114 West 70th Street

LPC identifies the original construction as steel frame and fireproof, with a façade of brick, stone and terra cotta. Paired multi-pane windows organize the upper floors. The lower portion is expressed as a two-story stone base, with pilasters giving vertical emphasis around the entrance level.

The upper façade is red brick, capped by a modest cornice. A canopy marks the residential entrance. The building's original site consisted of three four-story rowhouses with basements, which were replaced by the larger apartment house.

One-bedroom layouts can include an entry foyer, a separate windowed kitchen and a living room large enough to accommodate dining. Larger plans add more bedrooms and, in some cases, a second bathroom or powder room. Beamed ceilings, hardwood floors and substantial closets recur in the inventory.

Combinations have created larger three-bedroom homes with split bedroom arrangements and additional bathrooms. These layouts can distribute bedrooms on opposite sides of the principal living area. They belong to a different category from the compact apartments that still make up part of the building.

Upper floors can have open city outlooks to the north or south. Lower apartments face the immediate streetscape or neighboring rear areas. The landscaped roof deck is shared, providing outdoor seating and dining space independent of a particular apartment's exposure.

The live-in superintendent supports a service program built around the elevator, laundry room and roof deck. Bicycle and resident storage add practical space outside the apartments. In-unit laundry installations require board approval even though washer/dryers are permitted in principle.

The common roof garden is a building amenity, with planting and furniture maintained for shared use. It sits above an older protected envelope, so exterior work on the building must account for both cooperative maintenance needs and LPC requirements. The designation covers this address directly.

The property is in tax Class 2 and carries no building-wide abatement. Its built FAR of 7.17 is substantially above the mapped residential allowance of 4.0. That comparison describes the density of the existing apartment house; it does not confer permission to enlarge it or alter protected exterior features.

Pets and pied-à-terre ownership are permitted subject to confirmation with the managing agent. The building also accommodates apartment combinations, as demonstrated by its existing inventory, but a completed combination elsewhere does not substitute for approval of a new alteration.

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.

Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2018): a median $1,047/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 2.1% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01141-0037). 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.

• 120 West 70th Street — A same-block prewar cooperative with a very similar residential count and building height.
• 119 West 71st Street — A nearby cooperative of comparable scale from the earlier prewar apartment-house period.
• 59 West 71st Street — A 1920s cooperative with a similar mid-block form closer to Central Park.
• 18 West 70th Street — A larger prewar cooperative on the park-side portion of the same street.
• The Colonial Studios — A cooperative of comparable residential scale whose studio-building architecture offers a different interior-volume proposition.