- Year built
- 1984
- Type
- Condominium
- Landmark
- No
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2380 Broadway — The Montana — is a 1984 full-service rental tower occupying the entire Broadway blockfront between West 87th and West 88th Streets. The site has a colorful history: at the turn of the last century this stretch of Broadway was part of "Automobile Row," lined with motorcycle dealers, garages, and repair shops, and the low commercial buildings that stood here were demolished in 1984 to make way for the 26-story tower that stands today. The Montana belongs to the wave of 1980s full-service high-rises that brought modern construction, larger windows, and contemporary systems to a Broadway corridor otherwise dominated by pre-war stock.
The location is the building's defining strength. This is the everyday spine of the West Side: the 86th Street station — served by the 1 local one block south and the B and C trains a short walk east — is within a block, and the avenue around the building is dense with grocers, restaurants, cafés, banks, and services. Central Park lies a few blocks east and Riverside Park a few blocks west, putting two of Manhattan's great green spaces within an easy walk in either direction. For renters who prize convenience, transit, and the energy of a working main street over the quiet of a pre-war side block, 2380 Broadway sits at the center of it all.
As a full-service rental rather than a co-op, the building offers something increasingly scarce on the Upper West Side: a doorman tower with an on-site garage available by lease, with no shares to buy and no board package to assemble. For tenants who want modern infrastructure, full-service staffing, and a prime transit address without the commitment of ownership, The Montana fills a specific and useful niche.
Architecture and unit composition
The 156 apartments are organized in the efficient manner of 1980s high-rise design — a mix running across one-, two-, and three-bedroom layouts, with the building's roughly 1,440 gross square feet per unit indicating a practical, family-capable distribution rather than a studio-heavy profile. The full blockfront siting and the tower's 26-story height combine to give many lines good light and, on the upper floors, open exposures over the surrounding lower-rise blocks toward both rivers.
The construction carries 1980s signatures throughout: standard-height ceilings, generous window walls, modern mechanical systems, and livable, well-proportioned plans. The masonry façade and contemporary fenestration place the building firmly in its era — clean and functional rather than ornamented — set above a Broadway retail base.
Upper-floor apartments enjoy the long Broadway-corridor sightlines and open sky that distinguish a tall 1980s tower from the pre-war buildings around it.
Building operations
2380 Broadway operates as a full-service rental building with full-time doorman coverage, an attended lobby, elevator service, on-site laundry, and an on-site parking garage occupying part of the lower levels — a genuine convenience on a corridor where parking is scarce. Ground-floor retail lines the Broadway frontage, adding to the building's at-the-door amenity.
Because the building is a rental, day-to-day operation and leasing run through ownership and the managing agent rather than a cooperative board; there is no purchase application or board approval. Leasing terms, rent, lease length, and pet policy run through management.
Recent activity
This is a rental building, so the relevant market is the leasing market rather than the sales market:
- Availability turns over on lease cycles rather than at the pace of co-op or condo resales; full-service Broadway rentals lease steadily given the corridor's demand.
- Asking rents track unit size, floor, and exposure, with larger layouts and upper-floor apartments at the top of the building's range.
- Any recorded transfers tied to this parcel relate to the building as a whole (ownership) rather than to individual apartment sales.
If you are weighing the Upper West Side more broadly, we can frame the rent-versus-buy decision against the corridor's deep cooperative inventory.
What to know if you're renting at 2380 Broadway
This is a rental, not a co-op or condo. There is no purchase, no shares, and no board approval — leasing is the process, which makes a full-service doorman tower like this unusually accessible.
Location is the core value. Express and local trains at 86th Street, two parks within a short walk, and the full Broadway-corridor convenience at your door.
The on-site garage is a real edge. Few Broadway buildings offer parking in the building; for car-owning renters that is a meaningful draw.
1980s construction is a practical advantage. Efficient layouts, larger windows, and modern systems versus the pre-war stock — and full-service staffing.
Upper floors carry the light. Exposure and outlook improve materially with height in a 26-story tower over lower neighbors.
If you're weighing rent vs. buy
For tenants at The Montana considering ownership, the surrounding Upper West Side offers one of the deepest pre-war cooperative markets in Manhattan, along with a growing set of condominiums. A consultation can frame the economics — carrying costs, tax treatment, and equity over time — against your timeline and the specific buildings worth evaluating nearby.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $125,195/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $67
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).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 2380 Broadway, also evaluate these nearby Upper West Side / Broadway-corridor buildings:
- 2373 Broadway — full-service Broadway-corridor building a block south
- 2480 Broadway — Broadway-corridor full-service building
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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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