- Year built
- 1900
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 24
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Generally pet-friendly at the condominium level; specific rules confirm at offer stage
- Subletting
- Permitted under the condominium bylaws
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 212 Avenue B 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.
212 Avenue B is a boutique pre-war condominium in the heart of Alphabet City, at the eastern edge of the East Village. The building offers something increasingly scarce downtown: deeded condominium ownership in a small, turn-of-the-century building, on a stretch of Avenue B defined by Tompkins Square Park, a dense restaurant-and-bar culture, and the low-rise texture that makes the East Village feel like a neighborhood rather than a corridor.
For the buyer who wants the flexibility of a condominium — faster closings, simpler approval, pied-à-terre and investment latitude — inside genuine downtown fabric rather than a glass tower, the proposition is clean. This is a 24-unit building where ownership is by deed, carrying costs are contained by the building's modest scale, and the address puts you a short walk from Tompkins Square Park and the L train at First Avenue.
Building operations
The condominium runs on a lean, boutique model appropriate to its 24 units: an elevator, a common roof deck, a fitness room, package handling, and basement laundry, without the cost of a doorman. That staffing model is a deliberate feature at this scale — it keeps common charges contained while still delivering the amenities that matter day to day.
As a condominium, ownership is by deed rather than shares. Purchases do not require the share-loan structure or interview gauntlet of a cooperative; financing is a matter between buyer and lender; and pied-à-terre, investment, and subletting uses are permitted under the bylaws. The building is generally pet-friendly at the condominium level. Any transfer fee or specific sublet terms should be confirmed against the current bylaws at offer stage.
Architecture and residences
Built in 1900 on a downtown lot, the building carries the proportions of a turn-of-the-century Alphabet City flats house, reconfigured over time into a contemporary condominium with an elevator serving six residential floors. The homes read as boutique downtown apartments — hardwood floors, updated kitchens and baths, and the compact, efficient layouts typical of a small pre-war building. A ground-floor commercial space anchors the base, as is common for the avenue.
The 24-residence count keeps the building intimate: this is a small community rather than a large one, with the operational simplicity that scale allows.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 emissions caps apply. No regulatory capital pressure from this law specifically, current or 2030.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
Condominium pricing is read on a per-square-foot basis, and 212 Avenue B trades as a boutique East Village condo — small floor plates, pre-war bones, and the flexibility premium that deeded ownership commands over the neighborhood's cooperatives. With only 24 residences, resale volume is thin: a handful of closings in an active year. Pricing is driven by floor, exposure, outdoor space, and renovation condition far more than by any neighborhood average. When underwriting a purchase or a list price, capture the specific unit's square footage, light, and finish level rather than leaning on an Avenue B headline number.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 2007 | 7 | 2 BR · 410 sf | $365,000 | $890/sf | +1.4% |
| May 13, 2005 | 18 | 2 BR · 550 sf | $405,000 | $736/sf | +1.5% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2007): a median $890/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2010.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00406-7501). 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.
Buying here? Condo closing costs with a mortgage typically run 3 to 6% 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
This is a condominium, so the path is straightforward relative to a co-op: no board interview, financing set by your lender, and a review of the building's financials, reserve, and bylaws during due diligence. Read the bylaws on the points that matter to you — pet rules, any transfer fee, and sublet terms — and confirm them at offer stage. Given the building's age, review the condominium's reserve and any planned capital work on the façade, roof, and building systems.
The reasons to buy are the flexibility and the location: deeded ownership with pied-à-terre and investment latitude, a boutique building that keeps carrying costs contained, and an Alphabet City address steps from Tompkins Square Park.
What to know if you’re selling
The story is flexibility and downtown fabric. Condominium ownership in a small pre-war building is a specific, marketable proposition — it sells to buyers who want the latitude a condo provides and the character of the East Village rather than a new-development tower. Pricing is an apartment-specific exercise: square footage, floor, light, outdoor space, and condition drive the number. We position the flexibility narrative, benchmark against the right tier of boutique East Village condominiums, and market to the downtown buyer who values this exact combination.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 212 Avenue B, also look at these downtown and Lower East Side boutique buildings:
- 1 Avenue B — boutique Avenue B condominium nearby
- 143 Avenue B — boutique East Village building on the same avenue
- 121 East 10th Street — pre-war East Village building nearby
- 100 Norfolk Street — ODA's cantilevered glass-and-truss condominium
- 115 Norfolk Street — a Grzywinski + Pons boutique condominium
More East Village buildings
- 205 East 10th Street — 1920 co-op
- 211 East 2nd Street (The Carriage House) — condominium
- 211 East 3rd Street
- 214 Avenue A — 1920 condop
- 214 East 9th Street — 1900 condominium
- 215 Avenue B (The Copper) — 2008 condominium by Stephen B. Jacobs Group
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across East Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to East 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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