Modera Lofts, Jersey City: Pricing by Floorplan, Building History, and the Verified Commute

Pricing and Availability by Floorplan

Every one- and two-bedroom row above came directly from the property’s own live floorplan tool, not from an aggregator’s cached range. The studio figure is the freshest available snapshot, drawn from Apartments.com’s current listing, precisely because the property currently has none listed as open; that gap is worth checking directly with the leasing office before assuming a studio is available at that price.

Are studios currently available at Modera Lofts right now?Not as of the property’s own live listing: the only open floorplans are one one-bedroom and four two-bedroom layouts. Studio pricing above reflects the most recent aggregator snapshot, not a current listing, and should be reconfirmed with the leasing office before applying.

The Butler Brothers Building: What Stood Here Before Modera Lofts

350 Warren Street began as the Butler Brothers Building, a 1904–1905 warehouse designed by Chicago architect Jarvis Hunt, nephew of Richard Morris Hunt, according to the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy. A Jersey City Historic Preservation Commission filing independently names the same architect for the site’s boiler-room structure, corroborating the attribution from a separate record.

Mill Creek Residential bought the building for $35 million in April 2014 and spent $150 million converting it, its first adaptive-reuse project, according to New York YIMBY’s reporting on the renovation. The structure is E-shaped and framed in heavy timbers joined with wooden pegs, the last building in the district built with post-and-beam rather than poured concrete construction. Restorers from Ferrous Research and Design stripped decades of paint from 40 steel elevator doors, which now hang in the hallways, and polished the original brass elevator gears for display in a second-floor lounge. Roughly 1,200 small industrial windows were enlarged during the conversion.

Minno & Wasko converted the structure into 366 residential units, and the building opened in 2016 at roughly 60% pre-leased. About half the ground floor was set aside for a 3,500-square-foot art gallery and artist studios, a use that traces directly back to the building’s restoration period.

Is Modera Lofts the same building as the old Butler Brothers warehouse?Yes. Modera Lofts occupies the 1904–1905 Butler Brothers Building at 350 Warren Street, designed by architect Jarvis Hunt and converted into 366 apartments by Mill Creek Residential, opening in 2016.

The Commute to Manhattan, Verified

Marketing for the building states a 7-minute ride to Manhattan’s World Financial Center and an 18-minute ride to Midtown from the Grove Street PATH station, one block away. Independent transit-routing data from Rome2Rio puts Grove Street to World Trade Center at about 8 minutes on a direct train departing every 15 minutes, close enough to the marketed figure to hold up. The same source puts Grove Street to 33rd Street, the PATH stop nearest Midtown, at about 19 to 20 minutes, running on the Journal Square–33rd Street or Hoboken–33rd Street line rather than the line that serves World Trade Center.

How long does the PATH ride to Manhattan take from here?About 8 minutes direct to World Trade Center and roughly 19 to 20 minutes to 33rd Street near Midtown, per independent transit-routing data, both close to but a shade longer than the building’s marketed 7- and 18-minute figures.

Amenities, Briefly

The amenity list runs to a rooftop deck with a fireplace and outdoor kitchen, a fitness center with a stadium-seating spin room, a coworking lounge, bike storage and repair, cold storage for package deliveries, and 24-hour concierge. None of that set is unusual for a Powerhouse Arts District rental built after 2010. What is unusual is the ground-floor art gallery and rentable artist studios, a direct holdover from the building’s restoration period rather than a bolted-on marketing amenity.

Pet Policy in Full

The 120-pound weight limit alone would clear most large breeds, but the separate breed list disqualifies several of them regardless of an individual dog’s size or temperament, including German Shepherds and Rottweilers. Source: the property’s published pet policy.

Is Modera Lofts pet-friendly for larger dogs?Up to 120 lbs per pet is allowed, with a $500 one-time fee and $50 monthly pet rent, but nine specific breeds, including Pit Bulls, Rottweilers, German Shepherds, and Dobermans, are restricted regardless of an individual dog’s size or temperament.

What Residents Report

A three-year resident who left in 2023 and did not recommend the building cited thin walls and near-constant noise, an unreliable new lock system, and renewal increases of 20 to 30 percent year over year, while still praising the front-desk staff and rooftop, per a review dated April 10, 2023 on the property’s own review page. A separate reviewer, writing after nearly a year in the building in July 2023, singled out the front-desk and package staff by name for going beyond what was asked. A broader pattern across ApartmentRatings and other aggregated reviews points to noise and odor complaints concentrated on ground-floor units, tied to garbage collection and activity in first-floor amenity spaces during operating hours, rather than being spread evenly across all floors.

Neighborhood Fit

The Waterfront carries a TransitScore of 90, and the building sits roughly one block from Grove Street PATH. Jersey City itself is a large, ethnically diverse city directly across the Hudson from Manhattan; the building’s specific location inside it is what should drive a leasing decision here, not a general city profile.

How Modera Lofts Compares to Nearby Powerhouse Arts District Buildings

The building-specific complaint at The Morgan, an ongoing elevator project rather than a general amenity gripe, and the ground-floor noise pattern at Modera Lofts are the kind of detail a floor-plan comparison alone would miss.