- Year built
- 1892
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 46
- Floors
- 7
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- dogs, cats, caged birds and fish with written consent, two pets at most without further approval, per the rules and regulations on file
- Flip tax
- none documented
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The Fitzgerald is what South Harlem's mid-2000s conversion wave produced when the building stock was institutional rather than residential. The seven-story, 100-foot-wide masonry building spent its recent decades as a school. The first condominium offering, around 2004, kept the school as a commercial tenant and proposed just sixteen apartments above it. After the school's lease ended, a successor sponsor filed a second amendment in October 2006 that turned the whole building residential, with 47 units. Sales closed from mid-2008 through 2012, and the sponsor holds nothing today.
That sequence explains the building's character. Floor plates built for classrooms produced wide, regular apartments with generous window walls. The first floor, which had to be rebuilt structurally, became duplexes with lower-level rooms. The top two floors, set back to four units each, hold the building's largest homes. Unit counts vary by floor, and the variation is real. Market records that flatten it get the fifth floor wrong.
For a buyer in 2026, the main fact is the tax position. The J-51 exemption that carried this conversion's residential tax bills from 2011/12 has now fully burned off. The phase-out ran from FY2021/22 to FY2024/25, and bills rose each year. Listing copy that still advertises a tax abatement is out of date, and carrying-cost figures from before 2022 understate today's bill.
Architecture and unit composition
The street elevation is the original masonry; per listing records, the brick façade and stone cornices from the school years were kept through the conversion. The 2006 architect's description records a redesign of the rear (south) façade on the first and second floors, which removed skylights planned for the cellar-level rooms below and enlarged those units. A new modified-bitumen roof, roof drains and top-floor skylights were part of the work, and private terraces were built over the two east-end seventh-floor units.
The plan offered apartments from 739 to 2,458 square feet. Department of Finance areas run higher on some lots because they measure differently, so use plan or survey figures when comparing. The first-floor duplexes and the sixth- and seventh-floor residences account for nearly all of the homes over 1,800 square feet. The second through fifth floors hold the one- and two-bedroom inventory at eight units per floor.
Building operations
The Fitzgerald is run as a mid-service building. Per the 2021 board materials on file, the lobby is attended on split concierge shifts from morning to late evening on weekdays and in the evenings on weekends, with a full-time resident manager and a porter. The condominium built a common roof deck with a grill area in 2012–13. By the 2021 annual meeting it had bike storage and allocated storage spaces in progress, with storage assigned by lottery at a monthly fee paid into reserves.
The capital history on file is active and well documented:
- Local Law 11 façade work (2017): financed with a $450,000 bank loan and a five-year special assessment starting July 2017, per the audited statements. The 2021 board materials report the loan paid off.
- Interior and systems (2019–21): hallway renovation, elevator and boiler projects, new hot-water heaters and window repairs, with a building-wide window replacement being scheduled floor by floor in late 2021.
- Planned work: elevator updates and roofing over roughly the following four years, and common-charge increases of 2 to 3 percent a year to balance rising costs.
The audited statements show a modest dedicated reserve alongside larger operating cash. The board described its 2021 position as four to five months of operating coverage. An adjacent development paid the condominium access fees from 2019 into 2021. Before contract, ask for the current audit, the reserve balance, the status of the window and elevator work, and whether any assessment is in force.
Policy framework
Ownership form: condominium, with deeded units, no co-op board interview and a 30- to 45-day closing.
Leasing: whole-unit leases through a lease application; the by-laws prohibit selling or leasing part of a unit. Confirm minimum lease terms and fees.
Pets: dogs, cats, caged birds and fish with the board's or managing agent's written consent, revocable for nuisance; two pets at most without further consent.
Smoking: prohibited throughout, including inside apartments.
Renovation: noisy work weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; an alteration agreement and deposit are required; the rules require rugs or equivalent over 80 percent of floor area outside kitchens, baths and closets.
Working capital: two months of common charges from the buyer at closing.
Real estate taxes: fully unabated from FY2025/26. Underwrite the current bill on the specific unit and run the True Monthly Carrying Cost Calculator.
Recent sales
The Fitzgerald trades in the middle-to-upper band of South Harlem prewar-conversion condominiums. It sits above the small rehabilitated tenements on the side streets and below the full-service new construction along Frederick Douglass Boulevard and the park-front product on Central Park North. Resale depth is good for a 46-unit building, with several arm's-length sales in a typical year. The building's best numbers come from the top-floor residences with terraces and from the large first-floor duplexes.
Two adjustments matter when pricing against older sales. Sales before 2022 were underwritten against a partly or fully abated tax bill, and sales from 2022 onward were underwritten during the phase-out. A buyer should price against today's unabated carry. Price by line and floor, not by the building average: the eight-per-floor middle floors and the four-per-floor top floors are different products. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 2026 | 4E | $880,000 |
| Jan 2, 2025 | 6A | $1,825,000 |
| Aug 16, 2023 | 1G | $999,000 |
| Jul 26, 2023 | 3H | $902,000 |
| Jan 11, 2023 | 3E | $870,000 |
| Sep 12, 2022 | 7A | $2,365,000 |
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 1-01923-7501) 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
The J-51 is finished. It phased out over FY2021/22–FY2024/25 and is zero from FY2025/26. Any listing that mentions an abatement is out of date.
It is a conversion, and the systems date from 2006–09. The structure is old and the systems are about seventeen years old. Ask where the window, elevator and roof programs stand and how they are being funded.
Budget for the working capital contribution. Two months of common charges at closing, on top of standard closing costs.
Check the lower levels of the duplexes in person. The rear-façade redesign changed the cellar-level rooms on the south side. Light and ceiling height vary by unit.
The no-smoking rule covers apartments. It is a house rule with fines, not only a common-area policy.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the current tax bill. Buyers will see the J-51 expiry. Presenting the unabated monthly up front, with a carrying-cost analysis, heads off a late renegotiation.
Document the capital work. The paid-off façade loan, completed hallways and window replacement support value. Have the managing agent's current status letter ready.
Correct the floor count in your marketing. The fifth floor has eight apartments, not four. Accurate materials help in a building where buyers compare layouts closely.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering The Fitzgerald, also evaluate:
- 352 West 117th Street (The Endymion) — a 1989–91 gut rehabilitation of a turn-of-the-century tenement two avenues west, whose 34-year J-51 exemption has also just ended
- 100 West 119th Street (The Normandie) — a 1910 building converted to condominium in 2005; the closest peer by conversion era
- 3 West 122nd Street (Mount Morris Court) — a circa-1900 condominium inside the Mount Morris Park Historic District; the landmarked prewar alternative
- 301 West 118th Street (SoHa 118) — a 2008 full-service new-construction condominium on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, one block north
- 309 West 118th Street — Brownstone Lane, a 2003 new-construction condominium one block north
- 2101 Eighth Avenue (Parc Standard) — a 28-unit 2008 condominium on Frederick Douglass Boulevard; a smaller new-build peer from the same cycle
- 380 Lenox Avenue (The Lenox) — a 2006 new-construction condominium from the same development cycle
- 23 West 116th Street (The Adeline) — an 83-residence 2010s condominium; the newer amenitized alternative
- 127 West 112th Street (Parc North) — a small 2016–19 condominium with no abatement at all; a useful carrying-cost contrast
More Harlem buildings
- 127 West 112th Street (Parc North) — 2018 condop by Karl Fischer Architects
- 145 Central Park North — 2018 condominium
- 247 West 115th Street (Delany Lofts), 237 and 247 West 115th Street — 2005 condominium
- 285 West 110th Street (Circa Central Park) — 2016 condominium by FXCollaborative (Fox & Fowle / FXFOWLE)
- 300 West 122nd Street (300 West) — new-construction condominium by Isaac & Stern Architects
- 301 West 118th Street (SoHa 118) — 2006 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Harlem — read The Roebling Team Guide to Harlem.
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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