An Architect’s New York Loft, Reworked Over 8 Years, Asks $8,995,000

Apr 28

Listed for $8,995,000 with Compass, the top floor of 21 Bond Street reflects a decades-long attachment to one of NoHo’s most tightly held blocks.

In the 1980s, when architect Nasser Nakib was working in SoHo, he used to slip over to Bond Street on his lunch breaks just to stand on the cobblestones. “In Provence you’re in a lavender field and you think, I could die happy here,” he says. “In New York, this block is it for me.”

Four decades later he finally owned a piece of it. In 2016 he bought the raw top floor of 21 Bond Street—a Renaissance Revival loft building dating to 1893, attributed to Buchman & Deisler, set within NoHo’s historic district.

Over the next eight years he turned the empty shell into the home where he raised his three sons. Now the boys are grown and launched, and at 62 Nasser is ready to downsize.

It is the entire sixth floor of an intimate six-unit co-op: private keyed elevator landing, approximately 3,800 square feet, four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, and soaring 14-foot ceilings bathed in light from a dramatic 11 × 10-foot operable skylight he cut into the roof, plus three additional motorized skylights with blackout shades. Original brick walls and heavy timber beams remain proudly exposed, and the floors throughout are wide-plank Dinesen HeartOak.

The living room revolves around a grand gas fireplace built from a wooden Provençal mantel and trumeau that Nasser and his partner Julia discovered together at the Paris flea market. A 125-inch motorized screen and Sony 4K projector drop down for movie nights. The kitchen is set up for real cooking, with a full Miele suite and Rosso Verona marble counters. The south-facing primary suite has its own fireplace and a full wall of mirrored oak wardrobes, while the bathrooms deliver radiant-heated French terracotta floors and a proper cast-iron soaking tub.

The building has one residence per floor and a shared roof deck. The sale includes one-fifth ownership of the ground-floor commercial space, currently Gigi Hadid’s Guest in Residence cashmere shop.

Bond Street remains the most serene, tree-lined cobblestone block downtown—wide, impossibly quiet, and still the single most coveted address in NoHo—yet only steps from Il Buco, The Public Theater, Acne Studios, John Varvatos, and every new private club that matters.