101 Wooster Street #3F-4F

The lower floor of this SoHo duplex is essentially one room. A 2,100-square-foot great room runs the depth of the floor, lit by five east-facing windows and held up by the building's original columns, with exposed brick on the walls and a curved steel-and-glass staircase rising through the center to the bedrooms above. At roughly 4,200 square feet across the two levels, it lives at the scale of a house.

It sits on one of SoHo's cobblestone blocks of Wooster Street, between Spring and Prince. Wooster has long been the quietest of the cast-iron grid's great streets, the one the galleries and artists kept: Walter De Maria's Earth Room has occupied a loft up the block at 141 since 1977, and the Drawing Center sits down the block at 35. Greene Street draws the crowds for its cast-iron facades and Prince for its stores; Wooster keeps the Belgian block and the calm.

Upstairs the residence is laid out as four bedrooms, or three and a den, with three baths and a sunny mudroom. A full gut renovation kept the loft's original character while replacing the systems behind it, including new central heating and cooling, electrical, soundproofing, and windows. The building, 101 Wooster, is a landmarked cooperative of just nine residences across seven floors, with a virtual doorman, a new roof deck, and a resident superintendent; it permits pied-à-terre ownership and welcomes pets. In contract, last asking $6,995,000.

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