- Year built
- 1920
- Type
- Cooperative
- Floors
- 5
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2024
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $591
- Listing discount
- 0.1%
- Recorded sales
- 10
- On record
- 2005–2024
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 1947 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
1947 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard is an eleven-residence prewar cooperative whose larger homes retain the proportions of old Harlem floor-through apartments. Separate living and dining rooms, substantial ceiling heights and broad layouts distinguish the building. It operates on a market-rate basis without income-cap restrictions.
The address lies between West 117th and West 118th Streets, seven blocks north of Central Park. The two nearby 116th Street subway corridors provide access to the 2 and 3 trains on Lenox Avenue and the B and C trains on Frederick Douglass Boulevard. The building itself is a five-story walk-up.
Architecture and unit composition
The apartment inventory includes two- and three-bedroom homes of approximately twelve hundred sixty to thirteen hundred fifty square feet. Larger layouts can include a formal dining room, a separate kitchen, an office or flexible room, and a laundry area. Several homes receive light from three exposures.
Surviving prewar details include decorative fireplaces with original mantels, inlaid parquet floors, wood moldings, old doors and transoms. Ceiling heights reach approximately thirteen feet in some residences. These features coexist with renovated kitchens and bathrooms, so the amount of retained interior fabric varies.
Bathroom configurations include one-and-a-half and two-bath arrangements. In-unit washers and dryers appear in multiple homes. The large floor plates allow distinct living and dining spaces without relying on a single combined room.
Building operations
A part-time superintendent and porter provide service to the small cooperative. Storage is associated with some apartments, and the entry uses an intercom. The stairs remain the access route to upper-floor residences.
Policy framework
Financing: Confirm the current maximum financing percentage with the managing agent.
Pets: Cats allowed; dogs are excluded — confirm with the managing agent.
Co-purchasing and gifts: Confirm current co-purchasing and gifting policy with the managing agent.
Subletting: Permitted, subject to the corporation's current conditions — confirm with the managing agent.
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 | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 20, 2024 | 6 | 3 BR · 1.5 BA | $810,000 | -1.8% | |
| Mar 25, 2024 | 1 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,260 sf | $745,000 | $591/sf | -12.4% |
| Dec 6, 2019 | 9 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,350 sf | $999,000 | $740/sf | +0.0% |
| Feb 2, 2017 | 10 | 1 BR · 1 BA · 1,300 sf | $548,500 | $422/sf | -0.3% |
| Dec 30, 2015 | 1 | 3 BR · 1 BA · 1,260 sf | $519,000 | $412/sf | +4.0% |
| Oct 21, 2013 | 6 | 2 BR | $675,000 | +12.5% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2024) cleared a median $591/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 0.1% 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 1-01902-0064) 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.
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
- 50 Morningside Drive — A prewar cooperative with elevator access, useful for comparing the operational difference from a walk-up.
- 114 Morningside Drive — Another modest prewar elevator cooperative with a larger residence count.
- The Normandie — A prewar condominium conversion offering deeded ownership nearby.
- The Fitzgerald — A larger historic-building condominium conversion with a later residential renovation.
- The Endymion — A prewar condominium substantially rehabilitated in the late twentieth century.
More Harlem buildings
- Madison Park Apartments, 1831 Madison Avenue — 2001 co-op
- The Strathmore, 1890 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard — 1920 condominium
- Graham Court, 1923–1937 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard — 1899 by Clinton & Russell
- 2002 Fifth Avenue — 2006 co-op
- 2068 Fifth Avenue — 1880 condominium
- 2101 Eighth Avenue (Parc Standard) — 2008 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Harlem — read The Roebling Team Guide to Harlem.
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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