East Village

At a glance

Neighborhood: The East Village, from East 14th Street to East Houston Street, east of the Bowery and Third Avenue to the East River Adjacent neighborhoods: NoHo and Greenwich Village to the west, Gramercy and Stuyvesant Town across 14th Street to the north, the Lower East Side across Houston Street to the south Building stock: Prewar tenement and walk-up buildings, prewar and postwar cooperatives, commercial and institutional conversions, and condominiums built from the 2000s on Cultural anchors: Tompkins Square Park, Cooper Union, St. Mark's Place, McSorley's Old Ale House, Webster Hall, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, the Bowery Transit: Astor Place (6); First Avenue (L); Third Avenue (L); Second Avenue (F); 14th Street–Union Square (4/5/6/L/N/Q/R/W) at the northwest corner Source: The Roebling Team at Compass, from public records, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, building offering plans and our research library. October 2026.

Why the East Village

The East Village is one of Manhattan's most layered residential neighborhoods. Its streets are lined with prewar tenement and walk-up buildings, many of them converted to cooperatives in the 1970s and 1980s, alongside larger prewar and postwar cooperatives and a set of condominiums built since the 2000s. The avenues from First through D each have a distinct character, and Tompkins Square Park sits at the center.

The figures above this guide are the East Village's own. Sales are measured as the median condominium price per square foot and co-op price per room across the buildings placed in the East Village, and rents as the same apartments leased again, year over year. NoHo, Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side have their own pages.

The building stock

Condominiums since the 2000s:

• Steiner East Village, 438 East 12th Street — S9 Architecture for Steiner NYC, completed 2017. 6 stories, 82 condominium residences, with an indoor pool, fitness center and on-site garage.
• Village Green, 311 East 11th Street — completed 2009, LEED Gold.
• 123 Third Avenue — Perkins Eastman, 2010.
• The Jefferson, 211 East 13th Street — BKSK Architects, completed 2013. 80 condominium residences, LEED Gold.

Prewar and conversion buildings:

• The Christodora House, 143 Avenue B — Henry C. Pelton, 1928. 16 stories, converted to condominium in 1986, facing Tompkins Square Park.
• Ageloff Tower, 172 East 4th Street — Shampan & Shampan, 1929. An Art Deco cooperative.
• 170 Second Avenue — a 1928 Art Deco building on the Second Avenue spine.
• 111 Third Avenue — Horace Ginsbern, 1958. A condop.
• The Virginia, 226 East 12th Street — Sugarman & Berger, 1928.

Across the side streets, the tenement and walk-up stock is the bulk of the inventory: smaller buildings, often without elevators or doormen, where the board's rules and the building's capital condition matter as much as the apartment.

Institutions and landmarks

Cooper Union — the Foundation Building at Cooper Square, completed 1859, where Abraham Lincoln gave his Cooper Union Address in February 1860. The school's New Academic Building at 41 Cooper Square, by Thom Mayne of Morphosis, opened in 2009.

Tompkins Square Park — 10.5 acres between Avenues A and B and East 7th and 10th Streets.

McSorley's Old Ale House at 15 East 7th Street, opened in 1854. Webster Hall at 125 East 11th Street, opened in 1886. La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club at 74A East 4th Street, founded in 1961 by Ellen Stewart.

The Bowery, the neighborhood's western edge, carries two centuries of the city's theater and music history, including CBGB at 315 Bowery from 1973 to 2006.

Long-running restaurants

Veselka at 144 Second Avenue (since 1954), B&H Dairy at 127 Second Avenue (since 1942) and Café Mogador at 101 St. Mark's Place (since 1983) are among the neighborhood's longest-running restaurants.

What to know if you're buying

Compare like with like. A 2010s condominium and a prewar walk-up co-op on the same block price on different terms: condominiums by the foot, co-ops by the room. The building pages carry each building's own recorded sales, which say more about a specific apartment than any neighborhood median.

For co-ops, read the board policies and the building's financials before the listing. Financing limits, sublet terms, flip taxes and upcoming capital work vary by building, and in smaller walk-up co-ops a single assessment can change the economics of a purchase.

The Roebling Team at Compass

We track every recorded sale and closed lease in the East Village building by building. For a pricing opinion on a specific apartment, or a read on a building before you bid, get in touch.

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Related guides

• NoHo — adjacent neighborhood guide
• Greenwich Village — adjacent neighborhood guide
• Gramercy — adjacent neighborhood guide
• Lower East Side — adjacent neighborhood guide