141–145 West 13th Street (Village Mews)
141–145 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011
West Village
BBL 1006090065 · BIN 1010658
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 15
- Floors
- 4
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $2,014
- Listing discount
- 1.3%
- Recorded sales
- 19
- On record
- 2003–2025
Most people walking past 143 West 13th Street think it is still a church. That is the point, and it is the achievement.
The Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church went up in 1846–47 on three joined lots, an offshoot of the Third Free Presbyterian Church down at Houston and Thompson Streets. It burned in 1855 and again in 1902, and both times the congregation rebuilt to the original Greek Revival design rather than to the fashion of the moment — which is why the facade reads as an 1840s temple front and why the city's tax records, dating the fabric rather than the design, carry 1910.
Its history is denser than its calm exterior suggests. In 1884 the church's Rev. Dr. Samuel D. Burchard, speaking at a gathering of clergy in support of the Republican presidential candidate James G. Blaine, labeled the Democrats the party of "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion." The remark reached the press within hours, galvanized Catholic voters in New York State, and is widely credited with delivering the state — and with it the electoral college — to Grover Cleveland by roughly a tenth of a percentage point. Later the building shared its space with a synagogue, and from the 1940s it housed a 200-seat theater in its parish space: the Greenwich Mews Playhouse, later the Greenwich Mews Theater, which under Stella Holt's management from 1952 to 1967 was one of the very few New York stages producing integrated casts and premiered Alice Childress's Trouble in Mind in 1955 alongside work by Langston Hughes. Repertorio Español was founded in the same room in 1968. The cooperative's name is not decorative — Village Mews takes its name from the theater company that occupied the building for three decades.
The congregation disbanded in 1975 and the building went on the market. What followed was one of the earlier serious tests of the Greenwich Village Historic District, designated only six years before: a developer proposed converting a fully intact Greek Revival church into apartments, which necessarily meant cutting windows and doors into a designated facade. The opposition was substantial. The plan that eventually cleared LPC put every new opening on the flanks of the building, where the street cannot see them, and left the front elevation, the wrought-iron gate and the message board untouched. Stephen B. Jacobs designed the fifteen-unit conversion; the cooperative corporation took title in January 1983; and in 1991 the Commission gave the work a Certificate of Merit. The message board that once carried the schedule of services now reads "141-143-145."
For a buyer, all of that history resolves into three concrete facts. The apartments are individual rather than typical, because a church interior does not divide into repeating lines. The exterior is regulated, because the building sits inside a historic district and the facade is the reason the conversion was approved at all. And the cooperative is small — fifteen households carrying a building whose most valuable feature is also its most constrained one.
Architecture and unit composition
Four stories of Greek Revival masonry, roughly 61 feet wide and 84 feet deep on an 8,776-square-foot lot, with about 28,200 square feet of gross building area — which is a generous allocation across fifteen homes, and it shows up in the ceiling heights. The building is over-built relative to what current R6 zoning would allow, a common condition for pre-zoning ecclesiastical structures and one that has no practical consequence beyond foreclosing any enlargement.
Interior configuration follows the shell rather than a plan. DOB alteration filings across two decades describe renovations to "existing duplex apartment" on units 101, 102, 204 and others, and the unit numbering runs 101–105, 201–205 and 301–305 within a four-story envelope — meaning several apartments span levels. Recorded share transfers are consistent with a mix that runs from roughly one-bedroom scale to substantial full-floor and duplex homes. There is no representative unit here. Every apartment should be evaluated on its own light, its own ceiling section and its own relationship to the original structure.
A roof deck was added under a 2008 alteration. Facade repair scaffolding was filed in 2006 and again in 2012, which is the ordinary cycle for a masonry building of this age under Local Law 11 — and a reminder that in a landmarked shell, facade work carries an LPC permit and an LPC timeline on top of the DOB one.
Building operations
This is a fifteen-unit walk-up-scale cooperative, not a full-service house: no doorman, no attended lobby, no staff establishment of the kind an Upper East Side co-op carries. Operations run through a managing agent. The balance-sheet posture visible from the public record is conservative — a consolidated underlying mortgage of roughly $700,000 recorded in September 2017, small enough for a fifteen-unit building that debt service is unlikely to be a material driver of maintenance, and a J-51 benefit long since exhausted so that the tax line is fully mature. Reserves, the assessment history, and the current facade and roof status are not in the public record and must come from the managing agent and the audited financials.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $4,952/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $28
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Recent sales
Village Mews trades as a scarcity product rather than a comparables product. Fifteen apartments, individually shaped, in a landmarked church shell on a prime Village block between Sixth and Seventh Avenues — there is no second building like it in the corridor, and turnover is correspondingly light. Recorded share transfers cluster in ones and twos per year at most, with several apartments changing hands only once in twenty years. Pricing behaves like Greenwich Village townhouse-adjacent product: driven by the specific apartment's volume, light and level rather than by a per-room average, and resistant to the kind of stack-based comparison that works in a conventional pre-war co-op. Recorded transfers also show the board approving ownership structures beyond the individual buyer — at least one transfer to a limited partnership and transfers into and out of a revocable trust appear in the record — which indicates flexibility in practice but does not establish a published policy. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2025 | TH102 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $3,000,000 | +0.2% | |
| Jul 18, 2024 | 205 | 2 BR · 2 BA | $3,125,000 | +16.0% | |
| Dec 14, 2021 | 102 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $3,300,000 | +10.2% | |
| Jul 21, 2021 | 101 | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,800 sf | $3,625,000 | $2,014/sf | -5.8% |
| Feb 9, 2021 | 302 | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,999,900 | -11.1% | |
| Jan 16, 2019 | 102 | 2 BR | $1,905,500 | +27.9% | |
| Apr 21, 2017 | 104 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,650 sf | $2,400,000 | $1,455/sf | -7.7% |
| Mar 27, 2013 | 302 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,351 sf | $1,450,000 | $1,073/sf | -14.5% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2021): a median $2,014/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 1.3% 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 1-00609-0065) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
You are buying shares in a cooperative corporation together with a proprietary lease, not real property. In a fifteen-unit house with no published policy stack, the diligence burden falls almost entirely on the managing agent. Ask for all of the following in writing, before you sign:
The board package and the interview. Every purchase requires board approval, and in a building of this size the board is a handful of neighbors rather than a committee with a professional intake process. Ask what the package requires, how long review typically takes, and whether the interview is by the full board. Run the Co-op Board Qualification Calculator against your file before you offer.
The financing ceiling. Small co-ops set maximum financing anywhere from 50 to 80 percent, and some prohibit financing outright. Nothing in the public record establishes this building's limit. Get the number before you write an offer with a mortgage contingency.
The post-closing liquidity requirement. Boards in small Village buildings commonly require liquid assets equal to one to two years of carrying costs after closing, and the standard is often unwritten. Ask what has been applied in recent approvals.
The sublet policy. Ask whether subletting is permitted at all, whether a seasoning period applies, what the annual and lifetime caps are, and what fee attaches. In a fifteen-unit building, a restrictive sublet policy is common and is a real constraint on your exit optionality.
The flip tax. Confirm whether one exists, how it is calculated — percentage of price, percentage of gain, per-share, or a flat amount — and who pays it. This can be a meaningful number on a Village sale and it belongs in your net-proceeds math from day one.
Pied-à-terre, trust and LLC ownership. Recorded transfers show that the board has accepted at least one entity purchaser and trust ownership historically. That is evidence, not policy. If you intend to buy in a trust or for occasional use, get the board's current position in writing before you commit.
The landmark reality. Anything you want to do to a window, a door, a rooftop element or the exterior in general requires LPC review as well as DOB. Interior work is unregulated by LPC, but the building's exterior is the reason it exists in this form, and the board will treat it accordingly.
The building's capital picture. Ask for two years of audited financials, the reserve balance, the assessment history, the current underlying mortgage balance and maturity, and the status of the last Local Law 11 cycle. In a masonry landmark, the facade is the capital item that matters.
What to know if you’re selling
Sell the building, then the apartment. The story — an 1846 Greek Revival church, a contested and ultimately celebrated conversion, an LPC Certificate of Merit, fifteen homes behind an intact temple front — is the differentiator, and it is verifiable. Buyers who understand it stop comparing the apartment to conventional Village co-op inventory.
Prepare the policy stack in advance. Because none of it is published, a buyer's attorney will request all of it at contract. Having the financing ceiling, sublet terms, flip tax and liquidity standard documented before you list removes the most common source of delay in a small-co-op deal.
Lead with the balance sheet. A modest underlying mortgage and a fully burned-off J-51 are genuine strengths. Say so, and let counsel verify.
Price the apartment, not the average. No two units here are alike. A per-room or per-foot comparison against the last sale in the building will usually mislead in one direction or the other. Run the Renovation Cost Calculator against condition before setting the ask.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering Village Mews, also evaluate:
- 118 West 13th Street — the Katharine; the condominium alternative on the same block, and a separate building despite the shared block
- 175 West 13th Street — the Cambridge House; the larger full-service co-op alternative on the corridor
- 65 West 13th Street — the Greenwich; a different scale of Village ownership on the same street
- 60 West 13th Street — mid-block Village co-op ownership
- 30 West 13th Street — boutique Village building at comparable unit count
- 321 West 13th Street — the Gansevoort-edge conversion; a comparable adaptive-reuse story further west
- 345 West 13th Street — West Village loft conversion at boutique scale
- 136 Sullivan Street — small South Village ownership, for buyers weighing the Village's two halves
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, 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.
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