300 West 109th Street (The Manhasset)
300 West 109th Street, New York, NY 10025
Upper West Side
BBL 1018937501 · BIN 1085323
- Year built
- 1899
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 124
- Floors
- 11
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $1.4M
- Recent range
- $475K – $1.8M
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 111
The Manhasset is one of the great Beaux-Arts blockfronts of upper Broadway — important enough that the city designated it an individual landmark in 1996, a protection most of its corridor neighbors never received. Its construction story is itself a piece of New York apartment history: Joseph Wolf designed it in 1899 as an eight-story building, then the legal height limit for apartment houses. When the original development failed, the new owners took advantage of fresh legislation permitting taller apartment buildings and hired Janes & Leo — the firm then completing the Dorilton, among the most exuberant Beaux-Arts apartment buildings in the country — to add three stories crowned by the two-story slate mansard that gives the building its silhouette. The New York Times' Streetscapes column described the result as a "new crown for an upper Broadway wedding cake" when it revisited the building in 1996. The Manhasset was completed by 1905, an early peer of the corridor's grand apartment generation — the Belnord, the Apthorp, the Ansonia — and it predates all three.
The building's modern chapter is equally well documented. After a half-century as a rental, the apartments were converted to cooperative ownership in 1993, with the retail base retained as a separate condominium unit — a structure your attorney will recognize and should confirm during diligence. Landmark designation followed in 1996, and the late 1990s brought a documented capital campaign: roughly $6 million of roof, concrete-slab, and facade work per The New York Times. In March 1999 the building suffered an eight-alarm fire — started in a ground-floor restaurant and spread through an air shaft — that injured more than 30 people and was covered extensively by the city press; the cooperative carried substantial insurance, and the rebuilding that followed, capped by a 2001 renewal of elevators and lobby, effectively re-built the building's systems inside its landmarked envelope. A buyer underwriting the Manhasset today is underwriting a 120-year-old landmark that was substantially reconstructed within the last 25 years.
What the building offers the market now is scarce: true Beaux-Arts pre-war scale — 10-foot ceilings, bay windows, mansard-floor character units — on a full Broadway blockfront one block from Riverside Park, at pricing well inside what the same architecture commands below 96th Street.
Architecture and unit composition
The Manhasset is really two paired buildings, north and south, with entrance pavilions on West 109th and West 108th Streets and a light court between — a plan that pushes light and cross-ventilation into a high share of the apartments. The Beaux-Arts elevations run red brick above a rusticated base, with bay windows stacking up the facades and the Janes & Leo mansard carrying the tenth and eleventh floors. The original apartments ranged from six to nine rooms; a documented 1939–40 subdivision reworked the building into roughly 136 smaller units, so today's stock mixes studios and one-bedrooms with the surviving larger lines — classic-six-scale apartments, arched entries, moldings, and the mansard-level units with the roofline's character. Many larger apartments have washer/dryers per architectural records. The landmark designation protects the exterior: window, facade, and roof work runs through LPC review.
Building operations
The building operates with elevator service, video intercom security, and superintendent coverage; the lobby and elevators were renewed in the 2001 restoration. The ground floor carries an active Broadway retail base — held outside the cooperative in the retained condominium unit — which buyers should understand when reviewing the building's financial structure. Staffing levels and the current policy stack (pets, subletting, financing limits, flip tax) are not firmly documented in public records; we verify them against current management documents during diligence. The offering plan is on file in The Roebling Research Library.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- Per unit / month range
- —
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.
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent). Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library.
See the full facade history →Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Apartment-level facts are independently verified before publishing; sale prices reflect the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 2026 | 9G | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,425,550 | +14.5% | |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 3H | 2 BR · 1 BA | $765,000 | +2.0% | |
| Jun 25, 2025 | 2JK | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,595,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jan 24, 2025 | 11M | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,175,000 | -9.3% | |
| Dec 23, 2024 | 4L | 1 BR · 1 BA | $475,000 | -4.8% | |
| May 23, 2024 | 6A6B | 4 BR · 2 BA · 2,024 sf | $2,135,000 | $1,055/sf | -1.8% |
| Jun 22, 2023 | 9D | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,375,000 | -1.4% | |
| Mar 23, 2023 | 10F | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,400 sf | $1,325,000 | $946/sf | +0.0% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2024): a median $1,055/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 1.4% 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 1-01893-7501) 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; square footage on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
What to know if you’re buying
You are buying an individual landmark. Most upper Broadway pre-wars carry no designation; the Manhasset's facade, bays, and mansard are protected assets. The trade-off is process: exterior work, including windows visible from the street, runs through Landmarks review. Review the building's alteration history during diligence.
Understand the ownership structure before contract. The apartments are cooperative; the retail base was retained as a separate condominium unit at the 1993 conversion, and city records carry the parcel under the condominium framework. This is a known structure, but your attorney should walk the offering plan — on file with us — and confirm how the retail unit interacts with the cooperative's economics.
The 1999 fire is history, not a defect — but read the record. The eight-alarm fire and the rebuilding that followed are extensively documented in press coverage and building records. The practical consequence is newer systems and slabs inside the landmark envelope. Your attorney's financial review should confirm how the capital work was funded and what reserves look like today.
Line selection is everything in a subdivided pre-war. The 1939–40 subdivision means floor plans vary enormously — compact converted units share floors with intact larger lines. Bay-window exposures, mansard-level ceilings, and corner light drive the premiums; interior-court compacts price as entry stock.
Verify the policy stack early. Pets, sublets, financing limits, and any flip tax are not reliably documented in public records. We confirm current terms with the managing agent before you offer, and run the Co-op Board Qualification Calculator against the building's expectations.
The corridor is quietly excellent. Riverside Park is one block west, the 1 train one block north at 110th, Columbia several blocks up Broadway, and the cathedral precinct east. The blocks above 96th deliver the same park-and-Broadway life at a meaningful discount.
What to know if you’re selling
Market the architecture with precision. Wolf, Janes & Leo, the Dorilton lineage, the 1996 individual designation, the mansard — this is the best-documented building narrative on its stretch of Broadway. Use the specifics; the buyer pool for character pre-wars responds to provenance, not adjectives.
Lead with the restoration record. The late-1990s capital campaign and 2001 renewal are documented answers to the first question every pre-war buyer asks. We provide the underlying documentation from the Research Library to serious buyers' counsel.
Price to the line, not the building. The spread between subdivided compacts and intact larger lines is wide, and building-average pricing misleads in both directions. Same-line and same-exposure history is the anchor.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 300 West 109th Street, also evaluate:
- The Dorilton (171 West 71st Street) — Janes & Leo's landmark masterwork; the architectural sibling at a lower-corridor price
- The Belnord — the full-block Beaux-Arts peer at 86th Street; the condo-converted trophy alternative
- The Apthorp — Clinton & Russell's full-block courtyard landmark; the corridor's prestige benchmark
- The Ansonia — the Beaux-Arts Broadway flagship; same architectural generation, larger scale
- 100 Riverside Drive — pre-war co-op on the park one corridor west
- 310 Riverside Drive (The Master Building) — the landmarked Art Deco alternative three blocks away
- The Britannia (527 West 110th Street) — ornamented pre-war co-op neighbor at the Cathedral blocks
- 838 West End Avenue — pre-war co-op stock on the parallel avenue; the like-for-like value comp
The neighborhood
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