26 West 9th Street

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.

• Staffing: An attended lobby and a resident manager, per the developer. Confirm the staffing schedule in the offering plan's first-year budget.
• Systems: DOB filings describe new systems throughout; confirm completion and current condition. 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.

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. Apart from the declaration recorded May 18, 2026, 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.

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.

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 — condominium with a mid-twentieth-century façade 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