The West Village building that has housed Faicco's Italian deli since 1951 has changed hands for the first time in more than a century. The five-story property at 260 Bleecker Street, a fixture of Greenwich Village's Italian food scene for generations, finally sold after over a hundred years without a recorded transaction.
The sale was first reported by Crain's New York, which described the deal as the first sale of the building in over a century. The 5,295-square-foot, mixed-use building was constructed in 1910, according to PropertyShark, and contains a single commercial space along with residential units above, classified by the listing service as primarily a three-family building with one store or office.
PropertyShark's own records show no recently recorded sales for the property, a discrepancy with the Crain's report that underscores how opaque deed history can be for buildings that have sat in the same hands for generations. PropertyShark lists the property's current market value at $5.03 million, though that figure is not identified as the price the building actually fetched in the reported sale.
A Pork Store That Outlasted a Century of Change
Faicco's story on Bleecker Street goes back to 1951, when the family bought the building after four decades at a different Greenwich Village address. According to a history compiled by new-york-italian.com, the pork store first opened in 1900 and spent 40 years at 152-154 Thompson Street before relocating to its current home. The business has stayed in Faicco hands the entire time, with Eddie Faicco now running the Bleecker Street shop as a fourth-generation owner, the site notes.
The deli has long been known for its house-made sausages and pork products. A New York Times article from September 14, 1964, identified Faicco's Pork Store at 260 Bleecker Street and described it as famous for homemade sausages, both fresh and dried, along with an array of other pork products. In 1999, Eddie Faicco rebranded the business as Faicco's Italian Specialties to begin selling prepared foods, broadening the shop beyond its pork-store roots while keeping its address unchanged.
Bleecker Street's Retail Market Stays Hot
The sale lands at a moment when Bleecker Street remains one of Manhattan's standout retail corridors. According to a REBNY report covering the first half of 2026, leasing activity stayed especially strong on Bleecker Street along with SoHo, Madison Avenue, Lower Fifth Avenue, and Flatiron. The same report found that average asking rents rose in eight of the 16 Manhattan retail corridors it tracks, while storefront availability kept tightening in many of the borough's most competitive locations.
The Faicco's building deal is one of several notable West Village and Greenwich Village property transactions this year. Just this month, a West Village hospitality group reportedly paid $7.3 million for the long-vacant former Sushi Samba building at 87 Seventh Avenue South, according to Hoodline's earlier report. Elsewhere in the neighborhood, a roughly 27,500-square-foot Greenwich Village retail condo home to tenants including Le Poisson Rouge and CVS reportedly sold for $21 million back in March, per Crain's New York Business, while Philips International reportedly sold another Greenwich Village retail unit to DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners that same month.
Further north, a retail condo unit at the base of 415 West 13th Street in the Meatpacking District reportedly sold for $26.5 million, according to the Commercial Observer. Taken together, the deals point to sustained investor appetite for ground-floor retail real estate across the West Village and Greenwich Village, even as century-old storefronts like Faicco's finally change ownership on paper for the first time in generations.
