114 Morningside Drive
114 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027
BBL 1019630055 · BIN 1059524
- Year built
- 1910
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 30
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- No doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2021
- $733
- 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 2.0%
- Recorded sales
- 30
- On record
- 2004–2025
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 114 Morningside Drive would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
114 Morningside Drive is one of the few owner-occupied apartment houses on its blockfront. Morningside Drive between 120th and 122nd Streets is lined with six- to nine-story prewar buildings of the same generation, and city records show most of them held by Columbia University and Teachers College as institutional housing. The cooperative at No. 114 is the exception, which makes it one of a small number of ways to own a park-facing prewar apartment on this stretch of the Drive.
The view is the building's main asset. Morningside Drive runs along the top of the Morningside Park escarpment, and buildings on its west side look east over the park and down toward Harlem. The long frontage — about 179 feet on a six-story building — puts a large share of the apartments on the park side.
The structural story is short and clean. ACRIS shows share transfers between unrelated individual buyers and sellers in most years since 2004, across 18 of the 30 apartments, with no sponsor or investor entity selling blocks of shares. The corporation itself bought one apartment in 2010 and resold it in 2014; otherwise every recorded trade is between individuals. This is a functioning ownership building with no sponsor overhang visible in the record.
Architecture and unit composition
The building is a six-story prewar elevator house with a stucco-clad exterior — DOB's 2014 façade filing describes the Local Law 11 work as stucco repairs along the exterior elevations. A 2007 DOB filing covered a roof replacement, removal of the old dumbwaiter assemblies, and a new fiberglass cornice assembly at the roofline, which suggests the original cornice had been lost. Filings show what was proposed; confirm completion and current condition with the managing agent.
The apartment plan is a regular grid: five lines per floor, numbered by floor and line (apartment 35 is the fifth line on the third floor). Apartment dimensions are not documented here. Lines and exposures vary; confirm from a floor plan which lines face the park and which face the rear.
Building operations
Capital work on record. DOB filings show masonry repairs in 2000, façade repair campaigns with long sidewalk sheds in 2005 and 2007, the 2007 roof and cornice work, the 7th-cycle Local Law 11 stucco repairs in 2014, and a new basement laundry room in 2014–15. A sidewalk shed was filed again in 2017. Ask the managing agent where the building stands in the current façade cycle.
Underlying mortgage. ACRIS shows no mortgage recorded against the building since 1993, when the last building-level loan was satisfied. That can mean the corporation carries no underlying mortgage, or that any current debt is an unrecorded line of credit. For a buyer it is the single most useful question to settle: a debt-free co-op carries lower maintenance risk at refinancing time, and the answer is in the financial statements.
J-51. DOF's historical J-51 records show two small grants — one starting in 1990 on about $22,000 of qualifying work, one starting in 2004 on about $11,000 — both fully used by tax years 2001 and 2014. DOF's current abatement detail carries no J-51 on this lot. No J-51 benefit remains to burn off; check the current tax bill for any other exemption or abatement.
Policy framework
Board package and interview. A purchaser buys shares and a proprietary lease, subject to board approval after a full package and an interview. Budget four to eight weeks from a signed contract to a board decision.
Financing, liquidity, sublets, pied-à-terre, trusts and the flip tax. None is published and none is documented in any record available to us. The financing ceiling, post-closing liquidity requirement, sublet policy, flip tax, pied-à-terre and trust or LLC ownership rules all come from the managing agent. Get them in writing before the offer.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- No doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Fitness room, garage, 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
- $4,721/yr
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $32,221/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $13 – $90
- Modeled exposure split equally across 30 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
Pricing at 114 Morningside Drive is best read per room. Value turns on whether an apartment faces the park, its floor, and the age of its renovation; park-facing upper-floor apartments set the top of the range. The comparable set is small because most of the neighboring buildings do not sell apartments at all, so the right benchmarks are prewar cooperatives in the Morningside Heights Historic District to the south and west, adjusted for the park frontage. A thirty-apartment building trades only a few times a year.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 2025 | 32 | 3 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,315,000 | -2.6% | |
| Jul 8, 2024 | 35 | 2 BR · 1 BA | $675,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jun 7, 2021 | 33 | 2 BR · 1.5 BA · 900 sf | $660,000 | $733/sf | -12.0% |
| Dec 14, 2018 | 25 | 2 BR · 1 BA · 750 sf | $610,000 | $813/sf | +1.8% |
| Oct 5, 2018 | 63 | 2 BR · 1 BA · 950 sf | $813,750 | $857/sf | -5.9% |
| Oct 16, 2017 | 63 | 2 BR · 950 sf | $787,000 | $828/sf | -1.5% |
| Sep 27, 2017 | 4 | 2 BR | $788,000 | +0.0% | |
| May 12, 2015 | 55 | 2 BR · 1 BA · 725 sf | $560,000 | $772/sf | +1.8% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2021): a median $733/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 2.0% 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 1-01963-0055). 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
Confirm the debt position first. No recorded mortgage since 1993 is unusual for a Manhattan co-op. Ask for the last two years of audited statements and confirm whether the corporation carries any loan or line of credit.
Ask where the façade cycle stands. The exterior is stucco and has needed repeated Local Law 11 work. Find out whether the current cycle is filed, done, or ahead of you in an assessment.
Get the policy stack in writing. We found no public record of the financing, subletting or flip tax terms, and no offering plan or financial statements are on file in The Roebling Research Library; ask the managing agent for the policies in writing.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the park. Park-facing apartments on this stretch of the Drive are scarce because most of the blockfront is institutional housing that never comes to market.
Have the financials ready. A buyer's attorney will ask about the underlying mortgage and the façade program. A clean answer on both is part of the pitch.
Comparable buildings
- 603 West 111th Street — prewar Morningside Heights cooperative of similar vintage
- 535 West 110th Street — prewar co-op in the Morningside Heights Historic District
- 545 West 111th Street — The Rockfall, a larger 1909–10 Morningside Heights co-op
- 600 West 111th Street — 1920s Morningside Heights cooperative at Broadway
- 600 West 115th Street — The Luxor, prewar co-op near the Columbia campus
- 371 West 123rd Street — condominium at the north end of Morningside Park
- 308–312 West 113th Street — condominium on the east side of Morningside Park
More Upper West Side buildings
- 111 West 96th Street — 1915 co-op
- Columbus Townhouses II, 111 West 89th Street — 1989 condominium
- 112 West 79th Street — 1925 co-op
- 114 West 70th Street — 1922 co-op
- Bear House, 114 West 81st Street — co-op
- 119 West 71st Street — 1912 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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