56 Jane Street
56 Jane Street, at Hudson Street; also 616–622 Hudson Street, West Village, Manhattan
West Village
BBL 1006250026 · BIN 1011430
- Year built
- 1852
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 31
- Floors
- 4
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Resident superintendent, elevator, basement laundry, bicycle storage and private storage for rent
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $818K
- Recent range
- $660K – $877K
- Listing discount
- 3.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 34
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56 Jane Street began as four houses built in 1852 for Leonard Appleby and became a single apartment house in the mid-twentieth century. The current cooperative brings elevator access to a four-story corner property in the West Village. Its inventory includes studios, junior one-bedrooms and larger apartments within the combined nineteenth-century structures.
The building stands where Jane Street meets Hudson Street, close to Abingdon Square. The paired address identities explain its width along Hudson Street: the cooperative incorporates the former houses at 616–622 Hudson. The apartment-house conversion reorganized those buildings internally, while their combined low-rise scale remains part of the historic district streetscape.
The building sits within the Greenwich Village Historic District. LPC and community-board records describe the original row and its subsequent conversion; a 2010 window application concerned the return of six-over-six window divisions. Its preservation history therefore includes alterations made long after the houses were first constructed.
Architecture and unit composition
The four-story form carries the imprint of the joined houses, but the current interior serves a larger apartment inventory. Layouts include studios with separate kitchens, junior one-bedrooms with divided sleeping areas and more substantial homes assembled within the building. High ceilings are found in several configurations, including top-floor spaces.
West-facing apartments look toward the surrounding low-rise streetscape. Other orientations face Hudson Street, Jane Street or the interior of the block. Windows and ceiling height can give a compact apartment a distinct character, but a divided sleeping area does not by itself establish an additional legal bedroom.
Top-floor layouts include skylit spaces. A skylight and a conventional façade window serve different functions: one brings light through the roof, while the other supplies a street or rear outlook. Where a home has a skylight, its maintenance also intersects with the building's roof work.
The elevator provides access within the four-story structure, and the basement houses the common laundry. The combination of a low building and an elevator is one of the practical features that separates this property from the many stair-access homes within the surrounding row-house fabric.
Building operations
A resident superintendent serves the cooperative. Shared facilities include basement laundry, bicycle storage and storage units available for rent, subject to availability. These are building facilities; private storage does not necessarily transfer automatically with an apartment sale.
DOB issued a permit for roof replacement on September 3, 2026. The filed scope expressly leaves use, egress and occupancy unchanged. It is a roof project affecting the existing cooperative, with no new residential floor or enlargement proposed in that filing.
The historic-district designation governs exterior alterations, including work at windows and the roof when it falls within LPC jurisdiction. The four former houses now function as a shared property, so exterior maintenance is administered through the cooperative even where the original buildings remain legible in the streetscape.
Policy framework
Pets are permitted with approval — confirm with the managing agent. Pied-à-terre ownership and subletting are permitted — confirm with the managing agent. Subletting requires the cooperative’s application and approval process.
The stated minimum down payment is 20% — confirm with the managing agent. Co-purchases and guarantors are considered — confirm with the managing agent. A transfer fee is stated to apply, but the current formula should be obtained directly before calculating sale proceeds.
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 | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2026 | 4B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $760,000 | -20.8% |
| Mar 7, 2024 | 4B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $876,525 | -2.5% |
| Sep 7, 2022 | 4G | 1 BA | $500,000 | +0.0% |
| Sep 28, 2021 | 4C | $657,060 | +10.4% | |
| Aug 11, 2021 | 4B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $775,000 | -3.1% |
| May 6, 2021 | 3C | 1 BA | $515,000 | -1.9% |
| Apr 16, 2021 | 3A | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $2,300,000 | -8.0% |
| Oct 31, 2019 | 4G | 1 BA | $479,240 | -3.2% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2017): a median $1,554/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 2.8% 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 1-00625-0026) 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
The current roof project is the immediate building-specific item. Ask whether the September 2026 permitted replacement is complete, how the cooperative is funding it and how work around any apartment skylights is allocated. The permit establishes authorization for the work; completion and payment are separate matters.
Comparable buildings
- 344 West 12th Street — A somewhat larger prewar cooperative nearby for buyers considering side-street apartments.
- 247 West 12th Street — Greenwich House — A smaller prewar cooperative with a comparable neighborhood position.
- 323 West 11th Street — A low-rise cooperative in the West Village's older residential fabric.
- 571 Hudson Street — The Liberty — A smaller historic cooperative on the same north–south street.
- 92 Horatio Street — Horatio Arms — A larger low-rise cooperative useful for comparing apartment choices near the western Village.
More West Village buildings
- Stable 49, 49 Downing Street — 1896 co-op
- 53 West 11th Street — 1891 co-op by George F. Pelham
- 55 Morton Street — 1900 co-op
- 59 Barrow Street — 1908 co-op
- 61 Jane Street (The Cezanne) — 1963 co-op
- Perry Twin Flats, 67–69 Perry Street — 1878 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across West Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to West 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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