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
- No
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 48 East 13th Street (35 East 12th 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 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 cooperative of large apartments. With roughly 50,000 square feet of residential space divided among 18 to 21 apartments, the typical unit is a true loft, not a subdivided one. Share transfers in the public record include combined apartments. That places the building in the upper tier of downtown loft co-ops, a narrow market.
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 work. A roof replacement and Local Law 11 façade repairs were completed 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. 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 underlying mortgage is small relative to the building. It was refinanced in 2018 at $975,000, which puts little debt behind each share, but the maturity date is not public. Ask for the current audited financial statements, the mortgage terms and maturity, the reserve balance and any assessment history.
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.
Index any market statement to the last complete year rather than a partial current year. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent transfers at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2026 | 8B | $4,257,500 |
| May 25, 2023 | 8C | $3,500,000 |
| Jul 7, 2021 | 2AB | $4,500,000 |
| Apr 8, 2021 | 8B | $3,900,000 |
| Mar 7, 2019 | 8B | $2,250,000 |
| Jan 3, 2018 | 6AB | $4,750,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00564-0031) 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.
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
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 recent façade and lobby work 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
- 47 East 9th Street — 1964 co-op
- 47 Greene Street — 1866 condominium
- 47 Mercer Street — 1872 condominium
- 49 East 12th Street — 1910 co-op
- 49 West 12th Street — 1952 co-op
- 50 King Street — 1955 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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