243 West 98th Street
243 West 98th Street, New York, NY 10025
Upper West Side
BBL 1018707501 · BIN 1056414
- Year built
- 1899
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 31
- Floors
- 7
- Landmark
- No
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 243 West 98th Street would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
243 West 98th Street is a seven-story prewar apartment house a few doors off Broadway: 31 condominium apartments above a row of six ground-floor stores. It sits on a block that is otherwise mostly landmarked. The historic district boundary runs along its western lot line, which leaves this building outside it.
The structural fact buyers need is the tenure. Prewar buildings on condominium lots in this stretch are often condops. The Broadway-corner building next door, 215 West 98th Street, is one: a co-op corporation holds its residential unit inside a condominium. 243 West 98th Street is not. The condominium declaration created 31 residential unit lots, and ACRIS shows them passing by individual deed to separate buyers from April 1987 onward. Nothing trades as shares.
The second thing buyers should understand is how the building sold out. The same sponsor converted 520 West 110th Street a year earlier. Here the sell-out stalled, and unsold apartments stayed with investors for almost twenty years. In 1993 fifteen units that had never been sold to an individual buyer passed in a single referee's deed, the instrument used to close a court-ordered foreclosure sale. The block then moved between holding companies in 1994, 2003 and 2005, shrinking along the way, and the last ten apartments were sold to individual owners during 2006. Today the DOF roll shows the residences held by individual owners and personal trusts. One entity holds two apartments, and no investor block remains.
Architecture and unit composition
The building occupies nearly all of a lot about 100 feet wide and 100 feet deep, with the six store units and apartment 1E on the ground floor. Because the building is not in LPC's database, there is no designation-report description of its façade. Its architect, original owner and exact construction date are not established by any record reviewed.
The apartments are large for a building of this age. DOF's roll carries the residences at roughly 1,200 to 1,540 square feet each, five per floor, in lines A through E. That points to a reconfiguration of the original tenement plan at or before the 1987 conversion, which the public record does not document directly. DOB signed off in 2011 on combining apartment 3C with a 3D/4D duplex, so the layout has changed since conversion. Confirm any apartment's legal configuration against its DOB filings.
Building operations
The retail base. All six ground-floor commercial units are held by a single owner. They have moved together as one block since the sponsor conveyed them in 1987. DOB filings over the past 25 years cover restaurant kitchens with exhaust ducts and fire-suppression hoods, a pizza shop, a deli and a dry cleaner. For residential buyers that means ducts and rooftop equipment belonging to commercial tenants, and a commercial owner with its own vote and its own share of common charges. Ask how common charges and board seats are divided between the residential and commercial units, and what the declaration says about permitted retail uses.
Façade. DOB records a parapet rebuild with lintel and brick replacement signed off in 2007, and cutting, pointing, brick and lintel replacement signed off in 2018 under a sidewalk shed permitted in 2017. Filings under the city's façade inspection program (Local Law 11) were classified Safe in Cycles 6 (2007) and 8 (2018), and Safe With a Repair and Maintenance Program in Cycle 7 (2012) and Cycle 9 (February 2023). A Cycle 9 status of Safe With a Repair and Maintenance Program means repairs were flagged to be done before the next cycle. Ask whether they are complete and how they were paid for.
Tax benefits. J-51 is a city tax benefit for building improvements. DOF's J-51 records show none on the condominium's unit lots, and the current roll shows no building-level exemption. Owners who live in their apartments may qualify for the standard co-op and condominium abatement, which is personal to the owner.
Finances. No budget, audited statements or reserve figures for this condominium were in The Roebling Research Library or the public record. Ask the managing agent for them, along with any assessment tied to the façade work.
Policy framework
Pets: Cats and dogs permitted, per listing records.
Leasing and pied-à-terre: Condominium owners can usually lease and use apartments as second homes, subject to the declaration and by-laws. Get the current terms and any board right of first refusal from the managing agent.
Washer/dryers and alterations: Present in some apartments per listing records. The building is not landmarked, so window and façade work needs DOB approval and the board's, but not LPC's.
Recent sales
At 31 apartments, 243 West 98th Street trades a few times a year at most, and some years not at all. As a condominium it is priced per square foot. Apartments here are uniformly large, so the spread between them comes from floor, exposure (street or rear), renovation condition and the combined layouts, more than from size. The second floor sits directly above the stores, which buyers weigh. With this few trades, a building median can swing from one year to the next on a single sale. Any market statement should be indexed to 2025, the last complete year.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent closings at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2026 | 5A | $1,495,000 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | 5B | $1,472,250 |
| Sep 27, 2021 | 4E | $1,300,000 |
| Jul 8, 2021 | 6A | $1,535,000 |
| Jun 24, 2019 | 6B | $2,162,500 |
| Jul 17, 2018 | 4C | $2,280,000 |
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 1-01870-7501) 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.
Buying here? Condo closing costs with a mortgage typically run 3 to 6% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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What to know if you’re buying
It is a real condominium. Individual deeds to separate buyers since 1987, no co-op wrapper. Some listing records describe the building as a condominium of rental units. DOF does not: every residence is classed as an owner-held unit on the current roll, and the six stores are classed as retail units.
Know the history, then check the present. The 1993 foreclosure of the unsold block and its resale between holding companies belong to the past, but they explain why an older condominium can look thin on resale data. Confirm with the managing agent that no owner is behind on common charges and that the building is not in litigation.
Understand the commercial owner. One owner holds all six stores. Ask about its share of common charges, its votes, and the retail-use restrictions in the declaration.
Close out the façade. The 2023 inspection called for repairs before the next cycle. Ask whether they are done and whether an assessment paid for them.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the size and the tenure. Apartments of roughly 1,200 to 1,500 square feet in a prewar building, with deeded condominium ownership and no board interview, compete well against co-ops of the same size on the surrounding blocks.
Price against the same line. Five lines on six residential floors and a few trades a year mean the right comparison is the same line, adjusted for floor and condition.
Have the documents ready. The declaration, current budget, façade status and a completed condominium questionnaire answer a buyer's lender before the questions come up.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 243 West 98th Street, also evaluate:
- 215 West 98th Street — 1911 George and Edward Blum building next door at Broadway, held as a co-op inside a condominium
- 255 West 98th Street — Gaetano Ajello cooperative on the same block, inside the historic district
- 240 West 98th Street (The Sabrina) — 1923 Schwartz & Gross apartment house across the street, converted to condominium in 2008
- 229 West 97th Street — The Powellton, a 1901 Broadway building structured as a condop
- 782 West End Avenue — 1913 cooperative at the West End Avenue end of the same block
- 245 West 99th Street (Ariel West) — new-construction condominium one block north, for buyers weighing prewar against new
- 520 West 110th Street — 1911 condominium converted a year earlier by the same sponsor
- 190 Riverside Drive — 1910 Ralph S. Townsend building on Riverside Park, another prewar condominium conversion
More Upper West Side buildings
- 240 West 98th Street (The Sabrina) — 1923 condominium by Schwartz & Gross
- 241 West 108th Street — 1911 co-op by George and Edward Blum
- 243 West 70th Street — 1925 co-op
- The Adagio (243 West 60th Street) — 2007 condop by H. Thomas O'Hara Architects
- 245 West 74th Street — 1923 co-op by Sugarman & Berger
- 245 West 99th Street (Ariel West) — 2008 condominium by COOKFOX Architects
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, 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. 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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