708 Greenwich Street • West Village, New York
A wildly unique West Village duplex with towering 27-foot ceilings, dramatic architectural volume, and the rare opportunity to create something completely your own.
Hidden inside a former industrial stable building, the space feels eccentric, cinematic, and unlike anything else downtown.
$3,400,000
Coop | 8 rooms | 3 bed | 1 Den | 3 bath | 2,800 SQFT
Maintenance | $4,846/mo
Features
Not all lofts in New York were created equal.
The neighborhood shapes the architecture, the scale of the rooms, the kind of light, the industrial history, even the details left behind in the walls and ceilings. Some spaces feel manufactured. Others feel like they’ve actually lived a life.
A Rare Opportunity to Fully Customize — This is not a generic white-box renovation project. The bones already possess the kind of volume, scale, and architectural soul designers spend years searching for — making this an opportunity to create something deeply personal and entirely one-of-a-kind.
For Someone with Vision — This is the kind of property that rarely appeals to everyone, and that is exactly what makes it special. In the right hands, it becomes not just a renovation, but a true legacy home shaped entirely around taste, creativity, and imagination.
27-Foot Ceilings + Towering Windows — The scale of the great room is almost surreal. Massive floor-to-ceiling windows pour natural light across the space while the soaring 27-foot ceilings create a feeling that is cinematic, airy, and impossible to replicate in modern construction.
Duplex Layout with Lofted Dining Room — The elevated dining level overlooking the living room gives the home an almost theatrical sense of depth. It feels chic, playful, and architectural in the way only old downtown lofts can — layered, open, and full of personality.
A Patio Tucked Between Brick Walls — Tucked quietly behind the home is a private patio wrapped in weathered masonry and old New York textures. It feels intimate and atmospheric, like a hidden courtyard discovered somewhere in Europe.
A Layout That Lives Like a House — Three true bedrooms, multiple bathrooms, two distinct levels, and separated entertaining spaces create a floor plan that feels far more like a townhouse than a traditional apartment. The transitions between rooms feel thoughtful, dramatic, and surprisingly private.
Extraordinary Volume and Depth — Few downtown homes offer this kind of spatial drama. The combination of ceiling height, layered levels, oversized entertaining areas, and natural light gives the loft an emotional presence that feels far larger than square footage alone can explain.
Description
Some homes are finished.
Others are waiting for the right person to understand what they could become.
This is one of those rare opportunities to acquire a space in its rawest state — a complete gut renovation with extraordinary and deeply unique bones — and reimagine it into something truly one of a kind.
Hidden inside a former 1893 horse stable in the West Village, this extraordinary duplex feels less like an apartment and more like the framework for a dream someone never quite completed. The bones are all here — dramatic 27-foot ceilings, massive architectural volume, towering windows, layered levels, and a layout that unfolds with the kind of unpredictability only old New York buildings can offer.
You walk in and immediately feel it.
The elevated dining area hovers above the living room like a mezzanine inside an old atelier, overlooking a dramatic entertaining space anchored by a massive fireplace and soaring near floor-to-ceiling windows that flood the home with light. There’s an openness to the architecture that feels cinematic — sunlight pouring in from multiple exposures, soft shadows stretching across the walls, and ceiling heights so expansive they almost distort your sense of scale.
And yet despite the volume, the home still feels deeply intimate.
There are remnants everywhere of the building’s original life, subtle oddities in the proportions, unexpected transitions between rooms, little quirks in the architecture that make the space feel unmistakably authentic. It carries the charm of something that evolved over time rather than something manufactured all at once. The result is a home that feels playful, layered, artistic, and entirely unlike the predictable layouts that dominate most modern renovations.
The residence is currently in need of a complete gut renovation, but that is precisely what makes the opportunity so compelling.
This is not a space where someone else already made every design decision for you. It is a chance to shape something deeply personal around architecture that simply cannot be recreated today. The scale, the volume, the windows, the fireplace, the layered floor plan, the private patio, the three bedrooms, three bathrooms, den, and separate laundry space, all of it creates a foundation for an extraordinary transformation.
For the right person, this becomes more than a renovation project.
It becomes the opportunity to create one of those rare West Village homes people walk into and never forget — a place with history still embedded in the walls, where preservation, imagination, and design can come together to create something completely one of a kind.
The Building
Originally constructed in 1893 — though some records cite 1910 — 708 Greenwich Street began its life as a commercial stable and carriage building serving the industrial waterfront of the West Village. Its striking facade remains one of its defining characteristics, featuring a dramatic yellow-brick base with oversized columns that transitions into a classic red-brick loft structure above.
The building was converted into a cooperative in 1980 and today exists as a six-story, 33-unit collection of multi-level loft residences. It remains a rare surviving piece of the West Village’s industrial and artistic history — authentic, architectural, and unmistakably old New York.
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