The Bakery Building
42 West 13th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues · Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village
BBL 1005760016 · BIN 1009613
- Year built
- 1960
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Elevator, live-in superintendent, shared laundry and bicycle storage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $877K
- Recent range
- $823K – $1.7M
- Listing discount
- 6.4%
- Recorded transfers
- 45
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The Bakery Building is a residential conversion of a former bakery on West 13th Street. Its apartments retain the tall ceilings and flexible interior arrangements associated with converted commercial space. The cooperative includes compact one-bedroom homes as well as larger apartments assembled from adjoining residences, giving this midblock address a wider range of plans than its size suggests.
The location puts the building on the short stretch between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, at the northern end of Greenwich Village. The residential entrance is on the side street, with the commercial avenues at either end of the block. An elevator and a resident superintendent support the building's converted interior, and common laundry provides an amenity useful to its smaller apartments.
The former use was already documented in published reporting in 2001, when an approximately 600-square-foot one-bedroom apartment was described with an 11-foot ceiling. Large combinations have also traded here over many years. Both types remain part of the cooperative's resale identity.
Architecture and unit composition
High ceilings are a recurring feature, and some apartments have exposed brick, wood-burning fireplaces or private terraces. Those features are distributed unevenly across the building. A terrace home, a compact interior apartment and a combination spanning several original residences have different floor plans and outdoor access.
The smaller apartments include homes around 500 to 650 square feet. Larger combinations include approximately 1,400-square-foot layouts, while other expanded homes have changed hands without a consistently stated interior area. The recorded combinations show that apartment boundaries have changed during the building's cooperative life.
The uppermost homes include terraces and other outdoor configurations. Lower-floor homes can also be materially larger than the recurring one-bedroom plans. Floor alone therefore does not identify the building's largest residences. A buyer looking for an unusually large home here should distinguish an existing approved combination from adjoining apartments being offered together for a future project.
Building operations
The shared services center on the elevator, superintendent, laundry and bicycle storage. The building's scale supports these basic services across a cooperative of about forty residences. Private outdoor areas are attached to particular homes; they are separate from the shared laundry and storage facilities.
The cooperative holds the property on a Class 2 tax lot. Real estate taxes flow through the corporation's expenses and shareholder maintenance, and the property has no building-wide tax abatement identified in DOF records. The zoning floor-area figure is below the stated residential allowance, but that difference alone establishes no right to enlarge an apartment or occupy roof space.
Policy framework
Pets: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Pied-à-terre ownership: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Co-purchasing and gifting: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 2025 | 2F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $822,500 | -17.3% | |
| Jun 24, 2024 | 6E | 1 BR · 1 BA | $932,000 | -1.9% | |
| Oct 18, 2023 | 4FG | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,500,000 | -6.3% | |
| Sep 27, 2023 | 4BC | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,400 sf | $1,680,000 | $1,200/sf | -6.6% |
| Nov 17, 2022 | 4A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $750,000 | +0.0% | |
| Aug 2, 2022 | 2E | 1 BR · 1 BA | $915,000 | -1.1% | |
| Nov 9, 2021 | 2B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $675,000 | -3.4% | |
| Oct 21, 2021 | 5F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $715,000 | +5.9% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2023): a median $1,226/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 2.3% 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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 2009 | 1C | $895,000 |
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 1-00576-0016) 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.
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Comparable buildings
- 30 West 13th Street: A smaller prewar cooperative on the same block, useful for comparing older interiors and association scale.
- 155 West 15th Street: A similarly sized cooperative a few blocks north, with a more conventional apartment-building form.
- 49 West 12th Street: A larger postwar cooperative on the adjacent street for comparing purpose-built layouts.
- 18 West 14th Street: A low-rise postwar cooperative nearby with a larger apartment inventory.
- Butterfield House: A larger architectural cooperative nearby for buyers considering a purpose-built modernist alternative.
More Greenwich Village buildings
- 42 Crosby Street — 2017 condominium
- 42 King Street — 1840 co-op
- 42 Wooster Street (The Wooster Street Condominium) — 1880 condominium
- 43 East 10th Street — 1891
- 43 Fifth Avenue — 1905 co-op
- 43 Wooster Street — 1885 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Greenwich Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to Greenwich Village.
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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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