134 Greene Street (132–140 Greene Street)
132–140 Greene Street, New York, NY 10012
BBL 1005130003 · BIN 1077763
- Year built
- 1885
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 21
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- Designated
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 134 Greene Street (132–140 Greene 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.
This is fifteen bays of cast iron on the east side of Greene Street: three buildings designed together, built together and owned by one cooperative. LPC's 1973 designation report says Alfred Zucker designed these as warehouses for Simon Goldenberg and L. Schoolhers between April 1885 and January 1886. The report calls the building Zucker's only cast-iron façade. It is nearly identical to Henry Fernbach's 1883 building at 112 Greene Street for the same owners. LPC's reading is that after Fernbach died, the owners had Zucker repeat the design. Zucker's other SoHo work is in stone and brick, so this is his one exception.
Why the listings disagree about the address is simple. The front reads as one building, but the city assigns three building numbers and at least six address forms. The worklists we build from carried it as two cooperatives, "134 Greene Street" with 49 units and "132–134 Greene Street" with 22. ACRIS settles it. Greene Street Holding Corp. took title in 1976 and has been the single borrower on every underlying mortgage since. Share transfers at 132, 134 and 140 are all recorded against Lot 3. It is one corporation.
The residential count is 21, per HPD. PLUTO's 49 would imply apartments of about 1,000 square feet on floors that were built as open warehouse lofts. The share transfers show the opposite. Apartments are recorded by floor or by front and rear half, such as 2F, 2R, 3F, 3R, 5 and 2FL, which is how whole-floor and half-floor lofts are recorded.
The third fact is structural. The ground floors and cellars are not corporate retail space leased to tenants. They are commercial share allocations owned by outside entities, bought and sold in their own recorded transfers. That puts a meaningful share of the corporation's shares in commercial hands, which affects governance, maintenance allocation and the federal 80/20 test.
Architecture and unit composition
Each building is six stories and five bays wide. The three share one continuous front of cast-iron columns and window openings, and the designation report notes that the design repeats the façade elements of 112 Greene Street. A 2008 DOB filing covered cast-iron, brick and cornice repair with window replacement across the front, with a 60-foot heavy-duty sidewalk shed and a 75-foot-high scaffold filed at both No. 132 and No. 140.
The residential floors are lofts. Recorded share nomenclature shows whole-floor units at some addresses and front and rear halves at others. The renovation record fits: interior partition, kitchen and bath work, HVAC installations, mezzanine stairs and sprinkler modifications, none of which changes the use or the unit count. Retail occupies the ground floors and cellars. Filings since 2000 record gallery-to-retail conversions at Nos. 132 and 138 and a full retail build-out at No. 132 that ran from 2023 into 2026.
Building operations
The cooperative handles the maintenance you would expect for a 140-year-old cast-iron building. Filings cover fire alarm installation across all three buildings (2006), relocation of the standpipe system (2005), sidewalk vault and stoop repair (2003), balcony repair (2010), roof membrane and insulation replacement on all three roofs (2016), a dual-fuel boiler replacement (2019) and a chimney liner (2019). A sidewalk shed and scaffold were filed at No. 132 in 2016–17, and sheds and scaffolds at all three buildings in June 2018. That fits the city's five-year Local Law 11 façade inspection cycle.
Staffing, elevator service and amenities are not documented in public records. Confirm them with the managing agent.
Artist-loft occupancy and the 2021 rezoning
SoHo lofts raise an occupancy question most Manhattan apartments do not. For decades, the M1-5A and M1-5B zoning that governed SoHo allowed residential use in these buildings only as Joint Live-Work Quarters for Artists (JLWQA), and lawful occupancy required city certification as an artist. HPD's classification of all three buildings as joint residential/artists, and the 2005 filing describing joint live/work quarters on the sixth floor, place this building in that system.
The SoHo/NoHo Neighborhood Plan, adopted in December 2021, remapped the lot as M1-5/R7X in the Special SoHo-NoHo Mixed Use District. Three points matter to a buyer:
- Existing JLWQA can continue as a lawful use.
- Occupancies that existed at adoption are protected under the new framework, which closed the certification gap for existing non-artist occupants. Have counsel confirm how that applies to the specific unit.
- A JLWQA unit can be converted to conventional residential use through a DOB filing and a per-square-foot contribution to the SoHo-NoHo Arts Fund, set in the zoning text. Confirm the current contribution rate and procedure with counsel at the time of purchase.
For a buyer, the question is what the certificate of occupancy and the proprietary lease say about the specific unit, and whether that unit or the building as a whole has converted. That affects financing, since some lenders treat JLWQA differently, and it affects resale.
Recent sales
This is SoHo loft co-op inventory: large, open, high-ceilinged plates in a landmarked cast-iron building, with thin turnover. Residential share transfers have averaged fewer than one a year across the three addresses since 2004. Several moved units into family trusts with no sale. Loft pricing depends on floor, full versus half floor, ceiling height, light at the front versus the rear, renovation condition and the unit's occupancy status. The commercial allocations trade in a separate market and are not residential comparables.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent transfers at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2026 | 3R | $3,370,000 |
| Jul 21, 2021 | 3 | $4,500,000 |
| Jun 29, 2021 | 3F | $2,700,000 |
| Mar 26, 2021 | 5 | $4,200,000 |
| Feb 17, 2021 | 3R | $2,300,000 |
| Jan 8, 2021 | 2FL | $4,100,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00513-0003) 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.
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
Establish the unit's occupancy status first. Get the certificate of occupancy for the specific building, whether 132–134, 136 or 138–140, and confirm whether the unit is JLWQA or has been converted to residential use. Ask whether the corporation has a building-wide position on conversion under the 2021 rezoning and who pays the Arts Fund contribution if a conversion is pursued.
Get the policy stack in writing. Nothing is published. Ask for the financing ceiling, post-closing liquidity, flip tax, sublet policy, and the board's position on pied-à-terre, trust, LLC and co-purchase ownership. Expect a full board package and interview. Run the Co-op Board Qualification Calculator before you offer.
Understand the commercial shareholders. Ask what percentage of the corporation's shares the commercial allocations hold, what maintenance they pay, whether they have board seats or voting rights on particular matters, and where the corporation stands under the 80/20 test.
Read the debt and the façade file. The corporation carries a $5,000,000 consolidated first mortgage from 2017 and a separate $500,000 instrument. Ask for the maturity, the balance of any line, and the most recent Local Law 11 report on the cast-iron front. Cast-iron repair in a landmarked district requires LPC-approved methods and costs more than masonry.
Underwrite full taxes. The J-51 benefit ended in 1989.
What to know if you’re selling
Settle the address and the unit count in your marketing. Buyers will find two different records and a unit count of 49. Present the building as one cooperative of 21 residential units across three buildings, and be ready to show the source.
Have the occupancy paperwork ready. A clear answer on the unit's JLWQA or residential status, with the certificate of occupancy, removes the most common SoHo diligence delay.
Price as a loft, not a co-op apartment. The right comparables are other SoHo loft co-ops with similar ceiling heights and plate sizes, and landmarked cast-iron condominiums as a ceiling.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 132–140 Greene Street, also evaluate:
- 33 Greene Street: cast-iron corner loft co-op at Grand Street, landmarked, with the same JLWQA questions
- 113 Prince Street: loft co-op nearby on Prince Street, inside the same historic district
- 101 Wooster Street: small SoHo loft co-op in the same district and the same occupancy framework
- 93 Mercer Street: loft co-op on the parallel street; ten lofts above a store
- 35 Mercer Street: small cast-iron-district co-op with one store at grade
- 107 Greene Street: the condominium alternative on Greene Street, for buyers weighing board approval against a deeded unit
- 10 Greene Street: landmarked Greene Street condominium loft conversion
- 27 Bleecker Street: small co-op north of Houston, for buyers comparing SoHo and NoHo
More Greenwich Village buildings
- 126 West 11th Street (The Unadilla) — 1981 co-op
- 129 Lafayette Street — 1911 condominium
- 131 Thompson Street — 1899 co-op
- 133 Mulberry Street — 1920 condominium
- 135 West 3rd Street — 1907 condominium
- 136 Baxter Street (The Machinery Exchange) — 1915 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Greenwich Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to Greenwich Village.
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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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