131 Avenue B
131 Avenue B, between East 8th and East 9th Streets · East Village
East Village
BBL 1003910003 · BIN 1004734
- Year built
- 1940
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Common laundry; in-unit laundry in some homes; private gardens and decks in lower-level layouts
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $2.1M
- Recent range
- $1.4M – $2.8M
- Listing discount
- 0.3%
- Recorded transfers
- 8
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131 Avenue B faces the eastern edge of Tompkins Square Park. Its eighteen residences include substantial single-level apartments and garden duplexes, giving the cooperative a range of interior plans behind one park-facing address. West-facing rooms look toward the park's trees, while rear outdoor areas provide a separate garden setting.
The building has low recorded turnover for its size. Larger homes and multilevel configurations are part of the established inventory, including apartments around 1,500–1,700 square feet. Some single-level plans have several exposures and room arrangements that allow a separate office alongside the principal bedrooms.
Architecture and unit composition
The six-story structure contains homes with high ceilings, large windows and broad living spaces. Upper apartments can have seasonal views above the tree canopy. Renovated layouts have connected kitchens with living and dining areas, while retained partitions create separate rooms in other homes.
Garden duplexes have exterior space at more than one level, including a sun deck and a planted rear garden. French doors connect some lower-level interiors to those outdoor areas. These multilevel homes differ substantially from the apartments on a single floor above them.
Some larger apartments have two bathrooms. Other two-bedroom configurations have one bathroom and additional flexible interior space. The position of bedrooms, offices and interior rooms varies, so a three-room sleeping arrangement should not be assumed from the size of a living area alone.
Building operations
Common laundry serves the cooperative, and in-unit washers and dryers have also been installed in individual apartments. The tax lot is assessed as a Class 2 cooperative property. No building-wide development abatement is identified.
The park-front location does not place this property within an LPC-designated district. Its built floor area is below the residential allowance stated for R7A zoning. Exterior space attached to garden duplexes forms a separate part of those homes' use and maintenance arrangements.
Policy framework
Financing: A minimum down payment of 20% has been stated — confirm with the managing agent.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | 4A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,400,000 | -3.4% | |
| May 18, 2026 | 5C | 2 BR · 2 BA | $2,785,000 | -0.5% | |
| Feb 9, 2021 | 1C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,300,000 | +8.3% | |
| Jan 25, 2021 | 5B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,424,500 | -5.0% | |
| Aug 16, 2018 | 5B | 2 BR | $1,399,000 | +0.0% | |
| Apr 30, 2008 | 5C | 2 BR · 1,700 sf | $2,200,000 | $1,294/sf | +10.3% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2008): a median $1,294/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 0.3% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
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 1-00391-0003) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. 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
Garden-duplex levels: A lower-level room opening onto the garden has a different legal question from an upper-floor bedroom. For these duplexes, the approved use of the lower floor and its rooms should be established from the building's occupancy documents before that area is counted as sleeping accommodation.
Comparable buildings
- 186 East 2nd Street: A cooperative with a similarly small residential inventory in the East Village.
- 214 Avenue A: A small low-rise cooperative on another neighborhood avenue.
- 50 Avenue A (Hearth House): A comparably sized cooperative in a taller building.
- 83 First Avenue: A prewar cooperative of similar scale farther west.
- 121 East 10th Street: A slightly larger prewar cooperative for comparing side-street ownership.
More East Village + NoHo buildings
- 121 Mercer Street — 1879 co-op
- 123 Third Avenue — 2009 condominium by Perkins Eastman
- 130 East 12th Street (First Village) — 1905 condominium
- 133 Second Avenue (The Theatre Condominium) — 1912 condominium
- 137 East 13th Street — condominium
- 143 Avenue B (The Christodora House) — 1928 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across East Village + NoHo — read The Roebling Team Guide to East Village + NoHo.
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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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