327 West 85th Street
327 West 85th Street, between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive · Upper West Side
Upper West Side
BBL 1012470022 · BIN 1033912
- Year built
- 1894
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,095
- Listing discount
- 2.8%
- Recorded sales
- 31
- On record
- 2004–2026
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327 West 85th Street is an early flats building designed by G. A. Schellenger for Annie Carney in 1894. A projecting angular bay, brownstone trim and Roman brick distinguish the five-story façade. LPC identifies it as an example of an apartment building designed to fit the scale and materials of the surrounding row houses on a standard narrow lot.
The building now contains twenty cooperative residences, including compact studios, one-bedroom apartments and a larger garden duplex. Some apartments retain fireplaces and high ceilings. The rear garden belongs to a ground-floor residence, while the upper apartments are reached by the common staircase.
The location is on the final residential block before Riverside Drive, with Riverside Park at its western end. Broadway and the 86th Street subway station are east of West End Avenue. The district designation covers the building's exterior as part of the surrounding historic streetscape.
Architecture and unit composition
The façade has a three-part composition. Brownstone and brick define the lower and middle sections, with an angular bay projecting through multiple floors. Carved panels, ornate capitals and a bandcourse give the masonry depth. At the top, arched openings and engaged columns form a more elaborate finish beneath the roofline.
Many current homes have a single main living area, a separate or open kitchen and a bedroom or sleeping alcove. Exposed brick, wood floors and fireplace surrounds appear in renovated apartments.
The garden duplex adds internal stairs and substantially more floor area than the compact upper-floor homes. Its main living level includes a long entrance gallery, high ceilings, an open windowed kitchen and multiple exposures. Its private garden creates an outdoor-space category confined to that home.
Fireplaces vary in condition and use. The inventory includes both working wood-burning fireplaces and decorative examples. A fireplace surround should therefore be distinguished from an operational flue when assessing an apartment's features.
Building operations
The cooperative is a walk-up, with superintendent service based next door. The lobby has been renovated, while access to the residential floors remains by stairs. Some apartments have their own washer/dryer.
The tax lot is Class 2, and the cooperative's real estate taxes form part of its operating expenses. The building's existing floor area exceeds the current R8B residential allowance. Its original projecting bay and carved masonry also make exterior repairs a preservation matter within the historic district.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2026 | 4D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 475 sf | $520,000 | $1,095/sf | -2.8% |
| Nov 4, 2024 | 1D | 1 BR · 1.5 BA · 1,001 sf | $850,000 | $849/sf | +6.4% |
| Jun 28, 2022 | 4A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $595,000 | +0.0% | |
| Feb 26, 2021 | 1C | 1 BA | $290,000 | -3.0% | |
| May 16, 2019 | 4C | 1 BA · 350 sf | $315,000 | $900/sf | -10.0% |
| Jun 2, 2016 | 4D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 475 sf | $525,000 | $1,105/sf | +6.1% |
| Jan 20, 2016 | 2C | 1 BA · 325 sf | $345,000 | $1,062/sf | -13.3% |
| Jul 14, 2015 | 5C | 1 BA · 350 sf | $291,000 | $831/sf | -2.7% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,095/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 2.8% 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 1-01247-0022) 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.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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Comparable buildings
- 332 West 85th Street — A nearby prewar cooperative with the same low-rise scale and a closely comparable ownership group.
- 323 West 83rd Street — An older side-street cooperative with a similarly modest apartment inventory.
- 325 West 83rd Street — A comparable prewar cooperative for evaluating compact period apartments near Riverside Park.
- 126 Riverside Drive — A late-nineteenth-century cooperative on the park-facing avenue, useful for weighing frontage and exposure.
- The Mimosa — A larger prewar cooperative on the same street with a taller apartment-house form.
More Upper West Side buildings
- 324 West 83rd Street — 1901 co-op by George F. Pelham
- 325 West 82nd Street — 1892 co-op
- 325 West 83rd Street — 1898 co-op
- 328 West 96th Street — 1930 co-op
- 329 West 108th Street — 1899 co-op
- 329 West 77th Street — 1930 co-op by Gronenberg & Leuchtag
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
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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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