305 West 104th Street
305 West 104th Street, New York, NY 10025
BBL 1018910011 · BIN 1057214
- Year built
- 1925
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Riverside-West End Historic District Extension II
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not stated
- Washer/dryer
- Permitted with conditions
- Doorman
- No doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2022
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Listing discount
- -0.6%
- Recorded transfers
- 23
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305 West 104th Street is the kind of handsome, human-scaled pre-war cooperative that defines the quiet streets between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive. Completed in the mid-1920s to the design of Sugarman & Berger — the firm whose portfolio includes the landmark Art Deco New Yorker Hotel — it is a Colonial Revival apartment house in brick, limestone, and terra cotta, sited on a leafy mid-block stretch a short walk from Riverside Park and the Hudson.
The appeal is value and livability rather than spectacle. At 40 apartments across ten stories, with roughly four homes per floor, the building offers the proportions of pre-war construction at a more accessible entry point than the grand doorman houses on Riverside Drive itself. For buyers who want a real pre-war home — high ceilings, solid walls, period detail — on a postcard Upper West Side block, it is a compelling option.
The location is the everyday luxury: Riverside Park and its playgrounds and waterfront paths are a block west, the West Side's restaurant and market streets along Broadway and Amsterdam are close, and the 1 train at 103rd Street keeps the building well connected. This is residential Upper West Side at its most settled.
Architecture and unit composition
Sugarman & Berger designed 305 West 104th Street in a restrained Colonial Revival idiom — a brick body trimmed in limestone and terra cotta, with the dignified street presence typical of the firm and of the Riverside Drive–West End Historic District in which it sits. The building has been carefully maintained over the decades while preserving the character that makes pre-war West Side apartments so durable.
Inside, the four-per-floor plan yields homes with the gracious bones of the period: well-proportioned rooms, generous light from the mid-block exposures, hardwood floors, and the quiet that comes with masonry construction. Layouts run from smaller homes to larger multi-room configurations. In-unit washer/dryers are permitted with board approval, a meaningful convenience in a building of this era.
Building operations
305 West 104th Street operates as a boutique cooperative. There is a live-in superintendent and a practical set of shared amenities — a furnished, planted resident garden, a central laundry room, bike storage, and private storage. The building has no doorman; compare current maintenance, debt and assessments with similar full-service Riverside Drive apartments before judging relative monthly costs.
The board's policies are accommodating by co-op standards. The building is pet-friendly. Financing is permitted up to 80% — notably generous for a pre-war cooperative and a real advantage for buyers. In-unit washer/dryers are allowed with board approval. The flip tax is the lower of 10% of gross profit or 7% of the sale price, a structure to model carefully when estimating net proceeds. The combination of high allowable financing and a pet policy makes the building approachable for a wide range of buyers.
Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not statedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Permitted with conditionsBoard approvalSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
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Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- No doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Bike storage, storage, laundry roomSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $12,972/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $27
- Modeled exposure split equally across 40 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as Unsafe — conditions requiring prompt corrective action. The owner must install any public protection the inspector specifies (a sidewalk shed, construction fence or structural netting, depending on the condition) and make the repairs. Review the subsequent filings, the repair status, and the building’s board and financial materials — we pull the repair scope and funding picture for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs 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 data last refreshed October 2026.
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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 2022 | 1B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $950,000 | +0.0% | |
| May 21, 2020 | 1D | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,182 sf | $935,000 | $791/sf | -5.6% |
| Sep 4, 2019 | 6D | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,260,000 | +2.4% | |
| May 22, 2019 | 5A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $960,000 | +1.2% | |
| Aug 13, 2018 | 4C | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,650 sf | $2,200,000 | $1,333/sf | +10.3% |
| Apr 20, 2018 | 5C | 2 BR · 3.5 BA · 1,666 sf | $1,590,000 | $954/sf | -7.8% |
| Apr 17, 2018 | 2D | 2 BR | $1,445,000 | -6.8% | |
| Aug 22, 2017 | 3B | 2 BR · 1,141 sf | $1,150,000 | $1,008/sf | -3.8% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2020): a median $791/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2022. Median listing discount -0.6% over ask.
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 1-01891-0011). 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
The headline for buyers is access: up to 80% financing is unusually buyer-friendly for a pre-war co-op, lowering the cash barrier relative to most of the neighborhood. The building is pet-friendly and permits washer/dryers with approval. The most important number to model is the flip tax, structured as the lower of 10% of gross profit or 7% of sale price — most relevant to your eventual resale, but worth understanding up front. Expect a standard co-op board package and the lower monthlies that come with a well-run non-doorman building.
What to know if you’re selling
The selling case is value plus location: a Sugarman & Berger Colonial Revival on a prime Riverside-adjacent block, a furnished resident garden, generous 80% financing, and a pet-friendly policy — all of which widen the buyer pool. Because the building is boutique and non-doorman, pricing leans on the broader Upper West Side pre-war cooperative set and on the specific apartment's floor, light, and condition. We position each listing against that comparable tier and prepare sellers to address the flip-tax structure clearly with buyers.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 305 West 104th Street, also evaluate these nearby Upper West Side cooperatives:
- 300 West 108th Street — pre-war cooperative a few blocks north
- 311 West 106th Street — Riverside-adjacent co-op nearby
- 305 West 98th Street — pre-war West Side cooperative to the south
- 300 West 109th Street — boutique pre-war co-op peer
- 310 West 99th Street — Upper West Side cooperative nearby
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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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