100 West 94th Street (Columbus Park Tower)
100 West 94th Street, New York, NY 10025
Upper West Side
BBL 1012240029 · BIN 1084572
- Year built
- 1966
- Type
- Condop
- Units
- 162
- Floors
- 26
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Permitted per management-sourced records
- Financing
- Up to 80 percent (20 percent minimum down) per management-sourced records — materially more permissive than the 65–75 percent ceiling typical of Upper West Side cooperatives
Every recorded sale at this building, 2010–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $883K
- Recent range
- $720K – $1.5M
- Listing discount
- 2.5%
- Recorded transfers
- 89
Columbus Park Tower is one of the few Upper West Side buildings whose entire economics were rewritten inside the last twenty years. It went up in the mid-1960s as a Mitchell-Lama limited-equity cooperative under the West Side Urban Renewal Plan — the sweeping and much-argued-over program that cleared and rebuilt the blocks between Amsterdam and Central Park West from the 80s into the 90s. For four decades its apartments could not be sold on the open market at all: a departing shareholder sold back to the corporation at original equity plus a share of amortized principal, and the next name on the waiting list moved in. The building privatized out of that program, and the recorded history places the completion in 2009. ACRIS shows the property conveyed from Columbus Park Corporation to Columbus Park Owners, Inc. in April 2009, the first individual share transfers on the lot in January 2010, and continuous open-market resale activity since. Neighboring cooperatives on the same block carry recorded share transfers back to 1999 and 2003; this lot carries none before 2010, which is exactly the signature a privatization leaves in the record.
That history is not trivia. It explains the building's policy stack, which is the most permissive of any large cooperative in this stretch of the Upper West Side. Financing runs to 80 percent. There is no post-closing liquidity requirement. Pied-à-terre ownership and secondary residences are allowed. Subletting is allowed with board consent. A building that spent forty years unable to sell an apartment at market has every incentive to keep the resale market liquid, and the rules read that way. For a buyer coming from the Central Park West or West End Avenue cooperative market — where 65 percent financing, one-to-two-years-of-carry liquidity tests and pied-à-terre bans are the norm — the underwriting here is a different exercise entirely.
The architecture is a genuine period document and has always divided opinion. It is a dark brown-brick slab on a one-story retail base, with a second-story open frame that makes the tower appear to float, and stacked concrete-balustraded balconies in three vertical bands on the west face. In New York 1960, Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins and David Fishman treated it as among the more successful of the urban-renewal towers while faulting the program as a whole for shattering neighborhood scale. Architectural critics writing since have generally agreed that it is the best-looking of the Columbus Avenue slabs, helped considerably by what happened at its base: the plaza filled in with restaurants and sidewalk cafés, and the rear became a landscaped, multi-level garden with a stepped pyramidal fountain. The building that was once criticized for its plaza is now defined by it.
Then there is the commercial estate. At 199,500 square feet of building area, the corporation owns roughly 11,000 square feet of Columbus Avenue retail, a 17,700-square-foot garage and a small professional office component alongside its 162 apartments. On a building of this scale that income stream is the single largest variable in the maintenance number, and it is the first thing a buyer's attorney should look at. Retail rent rolls, lease expirations and the garage's operating arrangement determine how much of the building's cost is carried by tenants rather than shareholders — and a large lease rolling over is a bigger swing to the monthly than any capital project.
Architecture and unit composition
The tower rises 26 floors per city records above a one-story commercial base on the Columbus Avenue frontage, with the residential entrance on West 94th Street. The plan is a through-block slab: every apartment carries both east and west exposure, which is the layout's defining virtue and the reason the building's light is better than the surrounding brick tower stock. West-facing lines look over the low Columbus Avenue blockfronts toward the Hudson; east-facing lines look toward Central Park across the roofs of the 94th and 95th Street brownstones. Upper floors on both faces have long open views because the immediate neighbors are low.
Balconies are the west line's signature. They are stacked in vertical bands with concrete balustrades, broken into smaller sections on the top two floors — the gesture that gives the elevation its top. Not every apartment has one; management-sourced descriptions of the building emphasize private terrace space facing Columbus Avenue, and the balcony count should be confirmed line by line rather than assumed.
The apartment mix is postwar middle-income planning at generous mid-1960s dimensions: studios and one-bedrooms through three-bedroom layouts, with several three-bedroom lines running to long living/dining rooms opening onto an eleven-foot balcony and separate windowed kitchens. Ceiling heights are standard for the period. Because the building spent four decades in a limited-equity program, the renovation history is uneven — some apartments were substantially reworked after privatization, others retain original kitchens and baths. Condition variance in this building is wider than in a comparable market-rate cooperative of the same age, and it is the first thing to price.
Building operations
The building runs full-service: 24-hour doorman and concierge, a live-in resident manager, and a porter and handyman staff. The lobby carries white marble walls and a concierge station. Shared spaces include a community room with a fitness area and a children's play area, a second-floor laundry, a second-floor roof terrace, a mezzanine sitting area, and the landscaped rear garden with its stepped fountain — a substantial amount of common space for a building at this price level. The garage is operated for residents, with a waitlist per management-sourced records.
The capital history visible in the Department of Buildings record is that of a well-maintained postwar tower rather than a distressed one: façade repair on both the east and west elevations across 2011–2016 with the associated sidewalk sheds, a new steam boiler plant with gas burners filed in September 2017, sprinkler and fire-suppression upgrades through the 2010s, and a lobby renovation filed in 2011. The 2017 boiler replacement is the single most useful item on that list for a buyer, because it removes the largest capital exposure a 1960s building of this size normally carries.
The building's underlying financing is with a lender that specializes in cooperative corporations; ACRIS records a 2009 mortgage taken at the time of privatization and a 2021 refinancing. Any buyer should ask for the current underlying mortgage balance, rate and maturity, the reserve position, the commercial rent roll with lease expirations, and the status of the next façade cycle.
Policy framework
Ownership form: Cooperative. Purchase requires a full board package and an interview. New York City Local Law 58 of 2026 now sets acknowledgment and decision timelines for co-op applications, which should shorten the tail end of an approval — but the board's August 1 to September 8 summer recess is a real constraint on a mid-summer contract.
Financing: up to 80 percent of purchase price per management-sourced records. That ceiling is high for a Manhattan cooperative and is one of the building's genuine advantages.
Post-closing liquidity: not required per management-sourced records. Buyers should not read this as an absence of financial scrutiny — the board still reviews the full package — but it removes the reserve test that disqualifies otherwise-strong buyers elsewhere in the corridor.
Purchase structures: co-purchasing and guarantors are permitted. Corporate purchases, diplomatic purchases, and parents purchasing for a child are not. Trusts and LLCs are not addressed in the published policy set; a buyer intending to take title through an estate-planning vehicle must clear it with the managing agent before signing.
Pied-à-terre and secondary residence: permitted.
Subletting: permitted with board approval; short-term rentals and Airbnb prohibited. A surcharge of 25 percent of base maintenance per month applies for the duration of the sublet, plus a shareholder administrative fee. That surcharge is high enough that the building should not be underwritten as a rental hold.
Pets: permitted.
In-unit washer/dryer: not permitted. Central laundry only.
Alterations: the building runs a formal review process with architect and managing-agent review fees and a refundable security deposit, at two tiers for major and minor work. Budget for it on any gut renovation.
Flip tax: not documented in public records. Ask specifically, and ask for the number in writing — privatized cooperatives frequently carry a substantial transfer fee adopted at conversion precisely to hold maintenance down.
Real estate taxes: the building pays full taxes. The shelter-rent payment-in-lieu arrangement that applies to a Mitchell-Lama ends at privatization with no phase-in. The exemption line that appears on the lot in the Department of Finance rolls reflects individual homeowner exemptions administered at the corporation level rather than any building-wide program benefit; no 421-a, J-51 or other program exemption code appears on this lot in any assessment roll from FY2011 through FY2027.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $54,824/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $28
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
The building trades as one of the more accessible full-service doorman cooperatives on the Upper West Side, and its resale market is a young one — every apartment now on the market came into private ownership after 2009. ACRIS records roughly 116 share transfers across about 90 distinct apartments since January 2010, which is a healthy turnover rate for a 162-apartment building and gives the market a real comparable set line by line.
Pricing sits well below the prewar cooperative stock on West End Avenue and Central Park West and below the corridor's newer condominiums, and the reason is structural rather than qualitative: postwar construction, a Columbus Avenue address rather than a park-front one, and the pricing discipline of a building whose shareholders largely bought in at insider terms. On a per-room basis the building is competitive with the smaller prewar co-ops on the surrounding side streets while offering a doorman, a garage, an elevator bank and common amenities that those buildings do not have.
The dispersion within the building is wide. Line, floor, exposure, balcony and — above all — renovation condition separate the top of the range from the bottom by more than they would in a market-rate building of the same vintage, because the privatization left a mixed inventory of untouched and fully renovated apartments. Total monthly carrying cost is the number to compare, not the asking price: maintenance here is supported by a substantial commercial rent roll, and the utilities and services included should be checked against any building being weighed alongside it. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Prices are the transfer amounts recorded with the NYC Department of Finance; apartment-level detail is checked against the building’s own file in The Roebling Research Library before publishing.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2026 | 20G | 3 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,349,000 | +0.0% | |
| Mar 10, 2026 | 9D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $720,000 | -6.5% | |
| Jan 27, 2026 | 5C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $720,000 | -4.0% | |
| Dec 15, 2025 | 15A | 3 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,295,000 | -7.2% | |
| Sep 4, 2025 | 8G | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,215 sf | $1,425,000 | $1,173/sf | -9.5% |
| Jun 17, 2025 | 9E | 2 BR · 1 BA | $885,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jan 8, 2025 | 18G | 3 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,320,000 | -5.0% | |
| Sep 10, 2024 | 21A | 3 BR | $1,500,000 | -1.3% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2025): a median $1,094/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 2.1% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Full closing history with price-per-square-foot over time, the complete retrade record, and every line that has traded.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01224-0029) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price; square footage on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
What to know if you’re buying
Underwrite the commercial income. The corporation owns roughly 11,000 square feet of retail, a 17,700-square-foot garage and a small office component. Ask for the rent roll and the lease expiration schedule. A large retail lease approaching renewal is the single largest swing factor in this building's maintenance, in either direction.
The financing and liquidity terms are the reason to be here. Eighty percent financing with no post-closing liquidity requirement is close to condominium-grade underwriting inside a cooperative. Run the Co-op Board Qualification Calculator against the actual terms rather than against the corridor default.
Ask about the privatization's residual structure. Cooperatives that privatize out of Mitchell-Lama typically make provision for shareholders who did not or could not purchase — long-term leaseholds, protected occupancies, or similar. Ask the managing agent how many apartments remain in any such category and how the corporation accounts for them. It is a legitimate question and it affects the share count and the sellout picture.
Get the flip tax in writing. It is not in the public record, and privatized buildings very often carry a large one. It belongs in your seller-side math on the way in, not on the way out.
Read the condition, not the address. Renovation quality varies more here than in almost any comparable building, and estate-condition apartments price accordingly. Run the Renovation Cost Calculator before bidding on an original apartment.
Time the board around the recess. August 1 to September 8 is a documented board recess. A July contract can sit.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the policy stack. Eighty percent financing, no post-closing liquidity requirement, pied-à-terre permitted, pets permitted — that combination is rare in a Manhattan cooperative and it materially widens your buyer pool. Put it in the first paragraph of the marketing, not the last.
Sell the through-block light. Every apartment has east and west exposure. Very little of the surrounding postwar stock does. Photograph both ends of the apartment at the right time of day.
Present the total monthly, not the maintenance line alone. The commercial rent roll subsidizes carrying cost here in a way that competing buildings cannot match; buyers comparing monthlies across the neighborhood will not know that unless you show them.
Be direct about condition. The inventory in this building splits cleanly between renovated and original. Renovated apartments clear at real premiums; original apartments clear when priced honestly against the work. Trying to bridge the gap in the asking price is what stalls listings here.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 100 West 94th Street, also evaluate:
- 100 West 93rd Street — a 1972–73 middle-income rental converted to condominium in 2006, one block south; the closest structural analogue in the neighborhood and the condominium alternative
- 110 West 94th Street — a 1936 Art Deco cooperative on the same block; the small, low-cost, no-doorman opposite of this building
- 250 West 94th Street — Sugarman & Berger, 1925; the prewar full-service cooperative alternative on the same street
- 175 West 93rd Street — a Rosario Candela cooperative nearby; prewar prestige at a different price and a different policy posture
- 123 West 93rd Street — 1926 cooperative, the mid-size prewar alternative
- 220 West 93rd Street — Jacob M. Felson, 1926, run as a condominium; prewar architecture without cooperative board approval
- 275 West 96th Street — 1983 ground-up condominium; the postwar-scale, full-service condominium comparison to the north
- 12 West 96th Street and 50 West 96th Street — prewar cooperatives on the 96th Street corridor
- 245 West 99th Street (Ariel West) — COOKFOX new-construction condominium; the high end of the uptown Broadway corridor
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
How to read the facts on this page. Items attributed to an offering plan describe the building as it was offered at that filing — unit mix, square footage, the amenity program as planned. They are not a statement about how the building operates today. Tax and compliance figures are sourced separately to current City records and carry their own dates. House rules, staffing and fee policy can change by board resolution without any public filing: treat every policy line here as a starting point for diligence and confirm it with the managing agent.
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