305 West 98th Street

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, with 88 apartments and roughly 110,000 square feet across the combined through-block property per city records, the cooperative 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.

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.

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 $1,161/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 2.0% 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 1-01888-0010). 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.

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 reported policies include pets with board approval, conditional subletting and a 2% seller-paid flip tax. Confirm current terms; those policies do not establish resale liquidity. 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 a complete package.

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. Present the layout, light and current financials clearly; use dated sales and current competition to assess likely marketing time.

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