306 West 104th Street
306 West 104th Street, New York, NY 10025
Upper West Side
BBL 1018900064 · BIN 1057200
- Year built
- 1926
- Type
- Cooperative
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 306 West 104th Street would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
306 West 104th Street is a small, character-rich pre-war cooperative on one of the loveliest blocks at the northern end of the Upper West Side — a tree-lined stretch between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive, a short walk from Riverside Park and the Hudson. Completed in the mid-1920s to a design by Sugarman & Berger, it is a nine-story Colonial Revival apartment house with just four apartments per floor and roughly three dozen homes in total. That low density is the whole point: this is a building where residents know one another and the staff knows the residents.
For buyers, the appeal is a genuine pre-war apartment — high ceilings, real walls, gracious proportions — in a boutique, owner-occupied co-op with a furnished residents' garden, at a price well below the marquee West End and Riverside addresses to the south. It is the kind of building that rewards people who want pre-war bones and a real neighborhood over a doorman lobby.
Architecture and unit composition
Sugarman & Berger designed widely across 1920s Manhattan, and 306 West 104th is a refined, restrained example of their pre-war residential work: a masonry façade of brick over a limestone and terra-cotta base, detailed in the Colonial Revival idiom that defined the era's upper-middle-class apartment houses. The building is served by two elevators — generous for its size — and laid out four-to-a-floor, which gives most apartments light on more than one exposure.
The 36 residences are classic pre-war: one-, two-, and three-bedroom homes with the higher ceilings, separate kitchens, and defined rooms that buyers come to this stretch of the West Side to find. Many have been individually renovated over the years; the building permits in-unit washer/dryers with board approval, a meaningful convenience in a pre-war house of this vintage.
Building operations
306 West 104th is a non-doorman cooperative run by a live-in resident manager, with a central laundry room, bike room, and private storage. The shared, furnished residents' garden is the building's social anchor and its most-cited amenity — a quiet outdoor room of the kind that small pre-war buildings on these blocks occasionally have and larger buildings almost never do.
The board's terms are notably accommodating for a pre-war co-op: financing is permitted up to 80% of the purchase price — higher than most pre-war buildings allow — and the building is pet-friendly. The flip tax is structured as the lower of 10% of the seller's gross profit or 7% of the sale price, paid at closing; it is a meaningful number, and one sellers should model early.
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign 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 record last verified September 2026.
What to know if you’re buying
The 80% financing policy is the headline for buyers — it is unusually permissive for a pre-war co-op and meaningfully lowers the cash barrier to entry. Still, expect a full board package and interview; this is a hands-on building that vets its buyers.
Two practical points. First, model the flip tax (lower of 10% of gross profit or 7% of price) into any long-term hold, since it affects eventual resale economics. Second, this is a non-doorman building — weigh that against the lower carrying costs and the garden. The location trades a few blocks of distance from the prime UWS core for a quieter, leafier setting steps from Riverside Park, with the 1 train at 103rd Street and Broadway's markets and restaurants close by.
What to know if you’re selling
Pre-war detail, the residents' garden, the four-per-floor layout, and the 80% financing policy are your strongest selling points — together they widen the buyer pool well beyond a typical pre-war co-op. Renovated kitchens and baths, and intact original detail, both command premiums with this building's audience.
Price to the building's own history and the comparable northern-Riverside pre-war co-ops, not to the doorman buildings on West End and Riverside proper. A 36-unit building generates sparse comparable data, so accurate day-one positioning is essential. We bring the building's transaction history and the live comparable set to every listing.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 306 West 104th Street, these nearby Upper West Side cooperatives form the natural comparison set:
- 280 West End Avenue area peers on West End — pre-war West End Avenue cooperative
- 300 West End Avenue — pre-war West End co-op to the south
- 310 West End Avenue — West End Avenue pre-war peer
- 2780 Broadway — northern Upper West Side cooperative nearby
- 600 West End Avenue — larger West End Avenue pre-war co-op
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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