182 West 82nd Street (The Pontiac)

The four original façades survive as the building's public face: Romanesque Revival brownstone, 1892–93, with the horizontal banding and arched openings typical of Schellenger's speculative Upper West Side work. Above the original cornice sits a contemporary two-story addition set back from the street wall, the standard LPC-acceptable solution for adding height inside a historic district — visible from a distance, largely invisible from the sidewalk directly below.

Behind those façades the building is effectively new. Merging four party-wall structures into eleven residences required cutting through the original bearing walls, rebuilding circulation around a single elevator core, and reconciling four sets of floor levels. Buyers should expect the consequences of that surgery: floor plates that are wide rather than deep, occasional level changes, and apartment layouts that follow the logic of the original building widths rather than a clean rectangle. Walk the plan.

The composition runs from two triplexes at the base — townhouse-scaled, with direct street entrances — through full-floor homes in the middle of the stack to two penthouses at the top. Ceiling heights and window sizes vary between the retained floors and the addition. As with any conversion of this type, the building has no representative apartment, and line-and-floor analysis matters more than a building average.

The building runs as a small full-service condominium: an attended lobby with doorman coverage supplemented by virtual concierge service, a resident superintendent, a fitness center, bicycle storage and private storage. Eleven residences is a small denominator for staffed service, and common charges per square foot should be evaluated against the operating budget rather than the amenity roster.

Two diligence items are specific to this building. First, landmark status: any exterior capital work — façade restoration, window replacement, roof or mechanical projects — requires an LPC permit, which adds time and professional cost to a Local Law 11 cycle. Ask for the current façade filing status and the reserve position together. Second, the building is a heavily reconfigured 1892 structure. Mechanical and structural systems are new, but the enclosure is not, and a conversion at this level of complexity is worth reviewing through the board's capital records rather than assumed away.

Ownership form: Condominium. Purchases close through a board right of first refusal rather than a cooperative approval — the faster and more predictable of the two frameworks, and a meaningful differentiator on the Upper West Side, where most comparable family-sized inventory is cooperative.

Pied-à-terre, subletting, LLC, trust and foreign ownership: All permitted under the standard condominium framework. Minimum sublet lease terms should be confirmed with the managing agent.

Pets: Not documented in the records reviewed here. Confirm weight and breed limits in the house rules.

Flip tax: Not documented in public records.

Real estate taxes: No exemption of any kind. Underwrite full unabated taxes on the specific unit and run the True Monthly Carrying Cost analysis against the current bill.

Recent sales

Recent closings 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.

Market read. Most recent trades (2024) cleared a median $3,212/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 8.3% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01212-7502) 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.

Ignore PLUTO's address and year. The lot is labeled 176 West 82nd Street and dated 1900 in city data. The building is addressed 182, and LPC dates the original structures to 1892–93. Anything built on the PLUTO record — including automated valuation output — starts from the wrong facts.

This is a landmarked building. Exterior work needs LPC approval. Budget more time and more professional cost for façade cycles than you would at a non-designated building of the same age.

Four buildings, one condominium. Layouts follow the geometry of the original party walls. Some plans are excellent; all of them repay walking in person.

No abatement. Pull the actual tax bill on the specific unit. Nothing steps up or burns off here — the number starts where it stays.

Condominium in a co-op neighborhood. The policy flexibility is a large part of what buyers are paying for. Price it as an advantage, and underwrite it as one.

Lead with scarcity of type. Eleven family-sized condominium residences inside the Upper West Side historic district is a supply story no competing building on these blocks can copy.

Name the ownership form early. Buyers coming from the co-op inventory are frequently unaware how different the approval, sublet and financing rules are here. That difference is worth real money and should be made explicit.

Correct the public record in your materials. Listing feeds and third-party data pull the PLUTO address and vintage. Presenting the LPC date and the 182 address up front removes friction in diligence.

Same-building comparables are thin. Eleven residences in four building types means resale pricing is a line-and-floor exercise, not a building average.

If you're considering 182 West 82nd Street, also evaluate:

• 150 West 82nd Street (The Marlow) — George F. Pelham's 1926 building converted by BKSK Architects; the same block, a much larger condominium, and the closest direct alternative
• 134 West 82nd Street — prewar cooperative on the same block; the co-op comparison in its purest form
• 139 West 82nd Street — Gronenberg and Leuchtag cooperative one block over, at different scale and economics
• 200 Amsterdam Avenue — the large full-amenity new-construction condominium tower nearby; the opposite structural argument at a higher price tier
• 380 Amsterdam Avenue — boutique Amsterdam Avenue condominium with a comparable buyer pool
• 530 Amsterdam Avenue — small-building Upper West Side condominium alternative
• 402 Columbus Avenue — avenue-front condominium a short walk east
• 580 Columbus Avenue — Upper West Side condominium at similar scale
• 100 West 80th Street — side-street building two blocks south, different vintage and policy stack
• 2138 Broadway — Broadway-front alternative with a very different exposure profile