203 West 102nd Street
203 West 102nd Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue · Upper West Side
Manhattan Valley, Upper West Side
BBL 1018740028 · BIN 1056543
- Year built
- 1925
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Video entry, basement storage, bicycle storage, shared laundry; private roof terraces in selected homes
- Financing
- Confirm the current requirement with the managing agent.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $865K
- Recent range
- $780K – $1.1M
- Listing discount
- 2.1%
- Recorded transfers
- 17
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203 West 102nd Street is a five-story prewar cooperative with unusually varied layouts for a small building. Floor-through apartments, combined duplexes and top-floor homes with private roof space sit within the same walk-up. The building dates to 1925 and is self-managed.
Its interiors include exposed brick, hardwood floors, tall windows and wood-burning fireplaces in selected homes. Renovations and combinations have produced open living areas as well as more traditionally divided rooms. Some larger layouts have three bedrooms and two bathrooms, while other apartments occupy a smaller portion of a floor.
Architecture and unit composition
The floor-through plans draw light from opposite ends of the building. Longitudinal circulation allows living and sleeping rooms to occupy different exposures, with kitchens and bathrooms arranged along the interior. Some homes retain visible masonry alongside contemporary kitchen and bathroom installations.
Apartment combinations have expanded the range beyond a repeated front-and-rear plan. Duplex configurations connect living space over two floors. Upper-level residences can also include roof decks, including a terrace of approximately 1,000 square feet in one configuration.
Access is by stairs. A parlor-level home and a top-floor apartment therefore involve substantially different arrival routes, even when their interiors have comparable room counts. The roof terraces are private spaces associated with particular apartments; they are not a common amenity available to every shareholder.
Building operations
The cooperative is self-managed, with shared laundry and basement storage. Video entry provides access control at the front door. Bicycle storage supports households using the relatively small common areas for equipment that would otherwise occupy apartment space.
Heat and hot water are included in maintenance. In-unit laundry is permitted, although existing laundry arrangements vary: some homes use a washer and dryer outside the apartment on their floor, while shared laundry is also available. Installation permission does not mean every apartment already contains machines.
The building’s Class 2C assessment is subject to the small-building growth limits. The cooperative receives one property-tax assessment for its real estate, which is carried through the building’s maintenance structure.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2026 | 5F | 2 BR · 1 BA | $995,000 | -9.5% | |
| May 29, 2026 | 3R | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,150 sf | $865,000 | $752/sf | +1.8% |
| Dec 18, 2025 | 5R | 1 BR · 1 BA · 1,200 sf | $1,140,000 | $950/sf | -8.8% |
| Dec 30, 2024 | 1F | 3 BR · 2 BA | $975,000 | -2.0% | |
| Oct 11, 2024 | 4R | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,050 sf | $780,000 | $743/sf | +0.6% |
| Apr 3, 2024 | 1F | 3 BR · 2 BA | $977,500 | -2.2% | |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 5F | 2 BR · 1 BA | $777,000 | +5.7% | |
| Dec 18, 2020 | 2F | 2 BR · 1 BA | $729,000 | -0.8% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $752/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 0.8% 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 1-01874-0028) 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.
At the recent median sale of $975K (5 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $12,206 to close, or 1.3% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $12,206
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying at 203 West 102nd Street
Private roof space meets a shared building obligation. For a terrace apartment here, the governing agreement needs to distinguish responsibility for the deck, roof membrane and access for repairs. In a self-managed cooperative of this size, a roof project can involve both the terrace holder and the other shareholders directly.
Comparable buildings
- 2669 Broadway — A nearby low-rise prewar cooperative with a larger apartment inventory.
- 853 West End Avenue — An older prewar cooperative alternative in a taller building west of Broadway.
- West End Hall — A low-rise prewar rental building, larger than this small walk-up.
- The Creston — A larger prewar cooperative for buyers comparing apartment scale along West End Avenue.
- 306 West 100th Street — A taller prewar cooperative that retains a relatively modest building size.
More Upper West Side buildings
- 201 West 72nd Street (The Alexandria) — 1990 condominium by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
- The Fitzgerald, 201 West 74th Street — 1922 condominium
- 202 West 92nd Street — 1920 co-op
- 203 West 90th Street (Manhattan Tower) — 1928 condominium
- The Barrington (203 West 81st Street) — 1920 condominium
- 204 West 92nd Street — 1910 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
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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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