242–244 West 4th Street
242–244 West 4th Street, between Charles and West 10th Streets, West Village
West Village
BBL 1006200066 · BIN 1011214
- Year built
- 1884
- Type
- Cooperative
- Floors
- 5
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $985K
- Recent range
- $975K – $995K
- Listing discount
- 2.4%
- Recorded transfers
- 27
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242–244 West 4th Street is a pair of purpose-built apartment houses designed by John B. Snook in 1884. Their brick fronts, incised stone ornament and deep roof cornices belong to the Village's nineteenth-century flats-building tradition. The two addresses now share a cooperative tax lot containing fifteen residences.
The setting is the diagonal stretch of West 4th Street immediately north of West 10th Street. It puts these modestly scaled apartments near Christopher Street's subway and PATH connections, within the original Greenwich Village Historic District. The five-story buildings remain part of a streetscape of low apartment houses and earlier townhouses.
Architecture and unit composition
LPC describes stone bands extending across the fronts at window level. Some windows are paired beneath pedimented lintels with incised Neo-Grec decoration. Deep projecting cornices cap both buildings. By the time of the 1969 designation, the ground-floor masonry had been smoothed with stucco and the entrance at 242 had been changed.
The apartment mix includes studios and one-bedroom homes, with exposed brick, high ceilings and decorative fireplaces recurring in the interiors. Upper-floor homes can include skylights. Renovations vary, and some residences have laundry equipment or air conditioning incorporated into their individual layouts.
The paired street addresses matter to the building's scale: the city count covers the combined property. Each entrance serves a smaller group of homes, and the stairs provide access to the upper floors.
Building operations
The co-op operates the two historic buildings as one property. Exterior changes to windows, doors, masonry and the cornices are subject to LPC review. Work visible from the street therefore carries preservation requirements in addition to the co-op's own approvals.
The existing floor area exceeds the current residential zoning allowance. Its present five-story form is an established part of the block; the zoning figures do not imply that additional floors can be added.
Recent sales
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2025 | 2B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $995,000 | +0.0% | |
| Feb 5, 2024 | 4 | 1 BR · 1 BA | $975,000 | -2.0% | |
| Jun 27, 2022 | 4A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,300,000 | +2.0% | |
| Oct 2, 2020 | 4A | 1 BR · 1.5 BA | $885,000 | -4.3% | |
| May 17, 2019 | 5B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $750,000 | -10.2% | |
| Apr 9, 2019 | 2B | 1 BR · 1.5 BA | $860,000 | -9.3% | |
| Feb 7, 2019 | 1A | 1 BR · 1 BA · 700 sf | $750,000 | $1,071/sf | -5.7% |
| Mar 21, 2018 | 3D | 1 BR | $765,000 | -1.3% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2019): a median $1,071/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 2.4% 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 1-00620-0066) 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.
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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Comparable buildings
- 84–88 Charles Street — A nearby cooperative spread across historic walk-up buildings, useful for comparing paired-building ownership.
- 79 Perry Street — A similarly modest five-story walk-up cooperative with a small apartment inventory.
- The Liberty — A former warehouse cooperative offering larger loft proportions within nineteenth-century masonry.
- 281 West 11th Street — A Charles Rentz apartment house offering another purpose-built prewar walk-up cooperative.
- 25 Charles Street — The Abingdon provides a larger prewar cooperative comparison nearby.
More West Village buildings
- 223 West 10th Street (The Amos Street Condominium), 223 and 225 West 10th Street — 1893 condop
- 226 West 11th Street — 1838 co-op
- 237 West 11th Street — 1903 co-op
- 247 West 12th Street — 1910 co-op
- 256 West 10th Street (Hudson Mews) — 1911 co-op
- 259 West 4th Street — 1905 condop
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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