25 Prince Street #2A

When the surveyors for the National Register walked Prince Street in 2010, they logged No. 25 as a four-story brick tenement, twin to No. 23 next door, and filed its style as none at all. Five years later it came out of a gut conversion two stories taller, three floor-through residences over a retail base, part of the small crop of boutique condos that remade this stretch of Nolita. The building sits mid-block between Mott and Elizabeth, with Cafe Habana holding the corner four doors east since 1998 and the brick churchyard wall of Old St. Patrick's, built in 1834 when the parish expected mobs, running along the sidewalk one intersection west.

The company upstairs is part of the story: the triplex penthouse traded from the sponsor in 2017 to the artist Tom Sachs and the writer Sarah Hoover, who remain its owners of record. Roman and Williams built their first ground-up building diagonally across the street at 211 Elizabeth. It is that kind of block.

The second floor is the building's middle residence, a floor-through one-bedroom renovated by its owner over years of sourcing. Heated walnut herringbone runs throughout. The great room is painted in Farrow and Ball No. 306 Selvedge, a grey-blue chosen to echo the cast-iron facade of the Judd Foundation a few blocks west, and its centerpiece is an 1860s French marble mantel sourced through Mantel House in Washington, with a flush-mounted Frame television above it playing whatever the renter likes, Monet included.

The kitchen pairs French wood cabinetry with oil-rubbed bronze deVOL hardware around a Sub-Zero, Miele, and Wolf suite. The bedroom is papered in a hand-painted de Gournay and Erdem capsule chinoiserie on India tea paper, lit by In Common With blown glass, and opens to a private balcony over the courtyard ivy. Every switch and outlet in the apartment is solid bronze by Buster+Punch; the laundry closet carries California Closets millwork and an LG Washtower. Offered at $10,500 a month unfurnished or $11,000 furnished, available August 1, no fee. It rented for $9,500 last summer.

Three residences share the building: an elevator, a landscaped courtyard garden with climbing ivy and hydrangeas, locked basement storage, and a facade the sponsor had made from custom brick dies. The block is a contributing stretch of the Chinatown and Little Italy historic district on the National Register.

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