300 West 72nd Street
300 West 72nd Street, at the southwest corner of West End Avenue, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Lincoln Square, Upper West Side
BBL 1011830035 · BIN 1030967
- Year built
- 1941
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 34
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Resident superintendent, central laundry, bicycle room and mobile-access entry
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $733K
- Recent range
- $515K – $799K
- Listing discount
- 4.5%
- Recorded transfers
- 52
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300 West 72nd Street is H. Herbert Lilien's six-story Moderne apartment house at West End Avenue, built in 1941–1942 and now a 34-residence cooperative. Sunken living rooms, generous entry foyers and surviving period common areas give it a clear architectural identity. Its corner site provides apartments with different combinations of avenue, side-street and rear exposures.
Lilien designed numerous Art Deco and Moderne apartment buildings in Manhattan and the Bronx during the Depression and early 1940s. Here he used a restrained yellow-brick exterior, patterned brick accents and a decorated cast-stone entrance. The building became part of the West End-Collegiate Historic District Extension in 2013.
The location places Riverside Park to the west and the Broadway express-subway station to the east. The six-story height is modest for this stretch of West End Avenue. Inside, the building retains the room divisions and changes in floor level associated with its early-1940s construction.
Architecture and unit composition
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.
Building operations
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.
Policy framework
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, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2026 | 6D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 810 sf | $799,000 | $986/sf | +0.0% |
| Sep 22, 2025 | 6E | 1 BA · 500 sf | $515,000 | $1,030/sf | -1.9% |
| Aug 14, 2024 | 5F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $725,000 | -5.2% | |
| Nov 22, 2023 | 6A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $565,000 | -5.7% | |
| Sep 12, 2023 | 4C | 1 BR · 800 sf | $740,000 | $925/sf | -4.5% |
| Nov 30, 2022 | 1C | 1 BA | $720,000 | +0.0% | |
| Aug 30, 2022 | 3E | 1 BA · 550 sf | $490,000 | $891/sf | -2.0% |
| May 23, 2022 | 3B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $715,000 | off-mkt |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $756/sf across 1 sale. 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 1-01183-0035) 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.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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Comparable buildings
- 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.
More Upper West Side buildings
- The Berkley (287 Amsterdam Avenue) — 1913 co-op
- 300 West 108th Street — 1924 co-op by Rosario Candela
- 300 West 109th Street (The Manhasset) — 1899 co-op by Janes & Leo
- 300 West 83rd Street — 1923 co-op by Gaetano Ajello
- 302 West 86th Street — 1917 co-op
- The Orienta (302 West 79th Street) — 1904 co-op
The neighborhood
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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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