307 East 8th Street
307 East 8th Street, between Avenues B and C, East Village
East Village
BBL 1003910056 · BIN 1004758
- Year built
- 1900
- Type
- Cooperative
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Common laundry, basement storage, bicycle storage and intercom-controlled entry
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,204
- Listing discount
- 2.1%
- Recorded sales
- 14
- On record
- 2005–2025
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307 East 8th Street is a narrow prewar cooperative just east of Tompkins Square Park. Its upper inventory includes duplex apartments with private roof rights, while the lower floors contain conventional single-level homes. The building's six-story height and walk-up access make floor level a practical part of choosing among those layouts.
The property occupies approximately twenty-five feet of street frontage. The building extends about seventy-eight feet into the lot, leaving a rear area behind it. Apartments face both the street and the back of the property, with rear homes set away from the East 8th Street frontage.
Architecture and unit composition
Typical single-level homes include one- and two-bedroom layouts of roughly 675 to 750 square feet. They have prewar room proportions, with ceilings around nine feet in documented apartments. Separate windowed kitchens and enclosed bedrooms appear alongside more open renovations.
Upper duplexes connect two floors with interior stairs and can be substantially larger. A combined duplex of approximately 1,370 square feet has traded more than once. At least one upper home holds rights to the front half of the roof; those rights attach to the apartment and are not a building-wide common roof amenity.
Original hardwood flooring and large windows remain features of individual interiors. Renovations have altered the arrangement of rooms, so homes with similar floor area can have different kitchen positions and circulation.
Building operations
The cooperative is self-managed. Common laundry and storage are in the basement, and bicycle storage is available. Entry is controlled through an intercom, including a gate at the sidewalk.
Residents use stairs to reach the upper floors. A duplex adds another staircase inside the home, separate from the common stair. That distinction is especially relevant to upper apartments with roof access, where the route outdoors can involve several levels from the street.
The corporation owns the shared structure and pays the building's property tax. There is no building-wide exemption, and the built floor area is slightly above the mapped residential FAR.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 2025 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $880,000 | +0.0% | |
| Feb 16, 2021 | 5C6C | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,370 sf | $1,650,000 | $1,204/sf | -17.5% |
| Jul 16, 2019 | 5 | 2 BR · 1 BA | $810,000 | -4.7% | |
| May 26, 2015 | 4A | 1 BR · 675 sf | $675,000 | $1,000/sf | +0.0% |
| Dec 18, 2013 | 5C6C | 3 BR · 1,370 sf | $999,000 | $729/sf | -13.1% |
| Aug 1, 2013 | 3A | 2 BR · 735 sf | $687,000 | $935/sf | +1.8% |
| Feb 14, 2011 | 4B | 2 BR · 750 sf | $540,000 | $720/sf | -3.4% |
| Sep 13, 2010 | 3B | 2 BR · 750 sf | $545,000 | $727/sf | -0.7% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2021): a median $1,204/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. 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 1-00391-0056) 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; square footage on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
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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Comparable buildings
- 186 East 2nd Street — a small prewar walk-up cooperative with conventional apartment layouts.
- Hearth House — an elevator condop with duplexes and substantial private outdoor space.
- 214 Avenue A — a low-rise cooperative offering a shared roof deck and elevator.
- 83 First Avenue — prewar cooperative ownership on a corner site farther west.
- 300 East 4th Street — an elevator cooperative with loft-scale rooms and a larger inventory.
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The neighborhood
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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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