131 Riverside Drive
131 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10024
BBL 1012470001 · BIN 1033903
- Year built
- 1909
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 55
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Riverside-West End Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Dogs and cats
- Permitted
- Doorman
- Full-time doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $2.4M – $6.4M
- Listing discount
- 0.9%
- Recorded transfers
- 26
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131 Riverside Drive — The Dorchester — is a 1909 pre-war cooperative on the northeast corner of West 85th Street, one of the more attractive masonry buildings on a stretch of Riverside Drive defined by them. Designed by Neville & Bagge for the developers A.C. and H.M. Hall during the burst of development that transformed the Drive's single-family blocks into grand apartment houses, it pairs a finely detailed limestone facade with a park-front position to assess against the apartment’s actual exposure and dated comparable sales.
The case is the Drive's case. Buyers get a full-service pre-war co-op directly on Riverside Park, with the open western light and Hudson views the location affords, inside a protected historic district, a short walk from the Broadway retail spine and the 86th Street subway. At 55 apartments across thirteen stories, it is intimate without being tiny, and it has been a cooperative since its 1968 conversion.
Architecture and unit composition
Neville & Bagge — a firm that designed a great many of the Drive's early apartment houses — gave The Dorchester a dignified Beaux-Arts presence: a masonry facade with superb limestone detail and patterned brickwork, scaled to the boulevard width of Riverside Drive and the park across from it. It reads as one of the Drive's most graceful early towers.
The 55 apartments span the spacious pre-war layouts characteristic of 1909 construction — high ceilings, hardwood floors, generous and well-separated rooms, and deep western light on the park-facing lines. The corner position at 85th Street yields cross-exposures, and the upper floors capture open Hudson views. As with the best pre-war product on the Drive, the river-facing homes are the building's most coveted.
Building operations
The Dorchester operates as a full-service cooperative, with a full-time doorman, a live-in resident manager, central laundry, and storage. The building is pet-friendly, welcoming both dogs and cats. Purchases proceed through the standard co-op board package and interview; confirm the building's current financing, occupancy and subletting requirements from its governing documents and application instructions.
Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Dogs and cats
- PermittedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Not verified
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Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Full-time doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- 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
- 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
- $1,347/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $2
- Modeled exposure split equally across 55 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 | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2025 | 2C | 3 BR · 2 BA | $2,372,500 | -0.9% |
| Mar 22, 2024 | 6CD | 5 BR · 3.5 BA | $6,375,000 | -6.2% |
| Nov 9, 2022 | 10D | 3 BR · 2 BA | $2,670,000 | -0.9% |
| Mar 25, 2022 | 10B | 4 BR · 2.5 BA | $4,600,000 | +0.0% |
| Jul 2, 2018 | 4A | 4 BR | $4,412,500 | -16.0% |
| Oct 11, 2017 | 3D | 3 BR | $2,050,000 | -10.9% |
| May 18, 2017 | 5C | 3 BR | $2,600,000 | -10.3% |
| Nov 30, 2016 | 1D | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,797,211 | -4.1% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2013): a median $1,377/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 0.9% 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 1-01247-0001). 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
This is a co-op, so plan for a board package and interview and the board's financial review. The reward is a park-front pre-war address with western light and Hudson views in a protected historic district; assess any price difference using dated, matched sales. Focus diligence on the apartment’s actual exposure and the evidence for any asking-price premium, its renovation state, and the building's financials and reserves. We help buyers benchmark asking prices against comparable Riverside and West End pre-wars and prepare a complete board package.
What to know if you’re selling
Exposure is the seller's lever. For a park-facing home, document the actual western light and river views alongside the Neville & Bagge design and historic-district setting, without assuming a uniform buyer preference. Compare dated, matched pre-war sales on the Drive, using actual exposure and condition to assess any price difference for a river-facing line. We position these homes to the buyer who specifically wants the park and the Hudson, and we price and time the listing to the building's natural turnover.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 131 Riverside Drive, also evaluate these nearby Riverside Drive and West End Avenue pre-war cooperatives:
- 137 Riverside Drive — pre-war co-op on the same stretch of the Drive
- 140 Riverside Drive — full-service Riverside pre-war
- 160 Riverside Drive — Riverside Drive pre-war peer
- 173 Riverside Drive — park-front pre-war cooperative
- 320 West End Avenue — West End pre-war co-op nearby
More Riverside Drive buildings
- 100 Riverside Drive — 1938 co-op by Boak & Paris
- 110 Riverside Drive — 1929 co-op by Gronenberg & Leuchtag
- 126 Riverside Drive — 1894 co-op
- 137 Riverside Drive (The Clarendon) — 1906 co-op
- 140 Riverside Drive (The Normandy) — 1939 co-op by Emery Roth
- 160 Riverside Drive — 1922 co-op by Gaetano Ajello
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Riverside Drive — read The Roebling Team Guide to Riverside Drive.
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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