- Year built
- 1923
- Type
- Cooperative
- Floors
- 16
- Landmark
- Designated
- 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 building documents and current market data. Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage. As of 2026.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $1.5M
- Recent range
- $900K – $3.3M
- Listing discount
- -2.1%
- Recorded transfers
- 158
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
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Apartment-level facts are independently verified before publishing; sale prices reflect the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 2026 | 4F | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | $2,400,000 | +2.1% |
| Apr 16, 2026 | 12C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $980,000 | +15.3% |
| Apr 8, 2025 | 12G | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,750,000 | +2.9% |
| Mar 12, 2025 | 11G | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,600,000 | -3.0% |
| Sep 24, 2024 | 5JK | 3 BR · 3.5 BA | $3,150,000 | -3.0% |
| Jul 11, 2024 | 8G | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,525,000 | +9.3% |
| Aug 3, 2023 | 10J | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,100,000 | -7.9% |
| Aug 22, 2022 | 10G | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,900,000 | -4.8% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2021) cleared a median $1,212/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 3.2% 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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 2026 | 8E | $2,400,000 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | 2J | $1,950,000 |
| Mar 19, 2025 | 11HJ | $3,295,000 |
| Jan 27, 2025 | 8J | $1,200,000 |
| Jan 10, 2025 | 11F | $2,250,000 |
| Oct 18, 2024 | 14F | $2,400,000 |
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 1-00573-0039) 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.
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
The Roebling Team at 30 Fifth Avenue
The Roebling Team at Compass works the Lower Fifth Avenue corridor as part of our broader Park-facing Manhattan practice. We publish this building profile because 30 Fifth buyers and sellers deserve building-specific intelligence — architectural context, board specifics, apartment-line comparable analysis — not generic neighborhood commentary.