28 West 86th Street
28 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024
BBL 1011997502 · BIN 1083854
- Year built
- 1900
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 20
- Floors
- 10
- Landmark
- In a historic district
- Pets
- Confirm current house rules at offer stage
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 28 West 86th 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.
28 West 86th Street is a boutique doorman condominium a half-block off Central Park, mid-block between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. Its origin is unusual: the building was created in 1990 by combining two adjoining Georgian-style townhouses — 28 and 30 West 86th Street, both dating to around 1900 — and expanding them vertically into a single ten-story elevator building with 20 apartments.
The proposition here is location and intimacy. This is a genuine doorman condominium at a scale most doorman buildings never reach, one flat block from Central Park and steps from the B/C at 86th Street and Central Park West. For the buyer who wants full-time staff, a park-adjacent address, and a small ownership base — rather than a large tower — the building is a well-positioned mid-market Upper West Side choice.
Building operations
The condominium runs as a full-service building for its size: a full-time doorman and elevator service, appropriate to a park-block address and to a 20-unit ownership base that keeps the building simple to operate. As a condominium, ownership is by deed rather than shares, which gives owners the flexibility condominiums are known for — financing, subletting, and pied-à-terre use are governed by the condominium's declaration and bylaws rather than by co-op board approval. Confirm the current pet policy, storage and bike-room availability, common charges, and any assessment at offer stage.
Architecture and residences
The building's architectural story is the paired-townhouse origin. Two circa-1900 Georgian-style townhouses at 28 and 30 West 86th Street were joined and expanded upward in 1990, producing a ten-story elevator condominium of 20 residences on the combined lot. The result blends the masonry base of turn-of-the-century townhouses with an expanded upper structure — a boutique building rather than a period conversion or a ground-up tower. (The architect of the 1990 combination is not documented in the public record.)
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $14,851/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $62
- Modeled exposure split equally across 20 units (the city tax-lot count). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
28 West 86th trades as a solid mid-market Upper West Side doorman condominium, priced as a boutique doorman building a block from Central Park rather than a new-development tower. With only 20 residences, resale volume is thin, with a small number of closings in an active year. When underwriting a purchase or a list price, capture the square footage, the floor, the exposure, the outdoor space if any, and renovation condition rather than relying on a neighborhood average. Genuinely variable financial figures should be confirmed at offer stage.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 2009 | 4B | 3 BR · 1,430 sf | $1,925,000 | $1,346/sf | -11.5% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2009) cleared a median $1,346/sf (recorded) across 1 sale.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01199-7502). 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.
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
This is a condominium, so the path is a straightforward purchase governed by the declaration and bylaws rather than a co-op board package and interview — an application and financials review, but with the deed ownership and flexibility condominiums offer. Read the rules on the points that matter to you — pet policy, subletting, and any storage — and review the condominium's reserve and any planned capital work given the building's townhouse-era base and 1990 expansion. The reasons to buy are the address and the format: a full-time-doorman condominium a block from Central Park, at boutique scale.
What to know if you’re selling
The story is the park-block location and the doorman condominium format at intimate scale. The Georgian-townhouse origin, the 1990 combination into a single building, and the position steps from Central Park sell to a buyer who wants full-time staff and a park address without a tower. Pricing is an apartment-specific exercise: square footage, floor, light, outdoor space, and condition drive the number more than any block average. We position the building's boutique doorman format, benchmark against the right comparable tier of park-adjacent Upper West Side condominiums, and prepare the transaction accordingly.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 28 West 86th Street, also look at these nearby Upper West Side buildings:
- 262 Central Park West — pre-war condominium near the park
- 10 West 86th Street — boutique building nearby
- 257 Central Park West — park-block cooperative nearby
- 15 West 81st Street — pre-war building near the Museum of Natural History
More Upper West Side buildings
- 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
- 28 West 96th Street — 1892 condominium
- 30 Lincoln Plaza (30 West 63rd Street) — 1979 condominium by Philip Birnbaum & Associates
- 30 Riverside Boulevard (Two Waterline Square) — condominium by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)
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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