Category — East Village

An environmentally friendly green co-op apartment at 170 Norfolk Street on the border of the East Village and the Lower East Side / Loisada just sold for $565,000, a slight drop from the apartment’s original $599,000 list price.

The apartment has approximately 500 sq. ft., and — here’s the pièce de résistance — the rights to an incredible private vegetable garden. The listing said that the apartment also comes with “plans for solar panels to generate 100% of apartment’s energy.”

Other green features include:

• Low-E triple pane argon filled windows
• A water filter
• Wind energy powered electricity
• Biofuel for heat and hot water; and
• Energy efficient light bulbs

This sale represents a new record for the highest price ever paid for a co-op at 170 Norfolk. Before this sale, the highest price ever paid for a co-op in the building was $530,000, the price paid by the current seller for the same apartment in June 2005.

The seller was Lewis Kofsky, a partner, producer, and Director of CG/VFX at Curious Pictures, a digital design and entertainment company in the Village.

The buyers are Dr. Noga Shalev and Sarah Oppenheimer.

Corcoran broker Alex Nicholas had the exclusive.

Parker Posey sold her three room East Village coop apartment at 119 East 10th Street for $1.31 million. Jeremy A. Rossman bought the brownstone apartment for $135,000 over the asking price of $1,175,000.According to the New York Times, Posey’s former neighbors in the building included:

• Chloë Sevigny, who paid $1.19 million for her coop apartment in April 2005
• James Iha, the former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist, and
• Sculptor Robert Gober

According to NYC records, the indie actress headed a bit westward to another coop on Fifth Avenue just north of Washington Square Park.