26 West 9th Street
24–26 West 9th Street, New York, NY 10011
BBL 1005727504 · BIN 1009419
- Year built
- 1923
- Type
- Condop
- Units
- 45
- Landmark
- No
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 26 West 9th Street 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.
West 9th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues is one of the Village's most settled blocks, and almost all of its apartment stock is cooperative. The Portsmouth at 38 West 9th is a co-op on the same block. 30 West 9th and 12 West 9th are condominiums, but they are small: 18 and 22 residences. Until 2026 the block had no mid-size prewar condominium with a staffed lobby. 26 West 9th Street is now that building.
The building went up in 1923. Simon Schwartz, a principal of the apartment-house firm Schwartz & Gross, designed it and developed it himself, per LPC's records. It stayed under single ownership for decades as a rental with ground-floor doctors' offices. The building sold out of a long-held private estate in December 2022. The buyer, 26 W 9th Street LLC, spent 2023 through 2026 gutting and reconfiguring it. It recorded the condominium declaration in May 2026 and closed the first units that July.
The structural facts are what separate it from its neighbors. You get prewar construction and a Gold Coast address with condominium tenure: no board approval of buyers, and financing, leasing and pied-à-terre use set by the declaration rather than a co-op board. You also get building systems replaced within the last two years. The trade-off is that it is a brand-new condominium association with no operating history, and the sponsor still owns most of it.
Architecture and unit composition
The facade is brick with stone trim, in the restrained Federal-revival vocabulary LPC files under "Federal of the Eclectic Period." Because the building sits in the Greenwich Village Historic District, LPC must approve any exterior change first, including windows, masonry and rooftop work.
The conversion rebuilt the interior. DOB NOW filings describe enclosed stairs and a stair extended to the roof, a new sprinkler system with a fire pump, and new plumbing with a new water-heating plant. They also describe removal of the building's gas service and a VRV heat-pump system, with roof-mounted condensers, for heating and cooling. The developer's statements add new elevators and describe concrete floor slabs and concrete partition walls, which buyers in 1920s buildings value for sound separation.
The declaration's 45 unit lots break down this way. The ground floor has four units (1A, 1B, 1EF and 1G). Floors two through eight carry five units each (A through E). The ninth floor has four (9A, 9C, 9D and 9E), and there are two penthouses. Press coverage of the launch describes a one- and two-bedroom building. That fits five units on a typical floor of a lot about 7,000 square feet in area.
Building operations
- Staffing: An attended lobby and a resident manager, per the developer. Confirm the staffing schedule in the offering plan's first-year budget.
- Systems: New throughout, per DOB filings. Heating and cooling come from the VRV system, and the filings remove gas service. Ask whether cooking in the apartments is electric or induction.
- Facade: Under the city's facade inspection program, the building filed UNSAFE in 2007, 2013, 2019 and April 2021. It was amended to SAFE in August 2022, which is the current status. The next inspection cycle will be the association's first. Ask what facade work the sponsor completed and what warranty covers it.
- Taxes: No abatement applies, so the full tax load falls on owners from the start. DOF had not yet split the building into unit lots on the 2026/27 roll. Until it does, taxes are billed to the parent lot, and the offering plan will say how they are apportioned among purchasers. Your first unit-level tax bill is an estimate until the city's apportionment posts.
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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What to know if you’re buying
Read the offering plan, not the brochure. The plan and its amendments set the first-year budget, the tax apportionment, the pet, leasing and pied-à-terre rules, and the sponsor's obligations for construction defects. None of it is in public records yet. Ask the sponsor's agent for the current plan and every amendment.
Sponsor control is the main structural risk. With about 85% of units unsold, the sponsor will control the board of managers until the control period set in the plan ends. The sponsor also pays common charges on its unsold units. Read what the plan obliges it to keep paying and when control passes to the owners. Some lenders cap or decline loans in a new condominium until a threshold of units has closed. Confirm your lender will approve the building before you sign.
Budget without an abatement. Nothing here phases in. Carrying costs are common charges plus full real estate taxes, and the first-year tax figure is the plan's projection until DOF's unit-level assessment posts.
Landmark rules apply to your windows. Replacing windows or adding exterior equipment needs LPC approval, and the declaration may add its own restrictions.
What to know if you’re selling
For now you are competing with the sponsor. Until the sponsor sells out, resales go up against sponsor inventory and whatever concessions the sponsor offers. Price against the sponsor's current closed deals, not its asking prices.
Condominium tenure is the selling point. On this block, buyers who want prewar construction without a co-op board have few alternatives. Lead with that.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 26 West 9th Street, also evaluate:
- 38 West 9th Street (The Portsmouth) — prewar co-op on the same block
- 30 West 9th Street — small townhouse-conversion condominium on the same block
- 12 West 9th Street — postwar condominium at the Fifth Avenue end of the block
- 35 West 9th Street — 1920s co-op across the street
- 61 West 9th Street (The Windsor Arms) — 1925–26 co-op one block west
- 15 West 11th Street — another 1923 Village apartment house
- 10 East 12th Street — prewar building converted to condominium
- 31 West 11th Street — prewar Village condominium conversion
More Greenwich Village buildings
- 22 Mercer Street — 1860 condominium
- Saint Germain (23 Greenwich Avenue) — 1961 co-op
- 24 Fifth Avenue — 1926 co-op by Emery Roth
- 25 Fifth Avenue — 1921 condominium
- 27 Wooster Street — 2013 condominium by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)
- 29 King Street — 1886 condop
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Greenwich Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to Greenwich 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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