79 Barrow Street
79 Barrow Street, New York, NY 10014
BBL 1005840018 · BIN 1009820
- Year built
- 1906
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 18
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- In a historic district
- Pets
- Confirm current house rules at offer stage
- Subletting
- Set by board policy — confirm at offer stage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $1.8M – $1.8M
- Listing discount
- 0.9%
- Recorded transfers
- 14
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 79 Barrow 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.
79 Barrow Street is a small pre-war cooperative on one of the West Village's most desirable blocks, between Hudson Street and Commerce Street near Bedford. Built in the early twentieth century, it is a six-story townhouse-character low-rise with roughly 18 to 19 apartments — the kind of intimate, human-scaled co-op that anchors the core of the Village.
The proposition here is location and character. The building sits inside the Greenwich Village Historic District, so its exterior is protected, and the block delivers the quiet, tree-lined feel that defines the neighborhood, steps from the 1 train at Christopher Street. For the buyer who wants a genuine West Village address with pre-war bones and garden-level options, the building is a settled, boutique choice.
Building operations
The cooperative runs lean for its size: an elevator, private and basement storage, intercom entry, and superintendent service, with no doorman — appropriate and cost-efficient for a boutique pre-war building, and a meaningful factor in keeping maintenance contained. In-unit washer/dryer appears in some lines, and garden units offer private outdoor access.
As a cooperative, ownership is by shares rather than deed: purchases require board approval and a board interview, financing is capped at a board-set percentage, and pied-à-terre, sublet, gifting, and guarantor arrangements are evaluated case by case. Confirm the current pet policy, financing maximum, any flip tax, and sublet terms with the board at offer stage.
Architecture and residences
Built circa 1906 to 1920 as a townhouse-character pre-war low-rise, the building rises six stories with approximately 18 to 19 residences. It carries the pre-war attributes buyers look for — defined rooms and early-twentieth-century proportions — at a boutique scale that keeps the co-op simple to operate. Several lines include in-unit washer/dryer, and garden units are present at the base of the building. (The original architect is not documented in the public record.)
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
Co-op pricing is read on a per-room basis, and 79 Barrow trades on the strength of its core West Village location, which carries a strong price premium over comparable pre-war blocks elsewhere. With only about 18 to 19 residences, resale volume is thin, with a small number of closings in an active year. When underwriting a purchase or a list price, capture the room count, the floor, the exposure, any private outdoor space, and renovation condition rather than relying on a neighborhood average. Genuinely variable financial figures should be confirmed at offer stage.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2025 | 6AB | 1 BR · 1.5 BA · 1,318 sf | $1,800,000 | $1,366/sf | +0.3% |
| May 23, 2022 | 6C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,700,000 | +1.5% | |
| Aug 6, 2020 | 5B | 1 BA | $570,000 | -3.2% | |
| Jan 22, 2020 | 6C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,045,000 | -12.9% | |
| Feb 4, 2019 | 4C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,230,000 | -5.0% | |
| Oct 25, 2017 | 2B | 1 BA | $750,000 | +0.0% | |
| Feb 8, 2016 | 5B | 1 BA | $590,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jul 17, 2013 | 4C | 1 BR | $900,000 | +1.7% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $1,366/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. Median listing discount 0.9% 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 1-00584-0018). 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.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% 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 cooperative, so the path is a board package and interview, a financing cap set by the board, and underwriting of the building's financials and house rules. Read the rules on the points that matter to you — the pet policy, financing maximum, and sublet terms — and review the co-op's reserve and any planned capital work given the building's age. The reasons to buy are the address and the character: a genuine pre-war co-op on one of the best blocks in the core West Village, with garden-level and combined-unit options.
What to know if you’re selling
The story is the location and the pre-war character. The townhouse-scale architecture, the intimate 18-to-19-unit size, and the prized Barrow Street block sell to a specific buyer who wants a core West Village address. Pricing is an apartment-specific exercise: room count, floor, light, outdoor access, and condition drive the number more than any block average. We position the building's flexible ownership policies, prepare the buyer for the co-op process, and benchmark against the right comparable tier of boutique West Village cooperatives.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 79 Barrow Street, also look at these nearby West Village and Village buildings:
- 116 West 14th Street — loft condominium on the Village / Chelsea border
- 832 Broadway — landmarked full-floor loft co-op near Union Square
- 306 Mott Street — boutique loft-style condominium at the Nolita border
- 7 Bond Street — landmarked cast-iron loft condominium in NoHo
More West Village buildings
- 77 Horatio Street — 1835 condominium
- 78 Bedford Street (Star Corner) — 1920 condop
- 78 Charles Street — 1897 co-op
- 79 Perry Street — 1895 co-op
- 80 Clarkson Street — new-construction condominium by COOKFOX Architects
- The Hampton, 80–82 Perry Street — 1887 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across West Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to West Village.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
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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