81 Bedford Street
81 Bedford Street, New York, NY 10014
West Village
BBL 1005840061 · BIN 1009850
- Year built
- 1952
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 36
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- Designated
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 81 Bedford 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.
81 Bedford Street is a postwar building on one of the most intact nineteenth-century corners in the Village. When the Greenwich Village Historic District was designated in 1969, this six-story brick apartment house was sixteen years old. It was included anyway, because landmark districts are drawn by boundary rather than building by building. That has two practical effects for a buyer: the building's exterior is regulated like its older neighbors, and the building behaves, as housing, like a 1950s elevator building.
The lot is unusual. It sits where Commerce Street bends north to meet Barrow, so the building has frontage on Bedford, Barrow and Commerce Streets, and city agencies disagree about which address to use: Finance says 79 Bedford, HPD says 79–83 Bedford, LPC lists all three streets. Anyone searching records for a transaction here should use the BBL rather than a street number.
The architects matter too. Schuman & Lichtenstein was founded in 1941 and, as SLCE Architects, went on to become one of the most prolific residential firms in New York; its later work includes Metropolitan Tower and 31 Jane Street nearby. 81 Bedford is early work from that practice, built for the 31-33 Commerce Street Corporation, and it stayed in single corporate ownership for three decades before its 1984 conversion to Bedford Street Owners Corp.
Architecture and unit composition
The building is a six-story brick elevator building on a lot of about 75 by 74 feet. The record shows six apartment lines, A through F, on each of six floors. With about 24,635 square feet of gross building area across 36 units, the original apartments were compact: studios and one-bedrooms by the standards of the period. The building's recent history has been combination. DOB filings record a fifth-floor pair joined in 2006, another combination in 2015, and a 2020 job joining a combined fifth-floor apartment to 6D with a new terrace door. A 1C/2C transfer in 2025 is consistent with a duplex across the first two floors.
That tells you how to read the building. The standard product is a compact postwar apartment with 1950s ceiling heights and window openings. The less common and more valuable product is a combination, a duplex, or an upper-floor apartment with outdoor space. Confirm what a given apartment's windows face: the lot has three street frontages, and exposure varies more than it would in a mid-block building.
Building operations
The public record shows routine long-cycle upkeep: an oil-tank relining in 2002, façade repair permits in 2007, and a 210-foot sidewalk shed in 2008 during remedial work. A shed that long matches a building with three street frontages, and it also means façade inspection cycles cover a lot of wall. Most of the remaining filings are apartment renovations.
ACRIS shows the underlying mortgage refinanced several times, most recently a 2019 consolidation and extension with Valley National Bank to $1.6 million. Its maturity date matters to a buyer, because a refinancing at a higher rate feeds directly into maintenance. The maturity, rate, reserve position and assessment history are not public. Have your attorney get the last two years of audited statements and current board minutes.
Recent sales
36 units, a lot of them combined, make a thin comparable set, and the apartments vary. A compact original one-bedroom and a combined upper-floor apartment with a terrace are different products and should be priced apart. Co-op pricing here is best reasoned per room and per condition. Premiums go to combinations, outdoor space, floor height, exposure and renovation quality. As a general market pattern, postwar construction in the Village trades at a discount to prewar buildings with higher ceilings, and the historic-district address and corner location narrow that gap rather than close it.
Index any market statement to the last complete year rather than a partial current year. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent transfers at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026 | 2A | $1,050,000 |
| Jul 1, 2025 | 1C/2C | $1,695,000 |
| Feb 22, 2024 | 3F | $1,100,000 |
| Jun 2, 2023 | 2E | $1,050,000 |
| Jan 26, 2023 | 3B | $1,100,000 |
| Dec 22, 2022 | 2C | $1,660,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00584-0061) 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.
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
Use the BBL. Three agencies use three different addresses for this lot. Give your attorney, lender and insurer block 584, lot 61.
Get the policy stack in writing before you offer. Financing ceiling, minimum down, liquidity, sublet terms, flip tax, pied-à-terre and entity rules. None of it is public.
Ask about the underlying mortgage. Maturity date, rate and balance on the Valley National loan, plus any assessment in place or under discussion.
Price in the Landmarks constraint. Exterior work runs through LPC even though the building is postwar. Run the Renovation Cost Calculator with that in mind.
What to know if you’re selling
Collect the board's requirements before you list. A buyer who hears the financing ceiling for the first time in week two of contract may walk.
If you have a combination or outdoor space, lead with it. Those apartments are the building's scarce product, and the listing should say so.
Settle the address question once. Search results and city data will show 79 Bedford Street. Explain it in writing at the start.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 81 Bedford Street, also evaluate:
- 31 Jane Street — a 1963 Schuman & Lichtenstein cooperative; same firm, a decade later
- 100 Bank Street — 1955 West Village cooperative; the closest postwar match on vintage
- 14 Horatio Street — H.I. Feldman's 1960 cooperative; larger postwar alternative
- 45 West 10th Street — H.I. Feldman's 1956 cooperative inside the historic district
- 49 West 12th Street — 1952 Village cooperative of the same postwar vintage
- 442 Hudson Street — 1920s prewar cooperative on the same tax block
- 79 Barrow Street — small prewar co-op on the same block
- 15 Jones Street — six-story 1930 cooperative nearby; the prewar alternative
More West Village buildings
- 79 Barrow Street — 1906 co-op
- 79 Perry Street — 1895 co-op
- 80 Clarkson Street — new-construction condominium by COOKFOX Architects
- 84–88 Charles Street, 84–86 and 88 Charles Street — co-op
- 90 Morton Street — 1911 condop by Isaac & Stern Architects
- 92 Horatio Street (Horatio Arms) — 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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