175 West 12th Street (Century Towers)
175 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011
BBL 1006087501 · BIN 1067315
- Year built
- 1960
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 214
- Floors
- 19
- Landmark
- In a historic district
- Pets
- Permitted under condominium rules
- Subletting
- Permitted under the condominium declaration
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf (floor-adjusted)
- $1,767
- Listing discount
- 1.8%
- Recorded sales
- 193
- On record
- 2003–2026
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Century Towers is one of only a small number of high-rise condominiums in the heart of low-rise Greenwich Village — a distinction that defines its market. Built as a rental around 1960 to a design by H. I. Feldman, one of the most prolific mid-century New York apartment-house architects, and converted to condominium ownership in 1988, the building sits on West 12th Street at Seventh Avenue South, directly atop the 1/2/3 subway entrance and across from the former St. Vincent's Hospital site, now the Greenwich Lane development.
Its value proposition is specific: full-service, doorman, condominium ownership — with an on-site garage and direct subway access — in a neighborhood where the housing stock is overwhelmingly low-rise townhouses and pre-war cooperatives. For buyers who want the Village address and the flexibility of a condominium (rather than a co-op board process), the pool of comparable buildings is small, and Century Towers is one of the anchors of it.
Architecture and unit composition
Century Towers is an approximately 19–20-story post-war red-brick tower — one of the few tall buildings in the immediate Village fabric. The lobby, halls, and elevators have been renovated. Many apartments have western exposures with West Village and Hudson River views, a meaningful feature given how few buildings in the area rise high enough to capture them.
The unit mix runs from studios through three-bedrooms. The building's height and its position at the corner of Seventh Avenue South give upper-floor units an open, above-the-rooftops outlook that is difficult to replicate elsewhere in the neighborhood.
Building operations
Century Towers operates as a full-service condominium with a 24-hour doorman and a live-in superintendent, an on-site parking garage, central laundry, a bike room, and private storage. As a condominium, purchases are subject to a right-of-first-refusal waiver rather than the approval process of a cooperative, and the building supports both primary residence and pied-à-terre use.
Buyers should confirm the current house rules, financing and down-payment requirements, sublet policy, and any transfer fees during due diligence, and review the offering plan, recent financial statements, and reserve study. Given the building's location within the Greenwich Village Historic District area, buyers planning exterior-affecting work should also understand any applicable landmarks review.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $76,381/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $30
- Modeled exposure split equally across 214 units (the city tax-lot count). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
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 →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Management & transfer contacts
- Sublet policy
- Allowed
- Notable fees
- Transfer Agent Closing Fee $500; Move-In/Move-Out Fee $750 each; max financing 80%
Recent sales
Recent trading at Century Towers has run across the full unit range, with price-per-square-foot at the higher end for a post-war conversion — a reflection of the premium Greenwich Village location and the scarcity of high-rise, full-service, condominium inventory in the neighborhood. Higher-floor units with western light and Hudson River views command a clear premium within the building.
The building's per-square-foot pricing sits above that of comparable-vintage conversions in less sought-after corridors, driven almost entirely by location and scarcity. Comparables should be matched carefully for floor, exposure, view, and renovation condition.
Recent closings 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 2026 | 14F | 2 BR · 1 BA · 857 sf | $1,760,000 | $2,054/sf | +1.4% |
| Aug 4, 2026 | 18A | 1 BR · 1.5 BA · 927 sf | $1,795,000 | $1,936/sf | +0.0% |
| Jul 24, 2026 | 2J | 1 BR · 1 BA · 750 sf | $1,260,000 | $1,680/sf | -9.7% |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 10G | 1 BR · 1 BA · 877 sf | $1,400,000 | $1,596/sf | +8.1% |
| Oct 16, 2025 | 9G | 1 BR · 1 BA · 877 sf | $1,625,000 | $1,853/sf | +1.9% |
| Aug 25, 2025 | 18FG | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,643 sf | $2,550,000 | $1,552/sf | +2.2% |
| Jun 24, 2025 | 2D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,313 sf | $1,781,937 | $1,357/sf | +0.3% |
| Oct 28, 2024 | 5E | 1 BR · 1 BA · 877 sf | $1,100,000 | $1,254/sf | -12.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,767/sf (floor-adjusted) across 3 sales. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 1.8% 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 1-00608-7501). 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
Closed rents at Century Towers, last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | 6 | $4,500 |
| 1 bedroom | 9 | $5,750 |
| 2 bedroom | 3 | $7,600 |
19 closed leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease September 2026. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
At the recent median sale of $1.76M (9 sales since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $72,816 to close, or 4.1% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $17,600
- Mortgage recording tax: $25,410
- Title insurance: $7,920
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $21,886
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
You are buying scarcity. High-rise, full-service, condominium ownership is rare in Greenwich Village. That scarcity is priced in — and it is also what protects value.
View and light drive the premium. Western exposures with river views are the building's most valuable inventory. Confirm the specific apartment's exposures in person.
Condo flexibility is real. Right of first refusal rather than co-op board approval; pied-à-terre and investor use permitted. Confirm the current financing minimum and sublet terms at offer stage.
Understand the historic-district context. The building sits within the Greenwich Village Historic District area; confirm any landmarks review that would apply to exterior-affecting work.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with scarcity and location. Full-service high-rise condominium ownership in the Village is a rare product; the marketing should make that explicit.
High-floor units market on views. For western-exposure apartments, river-view documentation is central.
Renovation condition drives price. In a post-war conversion, a current, turn-key renovation commands the top of the comparable band.
Closing timelines are condo-fast. 30–45 days from contract to closing is typical.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering Century Towers, also evaluate:
- 2 Fifth Avenue — a full-service Village cooperative on lower Fifth
- 1 Fifth Avenue — landmark pre-war cooperative at Washington Square
- The Greenwich Lane — the new-construction condominium development across the street on the former St. Vincent's site
More West Village buildings
- 168 Waverly Place — 1834 co-op
- 173 & 176 Perry Street — 2002 condominium
- 175 West 10th Street — condominium
- 175 West 13th Street (The Cambridge House) — 1963 co-op by H.I. Feldman
- Breen Towers (182 West Houston Street) — 1946 co-op
- 204 West Houston Street — 1869 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across West Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to West Village.
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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