Live Where It Sparkles! New York's Diamond Exchange opens its doors again as a boutique condominium

Nine full-floor condominium apartments for sale in a historic 1894 Financial District skyscraper, priced from just under $2.6 million

NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The address through which most of the diamonds entering America once passed is welcoming residents again. Announced in 1892 as New York's newest skyscraper and completed in 1894, the ten-story Diamond Exchange at 14 Maiden Lane has been transformed into The Diamond Exchange Condominium: nine private full-floor homes and a commercial space in the heart of the Financial District, now complete and ready for occupancy.

Maiden Lane once was the center of the American diamond trade, and the building was designed for it: among the first in the city to feature oversized bay windows, engineered so dealers could examine stones by daylight. It is among the finest surviving works of its architect, Gilbert A. Schellenger. More than 130 years later, those same windows fill every residence with light beneath ceilings that rise up to 12 feet 6 inches.

Each home occupies an entire private floor of approximately 1,300 square feet, with two bedrooms and a flexible third room that can serve as a bedroom or a home office, an open kitchen with Viking, Bosch and Dacor appliances, two full bathrooms including a steam shower, European white oak chevron floors, multi-zone heating and cooling, and a Bosch washer and dryer. In the lobby, a historically significant diamond-shaped chandelier that once hung in Harrods Buenos Aires welcomes residents home.

True to a design philosophy of quality over excess, the building keeps its amenities deliberately lean — a virtual doorman, a package room and optional storage — which keeps carrying costs low and privacy uncompromised. Pricing begins just under $2.6 million, a rare figure for an entire private floor in a historic building.

Steps from Wall Street, the Seaport and the waterfront, residents at 14 Maiden Lane enjoy world-class dining and historic streetscapes by day and a remarkable quiet by night.

"This building sparkled for the jewelers of Maiden Lane, and now it sparkles for the people who live here," said Thomas Guss of NYR.com, the brokerage representing the property. "An entire private floor, flooded with daylight, in one of Manhattan's earliest skyscrapers — at this price and with these carrying costs, nothing downtown compares."

Private tours of The Diamond Exchange Condominium are available by appointment; further details about the property can be found at www.diamondcondo.com.

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New York Residence Inc. (NYR.com) advises private investors and discerning buyers across Manhattan's residential, mixed-use, and historically significant properties.

Contact: Thomas Guss, NYR.com — [email protected] — 212.369.7000 ext. 103

SOURCE NYR.com