305 West 98th Street
305 West 98th Street, New York, NY 10025
Upper West Side
BBL 1018880010 · BIN 1076627
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 1999–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR · combo median
- $1.3M
- Recent range
- $615K – $1.6M
- Listing discount
- 5.1%
- Recorded transfers
- 81
The Schuyler Arms is one of the great early apartment houses of the far Upper West Side — a wide, ornate Beaux-Arts building set on a quiet block between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue, a short walk from Riverside Park and the river. Designed by H. Alban Reeves and built for developer William H. Beard at the turn of the last century, it was originally marketed as an apartment hotel, a then-fashionable hybrid of serviced living and permanent residence. Today it is an established 88-unit cooperative, converted in 1981, with the deep value proposition the neighborhood is known for: substantial pre-war rooms at prices well below the Central Park West and Riverside Drive marquee buildings to the east and south.
What distinguishes the building is its façade. The Schuyler Arms is genuinely decorative — a rusticated base with chamfered corners, upper stories laid in Flemish-bond red brick with burnt headers banded against beige brick, projecting bays that terminate as balconies, and an Ionic-columned portico with a balustrade. It reads as a serious turn-of-the-century building rather than a utilitarian one, and the courtyard entrance gives it a sense of arrival uncommon on a side street this far north.
Architecture and unit composition
Reeves designed the Schuyler Arms at a moment when the Upper West Side was filling in with large-scale apartment living for the professional middle and upper-middle class. The original program ran heavily to two-, three-, and four-room apartments — the apartment-hotel format — and over the decades many of those have been combined into the studios, one-, two-, and three-bedroom homes that trade today. Pre-war bones run through the building: high ceilings, thick masonry walls, hardwood floors, and the deep light wells and projecting bays that pull air and light into interior rooms.
At seven stories and 88 apartments across roughly 110,000 square feet, the building is broad rather than tall — a horizontal pre-war typology that yields generously proportioned floors and a sociable, low-rise scale. Layouts vary widely given the combination history, which is part of the appeal: buyers find everything from efficient pied-à-terre studios to family-sized three-bedrooms within one cooperative.
Building operations
The Schuyler Arms runs as a full-service cooperative. There is a 24-hour doorman and concierge, a live-in resident superintendent, and porters maintaining the building; residents have two laundry rooms and bike storage. The cooperative is pet-friendly, welcoming pets with board approval. Subletting is permitted under board policy, which gives owners flexibility uncommon in stricter pre-war co-ops, and the building's transfer terms include a 2% flip tax paid by the seller. These are owner-friendly fundamentals for a building at this price point, and they support both end-users and longer-horizon owners.
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 filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the engineer identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair before the next inspection cycle. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2026 | 2FS | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $1,650,000 | -5.7% | |
| Jun 17, 2026 | 1GN | 3 BR · 2.5 BA | $1,150,000 | -4.1% | |
| Jul 22, 2025 | 5AN | 1 BR · 1 BA | $615,000 | -11.9% | |
| Jun 4, 2025 | 7DS | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,200 sf | $1,250,000 | $1,042/sf | +4.6% |
| May 27, 2025 | 7CS | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,220,000 | -5.8% | |
| Jan 15, 2025 | 5DS | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,415,000 | -0.7% | |
| Jan 9, 2025 | 3FN | 2 BR | $1,112,500 | -5.3% | |
| Apr 25, 2024 | 4CN | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,650,000 | -2.9% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2025): a median $963/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 2.1% 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 1-01888-0010) 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
This is a value play with real architecture behind it, and the buying analysis should be done unit by unit — because so many apartments are combinations, two homes of similar nominal size can differ markedly in flow, light, and exposure. Confirm which line you're in: courtyard-facing apartments are quieter, while the bays and balconies on the better lines bring in more light.
The financials are approachable. The cooperative's owner-friendly posture — pets welcome with board approval, subletting permitted, a straightforward 2% seller-paid flip tax — broadens the buyer pool and supports liquidity on resale. Maintenance should be read against the building's full staffing and the two laundry rooms; a board package and interview apply, as at any co-op, and we help buyers prepare to clear it cleanly.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the architecture and the address. The Beaux-Arts façade, courtyard entrance, and full-service staffing distinguish a Schuyler Arms apartment from the plainer post-war stock nearby, and Riverside Park and the river are the lifestyle anchors. The pet and sublet policies are genuine selling points to today's buyers — say so plainly.
Price to the unit, not the building average. Given the wide range of layouts, the right comparable set is apartments of the same configuration and exposure here and in the immediate Riverside / West End co-op cluster — not the building's headline price-per-foot. Well-presented combinations with strong light reward staging and clean financials, and the building's liquidity means well-priced apartments move.
Comparable buildings
If you're weighing the Schuyler Arms, also look at nearby Upper West Side pre-war cooperatives:
- 275 West 96th Street — full-service pre-war co-op nearby
- 250 West 94th Street — pre-war cooperative to the south
- 175 West 93rd Street — established West Side co-op
- 300 West 109th Street — pre-war cooperative to the north
- 255 West 108th Street — upper West Side pre-war peer
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
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