- Year built
- 1974
West Village Houses is the Jane Jacobs-assisted 42-building Mitchell-Lama complex built in 1974 on the cleared block bounded by Bank, Morton, Washington, and West Streets — and the singular preservation-and-affordable-housing narrative in West Village postwar development. The 2006 conversion from Mitchell-Lama to market-rate cooperative produced one of the most architecturally and politically distinctive cooperative complexes in NYC residential.
The structural identity rests on three features. First, the Jane Jacobs preservation-and-affordable-housing pedigree — Jacobs successfully resisted Robert Moses's earlier West Village redevelopment plans and helped negotiate the 1974 Mitchell-Lama low-rise alternative. Second, the 42-low-rise-building configuration — five-story walk-ups spread across the four-block site. Third, the 2006 market-rate conversion producing structurally distinct ownership and transactional patterns from peer Greenwich Village inventory.
Comparable buildings
- 164 Bank Street — nearby Bank corridor peer
- 75 Bank Street (Abingdon Court) — Margon / Bing & Bing 1938; nearby peer
- 99 Bank Street (The Ross Building) — D&J Jardine 1890; nearby peer
- 100 Bank Street — 1955; nearby peer
- 1 Morton Square — Kondylis 2004; nearby Morton corridor peer
The Roebling Team at West Village Houses
Corey Cohen · The Roebling Team at Compass 646.939.7375 · c.cohen@compass.com
Sources: The Roebling Research Library (offering plans, house rules, financial statements, board minutes, internal transaction records); NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers; publicly recorded NYC building data.