53 Wooster Street · SoHo Lower Level
750 SF · ASKING $4,850 / MO N
Private entry from street steps leads into an open layout with exposed brick, bright lighting, and a private restroom, suited for retail, showroom, gallery, or office use.
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Lower Level Description
53 Wooster Street offers 750 square feet on the lower level, available directly from the owner. Private steps from the street provide easy access and a clear SoHo address. The space has an open layout suited for retail, showroom, gallery, or office use.
Interiors include exposed brick, tile flooring, recessed lighting, and a private restroom. The layout also provides additional rooms that can serve as storage or back-of-house functions, giving tenants flexibility for both customer-facing and operational needs.
Set on Wooster Street, one of SoHo’s strongest retail corridors, the property is surrounded by leading boutiques, galleries, and creative businesses. This lower-level unit combines functionality with a proven location at predictable costs. Tours are available by appointment with the owner.
Ceiling Height
8’
Frontage
18’
Availability
Immediate
Building Description
53 Wooster Street is a distinctive SoHo property offering four levels of flexible space. Past tenants such as Alton Lane and Spring Street Social have both thrived here, reflecting the strength of this address for retail, showroom, or office use.
The lower level spans 1,200 SF with rear-facing windows and a dedicated cast-iron entrance directly from the street. The townhouse level, accessed by a gated marble stoop, includes a vented commercial kitchen along with one full and one half bathroom. The second floor provides a wide open plan with two full bathrooms, while the third floor features 700 SF with another vented kitchen and French doors leading to a 600 SF terrace. A spiral staircase continues upward to a private rooftop deck, offering a rare outdoor extension in the heart of SoHo. Every level carries its own appeal, together creating a property that is both practical and impressive. Offered directly by the owner.
Cultural Legacy
Choreographer Trisha Brown used the rooftop of 53 Wooster in her 1971 performance Roof Piece, which spanned multiple buildings across SoHo and helped define the era’s experimental site-specific dance. By the late 1970s, the building’s ground floor had become a gallery space. In the early 1990s, it housed Giuliano Bugialli’s Florence-based Italian cooking school.
Historical Overview
53 Wooster Street was originally built around 1825 as a two-and-a-half-story brick residence with a marble stoop, part of a modest but respectable stretch of middle-class homes. As the neighborhood shifted toward commercial and transient uses by the mid-19th century, the building transitioned accordingly. In 1870, the attic was expanded into a full third story, a cast-iron storefront was installed, and the façade was updated with bracketed sills, cornices, and fluted pilasters, giving the building its present form in the neo-Grec style. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it housed a sewing machine shop, a French dyeing establishment, a commercial printing firm, and a suitcase frame factory. In 1945, it was acquired by Plymouth Marine Contractors, who remained through the postwar era. As SoHo evolved into an arts district in the 1970s, the building became part of that transformation, notably serving as one of the rooftop sites for Trisha Brown’s 1971 performance piece Roof Piece. The structure now contains retail and residential units, and its preserved 19th-century storefront remains a rare example of pre-Civil War fabric still visible amid the cast-iron streetscape. It is listed as a contributing building in the SoHo–Cast Iron Historic District Extension.
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