48 East 13th Street (35 East 12th Street)
48 East 13th Street and 35 East 12th Street, New York, NY 10003
BBL 1005640031 · BIN 1009206
- Year built
- 1900
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 18
- Floors
- 9
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
48 East 13th Street (35 East 12th Street) sales history: 16 recorded sales
Every recorded sale at this building, 2006–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2023
- $1,235
- floor-adjusted, 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 4.8%
- Recorded sales
- 16
- On record
- 2006–2026
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The blocks between University Place and Broadway, just south of Union Square, are lined with turn-of-the-century loft buildings. Most were built for manufacturing and showrooms and converted to apartments from the 1970s on. 48 East 13th Street is one of them, a nine-story loft building that runs through the block to a second frontage at 35 East 12th Street.
It converted early. The sponsor took title in early 1977 and put the building into a cooperative corporation that June. That is five years before New York's 1982 Loft Law, the statute that set rules for legalizing lofts that were already occupied as homes. The city's J-51 program, a tax exemption and abatement for residential conversion and rehabilitation, subsidized the work from 1978. Both benefits have long since expired.
The result is a small loft cooperative. The roughly 50,000-square-foot residential total across 18 to 21 apartments is a gross ratio, not an interior measurement or proof of an unsubdivided layout. Recorded share transfers include combined apartments; verify the specific plan and dimensions without inferring a market tier from the aggregate area.
Two addresses, one building. The building is carried under two addresses. City tax records use 35 East 12th Street, the geocoded address point uses 48 East 13th Street, and ACRIS uses both. It is one tax lot, 564/31, and one building.
Architecture and unit composition
The building fills a deep through-block lot, about 206 feet from street to street. The through-block lot gives the building street exposure at both ends. Ask which frontage a given apartment faces, and what a middle-line apartment's windows look onto. Floors are laid out in A, B and C lines, and several have been combined. DOB records show a steady run of apartment renovations, including a ninth-floor apartment in 2007 that added a new roof stair bulkhead.
The building includes commercial space. PLUTO attributes about 14,300 square feet to commercial use, and DOB filings show a 2005 retail renovation and a 2019 HVAC replacement in the commercial space. Commercial rent is often a meaningful part of a small co-op's revenue. Ask for the lease term, the tenant's share of income and the lease expiration date.
The lot is zoned C6-1, a district that allows residential use. The special artists' live-work rules that govern many SoHo and NoHo lofts are not a zoning factor here. Nothing in the ACRIS or DOB records reviewed indicates Loft Board jurisdiction. Confirm that with the managing agent.
Building operations
The DOB record shows steady capital filings. A roof replacement and Local Law 11 façade repairs were filed in 2009–2010, a lobby renovation in 2015–2017 and a façade restoration in 2017–2018. A new chimney liner and a replacement burner for the boiler followed in 2018–2019. The filings do not by themselves confirm completion or current condition. Local Law 11 is the city's periodic façade-inspection requirement. Ask where the building sits in its current five-year cycle and whether any repairs are pending.
The recorded 2018 refinancing was $975,000; that historical amount does not establish current debt, affordability or each apartment's share. The maturity date was not established in the records reviewed. Ask for the current audited financial statements, the mortgage terms and maturity, the reserve balance and any assessment history.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $2,442/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $11
- Modeled exposure split equally across 18 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as Unsafe — conditions requiring prompt corrective action. The owner must install any public protection the inspector specifies (a sidewalk shed, construction fence or structural netting, depending on the condition) and make the repairs. Review the subsequent filings, the repair status, and the building’s board and financial materials — we pull the repair scope and funding picture for you.
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 October 2026.
Recent sales
Recorded share transfers since 2006 are open-market sales between unrelated parties, alongside estate and family transfers. They are mostly full-line and combined lofts. With so few apartments, a single sale can move any building-level average, so value each apartment on its own size, light, floor and condition. Loft co-ops in this corridor are best compared with one another, not with prewar classic-six co-ops or new-development condominiums.
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 | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2026 | 8B | 3 BR · 3 BA | $4,257,500 | -3.1% | |
| May 12, 2023 | 8C | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,500 sf | $3,500,000 | $1,400/sf | +0.0% |
| Jun 25, 2021 | 2AB | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 3,594 sf | $4,500,000 | $1,252/sf | -3.2% |
| Mar 16, 2021 | 8B | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,300 sf | $3,900,000 | $1,696/sf | -9.3% |
| Feb 21, 2019 | 8B | 4 BR · 2 BA · 2,200 sf | $2,250,000 | $1,023/sf | -8.2% |
| Dec 15, 2017 | 6AB | 6 BR · 4 BA · 3,500 sf | $4,750,000 | $1,357/sf | -4.9% |
| Apr 29, 2014 | 5B | 2 BR · 2,200 sf | $2,595,000 | $1,180/sf | +0.0% |
| Aug 28, 2013 | 9C | 3 BR | $4,900,000 | +8.9% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2023): a median $1,235/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 4.8% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
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 1-00564-0031). 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
Get the financials early. No plan or statements are on file, so reserves, the mortgage maturity, the retail lease and any assessment all have to come from the managing agent.
Measure the loft. Unit counts differ from source to source because apartments have been combined. Confirm the square footage and the number of legal rooms, and check the certificate of occupancy for the apartment's floor.
Know the address question. Contracts, share certificates and title reports may use either 35 East 12th or 48 East 13th Street. Make sure they all describe the same apartment.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the loft. Scale, through-block exposure and the façade and lobby work on file are what separate this building from subdivided loft conversions.
Assemble the board-package answers in advance. The financing ceiling, flip tax and sublet terms are the first questions a buyer's broker will ask, and none of them are public.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 48 East 13th Street, also evaluate:
- 49 East 12th Street — prewar loft cooperative on the same block, converted in 1979
- 39 East 12th Street — University Mews, a converted loft cooperative on the same block
- 832 Broadway — individually landmarked full-floor loft co-op on the same block
- 835 Broadway — seven-residence loft condominium at East 13th Street
- 37 East 12th Street — six-residence condominium in an 1895 loft building on the same block
- 31 East 12th Street — 1929 prewar cooperative at the University Place corner
- 12 East 13th Street — eight-residence condominium conversion of a 1930 garage
- 247 West 12th Street — West Village through-block loft cooperative
More Greenwich Village buildings
- 45 West 10th Street — 1956 co-op by H.I. Feldman
- 45 West 11th Street — 1904 co-op
- 47 East 9th Street — 1964 co-op
- 49 East 12th Street — 1910 co-op
- 49 West 12th Street — 1952 co-op
- 49 West 9th Street, 49 West Ninth Street — 1855 co-op
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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