245 West 74th Street

Sugarman, Hess & Berger gave the building a richly detailed pre-war exterior: a masonry composition of brick, limestone, and terra-cotta, anchored by a two-story stone entrance surround and lifted by stone balconettes at the seventh floor — the sort of vertical incident that keeps a ten-story facade from reading flat. The building faces south onto 74th Street, drawing light into the front-facing lines.

Inside, the 59 residences carry the layouts of the early 1920s — beamed ceilings, hardwood floors, real foyers, and the room counts that make pre-war apartments live larger than the square footage implies. The mix runs from efficient one- and two-bedroom homes to larger family layouts, with the courtyard-facing apartments enjoying the quiet of the landscaped garden at the building's center.

245 West 74th runs as a full-service pre-war cooperative with an on-site superintendent. Its amenity set is notably practical: a landscaped courtyard garden, a laundry room, bike storage, and private storage — the day-to-day infrastructure that makes pre-war living comfortable. The building converted to cooperative ownership in 1990 and is owner-occupied. Admissions follow a conventional co-op board application and interview, with the board underwriting buyers to a sound financial standard typical of established West Side cooperatives; primary-residence ownership is the norm.

Recent sales

Recent transfers 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.

Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2025): a median $1,088/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01166-0007) 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 on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.

This is a building where the line and the exposure matter as much as the price. Courtyard-facing apartments trade quiet for light; front-facing lines get the southern sun off 74th Street. The pre-war detail — beamed ceilings, real foyers — is the reason to buy here, so weigh it against any apartment that's been over-renovated out of its character. Come prepared for a conventional co-op board package and interview, plan financing to a conservative standard, and budget for standard New York co-op closing costs. The garden, storage, and bike room are genuine quality-of-life features in a building of this age.

Sell the character and the conveniences. The landscaped courtyard garden, the historic-district facade, and the pre-war layouts differentiate the building from plainer post-war stock nearby; the laundry, storage, and bike room answer the practical questions. Price against the building's own recent trades and the comparable West End/Broadway-corridor set, and stage to let the pre-war detail and the light read. With 59 units, the building trades often enough to have a clear internal comparable picture — use it, and present a clean, board-ready package to keep the deal on schedule.

If you're considering 245 West 74th Street, these nearby Upper West Side co-ops are a useful comparison set:

• 201 West 72nd Street — pre-war co-op two blocks south
• 267 West 71st Street — boutique pre-war co-op nearby
• 322 West 72nd Street — full-service pre-war co-op nearby
• 260 West End Avenue — West End pre-war cooperative
• 330 West 72nd Street — pre-war co-op in the same pocket