32 Downing Street
32 Downing Street, New York, NY 10014
BBL 1005270010 · BIN 1077819
- Year built
- 1889
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 20
- Floors
- 5
- Landmark
- In a historic district
- Pets
- Dogs not permitted per building policy; confirm current specifics at offer stage
- Subletting
- Permitted after an initial ownership period; specific terms set by the board — confirm at offer stage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $795K – $795K
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 18
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32 Downing Street is a boutique prewar cooperative on one of the West Village's shorter, quieter blocks, between Bleecker and Bedford. Public records place its construction in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century — sources cite both 1889 and 1910 — and the building was converted to a cooperative in 1986, at the height of the era that turned much of the neighborhood's prewar stock into owner-occupied housing. It sits within the Greenwich Village Historic District, which protects the low-rise, tree-lined character of the surrounding streets.
The building matters as an intimate, five-story, 20-unit co-op with an elevator — a convenience many comparable boutique buildings lack — in one of downtown's most sought-after residential pockets. Its residences carry prewar character, and the building runs on a lean, well-managed model with practical amenities like a laundry room, bike room, and private storage. For buyers who want cooperative ownership, historic character, and a genuinely quiet Village block, 32 Downing occupies a specific and durable niche.
Building operations
32 Downing runs as a boutique, well-managed cooperative — with an elevator, a laundry room, a bike room, and private storage, and a part-time live-in superintendent in place of a full-time doorman. The scale keeps carrying costs lean, appropriate to a 20-unit building. Note that the building's policy does not permit dogs; buyers should confirm the current pet and washer/dryer policies against house rules at offer stage.
As a cooperative, purchases go through a board package and interview, and the board sets the maximum financing it will permit — buyers should confirm the financing cap early. Pied-à-terre use, gifting, guarantor, and co-purchase arrangements are handled case by case, subject to board approval. Subletting is permitted after an initial ownership period, on terms the board sets. Buyers should review the co-op's financial statements and reserve position, and confirm the specific flip-tax, financing, and sublet terms against current building materials at offer stage.
Architecture and residences
The building presents as a five-story prewar masonry structure with an elevator, within the protected Greenwich Village Historic District. Following its 1986 cooperative conversion, the residences reflect their prewar origins — the layouts and detailing characteristic of the era, adapted into owner-occupied homes. As with any conversion of a small prewar building, individual apartments differ in size, light, and level of renovation, so each is underwritten on its own terms rather than off a building average. The building permits in-unit washer/dryers per its house rules — a detail buyers should confirm for the specific line during diligence.
The Downing Street block
32 Downing sits on a short, low-key West Village block between Bleecker and Bedford — quiet even by the neighborhood's standards, and steps from the shops, restaurants, and cafes of the Bleecker corridor and Seventh Avenue South. The location pairs residential calm with fast access to the 1 at Houston and Christopher Streets and the A/C/E and B/D/F/M nearby. It is the kind of tucked-away block that draws buyers specifically seeking the Village's residential character over a busier avenue setting.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 emissions caps apply. No regulatory capital pressure from this law specifically, current or 2030.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Management & transfer contacts
- Flip tax
- Stock Transfer Fee: 1% of sales price if owned >10 yrs, 1.5% if owned 5-10 yrs, 2% if owned <5 yrs
- Sublet policy
- Allowed with board approval; short-term rentals & AirBnB not allowed; Sublet Fee equal to 20% of monthly maintenance charge
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed with board approval; secondary residence allowed with board approval
- Notable fees
- Max financing 80% of purchase price; post-closing liquidity required
Recent sales
As a cooperative, 32 Downing is read on a per-room basis. This is a boutique, thin-resale building — with 20 residences, closings are infrequent and each one carries weight in the comparable set. Underwriting is done unit by unit, because the prewar layouts differ meaningfully in size, exposure, and renovation.
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 | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 2025 | 2D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $795,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jun 4, 2021 | 5A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $785,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jun 20, 2018 | 4A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $810,000 | -1.8% | |
| Aug 17, 2017 | 5B | 1 BA | $600,000 | +9.1% | |
| Jun 13, 2016 | 5C | 1 BR · 550 sf | $775,000 | $1,409/sf | +0.0% |
| May 27, 2016 | 5D | 1 BR · 550 sf | $810,000 | $1,473/sf | +0.0% |
| Mar 30, 2015 | 3D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $775,000 | +3.3% | |
| Jan 7, 2015 | 4B | 1 BA | $433,500 | -2.6% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2016): a median $1,441/sf (recorded) across 2 sales. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
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 1-00527-0010). 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; square footage on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
Closed rents at 32 Downing Street, last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom | 4 | $5,347 |
Also $117 per sq ft per year (4 leases that report square footage). 5 closed sublet leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease July 2026. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
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
Buying here follows the cooperative path: a board package, a board interview, and a board-set financing cap. Budget the diligence time to review the co-op's financials and reserve fund. The reasons to buy are specific — a prewar co-op with an elevator on one of the West Village's quietest blocks, inside the Greenwich Village Historic District, at the boutique scale and cooperative pricing that sit below the neighborhood's condominium and full-service tiers, with practical building amenities. Confirm the specific unit's condition, the pet and washer/dryer policies, and the building's sublet and pied-à-terre posture during due diligence.
What to know if you’re selling
The story is location and character — a boutique prewar co-op with an elevator on a quiet, tree-lined Village block within the historic district. Pricing should be apartment-specific: floor, exposure, layout, and renovation drive value, with per-room framing anchoring the read. Positioning should reach buyers who want a genuinely residential Village block and prewar character, who value the elevator and practical amenities, and who are comfortable with the cooperative structure and the building's house rules.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 32 Downing Street, also look at these West Village boutique buildings:
- 63 Downing Street — cooperative on the same Downing Street block
- 100 Bank Street — West Village prewar co-op of comparable boutique character
- 75 Bank Street — nearby West Village prewar cooperative
- 99 Bank Street — West Village prewar building serving an overlapping buyer
- 100 Barrow Street — nearby West Village boutique building
- 9 Barrow Street — West Village prewar building comparable in scale and character
More West Village buildings
- 28 Perry Street — 1899 condominium
- 29 Perry Street — 1871 co-op
- 31 Jane Street (The Rembrandt) — 1963 co-op by SLCE Architects
- 32 Jones Street — 1899 co-op
- 32 Morton Street — 1919 co-op
- 33 Bethune Street — 1886 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across West Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to West Village.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
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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