72 East 3rd Street
72 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10003
BBL 1004447501 · BIN 1006142
- Year built
- 1900
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 20
- Floors
- 5
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Generally permitted; confirm specifics at offer stage
- Subletting
- Permitted under the condominium bylaws
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2024
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf (floor-adjusted)
- $1,444
- Listing discount
- 1.6%
- Recorded sales
- 26
- On record
- 2003–2024
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 72 East 3rd 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.
72 East 3rd Street is a five-story, 20-unit pre-war condominium in the core of the East Village, on the quiet block of East 3rd Street between First and Second Avenues. Finished around 1900, it is a boutique walk-up building with a rare amenity for its scale: a private landscaped garden with barbecue grills shared by owners. For a building this small, that outdoor space is a genuine differentiator.
The location is the other draw. This block sits at the crossroads of the East Village's best dining and shopping, with Whole Foods and Union Market minutes away and the B/D/F/M, 6, and J/Z lines all within easy reach. Buyers here are trading the amenity package of a full-service tower for a low-density, deeded-ownership home in one of downtown's most desirable pockets.
Building operations
Amenities at 72 East 3rd Street are boutique and practical: a private landscaped garden with BBQ grills, a common laundry room, a bike room, intercom entry, and in-building washer/dryer. There is no doorman; the building is walk-up and self-managed at a scale appropriate to 20 homes, which keeps carrying costs modest.
As a condominium, ownership is deeded real property. There is no co-op-style board interview, financing is available through standard condominium lending, and pied-à-terre, investment, and sublet use are permitted under the bylaws. Pets are generally allowed. Confirm any transfer fee, sublet application, and current house rules against the offering plan and governing documents at offer stage.
Architecture and residences
The building is a classic turn-of-the-century East Village structure — masonry, five stories, walk-up scale — reworked into individually owned condominium residences. The 20 apartments span a range of downtown layouts; recent renovations have brought open kitchens, updated baths, and in some homes private roof access and outdoor space, while the shared architecture keeps the pre-war character intact. In-building washer/dryer and in-unit laundry appear across much of the building.
At 20 units over five floors, common charges stay lean and the building runs without the overhead of a doorman or elevator staff. What owners get instead is the garden, the bike and laundry rooms, and the quiet of a small building on a residential block.
The East Village block
East 3rd Street between First and Second is one of the calmer residential stretches in a neighborhood defined by energy. Step to either avenue and you are in the middle of the East Village's restaurant and nightlife density; stay on the block and it is low-rise and quiet. Transit is excellent — the F at Second Avenue and Houston is the closest stop, with the 6 at Bleecker/Lafayette and the B/D/F/M nearby — making this a genuinely central downtown address.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 emissions caps apply. No regulatory capital pressure from this law specifically, current or 2030.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
Pricing at 72 East 3rd Street is read on a per-square-foot basis, but with only 20 units, resale is thin and each sale matters — a single closing can reset the building's comp picture. Value turns on the specifics: floor, light, layout, private outdoor access, and renovation level all move the number, so every apartment is underwritten on its own merits rather than a building-wide average.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Recent closings 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2024 | 5D | 622 sf | $900,000 | $1,447/sf | off-mkt |
| Jul 20, 2023 | 5B | 1 BR · 704 sf | $1,092,000 | $1,551/sf | off-mkt |
| Oct 27, 2021 | 6B | 1 BR · 704 sf | $1,300,000 | $1,847/sf | off-mkt |
| Aug 12, 2020 | 5A | 1 BR · 1 BA · 745 sf | $925,000 | $1,242/sf | -7.5% |
| Sep 6, 2018 | 5C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 645 sf | $1,195,000 | $1,853/sf | +0.0% |
| May 31, 2017 | 5B | 1 BR · 704 sf | $975,000 | $1,385/sf | off-mkt |
| Dec 1, 2015 | 1A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,105 sf | $1,700,000 | $1,538/sf | -1.4% |
| Feb 20, 2015 | 4C | 1 BR · 622 sf | $979,000 | $1,574/sf | off-mkt |
Market read. Most recent trades (2024) cleared a median $1,444/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 1.6% 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 1-00444-7501). 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
Buying here? Condo closing costs with a mortgage typically run 3 to 6% 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
This is a straightforward condominium purchase — deeded ownership, standard financing, no board approval to clear. Buyers come here for the garden, the boutique scale, and the central East Village location. Because units trade infrequently, be ready to act on the right layout, and underwrite each home on its condition, exposure, and any private outdoor space rather than on a headline price per foot.
What to know if you’re selling
The selling story is a small pre-war condominium with a shared garden in a prime East Village pocket — a combination that resonates with downtown buyers. Pricing is apartment-specific: your floor, light, layout, and any private roof or outdoor access position you against a small pool of recent sales. With few comps to lean on, presentation and precise positioning carry weight, and a well-run listing here can set rather than follow the building's next benchmark.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 72 East 3rd Street, also look at these East Village boutique buildings:
- 160 East 3rd Street — a boutique condominium a few doors down on the same street.
- 101 East 2nd Street — a small East Village / Alphabet City condominium one block south.
- 182 East 2nd Street — a boutique condominium on the neighboring block.
- 100 Avenue A — an Alphabet City condominium near Tompkins Square Park.
- 89 Avenue A — a boutique Avenue A condominium in the same low-rise fabric.
More East Village buildings
- 52 East 4th Street (52E4) — 2007 condominium
- 63 Cooper Square — 1984 condominium
- 64 East 1st Street — 2015 condominium
- 75 First Avenue — 2020 condominium
- 83 First Avenue (347 East 5th Street) — 1900 condop
- 87 East 2nd Street — 1910 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across East Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to East Village.
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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