211 West 71st Street (The Lincoln Park)

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.

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.

Ownership form: Condominium. Purchases close through the board's right of first refusal rather than a cooperative approval; confirm the timeline with the managing agent.

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.

Recent sales

Recent closings at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. 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 (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,444/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 1.2% 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 1-01163-7501; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. 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.

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. This lot sits just outside the West End–Collegiate Historic District Extension, so window and façade work here needs no LPC review. Several neighbors, including 213 West 71st next door and 212 West 71st across the street, are inside the Extension, where changes need LPC approval; other adjoining lots are not. Check each adjoining lot's designation and zoning when judging what could change beside and behind your specific exposures.

Underwrite the unit's actual tax bill. The records show no exemption, but abatements apply at the bill level; confirm the specific unit's bill before comparing it with abated inventory elsewhere.

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.

Lead with transit and Lincoln Center. The 72nd Street express station one block north 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, there is no co-op board admission here. Confirm the LLC, trust, part-time-use and leasing rules in the declaration before marketing them.

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.

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