240 West End Avenue
240 West End Avenue, at West 71st Street · West End Avenue
Lincoln Square, Upper West Side
BBL 1011627501 · BIN 1030390
- Year built
- 1924
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Full-time doorman, resident superintendent, elevator, package handling and common laundry
Every recorded sale at this building, 2006–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,099
- Listing discount
- 0.9%
- Recorded sales
- 49
- On record
- 2006–2026
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240 West End Avenue is a 1924 Rosario Candela apartment house converted to condominium ownership under a plan accepted in 2008 and declared effective in 2009. Its prewar corner building contains a wide range of apartment sizes, from one-bedroom homes to large combined residences and a substantial penthouse. The conversion brought condominium tenure to an established staffed apartment house.
The original conversion was non-eviction. The Attorney General's filing identified both regulated and unregulated apartments when the plan was submitted, along with two professional spaces. Those original categories describe the occupied building at conversion; the homes offered for sale today have their own ownership and occupancy status.
The exterior retains a pronounced entrance and upper-floor ornament. Its red-brick walls, limestone detailing and corner position make it a substantial presence on West End Avenue. LPC includes the property in the West End–Collegiate Historic District Extension.
Architecture and unit composition
LPC identifies the style as Colonial Revival with alterations. The main entrance has Corinthian pilasters, while a broken, swan-neck pediment marks a window above. Garlands, fan motifs and roundels decorate the upper façade, and balconettes with urns appear near the top of the building.
The original cornice was removed during the twentieth century and replaced by a metal parapet. That alteration changed the roofline while leaving much of the lower and middle façade's masonry composition intact. The penthouse rises above the main sixteen-story mass.
Apartment sizes cover a broad span. One-bedroom layouts can measure roughly 700 to 800 square feet, while combined apartments approach 2,000 square feet. The largest full-floor and penthouse arrangements exceed 3,000 square feet and contain several bedrooms. This creates several distinct markets within a relatively modest apartment count.
Some renovated homes have in-unit laundry and central air conditioning. Larger plans can retain separate living and dining rooms, with bedroom wings separated from entertaining space. Smaller apartments occupy portions of the original floor plates and have more compact circulation.
Building operations
The building maintains full-time doorman service and a resident superintendent. Common laundry supplements apartment-level installations, and staff handle packages. The building describes itself as smoke-free and permits cats and dogs, subject to its current rules.
The largest owner holds 21 of the 51 residential condominium lots, or approximately 41%, in the current DOF roll. That is a material ownership concentration within a small condominium. The number of apartments held by one owner is not the same as that owner's percentage of common interest or voting control; confirm both separately.
Residential tax lots are Class 2, while the two commercial lots are Class 4. No building-wide abatement is identified. Exterior work takes place within the historic-district framework, and the existing building substantially exceeds the floor-area ratio permitted by its present R8B zoning.
Recent sales
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 2026 | 6D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 800 sf | $983,896 | $1,230/sf | -1.6% |
| Feb 4, 2025 | PH | 6 BR · 4.5 BA · 3,800 sf | $5,400,000 | $1,421/sf | -8.1% |
| Sep 6, 2024 | 2D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 800 sf | $900,000 | $1,125/sf | -9.5% |
| Dec 7, 2023 | 9D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 800 sf | $896,060 | $1,120/sf | -0.3% |
| Aug 8, 2022 | 13AB | 3 BR · 3 BA · 1,896 sf | $3,500,000 | $1,846/sf | +3.0% |
| May 18, 2022 | 7D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 800 sf | $999,999 | $1,250/sf | off-mkt |
| Oct 21, 2021 | 7C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 715 sf | $975,000 | $1,364/sf | +0.0% |
| Sep 15, 2021 | 6AB | 4 BR · 2,000 sf | $2,395,000 | $1,198/sf | +0.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,099/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 0.9% 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 1-01162-7501) 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
A sponsor apartment and an individual owner's resale are different transactions here. The occupied conversion and continuing concentration of ownership make the seller's capacity a consequential part of the purchase. A renovation doesn't tell you whether the sponsor has already sold the apartment; check the chain of title.
Comparable buildings
- 350 West 71st Street: A nearby prewar condominium alternative on the same cross street.
- The Gemstone: A West End Avenue condominium for comparing prewar layouts and building services.
- The Chatsworth: A large historic ownership conversion with substantial prewar apartments.
- The Pythian: A historic condominium conversion with a markedly different architectural origin and apartment geometry.
- The Astor: A prewar condominium conversion with a larger overall residential scale.
More West End Avenue buildings
- 205 West End Avenue (Lincoln Towers) — 1961 condop by S.J. Kessler & Sons
- 230 West End Avenue — 1927 co-op by Rosario Candela
- 235 West End Avenue (The Gemstone) — 1928 condominium
- 243 West End Avenue (Coliseum Plaza) — 1925 co-op by Emery Roth
- Howard House (246 West End Avenue) — 1913 co-op by J.E.R. Carpenter
- 260 West End Avenue — 1925 co-op by Schwartz & Gross
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across West End Avenue — read The Roebling Team Guide to West End Avenue.
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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