30 Fifth Avenue
30 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011
BBL 1005730039 · BIN 1009481
- Year built
- 1923
- Type
- Cooperative
- Floors
- 16
- Landmark
- In a historic district
- Flip tax
- 2.5% of the sale price, paid by the seller.
- Financing
- Up to 70% financeable (30% minimum down).
- Subletting
- Permitted after two years of ownership (up to three years maximum).
- Pied-à-terre
- Permitted.
- Washer / dryer
- Not permitted (central building laundry).
- Pets
- Permitted.
- Co-purchasing
- Co-purchasing, parental purchasing, gifting (up to the full purchase price), and guarantors all permitted.
- Managing agent
- Terris Realty, LLC
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 2026). Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $1.4M
- Recent range
- $900K – $3.3M
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 166
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30 Fifth Avenue sits in the geographic and architectural heart of the Lower Fifth Avenue Gold Coast corridor — the West 10th Street corner that anchors the southern half of the corridor, two blocks north of Washington Square Park and immediately adjacent to the Church of the Ascension. The building was constructed in 1923 as part of the broader Lower Fifth Avenue 1920s cooperative cycle that began at 39 Fifth Avenue in 1922 and would continue through the close of the decade.
The building's defining structural feature is its early cooperative conversion in 1970. Where most of the Lower Fifth Avenue cooperative inventory converted from rental ownership during the 1980s — 45 Fifth (1983), 39 Fifth (1986), 51 Fifth (1988) — 30 Fifth's 1970 conversion places the building among the very earliest cooperative conversions on the corridor and one of the earlier conversions in the broader Manhattan cooperative-conversion movement. The early-conversion status produces specific structural advantages: a deeper cooperative history, an institutional building culture that has been continuously refined for more than fifty years, and a residential identity established well before the broader 1980s conversion wave commoditized the cooperative form across downtown Manhattan.
The 1923 construction vintage delivers prewar architectural fabric consistent with the broader corridor — substantial ceiling heights, prewar proportions, oak-strip flooring, the architectural vocabulary that defines the 1920s Lower Fifth Avenue cooperative idiom. Apartments retain the layout discipline characteristic of the period.
For buyers, 30 Fifth represents a particular position in the Lower Fifth Avenue market: 1923 prewar architectural fabric, the structural advantage of an early-conversion cooperative culture, and the West 10th Street corner position that places the building at the architectural seam between Lower Fifth Avenue and the West Village townhouse corridor.
Architecture and unit composition
Apartments at 30 Fifth distribute across the building's 16 stories in configurations consistent with the 1923 construction vintage — substantial classic-six and classic-seven layouts, the standard prewar Lower Fifth Avenue apartment idiom. The facade is the prewar brown-brick vocabulary characteristic of the corridor's 1920s construction cycle.
Apartment interiors retain the prewar proportions and detailing characteristic of the corridor — substantial ceiling heights, formal entry arrangements, library-and-living combinations, formal dining configurations, and the broader architectural fabric that distinguishes prewar apartment design from postwar mid-century inventory.
Building operations
30 Fifth Avenue operates as a cooperative with a doorman, live-in superintendent, and the cooperative-standard infrastructure consistent with the building's mid-size 1923 scale. The full operational baseline — amenity specifics, board policies on financing percentages, subletting frameworks, pied-à-terre permissions, pet rules, and flip-tax structure — should all be confirmed against the offering plan and current managing-agent documents during due diligence.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $21,087/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $12
- Modeled exposure split equally across 144 units (the city tax-lot count). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the engineer identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair, with repairs due by the deadline stated in the filing. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. 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 | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2026 | 6H | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,400,000 | +0.0% |
| Apr 22, 2026 | 4F | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | $2,400,000 | +2.1% |
| Apr 13, 2026 | 12C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $980,000 | +15.3% |
| Dec 5, 2025 | 2J | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,950,000 | +0.0% |
| Mar 25, 2025 | 12G | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,750,000 | +2.9% |
| Mar 7, 2025 | 11G | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,600,000 | -3.0% |
| Mar 3, 2025 | 11HJ | 2 BR · 2 BA | $3,295,000 | +0.0% |
| Jan 13, 2025 | 8J | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,200,000 | +0.0% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2021): a median $1,231/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 2.1% 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 1-00573-0039). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price.
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At the recent median sale of $1.75M (9 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $32,050 to close, or 1.8% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $17,500
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $14,550
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
The 1970 cooperative conversion is structurally distinctive. Among the earliest conversions on Lower Fifth Avenue; the deep cooperative history produces a building culture continuously refined for more than five decades.
The 1923 prewar vintage delivers corridor-standard architectural fabric. Substantial ceiling heights, prewar proportions, and the classical layout discipline of the 1920s Lower Fifth Avenue cycle.
The West 10th Street corner position is structural. The geographic seam between Lower Fifth Avenue's cooperative corridor and the West Village townhouse fabric; immediate adjacency to the Church of the Ascension and the broader institutional context.
Greenwich Village Historic District protection applies.
Confirm operational specifics directly. Board policies on financing, subletting, pied-à-terre use, pets, and flip tax should all be confirmed against current management documents during due diligence; the building's architectural attribution is also worth confirming against the LPC designation report.
What to know if you’re selling
Marketing should emphasize the corridor positioning and the early-conversion cooperative history. West 10th Street corner, 1923 prewar fabric, 1970 conversion among the earliest on the corridor.
Pricing requires apartment-level comparable analysis. Recent comparables on the specific apartment line and exposure should anchor positioning.
Closing timelines are cooperative-standard. Plan for 60–90 days from contract through approval to closing.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 30 Fifth Avenue, also evaluate:
- 39 Fifth Avenue — Bing & Bing / Emery Roth 1922; the first tall apartment building on Lower Fifth; corridor anchor
- 33 Fifth Avenue — 1923; immediate corridor peer; comparable vintage and scale
- 45 Fifth Avenue — Sugarman & Berger 1925; boutique prewar peer
- One Fifth Avenue — Corbett 1927; corridor anchor
- 24 Fifth Avenue — Emery Roth 1926; corridor peer
- 51 Fifth Avenue — Thomas Lamb 1929; corridor peer
More Greenwich Village buildings
- 29 West 10th Street — 1846 co-op
- 30 East 10th Street — 1909 co-op
- 30 East 9th Street (The Lafayette) — 1955 co-op by H.I. Feldman
- 30 West 13th Street — 1900 co-op
- 30 West 9 Street, 30–32 West 9th Street — 1900 condominium
- 31 East 12th Street — 1929 co-op
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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