153 West 80th Street
153 West 80th Street, New York, NY 10024
Upper West Side
BBL 1012110013 · BIN 1031960
- Year built
- 1895
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 20
- Landmark
- Designated
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153 West 80th Street is the earliest building in our Neville & Bagge catalog. The firm's eight other West Side buildings on our site date from 1908 to 1916. This is a five-story walk-up from 1895–96, built for the developer William Drought. It predates those buildings by more than a decade and shows the type the firm started with: the brick-and-stone flats building, four apartments to a floor, on a 35-foot lot.
The building sits between Columbus and Amsterdam, across Columbus Avenue from the American Museum of Natural History, inside the Upper West Side / Central Park West Historic District. Landmark protection covers the façade and the streetscape. It also adds LPC review to window, masonry and roof work.
The building has been a co-op since 1988, when 153 W. 80th Ltd. took title. As in many West Side conversions of that period, entities holding unsold shares sold apartments off over the following three decades. ACRIS shows those holders selling or transferring apartments between 2004 and 2021, and every one of the 20 apartment designations has now changed hands at least once. The building now trades mostly between individual owners.
Architecture and unit composition
LPC records the building as Renaissance Revival, brick with stone. The plan is four apartments per floor, lines A through D, on floors one through five. Lines are small by modern standards, consistent with an 1890s flats building on a 35-foot lot.
Combinations have changed the layout at the bottom of the building:
- 1D and 2D were combined into a duplex with an internal stair; DOB signed the work off in May 2017. That duplex is the building's largest apartment and last traded in 2025.
- 2A. A 2019 permit to add 2A to the duplex was issued only in part. ACRIS then shows 2A sold as a separate apartment in 2021, so the three-apartment combination does not appear to have been completed.
- Cellar space. A 1981 alteration created recreation rooms in the cellar connected to first-floor apartments. DOB accepted a 2006 filing documenting that completed work, signed off in 2007. Ask whether any first-floor apartment you are considering includes cellar space, and how the proprietary lease and share allocation treat it.
Several apartments have been gut-renovated under DOB alteration filings since 2001. Condition therefore varies a great deal from line to line.
Building operations
Staffing. No doorman or elevator. Superintendent arrangements are not documented; ask the managing agent.
Heating plant. DOB records a gas boiler replacement in the cellar, filed in 2010 and signed off in October 2011.
The underlying mortgage. ACRIS shows the corporation's mortgage moved from a savings bank to a commercial bank by assignment in September 2021, consolidated at $1 million with about $219,000 of new money. The rate, maturity and what the new money funded are not in any document on file. Ask for all three.
Unsold shares. The original holder of unsold shares and affiliated entities sold apartments in stages. Five apartments moved between holder entities in 2017; four were resold to individual buyers from 2019 to 2021. The fifth, 4A, has no arm's-length sale on record since a 2021 transfer between holder parties. A small number of apartments are titled to LLCs. Lenders ask what share of the building any one holder or investor owns; get the current figure from the managing agent.
Landmark compliance. Façade, window and roof work need LPC approval. At five stories, the building is below the height at which Local Law 11 façade inspections apply (buildings taller than six stories), so façade upkeep is on the board's own schedule. Ask when the façade and roof were last done.
J-51 and carrying costs
DOF's historical J-51 file shows a single grant starting in 1974: a 12-year abatement at 75% of a small certified alteration cost. It paid out a few hundred dollars a year and was used up by fiscal 1982. There is no current J-51 benefit and nothing burning off. The lot's current benefit is the co-op/condo abatement, which passes through only to shareholders who live in their apartments as their primary residence. Maintenance and the tax share of maintenance are not documented on file; get the current budget from the managing agent.
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 signed contract to a board decision in a building this size.
Financing, post-closing liquidity, subletting, pied-à-terre, trusts and LLCs, flip tax. None of these is documented in public records or in the materials on file. ACRIS shows LLC purchases here, including one in 2023. That shows entity purchases have happened. It does not establish the board's current policy. Get each item in writing from the managing agent before making an offer.
Recent sales
A 20-designation walk-up trades only a handful of times a year, so read pricing per room and at the apartment level. The 1D/2D duplex sits at the top of the building's range. The single-floor apartments on the upper floors trade at a clear discount, because every floor is a walk-up flight. Renovation condition matters as much as floor. The building's case rests on its landmark block, its location between the Park and Amsterdam, and its small scale. Against it are the stairs and the lack of staff. Index any market read to 2025, the last complete year.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Recent transfers at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 2025 | 1D2D | $1,840,000 |
| Jul 26, 2021 | 2A | $715,000 |
| Jun 9, 2021 | 3D | $695,000 |
| Jun 1, 2021 | 2B | $662,250 |
| May 24, 2021 | 4C | $585,000 |
| Mar 23, 2021 | 3C | $645,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01211-0013) 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.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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What to know if you’re buying
Price the stairs. Floor matters more here than in an elevator building. A fifth-floor apartment should be priced as a fifth-floor walk-up.
Get the mortgage terms. The corporation took on new money in 2021. Ask for the rate, the maturity and what it paid for.
Confirm the investor position. Ask how many apartments are held by entities or rented out. It affects financing.
Read the lease on cellar space. If you are buying a first-floor apartment, confirm what cellar space comes with it and how it is documented.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the record. An 1895–96 Neville & Bagge building in a designated historic district between the Park and Amsterdam is a clear, verifiable selling point. Cite the LPC record.
Have the structural answers in the package. The 2021 refinancing terms, the current investor count and the reserve balance are what a buyer's attorney will ask for. Having them ready keeps the board timeline intact.
Comparable buildings
- 18 West 87th Street — 1891–92 walk-up co-op in the same historic district
- 105 West 70th Street — walk-up rowhouse co-op of the same decade, further south
- 255 West 90th Street — Neville & Bagge's 1909 elevator co-op, the firm's later mode
- 46 West 95th Street — historic-district co-op with a holder of unsold shares still selling down
- 135 West 79th Street (The Lyons) — 1914 elevator co-op a block south, between Columbus and Amsterdam
- 150 West 79th Street (The Dorset) — 1911 Schwartz & Gross elevator co-op a block south
- 100 West 80th Street (The Orleans) — 1899–1900 former hotel at Columbus Avenue, now a condominium
More Upper West Side buildings
- 150 West 95th Street — 1925 co-op
- 151 West 74th Street — 1923 co-op
- 151 West 86th Street — 1913 co-op by W. K. Rouse & L. A. Goldstone
- 155 West 68th Street (Dorchester Towers) — 1964 condominium by S.J. Kessler & Sons
- 155 West 70th Street — 1989 condominium by SLCE Architects
- 155 West 71st Street — 1940 condominium by Jacob M. Felson
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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