310 Riverside Drive (The Master Apartments)
310 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10025
Upper West Side
BBL 1018900040 · BIN 1057188
- Year built
- 1929
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 335
- Floors
- 27
Every recorded sale at this building, 2001–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Studio median
- $400K
- Recent range
- $340K – $1.4M
- Listing discount
- 2.2%
- Recorded transfers
- 243
The Master Apartments is one of the most architecturally consequential Art Deco residential buildings in New York — designed by Harvey Wiley Corbett with Sugarman & Berger in 1929, the tallest building on Riverside Drive at completion, and the first skyscraper in New York to feature corner windows. It is widely regarded as "one of the city's important Art Deco residential buildings and one of the city's first major mixed-use buildings."
At the heart of it is the Corbett architectural pedigree — Corbett's broader body of work includes One Fifth Avenue and the unbuilt "Belden project" he developed with Wallace Harrison and William H. MacMurray, the latter praised by draftsman Hugh Ferriss as "a significant departure" from "theoretical, applied and two-dimensional" massing toward a "three-dimensional, inherent and self-evident" one. That sensibility surfaces in the graded brick, carefully shaded from dark at the base to light at the top per Roerich's idea to suggest "a kind of growth" — though Willensky and White's A.I.A. Guide to New York (3rd ed., 1989) note that "wind-borne soot has all but eradicated the color change." Animating everything is the Roerich legacy: built for artist Nicholas Roerich and his patron Louis L. Horch, the building originally housed the Master Institute of United Arts — school, museum, auditorium, restaurant — in a residential hotel configuration.
Notable residents include Tommy Tune, Elie Wiesel, Rollo May, Billy Strayhorn, Murray Shisgal, and Kate Shindle (Miss America 1998). Artists who studied or worked in the building's studios include Lena Horne, Marian Anderson, Isaac Stern, and Yehudi Menuhin.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $107,174/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $28
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.
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent). Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library.
See the full facade history →Management & transfer contacts
- Flip tax
- Transfer Fee payable by Seller (per building description)
- Sublet policy
- Allowed; Sublet Fee 15% of rent yrs 1-2, 20% yrs 3-4, 25%/yr for subsequent sublets. Trusts purchasing units must have steady occupant 5 years before subletting
- Notable fees
- Short-term rentals not allowed; co-op sale processing fee $700; homeowners insurance min $300,000 liability listing Orsid as additional interest
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2026 | 1201 | 1 BA | $360,000 | -6.5% | |
| Jun 18, 2026 | 1618 | 1 BA | $405,600 | +1.4% | |
| Apr 28, 2026 | 515 | 1 BA | $350,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jan 20, 2026 | 1804 | 1 BA | $440,000 | -2.2% | |
| Dec 8, 2025 | 1509 | 1 BA · 425 sf | $402,500 | $947/sf | -1.8% |
| Nov 4, 2025 | 910 | 1 BA | $400,000 | +0.0% | |
| Oct 29, 2025 | 1410 | 1 BA | $400,000 | -5.9% | |
| Sep 19, 2025 | 1501 | 1 BA | $355,000 | +18.3% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2025): a median $1,000/sf across 3 sales. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 2.1% 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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2014 | 2403 | $200,000 |
| Apr 13, 2006 | 715 | $138,000 |
| Jun 16, 2005 | PH2601 | $1,250,000 |
| Jun 16, 2005 | PH26 | $1,800,000 |
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 1-01890-0040) 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
The Art Deco architectural pedigree is structurally distinguishing. First NYC skyscraper with corner windows; first to use graded brick. Real institutional credential.
The Corbett / Sugarman & Berger architect-of-record credentials are real institutional context. The broader Corbett body of work (One Fifth Avenue, Belden project) anchors the institutional reading.
The Roerich legacy is real cultural-history context. The original Master Institute of United Arts configuration produced the building's cultural-history identity.
The cultural resident roster — Tommy Tune, Elie Wiesel, Rollo May, Billy Strayhorn, Murray Shisgal, Kate Shindle — supports premium cultural-history positioning.
The 27-story scale was the tallest on Riverside Drive at completion. Real institutional context.
The 335-unit configuration supports operational depth. Plan board diligence accordingly.
Verify specific policy framework with managing agent at diligence stage.
Closing timelines are cooperative-standard. Plan for 6 to 10 weeks from contract through board approval to closing.
What to know if you’re selling
Marketing should emphasize the Art Deco architectural pedigree, the Roerich legacy, and the cultural resident overlay. All three are real structural advantages.
The first-skyscraper-with-corner-windows and first-graded-brick credentials are real institutional context. Reference where appropriate.
The Stern / Gilmartin / Mellins (in New York 1930) and Willensky & White (A.I.A. Guide to New York) institutional reading supports architectural-history positioning.
Pricing should reference recent public records / Compass / data.
Closing timelines are cooperative-standard.
Comparable buildings
- 140 Riverside Drive (The Normandy) — Roth 1939 landmark Art Moderne; nearby Riverside Drive landmark peer
- 222 Riverside Drive — Fox & Fowle 1989; nearby Riverside Drive condominium peer
- 173-175 Riverside Drive — Carpenter 1926; nearby Riverside Drive peer
- 180 Riverside Drive — Schwartz & Gross 1922; nearby Riverside Drive peer
- 194 Riverside Drive — Townsend 1901; nearby Riverside Drive peer
Sources: The Roebling Research Library (offering plans, house rules, financial statements, board minutes, internal transaction records); NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers; publicly recorded NYC building data.
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Riverside Drive — read The Roebling Team Guide to Riverside Drive.
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