290 Sixth Avenue
290 Sixth Avenue, also 6–10 Minetta Street, New York, NY 10014
BBL 1005420025 · BIN 1008725
- Year built
- 1940
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 65
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- Designated
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The building exists because Sixth Avenue was cut through the South Village. The avenue was extended south in the 1920s, the elevated line came down at the end of the 1930s, and the Sixth Avenue subway opened in 1940. Those projects left irregular leftover lots on the blocks they crossed. LPC's designation report for the South Village Historic District names two of them as the largest apartment houses in the district: 25 Minetta Lane (1939–40) and 290 Sixth Avenue (1940–41). H. I. Feldman designed both. The irregular footprint here, with a courtyard entrance, angled bays and small parks to the north and south, is a direct result of that street work.
Feldman was one of the busiest apartment-house architects in New York between the wars. LPC describes this building as Colonial Revival: rusticated brick at the first story, a soldier course with dentils above it, a one-story entrance pavilion in header brick with fluted pilasters and a broken pediment topped by an urn, arched brick lintels with cast-stone keystones at the sixth floor, and cast-stone plaques at the parapet. The courtyard fence and gate are original.
The ownership history is straightforward. The property passed from an estate to a sponsor partnership in 1982. The partnership conveyed it to 290 Tenants Corp. in June 1985. As at most conversions of that period, some apartments stayed with a holder of unsold shares. Between 2010 and 2017 one limited liability company appears repeatedly in ACRIS as the seller of individual apartments, the usual pattern of unsold shares sold off as apartments come vacant. Whether any unsold shares remain, and whether any apartments are still occupied by rent-regulated tenants, is not in the public record. The for-sale test is met regardless: apartments transfer steadily to separate, unrelated buyers.
The balance sheet looks conservative from the outside. A $1.25 million underlying mortgage across 65 original apartments is very low leverage for a Manhattan cooperative.
Architecture and unit composition
Six stories of brick on a lot of about 11,250 square feet, with the entrance set back behind a courtyard off Sixth Avenue. The north façade is secondary and partly visible, with paired windows and a fire escape. LPC notes that the upper-floor windows have been replaced and that security grilles have been altered for air conditioners.
As built there were 65 apartments, lettered A through L on each floor. That many apartments on a lot this size means the original layouts were compact. The record shows owners combining them. Combination filings cover 2K and 2L (2013), 4F and 4G (2014), 3K and 3L (2014), a 4L/5L duplex (2014), 3C and 3D (2017) and 5J and 5K (2021), and a 2024 filing treats 4J and 4K as one apartment. Buyers will find two kinds of inventory here: original compact apartments and larger combined ones.
Building operations
Capital work on record: replacement of damaged brick masonry and precast façade elements under a 2007 filing, with a 120-foot sidewalk shed in 2008; repair of the entrance courtyard in 2018; and installation of washers and dryers for residents in the basement in 2020. Interior filings are routine apartment renovations and combinations, and none changes the building's use or legal apartment count.
As a landmarked building, window replacement, courtyard and fence work, and any visible rooftop work go through LPC. That adds time and cost to façade and window projects.
Recent sales
The building trades regularly for a Village co-op: share transfers have averaged roughly two to three a year over the past two decades, across both original and combined apartments. Pricing splits cleanly into two tiers. Original compact apartments trade as entry-level Village co-op inventory. Combined apartments trade in a separate tier, set by room count, layout and whether the combination runs along one floor or as a duplex. Co-op pricing here is best read per room and by floor, and by whether the apartment faces the avenue, the courtyard or the side yards. Some recorded transfers are at prices well below the building's range and may be insider, family or non-market transfers. Treat them with caution as comparables.
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 transfers 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2026 | 3 CD | $2,500,000 |
| Jun 28, 2023 | 4J | $750,000 |
| Jul 13, 2022 | 3H | $1,100,000 |
| Aug 4, 2021 | 3E | $515,000 |
| Jan 8, 2019 | 2A | $790,000 |
| Aug 17, 2018 | 4L5L | $1,675,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00542-0025) 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
Get the policy stack in writing. Nothing is published. Ask the managing agent for the financing ceiling, the post-closing liquidity requirement, the debt-to-income ceiling, the flip tax, the sublet policy, and the board's position on pied-à-terre, trust, LLC and co-purchase ownership. Expect a full board package and interview. Run the Co-op Board Qualification Calculator before you offer.
Ask about the unsold shares. Ask what share of the corporation's shares, if any, is still held by a sponsor or holder of unsold shares, whether that holder is current on maintenance, and how many apartments are still occupied by rent-regulated tenants. Lenders ask the same questions.
Confirm the cooperative abatement. DOF records show the 2024 cooperative abatement in a non-active status with nothing applied. Ask whether it was restored and whether maintenance absorbed a one-time hit.
Check the combination history on your apartment. If you are buying a combined apartment, get the DOB sign-off for the combination and confirm that the shares and the proprietary lease were combined to match.
Underwrite full taxes. Both J-51 benefits ended by 2002.
What to know if you’re selling
Present which tier you are in. An original compact apartment and a combined apartment are different products with different buyers. Market the layout and room count, not just the address.
Assemble the building packet early. Buyers' attorneys will ask about the abatement status, the unsold-share position, the underlying mortgage and the landmark constraints on windows and air conditioners. Having answers ready speeds up the board package.
Use the documented history. The South Village designation, the H. I. Feldman attribution and the courtyard entrance are all on the LPC record. Cite them; don't paraphrase them into adjectives.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 290 Sixth Avenue, also evaluate:
- 1 Minetta Street: 1920s co-op on a triangular lot on the same block; the closest direct alternative
- 196 Sixth Avenue: small co-op further south on the avenue, at the South Village–SoHo edge
- 45 West 10th Street: an H. I. Feldman co-op in the Village, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
- 175 West 13th Street: a larger H. I. Feldman co-op at Seventh Avenue
- 30 East 9th Street: a postwar H. I. Feldman co-op at University Place, for buyers comparing Feldman's prewar and postwar work
- 14 Horatio Street: a postwar H. I. Feldman co-op in the West Village
- 3 Sheridan Square: a 1960s H. I. Feldman co-op a few blocks northwest
More Greenwich Village buildings
- 250 Bowery — 2013 condominium by Morris Adjmi Architects
- Mercer Square (250 Mercer Street / 14 West 4th Street) — 1908
- 259 Elizabeth Street (Empire Condominium) — 1987 condominium
- 295 West 11th Street — 1920 co-op
- Snug Harbor (303 Mercer Street) — 1900 co-op
- 306 Mott Street — 1988 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Greenwich Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to Greenwich 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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