168 Waverly Place
168 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014
BBL 1005920049 · BIN 1010237
- Year built
- 1834
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 2
- Floors
- 3
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Greenwich Village Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 168 Waverly Place 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.
168 Waverly Place was built in 1834, on a street renamed the year before after Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley — until 1833 it was Sixth Street. It is among the oldest buildings on the Roebling Team's Manhattan register, and it sits inside the Greenwich Village Historic District, designated in 1969 in the Landmarks Preservation Commission's earliest wave. Designation was confirmed here by tax lot against the Commission's own boundaries, because both the presence and the absence of historic-district status are unreliable in the standard city data extracts.
What is unusual is not the age. It is that a 22-foot house of this date is held as a two-apartment cooperative: two apartments and their share allocations, with ownership and votes set by the offering plan and by-laws. That is the governing fact of the building, and it changes the transaction in ways the co-op literature does not cover.
The Department of Buildings record on the lot is nearly empty — a single alteration on file, a 2014 renovation of the duplex spanning the second and third floors with associated mechanical and plumbing work and a rooftop condenser. A thin retrieved filing history does not establish what earlier work occurred or which approval process applied. Review archival records and inspect systems and structure during diligence.
A two-unit cooperative is a partnership
With two apartments, a shareholder vote is usually a two-party negotiation; votes and board seats follow the shares and by-laws, not the apartment count. Either shareholder may be able to block a capital assessment, a refinancing or an amendment to the house rules, depending on what the by-laws require. Deadlock is a governance mode here, not an edge case, and the documents that resolve it — the proprietary lease, the by-laws, any shareholders' agreement — are what your attorney should read first.
The recorded history shows why this matters at this address. Share transfers on the lot appear in ACRIS as cooperative share transfers (property type SP) in 2012, 2013, 2023 and twice in 2025. The traced records identify the same named holder for both apartments between 2023 and mid-2025, followed by separately named purchasers in July and September 2025. Names alone do not establish beneficial ownership, relationships or corporate control; review the share register and governance records. Confirm current shareholders, voting rights, board composition and decision-making history rather than inferring them from recorded purchaser names.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 limits apply to a building on its own. It is still covered if it shares a tax lot or condominium board with buildings totaling over 50,000 sq ft; confirm on DOB’s covered-buildings list.
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Value here is set by the house rather than by a building-wide per-room convention: floor area, the garden, the duplex plan, condition, and the district address. Two apartments do not cap the number of transfers in a period. Check dated in-building transactions, including repeat transfers, and supplement them with closely matched Village cooperatives and townhouse condominiums where appropriate. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2025 | UPPR | 3 BR · 2 BA | $4,875,000 | -2.4% | |
| Aug 22, 2011 | GRNDPLX | 3 BR · 1,850 sf | $2,600,000 | $1,405/sf | -9.6% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2011): a median $1,405/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00592-0049). 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
Obtain the operative policy documents. Financing ceiling, post-closing liquidity expectation, pied-à-terre and sublet policy, flip tax, and whether a trust or an LLC may take title — these terms are not established in the materials reviewed. Obtain the proprietary lease, bylaws, amendments and authorized current rules. Get the full document set from the managing agent before committing to a price, and treat any policy stated verbally as unverified.
The board review may come down to one other owner. Confirm the application requirements in the proprietary lease and by-laws, and understand that the approving party may be a single counterparty with a direct economic interest in who occupies the other half of the house. The process can be less procedural and more personal than a larger building's.
Financing needs a lender that will write this deal. Most lenders decline cooperative loans below a threshold unit count, and two is below every threshold in common use. Confirm whether the corporation carries any underlying debt, and secure a lender comfortable with a two-unit co-op in writing before contract. The ceiling that binds here is likely the lender's, not the corporation's.
Landmark status governs the exterior. Review LPC requirements for the actual façade, window, stoop, roof or rear-yard work. Review is not determined by visibility alone; some work is exempt and qualifying work may receive staff-level approval. Obtain any required LPC and DOB approvals. Budget the time and the professional fees, and ask what has and has not been approved historically.
Two shareholders split every capital dollar on a nearly two-hundred-year-old house — roof, façade, boiler, structure. Review the current budget, statements, reserve and any assessments; how capital work is funded and approved is set by the proprietary lease and bylaws.
What to know if you’re selling
Market the house, then the share. The pool for a Greenwich Village Historic District duplex with a deep south-facing garden is far larger than the pool that understands a two-unit cooperative. Lead with the 1834 date, the district, the garden and the duplex plan, and explain the ownership structure early rather than letting it surface at attorney review. Have the corporate documents — proprietary lease, by-laws, certificate of incorporation, most recent financial statement, any transfer fee in writing — assembled before listing, and be ready to name lenders who will write against a two-unit corporation. In practice that is what separates a deal that closes from one that re-trades.
Comparable buildings
- 147 Waverly Place — the same street; a 1912 loft conversion and the condominium alternative
- 1 Sheridan Square — the immediate neighbor and the full-service alternative
- 10 Christopher Street — small Greenwich Village Historic District cooperative on Christopher Street
- 9 Barrow Street and 79 Barrow Street — comparable small Village co-ops inside the district
- 22 Perry Street and 28 Perry Street — nearby Perry Street buildings; verify each construction history and ownership structure
- 3 Weehawken Street — small West Village building; verify its legal form and governing documents before comparing governance
- 130 Barrow Street — a much larger Village alternative (95 residences in city records)
More West Village buildings
- 165 Christopher Street — 1964 co-op
- 166 Perry Street — 2008 condominium
- 167 Perry Street — 1987 co-op
- 173 & 176 Perry Street — 2002 condominium
- 175 West 10th Street — condominium
- 175 West 12th Street (Century Towers) — 1960 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across West Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to West 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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