street conversion
- 88 Greenwich Street — a downtown residential tower
The Roebling Team at Marketed as 101 Wall Street
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in downtown conversions and condominiums — the Financial District, Tribeca, and the surrounding corridors — where value turns on the specific home and where the pricing sits against the right comparison set. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers at 99 Wall Street deserve building-specific intelligence: the architecture, the ownership structure, the amenities, and the market context. A 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.
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