518 East 11th Street
518 East 11th Street, between avenues A and B · East Village
BBL 1004040013 · BIN 1005127
- Year built
- 1900
- Type
- Cooperative
- Amenities
- Floor-by-floor shared washer/dryers, video intercom, bicycle storage and garbage chute
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- Doorman (hours not stated)
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median, 2024–2026
- $851K
- 4 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $315K – $1.1M
- Listing discount
- 2.6%
- Recorded transfers
- 17
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 518 East 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.
518 East 11th Street is a small, self-managed cooperative one block north of Tompkins Square Park. Its unusual practical feature is laundry on each floor, with a washer/dryer shared between neighbors. That arrangement puts a routine service close to the apartments without requiring a separate laundry installation in each home.
The building dates to 1900 and contains thirteen residences across six floors. Its ownership history includes repeated individual cooperative resales over more than two decades. The block sits between avenues A and B, with the park's northern edge immediately to the south along East 10th Street.
Architecture and unit composition
The apartment inventory includes studios, one-bedroom homes and layouts reconfigured to create a second sleeping room. Several recurring homes measure approximately 700 to 750 square feet. The way the interior has been partitioned affects the living room, circulation and window access; a higher bedroom count does not necessarily bring additional floor area.
The building's narrow footprint and six-story form produce a small number of apartments on each landing. Front and rear orientations offer street and courtyard exposures. Its prewar construction has accommodated successive interior renovations, so the fit-out and room arrangement vary within recurring apartment footprints.
Building operations
The cooperative handles its own management. With thirteen residences, board work and decisions about common repairs are concentrated among a small group of shareholders.
A video intercom serves the entrance. Bicycle storage gives residents a place to keep bikes outside their apartments, and a garbage chute is part of the common infrastructure. The property is assessed in Class 2, despite the small association, and has no building tax abatement.
Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Maintenance, per room
- $374 per room a monthMedian of 5 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
- Doorman (hours not stated)Source: recent listing records
- Virtual or video entry
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- NoSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Bike storageSource: 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.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 limits apply to a building on its own. It is still covered if it shares a tax lot or condominium board with buildings totaling over 50,000 sq ft; confirm on DOB’s covered-buildings list.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
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 1, 2026 | 5A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,150,000 | +0.0% | |
| Dec 11, 2025 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $776,000 | +3.5% | |
| Nov 11, 2025 | 4A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $925,000 | -2.6% | |
| May 8, 2025 | 1B | 1 BA | $315,000 | -4.5% | |
| Apr 17, 2024 | 4A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $775,000 | -13.9% | |
| May 10, 2022 | 5A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,090,000 | -5.2% | |
| Sep 7, 2018 | 3B | 2 BR | $1,075,000 | -2.3% | |
| Sep 8, 2017 | 2B | 2 BR · 700 sf | $790,000 | $1,129/sf | -3.7% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2017): a median $1,129/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 2.2% 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 1-00404-0013). 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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At the recent median sale of $851K (4 transfers in the past 24 months, since November 12, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $11,739 to close, or 1.4% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $11,739
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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Comparable buildings
- 214 Avenue A — Another small prewar cooperative close to Tompkins Square Park, with a lower-rise building form.
- Hearth House — A neighborhood cooperative of comparable association size in a taller prewar building.
- Onyx Court — A small prewar cooperative for comparing East Village apartments with more pronounced period architecture.
- 205 East 10th Street — A larger six-story cooperative within the same part of the neighborhood.
- 186 East 2nd Street — A small downtown cooperative alternative with a similarly limited apartment inventory.
More East Village buildings
- 438 East 12th Street (Steiner East Village) — 2017 condominium
- 503 East 13 Street (Del Este Village), 503 East 13th Street — 1999 condominium
- 511 East 11th Street — 1999 condominium
- 525 East 11th Street (The Fillmore) — new-construction condominium
- The Avant (531 East 12th Street) — 2009 condominium
- 533 East 13th Street — 1900 co-op
The neighborhood
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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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