211 West 71st Street (The Lincoln Park)
211 West 71st Street, New York, NY 10023
Lincoln Square, Upper West Side
BBL 1011637501 · BIN 1030444
- Year built
- 1986
- Type
- Condop
- Units
- 58
- Floors
- 17
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,201
- Listing discount
- 1.1%
- Recorded sales
- 81
- On record
- 2003–2025
The Lincoln Park is a small, well-behaved condominium in a location that does most of the work. The block sits one street north of the express subway at 72nd Street and Broadway, three blocks from Lincoln Center, and one block east of Riverside Park's southern approach. It is the sort of address that condominium buyers keep coming back to because the transit is genuinely exceptional — the 1, 2 and 3 at 72nd Street is one of very few express stops on the West Side — and because the surrounding streetscape between Broadway and West End is townhouse-scaled rather than tower-scaled.
The building itself belongs to a specific and now-scarce category: the mid-1980s Upper West Side condominium built new, on an interior lot, at contextual scale. It went up as a condominium rather than a conversion, which matters more than it sounds. The whole of the Upper West Side's condominium inventory splits into prewar buildings converted from rental, postwar rentals converted decades after construction, and the small ground-up new-construction cohort. This is the third kind, and its consequence is a clean ownership record from the beginning: no residual rental tenancies traceable to a conversion, no sponsor-held blocks of unsold apartments carried for decades, no dual-class governance. ACRIS shows the same apartments changing hands between unrelated individual owners across four decades, which is exactly what a healthy small condominium looks like in the record.
Architecturally it is modest and knows it. Red brick over a one-story limestone base, a canopied entrance, regular fenestration, recessed air-conditioning sleeves, a roof deck. Carter Horsley's published review called it handsome and noted what it lacks — no fireplaces, no health club — which is a fair summary. The 1980s Upper West Side produced a run of these contextual brick infill buildings after the neighborhood's zoning was tightened, and this is a competent one. The real design decision is the plan, not the elevation: roughly four apartments per floor on a lot only ninety-six feet wide produces genuinely large floor plates per residence and very few neighbors on a landing.
Architecture and unit composition
The building occupies an irregular interior lot of roughly 7,800 square feet and carries about 52,300 square feet of building area, of which just under 48,500 is residential. Divide that across 58 residences and the average is close to 835 square feet of gross building area per apartment before common-area deduction — this is a building of one- and two-bedroom homes rather than large family layouts, with a handful of larger and terraced units in the upper stack.
Because it is an interior lot with no corner, light comes from the street front and the rear yard. A small number of residences carry balconies; a duplex-scale terrace exists at the upper floors, evidenced by a 2009 Department of Buildings filing to reconstruct a terrace deck on a 16th-floor apartment. Buyers should establish, unit by unit, which windows face the street, which face the rear, and what is developable behind and beside the building — the neighbors on this block are low.
The commercial base fronts West 71st Street and comprises two condominium units under common ownership since 2022. It has historically housed neighborhood service retail; the Department of Buildings record shows tenant fit-outs through the 2000s and 2010s.
Building operations
The Lincoln Park runs as a full-service condominium at boutique scale: a 24-hour doorman and concierge at an attended lobby, a live-in resident manager, central laundry, and a roof deck. There is no fitness center. For a 58-residence building, doorman coverage plus a live-in superintendent is a substantial fixed cost spread over a small denominator, and common charges should be evaluated per square foot against the specific unit and the building's operating budget rather than against the amenity list.
The Department of Buildings record shows the maintenance profile of a well-kept 1980s building: façade repair cycles with sidewalk sheds in 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2013, a structural repair to the water tank bulkhead in 2008, chimney replacement and repointing in 2013, and a lobby alteration in 2006. Nothing in that record suggests deferred maintenance, but the façade cycle is regular and the next Local Law 11 filing is a fair question to ask before contract, along with the reserve position and the commercial rent contribution to the budget.
Policy framework
Ownership form: Condominium. Purchases close through the board's right of first refusal rather than a cooperative approval, which produces faster and more predictable timelines — 30 to 45 days is typical.
Pied-à-terre, subletting, LLC, trust and foreign ownership: all permitted under the standard condominium framework. Minimum lease terms and any sublet registration requirement should be confirmed with the managing agent.
Pets, house rules, alteration rules and washer/dryer permissions: not documented in public records for this building. These are all managing-agent questions and should be asked before contract rather than assumed from the building type.
Flip tax: not documented in public records. Confirm any resale capital contribution with the managing agent before pricing a sale.
Real estate taxes — the 421-a question. This is the fact most worth being precise about, and precision here means saying what the record does and does not support. No 421-a exemption appears on any residential unit lot in this condominium in any Department of Finance assessment roll from FY2011 through FY2027. The city's published assessment rolls do not extend back to the building's first taxable years, so the exact grant and expiry years cannot be verified from open records. What can be said with confidence: a building completed in 1985–86 that received 421-a would have received the short-term benefit then available — ten years, with the exemption phasing out over the final years — which would have been fully exhausted by the late 1990s at the latest, a quarter-century before the earliest roll on which this building appears unabated. Underwrite full unabated taxes on the specific unit. There is no step-up schedule ahead and no burn-off cliff behind; the tax line on a current bill is the tax line.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- Per unit / month range
- —
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
The Lincoln Park trades as a mid-market Lincoln Square condominium: not new construction, not prewar, and priced in the band between the two. Its buyer is typically someone who wants condominium flexibility — pied-à-terre use, an LLC or trust holding, the ability to rent — in a doorman building near the express subway, and who is unwilling to pay new-development pricing to get it.
Turnover is steady rather than brisk. ACRIS records roughly 176 deeds across the building's unit lots since the 1980s, spread evenly across the stack, so line-by-line and floor-by-floor comparables exist within the building itself. Pricing separates on floor, exposure, balcony and renovation condition; the absence of a fitness center and the modest amenity program hold the building below the newer condominium product on Broadway and West End, which is precisely the arbitrage for a buyer who values the location over the amenity roster. The unabated tax position means the headline price and the true monthly move together here, without the divergence that abated new construction creates. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 2025 | 2C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 785 sf | $950,000 | $1,210/sf | -2.6% |
| Jun 6, 2024 | 7C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 787 sf | $999,000 | $1,269/sf | -9.2% |
| Jan 30, 2024 | 17B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 795 sf | $988,000 | $1,243/sf | -17.3% |
| Jan 4, 2024 | 7A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,064 sf | $1,545,000 | $1,452/sf | -3.1% |
| Aug 23, 2023 | 15A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,064 sf | $1,625,000 | $1,527/sf | -1.5% |
| May 19, 2023 | 2A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,064 sf | $1,390,000 | $1,306/sf | -4.1% |
| Jul 28, 2022 | 5B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 787 sf | $940,000 | $1,194/sf | +0.0% |
| May 10, 2022 | 11C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 798 sf | $935,000 | $1,172/sf | -1.6% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $1,201/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 1.1% 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 1-01163-7501) 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
What to know if you’re buying
Confirm the parking. Secondary sources describe an on-site garage; the city's own records show no garage area on this lot. Do not pay for parking you have not confirmed with the managing agent.
Do not assume a landmark constraint — or the absence of one. The West End–Collegiate Historic District and its Extension are close but do not reach this lot. That means no LPC review on window or façade work, and it also means the neighboring lots are not protected from redevelopment. Check what could be built beside and behind your specific exposures.
Underwrite full taxes. There is no abatement and there has not been one for decades. Anyone modeling this building against abated inventory elsewhere will misprice the monthly.
Ask for the documents the public record does not carry. No offering plan for this building was located in either the Compass Offering Plan Library or The Roebling Research Library. That makes the managing agent the only source for the house rules, the pet policy, the alteration rules, the sublet terms, any resale capital contribution, and the reserve and Local Law 11 position. Request all of it before signing.
Four apartments to a floor is the product. Walk a landing. The building's quiet is a function of its density, and it is the thing a floor plan does not show you.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with transit and Lincoln Center. The 72nd Street express station one block south is a genuine differentiator on the Upper West Side, where most of the residential stock is on the local. Say so plainly.
Sell the condominium framework, not the finishes. In a corridor dominated by cooperatives, the ability to buy in an LLC or a trust, use the apartment part-time, and rent it out is worth real money to a specific buyer. That buyer is looking for a building like this one and will pay for it.
Present the total monthly. Common charges plus unabated taxes is the number. Buyers coming from abated new development will otherwise draw the wrong comparison, and they will draw it late.
Benchmark against the right set. The comparable buildings are the other small and mid-size Lincoln Square condominiums, not the prewar cooperatives on the surrounding side streets, whose economics, policies and buyer pools are different.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 211 West 71st Street, also evaluate:
- 235 West 71st Street — a 1912 Gaetan Ajello building run as a condominium on the same block; prewar architecture with the same ownership form
- 2000 Broadway — Davis, Brody & Associates, 1987; the closest peer by vintage and ownership form, at larger scale and on the avenue
- 214 West 72nd Street — 2021 ground-up condominium a block north; the new-construction alternative
- 200 West 72nd Street — built as a rental in 2010 and converted to condominium in 2020; the full-amenity condominium comparison
- 155 West 68th Street — a 1965 building converted to condominium, with a substantial rental population traceable to its conversion; a useful contrast in ownership history
- 104 West 70th Street — a 1903 building run as a true condominium; the prewar condominium alternative to the south
- 201 West 70th Street — a 1970s rental tower converted to cooperative in 1984; the full-service cooperative alternative at scale
- 2025 Broadway (The Nevada) — a 1977 condop; the same neighborhood, an entirely different ownership structure worth understanding before you compare monthlies
- 267 West 71st Street — an 1886–87 rowhouse converted to a walk-up cooperative on the same street; the small-building, low-carry alternative
- 140 West 69th Street — a circa-1904 elevator cooperative nearby; prewar co-op economics and board approval
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
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.
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