343 West 12th Street
343 West 12th Street, between Greenwich and Washington Streets, West Village
West Village
BBL 1006410062 · BIN 1077294
- Year built
- 1833
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Common laundry, storage and bicycle storage
- Financing
- Up to 80% — confirm with the managing agent
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $800K
- Recent range
- $760K – $840K
- Listing discount
- 3.3%
- Recorded transfers
- 18
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343 West 12th Street began as a two-story house in 1833 and was enlarged to five stories later in the nineteenth century. It is now a small walk-up cooperative close to the Hudson River waterfront. Its apartments include compact one-bedroom homes with exposed brick, decorative fireplaces and high ceilings. The building's five-story scale and small inventory make it a different ownership proposition from the larger elevator cooperatives along the river.
The property sits inside the original Greenwich Village Historic District. West 12th Street here is part of the low-rise street network between the old Village residential blocks and the former waterfront industrial district. The building's street-facing and rear-facing apartments have distinctly different outlooks.
Architecture and unit composition
Single-bedroom layouts of approximately four hundred fifty to five hundred square feet appear repeatedly in the building's sales history. Older details include plank floors, brick walls, tin ceilings and decorative fireplace surrounds. Some renovations have opened the kitchen to the living area, while others retain a more separate kitchen arrangement.
Certain top-floor homes have private roof rights reached by an additional stair. That outdoor component belongs to the particular residence; the building's shared facilities are elsewhere. Garden-facing rooms look toward the block's interior, while street-facing windows address West 12th Street.
The smaller apartments retain a full separation between living and sleeping areas in many layouts. Built-in storage and alterations to kitchens vary with the individual renovation history.
Building operations
Laundry, bicycle storage and resident storage occupy common space. A DOB alteration permit issued in March 2010 covered excavation of the cellar slab, creation of a tenant laundry, a new stair from the first floor and structural repairs to the first-floor framing. The building's laundry provision is therefore part of a defined common-area improvement project.
Exterior alterations, including changes to the street-facing windows and facade, fall under LPC review.
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 8, 2025 | 4B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 450 sf | $840,000 | $1,867/sf | +0.0% |
| May 18, 2023 | 5B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $760,000 | -3.8% | |
| Sep 13, 2022 | 3A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $775,000 | +6.9% | |
| Feb 9, 2022 | 4A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $700,000 | -2.1% | |
| Jan 28, 2022 | 2B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $725,000 | -3.3% | |
| Dec 21, 2020 | 4B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $736,606 | -10.7% | |
| Oct 26, 2016 | 5A | 1 BR | $807,000 | +10.5% | |
| May 15, 2015 | 2B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 500 sf | $675,000 | $1,350/sf | -1.5% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $1,867/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 2.7% 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 1-00641-0062) 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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What to know if you’re buying
Roof rights and roof access are separate from a completed terrace. For a top-floor purchase with roof rights, the usable area and any permitted construction should match the co-op's written allocation. This matters here because the roof feature is apartment-specific and access continues above the main residential stairs.
Comparable buildings
- 79 Perry Street — Another small five-story cooperative with walk-up access and prewar apartment proportions.
- 281 West 11th Street — A larger walk-up cooperative in a Charles Rentz apartment house.
- The Liberty — A warehouse conversion cooperative with larger loft-style rooms.
- 344 West 12th Street — A larger elevator cooperative nearby, useful for weighing access and shared-building scale.
- 652 Hudson Street — An elevator loft cooperative with industrial origins and a modest residence count.
More West Village buildings
- 306 West 4th Street — 1886 co-op
- 321 West 13th Street — 1907 condominium
- 323 West 11th Street — 1897 co-op by Neville & Bagge
- 344 West 11th Street — 1900 co-op
- 344 West 12th Street — 1928 co-op
- 345 West 13th Street — 1890 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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