31 West 93rd Street
31 West 93rd Street, New York, NY 10025
BBL 1012070016 · BIN 1031643
- Year built
- 1900
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not stated
- Flip tax
- Tiered or formula; see fees
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $1,573
- 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 0.5%
- Recorded sales
- 38
- On record
- 2003–2026
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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.
Application and transaction fees
Fees below are from building management's published schedule, as of July 2026. They are shown as published, item by item; no total is added because the total depends on the transaction. Deposits are listed apart from nonrefundable charges.
- Terms
- 3% of gross
- Paid by
- Seller
Source: building management's published schedule, as of July 2026
Purchase
6 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Fee | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $750 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Closing Fee | Paid by Buyer | When At closing | Amount $350 | Refundable Not stated |
| Documentation Fee | Paid by Buyer | When At closing | Amount $250 | Refundable Not stated |
| Transfer Fee | Paid by Buyer | When At closing | Amount $750 | Refundable Not stated |
| NY State Transfer Tax StampsPer shareRequired | Paid by Shareholder | When At closing | Amount $0.05 per share | Refundable Non-refundable |
Deposits
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move In Deposit | Paid by Buyer | When At closing | Amount $500 | Refundable Refundable |
Sublet
3 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Fee | Paid by Subtenant | When With the application | Amount $250 | Refundable Non-refundable |
Deposits
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move in Deposit | Paid by Subtenant | When Upon approval | Amount $500 | Refundable Refundable |
Sublet renewal
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Fee | Paid by Subtenant | When With the application | Amount $75 | Refundable Non-refundable |
Refinance
1 item
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Processing Fee | Paid by Shareholder | When With the application | Amount $250 | Refundable Non-refundable |
Management updates its schedule without a public filing. The date is when management last updated the page, not when a rule changed. Confirm the current schedule with management before you apply.
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Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not statedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Not verified
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Building staffing and amenities
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Fitness room, playroom, garden, bike storage, laundry roomSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- Per unit / month range
- —
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 2026 | 1D | 5 BR · 3 BA | $3,300,000 | -17.4% | |
| Aug 10, 2026 | PH4P | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 2,000 sf | $3,145,000 | $1,573/sf | -16.1% |
| 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% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,573/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. Median listing discount 0.5% 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 1-01207-0016). 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.
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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
More Upper West Side buildings
- 30 Riverside Boulevard (Two Waterline Square) — condominium by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)
- 30 West 60th Street (Coliseum Park Apartments) — 1957 co-op by Sylvan and Robert Bien
- The Beaumont (30 West 61st Street) — 1982 condominium
- 32 West 82nd Street — 1926 co-op by George F. Pelham
- 33 West 67th Street — 1904 co-op
- 34 West 76th Street — 1891 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
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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