29 King Street
29 King Street, New York, NY 10014
BBL 1005207501 · BIN 1008142
- Year built
- 1886
- Type
- Condop
- Units
- 38
- Landmark
- Designated
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A converted nineteenth-century schoolhouse on one of the best-preserved blocks in the Village. King Street between Sixth Avenue and Varick is lined with Federal and Greek Revival row houses from the 1820s, and the whole block sits inside the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District, designated in 1966. No. 29 is the block's one civic building: a Queen Anne public school built in 1886 on the site of earlier row houses, and converted in 1982 into a 38-unit condominium.
The structure is simple. King Street School Associates recorded the condominium declaration in October 1982 and sold units to individual buyers from the first day, with closings running through 1984. ACRIS shows every one of the 38 unit lots in separate private ownership, and no sponsor holdings. The Board of Managers recorded an amended declaration in 2022; buyers should read it.
Turnover is low. ACRIS shows only a handful of deeds a year since the late 1980s, and seven of the 38 units have not changed hands since the original sell-out. For a buyer that means limited inventory; for a seller it means few direct comparables.
Architecture and unit composition
The building fronts King Street with three stories of red brick above a limestone ground floor, finished with stone quoins, pedimented windows, a bracketed cornice and a central parapet framing a stone bullseye window and a date panel. Queen Anne was an unusual choice for a city school of the period, and the facade was restored at conversion.
Inside, the conversion divided the schoolrooms into apartments that are small by square footage — mostly under 1,200 square feet on the DOF roll — with schoolroom ceiling heights that many owners have used for mezzanines. DOB filings from 2003, 2010 and later show owners enlarging existing mezzanines and adding bathrooms at mezzanine level, so many units live larger than their recorded size. A penthouse level sits above the original roofline; its two units were combined in 2012. Apartment designations run by floor and letter (1A, 2D, 4H, PHA).
Building operations
Capital work on record. DOB filings show masonry reconstruction in 2004, facade repair in 2010 and a roof replacement in 2019. The building is four stories plus a penthouse, and DOB recorded it in 2010 as not subject to the facade inspection program (FISP), which applies to buildings above six stories.
J-51. DOF's historical J-51 file shows the conversion's J-51 abatement on all 38 unit lots from the 1983 tax year through 1993. Nothing has been on the roll since. Carrying costs are fully taxed, with no burn-off ahead.
Staffing and amenities. No doorman or amenity program is documented. Confirm staffing, storage and any shared outdoor space with the managing agent.
Recent sales
The King Street Condominium trades as small-unit Village condominium product, and price per square foot is the right measure, with one adjustment: a unit with a legal mezzanine lives larger than its recorded footage, so compare on usable area and ceiling height, not the DOF figure alone. Units facing King Street look onto a landmarked row-house block; rear units face the interior of the block. With few sales a year, benchmark against small prewar and conversion condominiums in the South Village and Hudson Square and index any read to the last complete year.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent closings at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 2025 | 3I | $2,599,990 |
| Dec 8, 2023 | 4E | $1,275,000 |
| Aug 24, 2023 | 1G | $1,210,000 |
| Oct 29, 2021 | 4C | $1,302,500 |
| May 20, 2019 | 1A | $1,980,000 |
| Mar 5, 2019 | 3H | $1,825,000 |
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 1-00520-7501) 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.
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
Verify the mezzanine. Ask whether the unit's mezzanine is on DOB plans and signed off. A legal mezzanine is real space; an undocumented one is a problem for your lender and your resale.
Read the 2022 amended declaration. The Board of Managers recorded it in 2023. Find out what changed.
Get the rules in writing. Sublet terms, pets, pied-à-terre use and any right of first refusal are not documented in public records. Get them from the managing agent before you sign.
Respect the landmark. Windows, the facade and any rooftop work require a Certificate of Appropriateness.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the building and the block. A converted 1886 Queen Anne school on a landmarked Federal row-house block is the story.
Document the mezzanine and any combination. Have the DOB sign-offs ready. Buyers will pay for space they can verify.
Be accurate about the history. Built in 1886, converted in 1982, 38 unit lots — not built in 1900, as some records show.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 29 King Street, also evaluate:
- 50 King Street — 1955 elevator cooperative on King Street, in the same historic district
- 2 King Street — postwar cooperative at the Sixth Avenue corner of King Street
- 11 Charlton Street — boutique 1910 prewar cooperative one block south, off Sixth Avenue
- 104 Charlton Street — 14-residence loft conversion condominium in Hudson Square, west of Varick
- 204 West Houston Street — loft-building conversion cooperative on the Houston Street edge of the Village
- 2 Charlton Street — full-service Hudson Square cooperative
- 100 Vandam Street — Hudson Square condominium built around an 1888 warehouse
- 70 Charlton Street — 2016 new-construction condominium nearby
More Greenwich Village buildings
- 26 West 9th Street — 1923 condop by Schwartz & Gross
- 25 Fifth Avenue — 1921 condominium
- 27 Wooster Street — 2013 condominium by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)
- 30 Crosby Street (The Loft) — 1878 condominium
- 30 East 10th Street — 1909 co-op
- 30 Fifth Avenue — 1923 co-op
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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