1 Minetta Street
1 Minetta Street, New York, NY 10012
BBL 1005427501 · BIN 1066879
- Year built
- 1925
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 24
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- In a historic district
- Pets
- Pet-friendly (cats and dogs)
- Subletting
- Permitted on a rotating basis after an initial ownership period; specific terms set by the board — confirm at offer stage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2013–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $570K – $570K
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 8
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 1 Minetta Street would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
1 Minetta Street is a boutique pre-war Greenwich Village cooperative on one of the most atmospheric blocks in Manhattan. The building occupies the wedge-shaped lot at the fork where Minetta Street bends off Bleecker Street, just steps from Sixth Avenue — a triangular "flatiron" footprint dictated by the crooked path of the street itself. That path is not an accident of planning: Minetta Street traces the course of the buried Minetta Brook, the old Village creek covered over in the 1820s, and the street's characteristic bend follows the bend of the vanished stream.
For the buyer who wants genuine downtown history with the cost discipline of a co-op rather than a condo, the building is a clean proposition: a small, pre-war, walk-up cooperative on a landmark block, at price points well below the trophy market and well below the neighboring loft-condo tier.
Building operations
The cooperative is run lean and characteristically pre-war: a live-in superintendent, in-unit laundry permitted with approval, and ground-floor retail. There is no elevator — this is a classic pre-war walk-up — and no doorman, both typical and appropriate for a 24-unit Village co-op of this scale, and meaningful factors in keeping maintenance charges contained.
As a cooperative, ownership is by shares rather than deed: purchases require board approval and a board interview, financing is capped at a board-set percentage, and pied-à-terre, gifting, guarantor, and co-purchase arrangements are evaluated case by case — the building has historically accommodated parents purchasing for children. Subletting is permitted on a rotating basis after an initial ownership period. The building is pet-friendly. The exact financing maximum, any flip tax, and current sublet rules vary by board policy and should be confirmed at offer stage.
Architecture and residences
Built in 1925–1926 to the design of Sommerfeld & Sass, the building is a six-story Colonial Revival apartment house — red brick with classically inspired trim and ground-floor stores, in the historicist idiom then popular for Village apartment buildings. Its most memorable feature is the triangular massing produced by the wedge lot, which gives the building its "little flatiron" presence at the Minetta–Bleecker fork.
The interiors carry pre-war scale: defined rooms and the layout logic of 1920s apartment living. Homes run from studios through one- and two-bedrooms, including combined units; washer/dryers are permitted in apartments with board approval, and many residences have been renovated over the years.
Because the building sits within the South Village Historic District, exterior changes are subject to landmark review — a constraint that also protects the streetscape and the building's character over time.
The Minetta block
The block is a compressed history of the Village. The path along Minetta Brook was long known as the "Negroes' Causeway," and by the mid-nineteenth century the streets around Minetta Street and Minetta Lane were home to one of the city's most significant early African American communities. Early-nineteenth-century Greek Revival houses on Minetta Lane and Minetta Street survive alongside the 1920s apartment buildings like this one. To own here is to own inside that layered story, on a short, quiet, angled street a block from the energy of Sixth Avenue and MacDougal.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 emissions caps apply. No regulatory capital pressure from this law specifically, current or 2030.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
Co-op pricing is read on a per-room basis, and 1 Minetta Street trades as a boutique pre-war cooperative — modest units, pre-war layouts, and contained carrying costs. With only 24 residences, resale volume is thin: a small number of closings in an active year, running from studios and one-bedrooms through occasional two-bedroom combinations. Demand here is driven by the landmark block, the Minetta character, and the value a co-op structure offers relative to the neighboring loft condominiums. When underwriting a purchase or a list price, capture the room count, the floor, the exposure, and the renovation condition rather than relying on a neighborhood average.
Recent transfers at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. Prices are the transfer amounts recorded with the NYC Department of Finance; apartment-level detail is checked against the building’s own file in The Roebling Research Library before publishing.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2026 | 5B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $570,000 | +0.9% | |
| Oct 21, 2021 | 4B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 600 sf | $700,000 | $1,167/sf | +0.0% |
| May 20, 2021 | 4A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $630,000 | -6.7% | |
| May 21, 2020 | 2A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $780,000 | -21.9% | |
| Jul 11, 2019 | 5A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $815,000 | +2.0% | |
| Dec 3, 2018 | 5B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $669,000 | +3.1% | |
| Mar 30, 2015 | 2CD | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,400 sf | $1,900,000 | $1,357/sf | -2.6% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2021): a median $1,167/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Full closing history with price-per-square-foot over time, the complete retrade record, and every line that has traded.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00542-7501). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price; square footage on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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What to know if you’re buying
This is a cooperative, so the path is a board package and interview, a financing cap set by the board, and underwriting of the building's financials and house rules. Note the operational realities up front: this is a walk-up building with no elevator, which suits some buyers and rules out others. The building is pet-friendly and has historically allowed rotating sublets after an initial ownership period. Review the co-op's financials, reserve, and any planned capital work, particularly given the building's age and its position within a landmark district, which can affect the cost and timeline of exterior work.
The reasons to buy are the block and the value: a protected historic-district address on the Village's most storied crooked street, pre-war scale, and a cooperative cost structure that keeps the entry point and carrying costs below the condominium peers nearby.
What to know if you’re selling
The story is the location and the character. The South Village Historic District address, the 1920s Colonial Revival architecture, the triangular flatiron footprint, and the Minetta Brook history are the differentiators — and they sell to a specific buyer who wants downtown history and is comfortable with a walk-up co-op. Pricing is an apartment-specific exercise: room count, floor, light, and condition drive the number more than any block average. We position the Minetta narrative, prepare the buyer for the co-op process and the walk-up reality, and benchmark against the right comparable tier of pre-war Village cooperatives.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 1 Minetta Street, also look at these Village and South Village boutique and pre-war buildings:
- 10 Sullivan Street — nearby South Village building
- 136 Sullivan Street — boutique South Village cooperative nearby
- 131 Thompson Street — nearby Village building
- 2 Cornelia Street — boutique Village building steps away
- 350 Bleecker Street — nearby Village cooperative
- 45 Christopher Street — Village pre-war cooperative
More Greenwich Village buildings
- One Fifth Avenue — 1927 co-op by Sugarman & Berger
- 2 Fifth Avenue — 1951 co-op by Emery Roth & Sons
- 3 West 13th Street — 2006 condominium
- 8 West 13th Street — 1910 condominium
- 10 East 12th Street — 1907 condominium
- 10 East 14th Street — 1930 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Greenwich Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to Greenwich Village.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
How to read the facts on this page. Items attributed to an offering plan describe the building as it was offered at that filing — unit mix, square footage, the amenity program as planned. They are not a statement about how the building operates today. Tax and compliance figures are sourced separately to current City records and carry their own dates. House rules, staffing and fee policy can change by board resolution without any public filing: treat every policy line here as a starting point for diligence and confirm it with the managing agent. Where this page compares one building or neighborhood to another, that is our analysis of the recorded record — it names the measure, the period and the sample it rests on, and it is an observation about medians rather than a prediction about any particular apartment.
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