25 West 71st Street
25 West 71st Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue · Upper West Side
Lincoln Square, Upper West Side
BBL 1011240020 · BIN 1028616
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Basement laundry and storage; private garden space associated with lower accommodation
Every recorded sale at this building, 2006–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 4BR+ median
- $3.5M
- Recent range
- $2.9M – $4M
- Listing discount
- 1.5%
- Recorded transfers
- 9
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25 West 71st Street preserves a Renaissance Revival townhouse façade on a Central Park block. Cleverdon & Putzel designed the house in 1890–91 for Belle Levy and Estelle Putzel. Its turning stoop, curved bay and carved stone details remain central to the building's appearance. Inside, successive subdivisions and combinations have produced small apartments, floor-through homes and larger multilevel accommodation.
Historical records trace the conversion to apartments to 1936, when Frederick A. Jambes acquired and renovated the house. That work created two apartments on each level, including the basement, while leaving the main façade intact. Later combinations have joined some of the original apartments.
Architecture and unit composition
The house rises four principal stories over an English basement. A curved bay projects from the façade, with paneled pilasters and foliage carved into the stonework. A metal frieze of garlands sits below the cornice. The dog-legged stoop brings the residential entrance above sidewalk level.
The apartment inventory has included compact studios, two-bedroom floor-throughs and a four-bedroom duplex assembled from two floors. Garden accommodation occupies the base. Some interiors retain coffered ceilings, substantial woodwork and fireplaces; renovated homes have added modern kitchens, washer-dryers and central air.
The larger duplex has been reworked across two full floors. Internal stairs are therefore part of its everyday circulation in addition to the building's shared staircase. Front and rear rooms have different outlooks toward the street and the gardens within the block.
Building operations
The cooperative has basement laundry and storage. It is a walk-up townhouse, with common repairs concentrated in a small structure that includes an ornamental brownstone façade. The district designation covers exterior changes, including work to the entrance, cornice and visible windows.
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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2025 | 2 | 4 BR · 2.5 BA | $2,925,000 | -2.3% | |
| Jan 12, 2023 | 2 | 4 BR · 2.5 BA | $3,995,000 | +0.0% | |
| Aug 6, 2018 | G | 2 BR | $1,850,000 | -2.4% | |
| Mar 3, 2015 | DUPLEX | 4 BR · 3 BA · 2,100 sf | $3,050,000 | $1,452/sf | -1.6% |
| Jul 28, 2006 | 1 | 2 BR | $975,000 | -1.5% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2015): a median $1,452/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 1.6% 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 1-01124-0020) 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.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% 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
A combination may retain more than one original share allocation. The duplex history here includes the purchase of separate floor-through apartments. Its proprietary lease coverage, shares and assessment obligations need to correspond to the whole combined home.
Comparable buildings
- The Brownstones: another townhouse-scale cooperative with nineteenth-century architecture nearby.
- 28–30 West 74th Street: a prewar cooperative spread across a broader building footprint on another park block.
- 24 West 69th Street: a taller prewar cooperative with a larger apartment inventory.
- 26 West 69th Street: a purpose-built apartment-house cooperative for comparing layouts and common services.
- 17 West 71st Street: a larger prewar cooperative on the same block, useful for comparing immediate location against building scale.
More Upper West Side buildings
- 24 West 69th Street — 1922 co-op by George F. Pelham
- 24 West 70th Street — 1892 co-op
- 24 West 90th Street — 1893 co-op
- 26 West 69th Street — 1925 co-op
- 27 West 67th Street — 1901 co-op
- The Olcott (27 West 72nd Street) — 1925 condominium by George F. Pelham
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
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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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