31 West 93rd Street
31 West 93rd Street, New York, NY 10025
Upper West Side
BBL 1012070016 · BIN 1031643
- Year built
- 1900
- Type
- Cooperative
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2023
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,355
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded sales
- 36
- On record
- 2003–2023
31 West 93rd Street is one of the Upper West Side's most distinctive cooperatives, because it is not really a single apartment house at all — it is a row of turn-of-the-century brownstones knit together into one cooperative around shared landscaped grounds, a reconfiguration thoughtful enough to have earned a Civic Architecture and Urban Design Award. The result is a building that offers something the avenue's towers cannot: the scale and texture of brownstone living combined with the shared amenities and management structure of a co-op.
Set on a prime block between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, the building puts Central Park essentially at the corner while delivering a private, residents-only garden at its center. For families and buyers who want low-rise character, real outdoor space, and a tight community within steps of the park, 31 West 93rd Street is a rare and specific proposition.
Architecture and unit composition
The building's identity comes from its bones — a continuous brownstone streetwall of around 1900, preserved at the curb while the interiors were combined and rethought to function as one cooperative. The conversion's signature is its shared green space: a landscaped residents-only garden at the heart of the assemblage, with several homes opening directly onto private patios — a degree of true outdoor access almost unheard of this close to Central Park West.
Across four stories and 34 residences, the layouts reflect the brownstone origins: duplexes, garden-level homes, and floor-through apartments with the scale, light, and quirk of converted townhouse space rather than the uniformity of a tower floor plate. Many homes carry the pre-war detailing — high ceilings, original moldings, fireplaces — that survives in a careful brownstone conversion.
Building operations
31 West 93rd Street is run as a boutique cooperative with an amenity set unusually rich for a low-rise building: a private residents-only garden and shared green space, a gym, a children's playroom, a central laundry room, a bicycle room, and storage. A resident superintendent manages the property. The building is pet-friendly. The combination of brownstone-scale homes and shared family amenities is precisely what distinguishes it from both standalone townhouses (no shared amenities, no staff) and large co-ops (no garden, no intimacy).
As a cooperative, purchases require board package review and an interview, and financing, sublet, and pied-à-terre terms follow the building's proprietary lease and house rules; we review the current board posture and carrying costs with buyers during a transaction. With 34 owners across a multi-building assemblage, the financial and physical-plant picture rewards a close read, which we walk through as part of any deal.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- Per unit / month range
- —
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2023 | 1F | 4 BR · 3 BA · 2,351 sf | $3,100,000 | $1,319/sf | +5.1% |
| Jan 4, 2023 | 5B | 3 BR · 2 BA · 2,500 sf | $3,475,000 | $1,390/sf | -22.8% |
| Mar 30, 2022 | TH1C | 4 BR · 3.5 BA | $4,750,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jun 25, 2021 | 1M | 4 BR | $2,499,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jun 14, 2021 | 1M | 4 BR · 2 BA | $2,300,000 | -17.7% | |
| May 20, 2021 | 2K | 1 BR · 1 BA · 936 sf | $998,000 | $1,066/sf | -8.5% |
| Dec 10, 2020 | 2G | 2 BR · 1 BA | $980,000 | -1.5% | |
| Mar 6, 2019 | 2K | 1 BR · 1 BA · 936 sf | $1,137,500 | $1,215/sf | -4.8% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2023) cleared a median $1,355/sf across 2 sales. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last 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 1-01207-0016) 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
Because the building is a brownstone assemblage, the diligence is unit-specific. Confirm exactly what outdoor space a given home includes — direct patio access, garden rights, or none — since this is the building's signature variable and its biggest value driver. Review the cooperative's financials and the physical-plant posture of a multi-structure assemblage, where building systems and façade maintenance differ from a single tower. Expect a board package and interview. The pet-friendly policy, the children's playroom, and the gym make it a strong family building, and the location — a short walk to Central Park West and the B/C at 96th Street — is hard to match.
What to know if you’re selling
Sell the rarity directly: an award-winning brownstone conversion with a private garden, steps from Central Park, that offers outdoor space and family amenities in one address. Foreground the specific home's outdoor access, its layout, and any preserved pre-war detail, because those are the attributes buyers cannot find in either a townhouse or a tower. With so few and so varied units, comparables are limited, so pricing should reference both the building's own trade history and the upper tier of the Central Park West–adjacent side-street market. The garden and playroom are worth stating plainly to family buyers.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 31 West 93rd Street, these nearby Upper West Side / Central Park West–area cooperatives form a useful comparison set:
- 37 West 93rd Street — cooperative on the same block
- 175 West 93rd Street — Upper West Side co-op nearby
- 110 West 94th Street — pre-war cooperative one block north
- 35 West 90th Street — Central Park West–area co-op to the south
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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