8 Charles Lane
8 Charles Lane and the associated Charles Street homes, between Washington and West streets · West Village
West Village
BBL 1006370036 · BIN 1012000
- Year built
- 1979
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
- Financing
- Up to 80%, minimum 20% down — confirm with the managing agent.
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8 Charles Lane is part of a twelve-home cooperative arranged as attached houses on Charles Lane and Charles Street. Each residence has its own entrance through a front patio or garden. The two-story development dates to the late 1970s and occupies a low-rise site near the Hudson River waterfront.
The cooperative structure extends across the group of homes. Buying a house here means acquiring shares and a proprietary lease within that association, with common governance over the property as a whole.
Architecture and unit composition
The homes use split-level interiors within their two-story envelopes. Living areas have high ceilings and large windows; steps connect them with raised or lowered rooms elsewhere in the plan. Upper bedrooms can have skylights and access to a balcony or terrace.
Typical configurations include two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a separate den or office area, with approximately 1,300 to 1,350 square feet of interior space. Changes in level create distinct areas for living and working without requiring a conventional apartment corridor.
The front garden or patio provides a private approach from the lane. Upper outdoor areas have a different relationship to the home, reached from the bedroom level. End houses can have additional exposure compared with homes within the row.
Building operations
The twelve homes share one cooperative tax lot. Despite the low-rise, house-like form, the property falls in Tax Class 2 without assessment-growth caps. No tax abatement is recorded.
The private entrances remove the need for a shared residential lobby. Maintenance of the buildings and common property remains an association matter, with the proprietary leases governing responsibility for particular exterior areas and improvements.
The built floor-area ratio is materially below the current zoning allowance. The site was marketed for possible redevelopment in 2014, following an earlier neighborhood rezoning that limited its development scale. The existing cooperative homes continue to trade individually.
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 | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2026 | A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,300 sf | $2,450,000 | $1,885/sf | -12.3% |
| Jan 17, 2024 | THA | 2 BR · 2 BA | $2,900,000 | +0.2% | |
| Jul 7, 2020 | THA | 2 BR · 2 BA | $2,382,608 | -13.4% | |
| May 28, 2020 | 9 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,400 sf | $2,300,000 | $1,643/sf | -2.1% |
| Nov 8, 2012 | A | 2 BR | $1,975,000 | -1.0% | |
| Jul 17, 2012 | C | 3 BR | $1,885,000 | -5.5% | |
| Mar 15, 2011 | — | 2 BR · 1,400 sf | $1,082,000 | $773/sf | -16.8% |
| Oct 18, 2010 | B | 2 BR | $1,425,000 | -1.7% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,885/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 5.5% 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.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00637-0036) 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; 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
Redevelopment is a cooperative-level question. The site's unused zoning capacity and past development marketing concern the property held by the association. An individual shareholder's purchase does not convey a separate right to enlarge or replace a house independently of the cooperative's approvals and legal agreements.
Comparable buildings
- 822 Greenwich Street — A low-rise postwar cooperative for comparing building scale and common expenses.
- 164 Bank Street — A later cooperative nearby with a more vertical residential arrangement.
- 100 Bank Street — A larger postwar cooperative offering a conventional apartment-building layout.
- 571 Hudson Street — A small cooperative with a prewar building form and a limited ownership base.
- Hudson Mews — Another West Village cooperative for comparing private-home character with shared ownership.
More West Village buildings
- 3 Weehawken Street — 1876 condominium
- 5 Charles Street — 1847 co-op
- 8 Bethune Street — 1895 co-op
- 9 Barrow Street (The Halloran) — 1895 co-op
- 10 Christopher Street — 1937 condop
- 14 Horatio Street (The Van Gogh) — 1960 co-op by H.I. Feldman
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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