250 West 90th Street (The New West)

The building occupies a 16,365-square-foot lot with 162 feet of Broadway-facing frontage and about 101 feet of depth. Its recorded floor area is close to a simple comparison with the residential zoning figure, which does not establish legal zoning floor area or rule out future enlargement. On a lot of this shape, the apartment plans are driven by the corner: Broadway-facing homes at the northeast get the balconies and the open avenue exposure, and the mid-block West 90th Street line gets the recesses, the double-height units, and quieter rooms.

The 157 residential unit lots run across 22 floors, which places the building at roughly seven to eight apartments per floor ; unit count alone does not establish favorable common charges against side-street conversions. Compare current unit bills, reserves and assessments. The trade is elevator and lobby traffic.

Layouts are of their moment: efficient rectilinear plans, low-to-mid-height ceilings by prewar standards, balconies on the corner line, and a mix that runs from studios through three-bedroom homes. Combinations have occurred over four decades of ownership. The double-height apartments on the West 90th Street elevation are the building's distinguishing inventory and should be underwritten separately from the rest of the stack; there are few of them, they do not comp against the standard plans, and the volume is the whole reason a buyer pays for one.

The New West runs as a full-service doorman condominium. The amenity program — a health club with a swimming pool, a sundeck, a private garden, and laundry rooms on every floor rather than a single basement facility — was a 1986 developer's answer to the co-op competition, and it has aged into a genuinely useful stack. A pool in a 157-unit building on the Upper West Side is not common, and per-unit it is well supported.

There is no parking garage. Buyers accustomed to postwar East Side inventory should note that.

The building is now forty years old, which is the point in a masonry-and-balcony building's life when façade, balcony slabs, elevators, and mechanical plant all come due at roughly the same time. No offering plan or audited financial statement for this building was located in either document library, so the current reserve position, assessment history, and capital plan are not documented here. That is the first thing to request. Ask specifically for the last two years of audited financials, the current Local Law 11 cycle status and balcony condition report, and any assessment declared or contemplated.

Recent sales

Recent closings at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. 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. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,329/sf (floor-adjusted) across 4 sales. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 2.5% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01237-7502; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. 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.

There is no abatement and no schedule that changes the taxes. Full assessment from the first closing in 1987 to today. Underwrite the tax line as permanent.

Get the financials and the Local Law 11 status before you sign. No plan or audited statement for this building was located in either document library, which means the capital picture has to come from the managing agent. A forty-year-old balcony building is exactly the profile where façade and slab work arrives in a lump.

The retail is roughly 20,800 square feet across two commercial units. Ask what they pay, whether they are current, and how the declaration allocates common charges between residential and commercial. By PLUTO area it is roughly an eighth of the building.

Search both addresses. 250 West 90th Street and 2431 Broadway are the same tax lot; older recordings appear under both.

Do not confuse this building with its neighbors. 2421 Broadway is a separate 1920 condominium on the same block (lot 7501), with its own J-51 history and its own economics. The West End Avenue and West 90th Street buildings west of the avenue sit on different blocks, inside the Riverside–West End Historic District, and trade in a different market entirely.

Lead with the tax posture and the pool. Both are concrete, both survive a buyer's spreadsheet, and neither is common in the competitive set.

Price exposure, not floor. A Broadway balcony line and a mid-block West 90th Street line are separate markets in the same building, and the wrong comp will either leave money on the table or stall the listing.

If you hold a double-height apartment, market it as loft inventory. There are very few in the building, they are the most distinctive thing about it, and they do not comp against the standard plans.

If you're considering The New West, also evaluate:

• 203 West 90th Street (Manhattan Tower) — the other large contextual-era condominium on the same intersection; the most direct peer
• 215 West 90th Street (Haroldon Court) — prewar condominium to the east; the conversion alternative at the same address band
• 250 West 89th Street (The Savannah) — full-service Broadway-corridor comparison one block south; confirm its residential ownership interest
• 251 West 89th Street (The Admaston) — prewar condominium on the same block, immediately south
• The Bromley (225 West 83rd Street) — the definitive Broadway contextual-era condominium of the same generation, with a pool and a large denominator
• 2250 Broadway (The Broadway) — Broadway-corridor condominium with a comparable retail podium
• 275 West 96th Street (The Columbia) — large full-service Broadway condominium six blocks north
• 96+Broadway (250 West 96th Street) — newer Broadway-corridor condominium inventory for buyers weighing age against price
• 212 West 93rd Street — mid-block condominium alternative nearby