104 West 87th Street
104 West 87th Street, on the south side between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, Upper West Side
Upper West Side
BBL 1012170137 · BIN 1032221
- Year built
- 1886
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Laundry and private storage; in-unit laundry in selected homes
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $1.4M – $1.4M
- Listing discount
- 2.3%
- Recorded transfers
- 22
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104 West 87th Street began as a twenty-foot-wide house designed by John G. Prague in 1886–87. The brownstone now contains a cooperative whose inventory spans compact apartments and larger combined layouts. Its position just west of Columbus Avenue places the house between the Central Park West and Broadway subway routes, with the B/C and 1 trains reached along 86th Street.
Architecture and unit composition
The house was built as part of a four-house composition with matching inner and outer pairs. Prague's treatment here is a restrained version of Queen Anne architecture, organized within a narrow brownstone frontage. The original house rose four stories above its lower level, with a raised basement; the stoop was later removed and a basement entrance created.
Apartment subdivision created smaller front and rear homes, including one-bedroom plans of roughly 500–550 square feet. Subsequent combinations have also produced full-floor accommodation. These larger homes can have living and sleeping rooms on opposite exposures and space for a separate office.
Interior features vary with renovation history. High ceilings, decorative moldings and wood floors recur, while selected larger homes have central air and in-unit laundry. A combined floor-through has northern, southern and western exposures. That additional side exposure distinguishes it from the simpler front-or-rear arrangements elsewhere in the building.
Building operations
The cooperative is a four-story walk-up with laundry facilities and private storage. The stair climb remains part of daily access to the upper apartments, including the larger combined homes. Laundry installed within an apartment is separate from the building's shared facilities.
The brownstone is part of a designated historic district. Changes to its street-facing windows, masonry and other protected exterior features require LPC review as applicable. Its C1-9 zoning allows substantially more residential floor area than the existing building contains, but historic-district controls also apply to proposals that would change its envelope.
Recent sales
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 2025 | 3FR | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,350,000 | +0.0% | |
| Apr 20, 2021 | 4R | 1 BR · 1 BA | $560,000 | -4.3% | |
| May 22, 2020 | 2R | 2 BR · 1 BA | $850,000 | -5.0% | |
| Apr 6, 2017 | 2R | 1 BR | $675,000 | -1.5% | |
| Aug 18, 2016 | 3FR | 2 BR | $1,375,912 | +1.9% | |
| Jul 18, 2016 | 5R | 1 BR | $728,000 | +10.5% | |
| May 9, 2016 | 4R | 1 BR · 500 sf | $599,000 | $1,198/sf | +0.0% |
| Apr 16, 2014 | 3FR | 2 BR | $1,200,000 | -11.1% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2016): a median $1,198/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 2.3% 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 1-01217-0137) 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.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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Comparable buildings
- 18 West 87th Street — a Renaissance Revival rowhouse cooperative on the park block of the same street.
- 45 West 89th Street — a small walk-up cooperative with a similar brownstone scale.
- 71 West 83rd Street — the Dundonald Flats, a purpose-built nineteenth-century cooperative apartment house.
- 151 West 86th Street — a larger prewar cooperative with substantial layouts and attended service.
- 150 West 87th Street — a larger prewar cooperative on the same block, for buyers comparing service and building scale.
More Upper West Side buildings
- The Warwick Arms, 101 West 80th Street — 1898 co-op
- Columbus Townhouses, 103–105 West 89th Street — condominium
- 104 West 70th Street (The Walton) — 1903 condop
- 105 West 70th Street (The Brownstones) — 1886 co-op
- 105 West 72nd Street — 1913 condominium by George and Edward Blum
- 105 West 73rd Street — 1920 co-op
The neighborhood
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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. Where this page compares one building or neighborhood to another, that is our analysis of the recorded record — it names the measure, the period and the sample it rests on, and it is an observation about medians rather than a prediction about any particular apartment.
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