- Year built
- 1900
- Type
- Cooperative
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2018 | 1D | 5 BR · 3 BA · 1,900 sf | $2,495,000 | $1,313/sf |
| Oct 15, 2003 | 1D | 5 BR · 1,900 sf | $1,385,000 | $729/sf |
Market read. Most recent trades (2018) cleared a median $1,313/sf across 1 sale.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2022 | TH1C | $4,750,000 |
| Jun 25, 2021 | 1M | $2,499,000 |
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 Roebling Team at 31 West 93rd Street
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in the Upper West Side, Central Park West, and the city's brownstone and conversion market. We publish this profile because a building like 31 West 93rd Street — a row of combined brownstones around a private garden — rewards buyers and sellers who understand its outdoor space, its layouts, and where it sits within the park-adjacent market. A focused consultation is the right starting point.
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