108 West 69th Street
108 West 69th Street, between Columbus Avenue and Broadway · Upper West Side
Lincoln Square, Upper West Side
BBL 1011400036 · BIN 1028943
- Year built
- 1885
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Common laundry; private outdoor space in selected homes
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108 West 69th Street preserves a richly carved rowhouse façade on a block increasingly rebuilt with larger apartment buildings. Thom & Wilson designed it for George J. Hamilton in 1885–1886 as part of a four-house development. The surviving brownstone now contains an eleven-residence cooperative, with its raised stoop and ornamental entrance retaining the scale of the original house.
The address lies between Columbus Avenue and Broadway, close to the Lincoln Square section of the Upper West Side. Historical records trace the building's change from a private house to a boarding house and, in 1974, to apartments.
Architecture and unit composition
The Renaissance Revival exterior includes a high straight stoop, carved panels and a metal cornice. Rosettes appear beneath the parlor windows and in the pierced stoop railings. Pilasters and carved cartouches articulate the upper stories, while the entrance surrounds incorporate foliage and fruit motifs. Much of the exterior composition survives beneath later paint.
The residential inventory extends from garden duplexes to upper apartments with roof-level outdoor space. Smaller homes and combined layouts coexist within the narrow rowhouse footprint. A 2007 DOB application by Radomir Delic proposed a vertical enlargement of an upper apartment without changing the building's eleven-dwelling count. That later rooftop work accounts for an additional layer above the original house.
The apartments are reached by stairs. Garden-level homes have a different access relationship to outdoor space from upper homes with terraces, and the building's varied configurations mean that bedroom counts alone do not describe the internal circulation.
Building operations
Common laundry serves the cooperative. The private gardens and roof terraces accompany particular residences; the building's main exterior and roof remain part of the broader maintenance setting of a small historic property. With only eleven apartments, major exterior work is spread across a limited number of shareholders.
The designated façade includes ornamental masonry, metalwork and the stoop. Repairs or alterations to those features can require LPC review, as can visible rooftop additions. Although current zoning allows more residential floor area than is built, the historic-district controls are a separate constraint on expansion.
Policy framework
Pets: Cats and dogs permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Pied-à-terre: Allowed — confirm with the managing agent.
Subletting: Permitted subject to cooperative rules — confirm with the managing agent.
Co-purchasing: Allowed — confirm with the managing agent.
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 | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2026 | 2 | 3 BR · 3 BA | $2,200,000 | +10.1% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 10 | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,037,500 | -9.8% |
| Feb 26, 2020 | 2 | 2 BR · 3.5 BA | $1,922,500 | -3.6% |
| Jul 12, 2013 | 6B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $620,000 | +3.5% |
| Feb 23, 2005 | 5 | 1 BR | $592,000 | +0.5% |
Market read. Median listing discount -0.5% over ask.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01140-0036) 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.
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Comparable buildings
- The Brownstones — A nearby cooperative sharing the nineteenth-century rowhouse scale.
- 24 West 69th Street — A small prewar cooperative in a taller apartment-building form closer to the park.
- 26 West 69th Street — Another relatively small cooperative on the same street with a larger vertical scale.
- 120 West 70th Street — A larger prewar cooperative one block north.
- 119 West 71st Street — Early-twentieth-century cooperative housing with more apartments sharing the building.
More Upper West Side buildings
- 105 West 86th Street — 1929 co-op by Emery Roth
- 107 West 78th Street — 1890 co-op
- 107-111 West 82nd Street — 1893 condop
- 110 West 86th Street — 1929 condominium by Emery Roth
- 110 West 94th Street — 1936 co-op
- Columbus Common (110 West 90th Street) — 1990 condop
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
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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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