Private school pays $18.8M for Greenwich Village townhouse

City and Country School through the entity The City and Country School, Inc. paid $18.8 million to Jean-Pierre Chesse through the entity Village Greenwich LLC for the townhouse building (A5) at 152 West 13th Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The expected use is owner-occupied. City and Country owns several adjacent buildings to the east of this one including 150 and 144 West 13th Street.
The deal closed on December 18, 2025 and was recorded on December 30, 2025. The property has 3,381 square feet of built space and 1,631 square feet of additional air rights for a total buildable of 5,017 square feet according to a PincusCo analysis of city data. The sale price per built square foot is $5,545 and the price per buildable square foot is $3,736 per the PincusCo analysis. (The price per square foot analysis is the transaction price divided by square feet as reported in public records and assumes no air rights have been sold.)
The seller bought the property on April 21, 2016, for $15 million. The signatory for Jean-Pierre Chesse was Jean-Pierre Chesse. The signatory for City and Country School was Frank Patti . The contract date was November 25, 2025.

Prior sales, articles and revenue

Prior to this transaction, PincusCo has no record that the buyer City and Country School had purchased any other properties and has no record it sold any properties over the past 24 months.
The seller Jean-Pierre Chesse had not purchased any other properties and had not sold any properties over the same time period. The former owners according to the Department of Housing Preservation and Development includes Stanley Graham, head officer and Dorothy Freedman-Graham, officer.

The property

The 1-4 family building with 1 residential units in Greenwich Village has 3,381 square feet of built space and 1,631 square feet of additional air rights for a total buildable of 5,017 square feet according to a PincusCo analysis of city data. The parcel has frontage of 20 feet and is 103 feet deep with a total lot size of 2,065 square feet. The zoning is R6 which allows for up to 2.43 times floor area ratio (FAR) for residential. The property is in the Greenwich Village Historic District. The city-designated market value for the property in 2022 is $11.1 million.

Violations and lawsuits

There were no lawsuits or bankruptcies filed against the property for the past 24 months. In addition, according to city public data, the property has received $100 in OATH penalties in the last year.

Development

For the tax lot building, it received its initial certificate of occupancy on March 24, 2016. There are no active new building construction projects or major alteration projects with initial costs more than $1 million on this tax lot.

The block

On this tax block, PincusCo has identified the owners of three of the 17 commercial properties representing 68,407 square feet of the 157,381 square feet. The two identified owners are Abraham Sanieoff and Slate Property Group.
There are no active new building construction projects on this tax block.

The majority, or 26 percent of the 157,381 square feet of built space are elevator buildings, with mixed-use buildings next occupying 23 percent of the space.

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