160 West End Avenue (Lincoln Towers)
160 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10023
Lincoln Square, Upper West Side
BBL 1011587501 · BIN 1070689
- Year built
- 1963
- Type
- Condop
- Units
- 508
- Floors
- 29
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Cats and dogs permitted per listing records — verify current house rules
- Financing
- 70 percent maximum (30 percent minimum down) per management-sourced records
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Studio median
- $515K
- Recent range
- $430K – $1.8M
- Listing discount
- 1.2%
- Recorded transfers
- 529
Lincoln Towers is the Upper West Side's great post-war value engine, and 160 West End Avenue is one of its anchor buildings: 508 apartments at West 67th Street, in the heart of the eastern campus. The complex rose in 1961–64 under William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp as the residential component of the Lincoln Square Urban Renewal Project — the same clearance that produced Lincoln Center — to S.J. Kessler & Sons' utilitarian slab designs. The architecture critics were unkind; the buyers who followed figured out what the critics missed: large, light, efficiently planned apartments on a 20-acre private campus that cannot be reproduced anywhere in the Lincoln Center orbit, at a structural discount to everything around it.
This building's conversion is unusually well documented in The Roebling Research Library, and the documents settle facts that aggregator records blur. The offering plan — dated December 10, 1986, for "the Residential Unit of The 160 West End Avenue Condominium at Lincoln Towers" — confirms the condop structure: the building is legally a condominium whose residential unit is owned by 160 West End Avenue Owners Corp., with six professional units held separately. It allocates 161,281 shares across 508 apartments and 95 parking spaces — meaning parking at 160 is co-op property that can carry shares, a genuine scarcity on the Upper West Side. And it records the conversion economics of the era: tenant-purchasers at $294.79 per share against $647.00 for outsiders, the roughly 45-percent-of-market insider pricing that defined the complex-wide 1987 conversion under Mendik-affiliated sponsorship.
The post-conversion arc is documented through seventy-three amendments on file, and the through-line is steady normalization: by the amendments of the 2010s, resident shareholders controlled the board, with the remaining unsold shares held by a successor investor entity that rents its apartments at market. The thirteenth amendment, for the historians, records maintenance at $23.45 per share per year in 1989 — a 4.5 percent increase, characteristic of the building's incremental approach.
For buyers today the thesis is the same as the complex's: full-service co-op living, campus acreage, Lincoln Center at a five-minute walk, and per-square-foot pricing meaningfully below both the Riverside Boulevard condos to the west and the pre-war co-op stock further north on West End Avenue.
Architecture and unit composition
The building rises 29 floors in post-war brick on the eastern superblock, with professional suites at the base in the complex's standard pattern. The 508 apartments run from studios through large combinations, with the mid-century planning virtues the complex is known for — defined dining alcoves, generous closets, big windows — and open outlooks in every direction from the upper floors: Hudson River and Riverside South to the west, Lincoln Center and the midtown skyline to the south and east, the campus's trees below. Within the building, pricing tracks exposure and floor more than line; river-view and open-south units carry the premium, campus-facing units sell on quiet and light.
Building operations
Full-service at scale: 24-hour doorman and concierge, live-in superintendent, fitness center, bike room, private storage, and central laundry, with the deep staffing a 508-unit building supports. Parking is the distinctive asset — 95 spaces are share-allocated under the offering plan, and garage access runs through the complex; current availability and terms should be confirmed at offer stage. The Lincoln Towers Community Association maintains the shared campus, and its dues run through the building's budget (the line item appears in the financial statements on file). Governance is co-op-standard: board approval, proprietary leases, and a documented sublet path. The offering plan, amendment volumes, and historical financial statements are on file in The Roebling Research Library.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $122,982/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $20
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the engineer identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair before the next inspection cycle. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent). Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library.
See the full facade history →Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Apartment-level facts are independently verified before publishing; sale prices reflect the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | 11L | 1 BA | $430,000 | -6.5% | |
| Jun 2, 2026 | 21J | 1 BR · 2 BA | $650,000 | +0.0% | |
| May 14, 2026 | 25N | 1 BR · 1 BA | $880,000 | -1.7% | |
| May 5, 2026 | 24N | 1 BR · 1 BA · 980 sf | $1,190,000 | $1,214/sf | -0.8% |
| Mar 25, 2026 | 5T | 1 BA | $770,000 | +0.0% | |
| Mar 11, 2026 | 24L | 1 BA | $540,000 | +0.0% | |
| Feb 5, 2026 | 28L | 1 BA | $499,000 | -5.0% | |
| Feb 3, 2026 | 24R | 1 BA | $535,000 | -2.7% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,261/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 1.5% 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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 2023 | 4K | $755,000 |
| Apr 13, 2006 | 24L | $235,100 |
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 1-01158-7501) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
Understand the condop wrapper before contract. You are buying shares in 160 West End Avenue Owners Corp., which owns the residential unit of a condominium. Day-to-day this is invisible; in diligence, your attorney should review the condominium declaration and co-op documents (on file with us) so title and financials are papered correctly.
The campus is the amenity. Twenty acres of private, secured, landscaped grounds shared only with the complex's residents — there is no equivalent on the Upper West Side at this price tier. Families comparing against amenity-floor condos should weigh acreage against gym square footage.
Parking can be real property here. The offering plan allocates shares to 95 parking spaces. Whether a space is available with — or attached to — a given apartment materially changes value; confirm status early.
The board framework is moderate. 70 percent financing, documented pet and pied-à-terre flexibility per listing records, and a defined sublet path (one year in, then up to two years with approval) make this more navigable than classic West End Avenue co-ops. Run the Co-op Board Qualification Calculator before offering, and verify every term with the managing agent.
Ask whether your unit is an unsold-share unit. Apartments sold out of the investor-held unsold-share block trade under different approval mechanics. Your attorney should confirm the share status from the amendments on file.
Differentiate within the complex. Eight addresses read identically to casual buyers. Building-level facts — unit count, parking structure, staffing, line layouts — differ; we maintain the building-by-building record.
What to know if you’re selling
Sell the arithmetic. Your buyer is cross-shopping Lincoln Square condos at materially higher per-foot pricing and carry. The pitch is structural: full service, campus acreage, Lincoln Center proximity, and a co-op price basis the condos cannot touch.
Lead with light and line. The spread inside a 508-unit building is wide and exposure-driven. Same-line history matters more than building averages, and we maintain it in the Research Library.
Surface the documentation. The conversion structure, parking-share framework, and amendment history are on file with us; providing clean answers to buyer-attorney questions early is how Lincoln Towers deals stay on schedule.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 160 West End Avenue, also evaluate:
- 140 West End Avenue — sibling Lincoln Towers co-op at the campus's southern end; the largest building in the complex, with central HVAC and utilities-inclusive maintenance
- 150 and 170 West End Avenue — the immediate siblings on the eastern campus; same conversion, differing layouts and systems
- 180, 185, and 205 West End Avenue — the western and northern siblings, closest to the river views and Freedom Place
- 165 West 66th Street — full-service Lincoln Square co-op one block east; the non-campus alternative
- The Riverside Boulevard towers — the condo alternative immediately west, at a higher price point and carry
- One West End — the new-development condo benchmark at the avenue's southern end
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across West End Avenue — read The Roebling Team Guide to West End Avenue.
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