174 West 89th Street
174 West 89th Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues · Upper West Side
Upper West Side
BBL 1012190059 · BIN 1032310
- Year built
- 1910
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Courtyard, bicycle room, storage and superintendent service
- Financing
- Up to 90%, with a 10% minimum down payment — confirm with the managing agent.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $470K – $770K
- Listing discount
- 0.6%
- Recorded transfers
- 15
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174 West 89th Street combines twenty cooperative apartments with a shared courtyard and storage facilities in a five-story walk-up. Built in 1910, it has a red-brick frontage above a rusticated limestone base. The inventory ranges from studios to substantially larger homes with two bedrooms and additional office space.
The location is near Amsterdam Avenue, with the West Side Community Garden nearby and Central Park to the east. Apartment exposures vary between the street frontage and the rear of the building. Common stairs provide access to all residential levels.
The cooperative permits ongoing subletting after an initial two-year ownership period, subject to confirmation with the managing agent. That flexibility gives an owner an option to retain an apartment after moving, while the building continues to operate under a cooperative board and proprietary leases.
Architecture and unit composition
The façade uses a single-story stone base beneath the red-brick upper floors, with a small cornice at the top. Fire escapes serve the street-facing apartments. The building's modest frontage and five-story height place it among the smaller apartment houses on the block.
Studios occupy the compact end of the inventory. Larger homes provide separate bedrooms and a combined living and dining area, and some add a small office. One of the ground-level layouts has two principal bedrooms plus an additional room used as an office; the office is an additional room within the two-bedroom plan.
Prewar features include high ceilings, crown moldings and wood floors. Renovated apartments have introduced open kitchens, breakfast counters and updated bathrooms. Some homes contain in-unit washers and dryers, including upper-floor apartments where that equipment reduces the need to carry laundry down the stairs.
Ground-floor homes and upper-floor apartments have different relationships to the sidewalk and neighboring buildings. The courtyard provides common outdoor space independently of those apartment exposures.
Building operations
The cooperative provides superintendent service, a bicycle room and private storage that can be rented separately. Courtyard access is part of the shared amenity arrangement. Intercom and video-security equipment serve the entrance.
The building is a Class 2 property without a recorded tax abatement. Real estate taxes are part of the cooperative's operating expenses. Its existing floor area slightly exceeds the current R7-2 residential allowance, and the tax lot is not individually landmarked or within an LPC historic district.
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 | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 2025 | 1D | 3 BR | $770,000 | -6.7% |
| Feb 25, 2021 | 5D | 2 BR · 1 BA | $715,000 | +0.0% |
| Jul 12, 2019 | 1B | 1 BA | $380,000 | +0.0% |
| Dec 2, 2014 | 5B | 1 BR | $760,000 | +2.7% |
| Nov 1, 2013 | 4D | 2 BR · 1 BA | $690,000 | -1.3% |
| Sep 30, 2013 | 5D | 2 BR | $677,500 | -2.5% |
Market read. Median listing discount 0.6% 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 1-01219-0059) 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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Comparable buildings
- 257 West 86th Street — A prewar cooperative alternative with a modest apartment inventory west of Broadway.
- 267 West 89th Street — A larger prewar cooperative on the same street for comparing building services and apartment scale.
- 160 West 87th Street — A nearby prewar cooperative with more residences and a taller form.
- 150 West 87th Street — An established cooperative near the same Amsterdam Avenue corridor, with a larger ownership group.
- 151 West 86th Street — A taller prewar cooperative with a relatively small residence count for its height.
More Upper West Side buildings
- 171 West 79th Street, Upper West Side — 1923 co-op
- The Dorilton, 171 West 71st Street — 1900 co-op by Janes & Leo
- The Hopkins (172 West 79th Street) — 1930 condominium
- 175 West 93rd Street (The Westwind) — 1929 co-op by Rosario Candela
- 176 West 87th Street — 1916 co-op by Schwartz & Gross
- The Packard, 176 West 86th Street — 1986 condominium
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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