300 West 72nd Street

Yellow brick covers the principal elevations, with contrasting brickwork at the corners and parapet. The entrance on West 72nd Street has a cast-stone surround incorporating chevron and flower-petal ornament. Exterior fire escapes form part of the street elevations. The façade's decoration is concentrated around the entrance and at the edges of the brick planes.

The common interior retains terrazzo floors and period detailing. Apartments include entry foyers that can accommodate dining, sunken living rooms, arched openings and windowed kitchens and baths. Original wood flooring survives in some homes, including decorative inlay. Ceiling heights around nine feet and multiple closets are recurring features of the one-bedroom plans.

The apartment inventory includes compact homes around five hundred square feet and larger one-bedroom layouts around eight hundred square feet. Some corner configurations receive light from more than one direction. Renovated kitchens may be opened toward the living area, while other homes preserve separate windowed kitchens and a more formal sequence of rooms.

Sunken living rooms introduce interior steps. That feature belongs to the original planning and matters to a buyer who needs a continuous floor level inside the apartment, even though the building has an elevator. Furnishing the living room also requires accounting for the raised foyer and the position of the connecting steps.

The building has a resident superintendent, central laundry and a secure bicycle room. Entry can be controlled remotely through a mobile phone. The lobby and hallways retain period surfaces that form part of the cooperative's shared maintenance responsibility.

The property occupies the corner under a single cooperative tax lot. Its R10A zoning permits more residential floor area than the existing building uses, but historic-district controls separately govern exterior changes. Zoning capacity by itself doesn't grant an approved right to enlarge the building.

The elevator serves a building with a relatively small shareholder base. Major work to the lift, roof or façades is a collective expense across 34 residences. The historical building envelope includes both West 72nd Street and West End Avenue frontages, alongside the exterior fire escapes.

Pets and pied-à-terre ownership are permitted — confirm with the managing agent. Co-purchases, guarantors and gifts toward a purchase are considered — confirm with the managing agent. Subletting is permitted with approval — confirm with the managing agent.

Recent sales

Recent transfers 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 $756/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. 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 1.4% 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 1-01183-0035). 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 on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.

• 315 West End Avenue — A smaller cooperative from the mid-century period close to the same avenue corridor.
• 320 West 76th Street — A larger 1940s cooperative for buyers seeking a related construction era with more height.
• 305 West 72nd Street — An earlier, taller cooperative on the same street with a moderately larger residential count.
• 270 West End Avenue — A prewar cooperative with a similar number of residences distributed over more floors.
• The Chatsworth Annex — A smaller prewar cooperative farther west on the same block, closer to Riverside Park.