56 Jane Street
56 Jane Street, at Hudson Street; also 616–622 Hudson Street, West Village, Manhattan
BBL 1006250026 · BIN 1011430
- Year built
- 1852
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 31
- Floors
- 4
- Amenities
- Resident superintendent, elevator, basement laundry, bicycle storage and private storage for rent
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Greenwich Village Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Subletting by shareholders
- Permitted with conditions
- Pied-à-terre
- Permitted
- Pets
- Pets permitted with conditions; species not stated
- Flip tax
- 2.5% of the purchase price, paid by the buyer
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median, 2024–2026
- $818K
- 2 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $760K – $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.
Application and transaction fees
Fees below are from building management's published schedule, as of August 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
- Equal to 2.5% of the sales price
- Rate
- 2.5% of the purchase price
- Paid by
- Buyer
Source: building management's published schedule, as of August 2026
Purchase
7 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Fee | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $500 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Credit Check FeePer applicantRequired | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $165 per applicant | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Documents Reproduction & Messenger Fee | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $195 | Refundable Not stated |
| Processing Fee, if FinancingConditional | Paid by Buyer | When At closing | Amount $275 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Seller's Transfer FeeConditionalRequired | Paid by Shareholder | When At closing | Amount $550, if estate sale, $1,150 | Refundable Not stated |
Deposits
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move In Deposit | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $1,000 | Refundable Refundable |
| Move Out Deposit | Paid by Shareholder | When With the application | Amount $1,000 | Refundable Refundable |
Sublet
7 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sublease Fee | Paid by Shareholder | When With the application | Amount Equal to 18% of shareholder's anticipated rental income for the applied sublease period. Sublet fee shall not be less than $4,000, regardless of anticipated rental income | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Application Fee | Paid by Subtenant | When With the application | Amount $250 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Credit Check FeePer applicantRequired | Paid by Subtenant | When With the application | Amount $165 per applicant | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Documents Reproduction & Messenger Fee | Paid by Subtenant | When With the application | Amount $195 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Lease Renewal FeeConditional | Paid by Subtenant | When With the application | Amount $225 if applicable | Refundable Non-refundable |
Deposits
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move Out Deposit | Paid by Shareholder | When With the application | Amount $1,000 | Refundable Refundable |
| Move In Deposit | Paid by Subtenant | When With the application | Amount $1,000 | Refundable Refundable |
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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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
- Permitted with conditionsBoard approvalSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Pied-à-terre ownership
- PermittedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
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Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Pets
- Pets permitted with conditions; species not statedPermitted with approval — confirm with the managing agent.Source: The Roebling Team's building profile
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Not verified
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Building staffing and amenities
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Bike storage, 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 | 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 (recorded) 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). 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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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
- 45 Christopher Street — 1931 condominium by Boak & Paris
- Stable 49, 49 Downing Street — 1896 co-op
- 55 Morton Street — 1900 co-op
- 59 Barrow Street — 1908 co-op
- 61 Jane Street (The Cezanne) — 1963 co-op
- 63 Downing Street (Downing Court) — 1986 condominium
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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