112 West 79th Street
112 West 79th Street, New York, NY 10024
BBL 1011500037 · BIN 1030260
- Year built
- 1925
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Upper West Side / Central Park West Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 3BR median, 2025
- $2.9M
- 2 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $2.5M – $3.3M
- Listing discount
- 1.4%
- Recorded transfers
- 50
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112 West 79th Street is a 1925 prewar cooperative on one of the Upper West Side's most desirable blocks — the stretch of West 79th between Columbus and Amsterdam that runs alongside Theodore Roosevelt Park and the American Museum of Natural History. The newly opened Richard Gilder Center, the museum's science wing, is essentially around the corner, and the weekend Greenmarket, Central Park, and the 79th Street subway are all within a short walk. It is a quintessential West Side address: cultural amenity on the doorstep, residential calm on the block.
The building is the kind of substantial prewar house that filled in these side streets in the 1920s — fourteen stories of masonry built for families, with the high ceilings and gracious gallery plans that define the era. With 51 apartments, it is a mid-sized cooperative; the sales record shows how often apartments have actually changed hands. It suits buyers who want prewar proportions on a marquee block rather than a glass-tower address.
Architecture and unit composition
The architecture is prewar Manhattan at its most dependable: brick over a limestone base, classical detailing held in proportion, and a fourteen-story massing that reads as solid and permanent. The block's mid-rise prewar context — and its place within the Upper West Side / Central Park West Historic District — keeps the streetscape low and consistent, so the building's upper floors enjoy open light and, on the higher lines, glimpses toward the park and the museum's grounds.
Inside, the residences carry the prewar hallmarks buyers prize: ceilings near ten feet, hardwood floors, formal entry galleries, separate dining, and the picture-frame moldings and well-proportioned rooms that mark the period — with apartments running from comfortable two-bedrooms to true three-bedroom homes of roughly 3,000-plus square feet on the larger high-floor lines. A handful of the building's renovated apartments have added the modern conveniences prewar stock often lacks, including central air and in-unit laundry where permitted.
Building operations
112 West 79th is a full-service cooperative with an attended lobby, a live-in superintendent, central laundry, basement storage, and a bike room. Its compact scale is part of its appeal to buyers who want full service in a mid-rise building; compare the apartment's current maintenance and any assessments with similar apartments rather than assuming a cost difference. As a prewar cooperative, it operates on board approval with a package-and-interview process; a transfer fee may apply at closing under house policy. We confirm the building's current financing cap, occupancy requirements and any sublet terms for clients in contract so the underwriting is exact.
Building staffing and amenities
- Attended lobby
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Bike storage, storage, laundry roomSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $4,023/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $7
- Modeled exposure split equally across 51 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the inspector (QEWI) identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair, with repairs due by the deadline stated in the filing. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2025 | 9B | 3 BR · 3 BA | $2,525,000 | -6.4% | |
| Jun 23, 2025 | 4B | 3 BR · 3 BA | $3,310,000 | -2.5% | |
| Aug 15, 2022 | 7A | 3 BR · 3 BA · 1,800 sf | $3,190,000 | $1,772/sf | +6.5% |
| Mar 4, 2022 | 9A | 3 BR · 3 BA | $2,588,900 | +0.2% | |
| Feb 28, 2022 | 1A | 3 BR · 3 BA | $1,900,000 | -4.8% | |
| May 10, 2021 | 8A | 3 BR · 3 BA | $3,250,000 | -1.4% | |
| Apr 9, 2021 | 12B | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,000 sf | $2,550,000 | $1,275/sf | -3.8% |
| Mar 19, 2021 | 5C | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 2,400 sf | $3,450,000 | $1,438/sf | -1.4% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2022): a median $1,575/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 1.4% 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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2003 | PHC | $1,790,000 |
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 1-01150-0037). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
This is a board-approval cooperative, so the package and interview matter. Confirm the building's current financing limit and any post-closing liquidity requirement before you proceed, and check your intended use (owner occupancy, sublet, pied-à-terre) against the house rules. Budget any transfer fee into your closing math. The reward for clearing the board is a high-ceilinged prewar home steps from the Museum of Natural History and Central Park, on a block buyers seek out by name. We pressure-test your package against the building's expectations before you submit.
What to know if you’re selling
The marketing story is the block and the bones: ten-foot ceilings and a gracious prewar plan, full service, and a location alongside the museum, the park, and the Greenmarket. Check current competing listings and recent closings first; preparation, light staging, and accurate pricing against the live comparable set give a listing its best chance of an accepted offer. Price to recent Upper West Side prewar closings of similar size, floor, and condition, and let the location and full-service operation support the number. The Roebling Team prepares the board-package narrative alongside the listing so an accepted offer goes to review with a complete package.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 112 West 79th Street, also evaluate these nearby Upper West Side prewar cooperatives:
- 127 West 79th Street — prewar cooperative on the same block
- 145 West 79th Street — full-service West 79th Street cooperative
- 15 West 81st Street — prewar cooperative near the museum
- 200 West 88th Street — Upper West Side prewar cooperative
- 215 West 84th Street — prewar West Side cooperative peer
More Upper West Side buildings
- 111 West 94th Street — 1936 co-op
- 111 West 96th Street — 1915 co-op
- Columbus Townhouses II, 111 West 89th Street — 1989 condominium
- 114 Morningside Drive — 1910 co-op
- 114 West 70th Street — 1922 co-op
- Bear House, 114 West 81st Street — co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, 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. 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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