45 West 11th Street
45 West 11th Street, New York, NY 10011
BBL 1005750072 · BIN 1009595
- Year built
- 1904
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 34
- Floors
- 8
- Amenities
- Part-time doorman, central laundry, private storage, north and south roof decks, and a recently replaced elevator, per management-sourced records
- Pets
- Not documented in public or management-sourced records — confirm with the managing agent
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Greenwich Village Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Pied-à-terre
- Not permitted
- Maximum financing
- 80% of the purchase price
- Flip tax
- Tiered or formula; see fees
- Doorman
- Part-time doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median, 2025–2026
- $1.2M
- 4 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $1.1M – $1.4M
- Listing discount
- 7.1%
- Recorded transfers
- 36
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 45 West 11th Street would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
The block of West 11th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues is one of the most intact Greek Revival streetscapes in Manhattan — three- and four-story row houses from the 1830s and 1840s running almost unbroken toward Fifth Avenue. 45 West 11th Street interrupts it: an eight-story masonry apartment house dropped into the middle of the row at the turn of the twentieth century, when Village landowners began replacing single houses with elevator flats. That contrast is the building's whole character. It offers apartment-house scale, an elevator, and staffed services on a block that otherwise offers walk-ups and townhouses, inside the Greenwich Village Historic District.
The construction date in city data is wrong, and the error is instructive. PLUTO and the city's building-footprint file both carry 1846 for this lot. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's own building database — which was compiled building by building for designation and is the better authority here — records the structure as a 1904 Italian Renaissance apartment house, originally built for multi-family residential use. The 1846 figure is the row-house date: almost every neighboring lot on this block carries a date between 1831 and 1860, and the house immediately next door at 43 West 11th Street carries 1846 exactly. When the apartment house went up, the Department of Finance record kept the old date on the lot and nobody corrected it. Any automated valuation or "prewar vintage" screen built on the PLUTO field will mis-classify this building by nearly sixty years, and put it in the row-house cohort rather than the early apartment-house cohort where it belongs.
The building's mid-century chapter is the second thing a buyer should know, because it explains why the apartments feel the way they do. By the time the Greenwich Village Historic District was designated in 1969, No. 45 was not a conventional apartment house at all: the LPC's own note for the property records that it was then in use as a residence hall for the Mills College of Education. The institutional era ended in the mid-1970s. ACRIS records the college conveying the property to the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York in November 1973, a related set of 1973 conveyances involving the New School for Social Research, and the building passing into private ownership by the end of that year. What followed is documented in the city's J-51 file rather than in any narrative source: a benefit first granted for tax year 1975 on $425,400 of alteration cost — a very large rehabilitation budget for a 34-unit building in 1975 dollars. The record points to the rehabilitation that turned a college dormitory back into apartments, though it documents certified cost rather than scope of work. The building was converted to cooperative ownership six years later, in August 1981.
So the honest description of this building is a 1904 apartment house, institutionally occupied for part of the twentieth century, substantially rebuilt inside in the mid-1970s, and cooperative since 1981. It is neither a 19th-century row house nor an intact Edwardian apartment building, and buyers should underwrite it as what it is: a landmarked masonry shell with a 1970s-era interior fit-out that individual shareholders have since renovated apartment by apartment.
Architecture and unit composition
The building occupies a mid-block lot of roughly 4,715 square feet, with a masonry front about 46 feet wide, and rises eight stories to a roof height of roughly 88 feet — well above the three- and four-story houses on either side, which is why its upper floors get light and open outlook that the block's row houses cannot. All 27,308 square feet of building area is residential; there is no store, no professional space, and no garage.
Thirty-four apartments across eight floors averages a little over four per floor, which on a 46-foot frontage means a mix of one- and two-bedroom plates rather than large family layouts. Department of Buildings filings record individual apartment renovations from 2010 onward, including a documented combination of two sixth-floor apartments in 2011, which is why the unit count appears as both 33 and 34 in different years of the record. Buyers should expect condition to vary widely apartment to apartment: the 1970s rehabilitation set the baseline, and everything above that baseline is shareholder work of varying vintage and quality.
Because the lot sits inside the Greenwich Village Historic District, anything visible from the street — windows, ironwork, the entrance, roof-level additions — is subject to Landmarks review. That constrains what a shareholder can change and it constrains what the corporation can do at the roof, but it also protects the streetscape that is a large part of what buyers on this block are paying for.
Building operations
The building runs lean by Village standards: a part-time doorman rather than 24-hour coverage, central laundry, private storage, and north and south roof decks, which for an eight-story mid-block building are the real amenity. The elevator was replaced recently per management-sourced records — a major capital item for a single-elevator building and a good one to have behind rather than ahead of you.
Exterior capital work appears twice in the Department of Buildings record: a facade restoration filed in 2006 under a sidewalk shed and pipe scaffolding, and a second facade repair cycle filed in 2014, again with a shed and scaffold. That is two Local Law 11 cycles filed in the last two decades on a landmarked masonry front — the most expensive recurring obligation this building has, and worth reading closely in the financial statements, along with sign-off status and the latest facade report.
Tax posture. The lot carries no abatement or exemption today. Historically it carried two J-51 benefits: the first granted for tax year 1975 on $425,400 of alteration cost, a twelve-year exemption paired with a 90 percent abatement, with benefit rows running in the tax roll through the mid-1980s; the second granted for tax year 1993 on a much smaller $28,700 of work, a fourteen-year term at 90 percent, with rows running through tax year 2003. Both are long since burned off. There is no J-51, no 421-a, and no other building-level benefit on the lot in the current Department of Finance exemption file, so there is no abatement phase-out ahead, though taxes, maintenance and assessments can still change.
Underlying mortgage. The corporation has financed conventionally since conversion, and the recorded chain runs through the 1980s and 1990s, an institutional pension-fund mortgage taken in 1996 and renewed in 2006, a bank refinancing in 2014, and a further refinancing in November 2020, which satisfied the 2014 loan. There is no maturity of record in the near term. The current financial statements should still be reviewed for the balance, the rate, and any assessment.
Policy framework
Ownership form: Cooperative. Purchase requires a full board package and an interview; confirm the package requirements in the board's current application instructions.
Financing: The public sources conflict — a 20 percent minimum down in listing records against a 75 percent financing ceiling in other management-sourced records. Do not underwrite either without confirmation. Ask the managing agent for the current maximum loan-to-value in writing before pricing an offer.
Post-closing liquidity: Not published. Confirm the board's current requirement in its application instructions before offering.
Flip tax: Exists. The amount and structure — percentage of price, percentage of gain, per-share, or a flat fee — are not documented anywhere in the public record and materially change seller net proceeds. Get the formula from the managing agent before you list.
Subletting: Permitted per management-sourced records, subject to board approval. Seasoning, maximum term, and sublet fees are not published.
Pied-à-terre: Not permitted per management-sourced records. This is the sharpest policy fact about the building and it removes an entire buyer segment. Confirm it, and if you are buying as a second home, confirm it first.
Co-purchase: Permitted per management-sourced records. Guarantors, gifts, trusts and LLC ownership are not published; ACRIS does show recent share transfers taken in the name of revocable trusts, which suggests trust ownership has been entertained, but that is an inference from recorded transfers rather than a published rule.
Pets: Not documented. Ask.
No offering plan for this building was located in either document library, so none of the above rests on plan language — it rests on management-sourced and listing records, which are current but unattributable. Every line should be confirmed with the managing agent, and the proprietary lease, house rules and current financial statements reviewed by your attorney before contract.
Application and transaction fees
Fees below are from building management's published schedule, as of July 2026. They are shown as published, item by item; no total is added because the total depends on the transaction. Deposits are listed apart from nonrefundable charges.
- Terms
- $ Flip Tax which will be equal to the greater of twenty five dollars (25.00) per share, or, 1% of the difference between the gross selling price for such shares and a reasonable real estate brokers commission, to the extent actually incurred by the seller. Said brokerage commission shall not exceed six (6%) percent of the gross selling price
- Paid by
- Seller
Source: building management's published schedule, as of July 2026
Purchase
8 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Fee | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $600 | Refundable Not stated |
| Credit Report FeePer applicantRequired | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $100 per applicant | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Move In Fee | Paid by Buyer | When At closing | Amount $500 | Refundable Not stated |
| Power of Attorney FeePer applicant | Paid by Buyer | When At closing | Amount $250 per POA | Refundable Not stated |
| Recognition Agreement Fee | Paid by Buyer | When At closing | Amount $400 | Refundable Not stated |
| Move Out Fee | Paid by Seller | When At closing | Amount $500 | Refundable Not stated |
| Power of Attorney FeePer applicant | Paid by Seller | When At closing | Amount $250 per POA | Refundable Not stated |
| Transfer Fee | Paid by Seller | When At closing | Amount $1,250 | Refundable Not stated |
Sublet
5 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Fee | Paid by Subtenant | When With the application | Amount $600 | Refundable Not stated |
| Credit Check FeePer applicantRequired | Paid by Subtenant | When With the application | Amount $100 per applicant | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Sublet Fee | Paid by Shareholder | When Upon approval | Amount 20% of the maintenance charge (after two (2) years the sublet fee goes up 10% up to 50% for the duration of the sublet) | Refundable Not stated |
| Move In Fee | Paid by Subtenant | When Upon approval | Amount $500 | Refundable Not stated |
Deposits
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move In Deposit | Paid by Subtenant | When Upon approval | Amount $1,000 | Refundable Not stated |
Management updates its schedule without a public filing. The date is when management last updated the page, not when a rule changed. Confirm the current schedule with management before you apply.
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Financing and purchase requirements
- Maximum financing
- 80% of the purchase priceSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
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
- Not verified
- Pied-à-terre ownership
- Not permittedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
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Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Maintenance, per room
- $509 per room a monthMedian of 4 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
- Doorman
- Part-time doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Roof deck, storage, 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.
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. A filed Safe grade is not a guarantee of current condition: owners still maintain the facade and, where required, observe parapets each year. Future inspection timing (Local Law 49 of 2025 changed the cycle framework from October 1, 2026), repair and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2025–30. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed September 2026.
Recent sales
ACRIS carries 37 recorded share transfers on this lot across 24 distinct apartment designations, running from 2004 through mid-2026. For a 34-unit building that is roughly one to two sales a year — thin, but normal for a small Village cooperative where shareholders tend to stay. The practical consequence is that same-building comparables are scarce, and pricing has to be built from the surrounding block and the adjacent Fifth-Avenue-side Village cooperatives rather than from this building's own recent history alone.
Co-op pricing here reads per room. The building's product is one- and two-bedroom apartments in a landmarked eight-story elevator building on a historic block in Greenwich Village, with roof decks and a part-time doorman — which positions it below the full-service Fifth Avenue and Lower Fifth co-ops on services, and above the block's walk-up conversions on light, elevator access and outlook. Floor and exposure drive the spread: upper floors clear the row houses on both sides and gain the light and quiet that the lower floors do not. Condition is the second variable, with a 1970s rehabilitation as the baseline and subsequent renovations varying by apartment. The no-pied-à-terre rule limits intended use; its effect on marketing time or price requires transaction evidence rather than an assumption about buyer demand. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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 | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | 4C | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,290,000 | -6.2% |
| Feb 20, 2026 | 8C | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,100,000 | -7.9% |
| Aug 6, 2025 | 5A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,425,000 | -2.7% |
| Feb 6, 2025 | 2A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,190,000 | -8.1% |
| Aug 10, 2022 | GD | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,450,000 | +0.0% |
| Jun 3, 2022 | 2B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,350,000 | +4.2% |
| Nov 29, 2021 | 1C | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,150,000 | +0.0% |
| Nov 15, 2021 | 3A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,510,000 | +11.9% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2016): a median $1,793/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 1.7% 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 1-00575-0072). 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.
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At the recent median sale of $1.24M (4 transfers in the past 24 months, since October 21, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $25,600 to close, or 2.1% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $12,400
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $13,200
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
Ignore the 1846 date. City data carries it; the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building record for this lot says 1904, and the LPC record describes the actual building. Any comparable set or valuation model that groups this building with the 1840s row houses on the block is wrong.
Underwrite the landmark obligation. The building is in the Greenwich Village Historic District. Facade and window work require Landmarks review and cost more than the equivalent work outside a district. Two facade cycles are already in the record — read the reserve position and the capital plan in the financial statements before assuming the next one is funded.
Resolve the financing rule before you offer. Twenty percent down and a 75 percent ceiling are different worlds for a buyer near the edge. Get the number from the managing agent, then run the Co-op Board Qualification Calculator.
Pied-à-terre use is off the table. If this is not going to be your primary residence, this is not your building. Confirm before you spend money on diligence.
Get the flip-tax formula in writing. It exists, and it is not published. It affects your resale math from day one.
Expect variable interiors. The 1970s rehabilitation set a common baseline that individual shareholders have since built on unevenly. Two apartments in this building can be very different products. Price condition explicitly and run the Renovation Cost Calculator.
What to know if you’re selling
Sell the block and the roof decks. The Fifth-to-Sixth stretch of West 11th Street is the product; the north and south roof decks and the elevator are what this building has that the block's walk-ups do not. Lead there.
Correct the record in your marketing. Buyers pulling city data will see 1846 and a row-house cohort. Getting the 1904 apartment-house history in front of them — and the institutional and 1970s-rehabilitation chapters — reframes the comparable set in your favor.
Present the capital record. Filings for two facade cycles and an elevator replacement, no abatement burning off, and an underlying mortgage refinanced in 2020: buyers' attorneys will look for all four, so have the sign-offs and current condition reports ready.
Same-building comparables are thin. With one to two sales a year, pricing must be built line by line against the surrounding Village cooperatives. We do that from the Research Library rather than from a building average.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 45 West 11th Street, also evaluate:
- 15 West 11th Street — the 1923 prewar cooperative on the same block toward Fifth Avenue; the closest like-for-like on tenure and street
- 53 West 11th Street — the boutique condominium on the same block, for buyers who want condo mechanics on the same streetscape
- 31 West 11th Street — small condominium alternative a few doors east on the same block
- 31 West 12th Street — prewar cooperative one block north, same Fifth-Avenue-side Village character
- 15 West 12th Street — prewar cooperative alternative on the parallel block
- 38 West 9th Street — Village cooperative two blocks south with a similar buyer pool
- 45 West 10th Street — the same house number one block south; a useful direct comparison on scale and tenure
- 49 West 12th Street — mid-block Village cooperative alternative at similar scale
- 126 West 11th Street — the West Village end of the same street, for buyers testing how far west to go
More Greenwich Village buildings
- 44 West 8th Street — condominium
- 45 Fifth Avenue — 1925 co-op by Sugarman & Berger
- 45 West 10th Street — 1956 co-op by H.I. Feldman
- 47 East 9th Street — 1964 co-op
- 48 East 13th Street (35 East 12th Street), 48 East 13th Street and 35 East 12th Street — 1900 co-op
- 49 East 12th Street — 1910 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Greenwich Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to Greenwich 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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