114 West 70th Street
114 West 70th Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, Upper West Side
Lincoln Square, Upper West Side
BBL 1011410037 · BIN 1029649
- Year built
- 1922
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Elevator, live-in superintendent, landscaped roof deck, common laundry, bicycle storage and resident storage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $920K
- Recent range
- $900K – $940K
- Listing discount
- 2.1%
- Recorded transfers
- 54
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Sommerfeld & Steckler designed 114 West 70th Street in 1922 as a neo-Renaissance apartment house. Brick, stone and terra cotta form its façade, with a two-story base and a canopied entrance. The building replaced three rowhouses and now contains 36 cooperative residences within the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District.
Its inventory includes compact one-bedroom apartments, larger two-bedroom plans and combinations. A landscaped common roof deck gives residents shared outdoor space, while a live-in superintendent and elevator support the building's daily use. Central Park is one avenue block to the east, with Lincoln Center several blocks south.
The architecture and operating scale are closely related. This is a substantial steel-frame apartment building on a mid-block parcel, with more height and interior floor area than its narrow street frontage suggests. Its exterior is protected by the historic-district designation.
Architecture and unit composition
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.
Building operations
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, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2025 | — | 1 BR · 1 BA | $825,000 | -2.9% | |
| Apr 28, 2025 | 9D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $940,000 | +5.0% | |
| Feb 27, 2025 | 3D | 1 BR · 1.5 BA | $900,000 | +0.6% | |
| Apr 28, 2022 | 8B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,365,000 | -2.2% | |
| Sep 27, 2019 | 6C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $600,000 | -7.6% | |
| Sep 26, 2019 | 4CD | 3 BR · 2 BA | $2,075,000 | -1.2% | |
| Dec 27, 2018 | 5B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,235,000 | -11.5% | |
| May 21, 2018 | 2D | 1 BR · 2 BA · 750 sf | $785,000 | $1,047/sf | -1.8% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2018): a median $1,047/sf 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.
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 1-01141-0037) 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.
At the recent median sale of $900K (3 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $11,925 to close, or 1.3% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $11,925
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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Comparable buildings
- 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.
More Upper West Side buildings
- Columbus Townhouses II, 111 West 89th Street — 1989 condominium
- 112 West 79th Street — 1925 co-op
- 114 Morningside Drive — 1910 co-op
- Bear House, 114 West 81st Street — co-op
- 119 West 71st Street — 1916 co-op
- 119 West 82nd Street — 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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