78 Charles Street
78 Charles Street, between West Fourth and Bleecker streets · West Village
BBL 1006200058 · BIN 1011208
- Year built
- 1897
- Type
- Cooperative
- Amenities
- Shared roof deck, storage and keyless entry
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Greenwich Village Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median, 2024–2025
- $1.1M
- 2 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $999K – $1.2M
- Listing discount
- 2.2%
- Recorded transfers
- 22
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78 Charles Street is a five-story Queen Anne apartment house designed by Charles Rentz in 1897. Its fifteen-residence cooperative occupies the Charles Street block between West Fourth and Bleecker streets, within the original Greenwich Village Historic District. The building combines a nineteenth-century walk-up structure with a common roof deck and updated entrance and hallway systems.
Architecture and unit composition
LPC identifies Brubacker & Rentz as the original developer. The building's Queen Anne design belongs to the late-nineteenth-century apartment construction that added denser housing to the Village's earlier rowhouse streets.
The current apartment mix includes compact one-bedroom layouts, larger one-bedrooms and duplex accommodation at the base. Upper-floor homes can have higher ceilings, while street-facing and rear-facing apartments have different outlooks. Surviving interior elements include exposed brick and decorative fireplaces; renovations have varied by residence.
Duplex configurations incorporate internal stairs and additional rooms on a second level. Some renovated homes have central air conditioning and in-unit laundry. The shared roof deck sits above the fifth floor and is reached through the building's walk-up circulation.
Building operations
Recent work includes façade restoration, window work and refreshed common hallways with updated lighting and carpeting. Keyless entry serves the entrance. Storage is available within the building, with individual arrangements set by the cooperative.
Historic-district designation places exterior alterations under LPC review. The roof and façade are consequently building-wide capital responsibilities within a fifteen-residence association. Class 2 taxation applies to the cooperative property, and no building-wide abatement is identified.
Policy framework
Pets: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Pied-à-terre purchases and co-purchasing: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Flip tax: 3%, payable by the seller — confirm with the managing agent.
Building staffing and amenities
- Elevator
- NoSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Roof deckSource: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2025 | 5W | 1 BR · 1 BA | $999,000 | +1.4% | |
| Jun 4, 2024 | 4R | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,200,000 | +9.1% | |
| Dec 5, 2022 | 3W | 1 BR · 1 BA | $850,000 | -2.9% | |
| Aug 4, 2022 | 1W | 1 BR · 2 BA | $1,485,000 | -0.7% | |
| Jun 23, 2022 | 5E | 1 BR · 1 BA | $805,000 | -1.8% | |
| Jan 12, 2022 | 5R | 1 BR · 1 BA | $930,000 | +3.9% | |
| Jul 20, 2020 | 5W | 1 BR · 1 BA · 800 sf | $800,000 | $1,000/sf | -15.8% |
| Aug 14, 2018 | 4R | 1 BR | $1,050,000 | +8.2% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2020): a median $1,000/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. 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 1-00620-0058). 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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Comparable buildings
- 84–88 Charles Street — A nearby prewar cooperative with a larger association on the same street.
- 79 Perry Street — A smaller nineteenth-century cooperative with a comparable low-rise Village setting.
- The Liberty — A similarly sized nineteenth-century cooperative on an avenue frontage.
- 281 West 11th Street — A five-story prewar cooperative with a slightly larger apartment count.
- 211 West 10th Street — Another small prewar cooperative for buyers comparing the Village's older apartment-house stock.
More West Village buildings
- 75 Bank Street (Abingdon Court) — 1938 co-op
- 77 Horatio Street — 1835 condominium
- 78 Bedford Street (Star Corner) — 1920 condominium
- 79 Barrow Street — 1906 co-op
- 79 Perry Street — 1895 co-op
- 80 Clarkson Street — new-construction condominium by COOKFOX Architects
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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