- Year built
- 1923
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 60
- Floors
- 16
- Landmark
- Designated
33 Fifth Avenue sits at the East 10th Street corner of Lower Fifth Avenue — the architectural center of the corridor and the position immediately opposite 39 Fifth Avenue, the first tall apartment building built on Lower Fifth. The c. 1923 construction vintage places 33 Fifth in the immediate second wave of the corridor's prewar cooperative cycle, completed approximately one year after the 1922 opening of 39 Fifth and contemporaneous with the 1923 construction of 30 Fifth Avenue directly to the west.
The building's 16-story, 60-apartment scale is the structurally defining mid-size cooperative idiom of Lower Fifth Avenue — large enough to support a full-service operational program, intimate enough to preserve a personal building culture. The mid-size scale produces a specific cooperative character distinct from both the boutique prewar inventory (43 Fifth, 45 Fifth) and the institutional corridor peers (24 Fifth, One Fifth, the Brevoort).
The 1923 architectural fabric is consistent with the broader corridor's prewar idiom — substantial ceiling heights, formal layouts, oak-strip flooring, the architectural vocabulary that defines the 1920s Lower Fifth Avenue cooperative cycle. Apartments retain the layout discipline characteristic of the period.
For buyers, 33 Fifth represents the corridor's archetypal mid-size 1920s prewar cooperative: corridor-center geographic position, 1923 prewar fabric, and the 60-unit cooperative scale that produces both operational depth and an intimate building culture.
Architecture and unit composition
Apartments at 33 Fifth distribute across the building's 16 stories in configurations consistent with the c. 1923 vintage — 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 cycle.
Apartment interiors retain the prewar proportions and detailing characteristic of the corridor — substantial ceiling heights, formal entry arrangements, formal dining configurations, and the architectural fabric that distinguishes prewar apartment design from later mid-century and postwar inventory.
Building operations
33 Fifth Avenue operates as a cooperative with a doorman and live-in superintendent. 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.
Recent sales
Last 5–10 closed sales at 33 Fifth Avenue (replace with current ACRIS data at the time of marketing):
[Recent sales table to be populated from ACRIS]
Sales context: building-level averages have run in the range characteristic of the corridor's prewar cooperative tier; pricing varies meaningfully by exposure (Fifth Avenue versus East 10th Street versus rear), floor, and apartment configuration.
What to know if you’re buying
The corridor-center geographic position is structural. East 10th Street corner, immediately opposite 39 Fifth Avenue at the architectural center of Lower Fifth Avenue.
The c. 1923 prewar vintage delivers corridor-standard architectural fabric. Substantial ceiling heights, prewar proportions, and the layout discipline of the 1920s Lower Fifth Avenue cycle.
The 60-apartment mid-size scale is the corridor's archetypal cooperative configuration. Large enough for operational depth, small enough for personal building culture.
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-center position and the prewar architectural fabric. East 10th Street corner, 1923 prewar construction, the architectural-center positioning at the geographic heart of Lower Fifth Avenue.
Pricing requires apartment-level comparable analysis. Recent comparables on the specific apartment line, exposure, and configuration 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 33 Fifth Avenue, also evaluate:
- 39 Fifth Avenue — Bing & Bing / Emery Roth 1922; immediately opposite; the first tall apartment building on Lower Fifth
- 30 Fifth Avenue — 1923; immediate corridor peer; West 10th Street corner
- 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 33 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 33 Fifth buyers and sellers deserve building-specific intelligence — architectural context, board specifics, apartment-line comparable analysis — not generic neighborhood commentary.