323 East 8th Street
323 East 8th Street, between avenues B and C, East Village, Manhattan
BBL 1003910048 · BIN 1004753
- Year built
- 1910
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 25
- Floors
- 6
- Amenities
- Central laundry, superintendent service and video intercom
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Subletting by shareholders
- Permitted with conditions
- Pied-à-terre
- Permitted
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not stated
- Washer/dryer
- Permitted with conditions
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median, 2025
- $668K
- 2 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $410K – $965K
- Listing discount
- 9.5%
- Recorded transfers
- 37
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323 East 8th Street is a six-story, 25-residence walk-up just east of Tompkins Square Park. Its inventory ranges from compact apartments to larger combinations and garden duplexes. A private terrace at the rear and multilevel layouts at the base create purchase options that differ substantially from the conventional upper-floor homes.
The building dates to 1910 and stands on the block between avenues B and C. East 8th Street terminates at the park to the west, so this block has a different street arrangement from a continuous crosstown route. Community gardens also form part of the immediate surroundings.
The cooperative has central laundry and permits approved in-unit machines. Its entry uses a video intercom. The building's physical scale, shared facilities and apartment variety place the emphasis on the individual home and its position within a small walk-up.
Architecture and unit composition
The building occupies a narrow midblock parcel, approximately twenty-eight feet wide. Six residential levels rise above the street. Tall windows, high ceilings, hardwood floors and exposed brick recur in the apartments, while many renovated layouts connect the kitchen and living area.
Compact one-bedroom homes appear around the mid-four-hundred to five-hundred-square-foot range. Windowed kitchens and baths exist in several layouts. Their room proportions and window positions affect how readily they can accommodate dining or a work area within the main living space.
Larger combinations join rooms that originally belonged to separate apartments. These homes can have more bedrooms, additional baths or a broader living area, but their circulation patterns differ from the standard compact plans. A combined apartment is therefore a distinct category within the building's inventory.
At the base, duplex homes introduce internal stairs and a second level. A rear duplex has a private terrace of roughly three hundred square feet. The placement of rooms above and below the entry level matters when evaluating light, ventilation and the legal use of each room; a lower-level space should not be treated as a bedroom solely because a sales description uses it that way.
Building operations
The cooperative provides shared laundry and superintendent service, with video-intercom access at the entry. Approved in-unit laundry installations offer an alternative in some apartments. The common stairs serve all six floors, so upper-level ownership includes a substantial climb.
Private outdoor space belongs to selected homes, not to the whole building. A rear terrace has different use and maintenance terms from a shared garden. The specific lease allocation matters where an apartment incorporates space beyond the interior rooms.
The property is not designated as a landmark. Its current R8B zoning allows a residential FAR of 4.0, while the existing building measures 4.96. The established building is denser than that current allowance, which limits how useful a simple zoning-capacity calculation would be for contemplating expansion.
Policy framework
Pets, pied-à-terre ownership, co-purchasing, parental purchases, gifting and guarantors are permitted — confirm with the managing agent. Subletting is permitted after two years of ownership with board approval — confirm with the managing agent, including the current duration limits.
In-unit washer/dryer installation requires board approval — confirm with the managing agent. A buyer planning to add laundry should have the machine and connection reviewed as an alteration; another apartment's existing washer/dryer doesn't pre-approve a new installation.
Sublet and pied-à-terre policy
A condominium owner leasing a unit and a co-op shareholder subletting are different rules, and a building-wide rule is different from a restriction on one apartment. This is the building's rule; confirm it for the specific apartment.
- Subletting by shareholders
- Permitted with conditionsAfter 2 yrs of ownershipSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Wait before a sublet
- 2 yearsSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Pied-à-terre ownership
- PermittedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
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Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not statedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Permitted with conditionsBoard approvalSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
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Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Maintenance, per room
- $447 per room a monthMedian of 3 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Maintenance as recorded with each sale. A co-op's maintenance already covers the building's real estate taxes and the building's own mortgage, if it has one; add your own loan payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Virtual or video entry
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- NoSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Garden, laundry roomSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 limits apply to a building on its own. It is still covered if it shares a tax lot or condominium board with buildings totaling over 50,000 sq ft; confirm on DOB’s covered-buildings list.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →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 | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2025 | 1GC | 1 BR · 2 BA | $825,000 | -14.1% | |
| Sep 15, 2025 | 2A | 1 BR · 1 BA · 475 sf | $510,000 | $1,074/sf | -8.8% |
| Jul 9, 2024 | 2CD | 2 BR · 2 BA | $965,000 | -10.2% | |
| Jan 22, 2024 | 6C | 1 BA | $410,000 | -3.5% | |
| Jun 29, 2021 | 5AB | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,035,000 | -11.9% | |
| Jul 1, 2020 | 6B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $590,000 | -3.3% | |
| Nov 19, 2019 | 6C | 1 BA | $362,000 | +3.7% | |
| Aug 20, 2019 | 1B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 800 sf | $960,000 | $1,200/sf | -4.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $1,071/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 2.6% 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 1-00391-0048). 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 323 East 8th Street, last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| 2 bedroom | 2 | $5,215 |
Also $81 per sq ft per year (3 leases that report square footage). 3 closed sublet leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease September 2026. Based on few leases. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
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Comparable buildings
- 186 East 2nd Street — A smaller prewar cooperative within the eastern downtown apartment market.
- 50 Avenue A — Hearth House — A smaller prewar cooperative near the same East Village streets.
- 205 East 10th Street — A six-story cooperative with a similar apartment count and prewar construction.
- 121 East 10th Street — A cooperative of comparable size and height with older apartment layouts.
- 232 East 6th Street — A somewhat larger prewar cooperative farther west in the East Village.
More East Village buildings
- 313 East 10th Street — co-op
- 313 East 6th Street (Rothko House) — 1853 condominium
- 315–321 East 12th Street — 1900 co-op
- 331 East 8th Street — 2005 condominium
- 347 Bowery — 2017 condominium
- 383 East 10th Street (Del Este Village VI), 383–389 East 10th Street and 642–650 East 11th Street — 1999 condominium
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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