329 West 108th Street
329 West 108th Street, New York, NY 10025
Upper West Side
BBL 1018930006 · BIN 1057300
- Year built
- 1899
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $1.1M – $1.3M
- Listing discount
- 2.5%
- Recorded transfers
- 23
329 West 108th Street — The Cloisters — has an origin story unlike almost anything around it. The building began as two separate turn-of-the-century townhouses, constructed in 1899 on a quiet block between Broadway and Riverside Drive. In the early decades of the twentieth century the two houses were combined into a single double-wide apartment building, and in 1984 the result was converted to cooperative ownership. The lineage shows: oversized bay windows, leaded glass, mosaic tile, and warm wooden beams survive from the original mansion construction, giving the homes a texture that purpose-built apartment houses rarely carry.
At six stories and twenty-four homes, The Cloisters lives as an intimate, owner-occupied house just off Riverside Park. It sits at the northern, quieter reach of the Upper West Side, where the corridor's grand pre-war scale gives way to a more village-like residential feel — close to the park, the Broadway retail spine, and the 1 train, but a world removed from the busier blocks downtown.
For buyers, the appeal is character at a sane price: a boutique pre-war co-op with genuine townhouse detail, a roof deck, a pet-friendly board, and a Riverside-adjacent location.
Architecture and unit composition
The Cloisters is, in effect, two 1890s mansions living a second life as a single apartment building. The combination produced a double-wide footprint and a stock of homes that retain mansion-era detail — oversized bay windows, leaded and stained glass, mosaic tilework, and exposed wooden beams — woven through layouts that were adapted from townhouse rooms rather than laid out on a developer's standard floor plate. That history makes the apartments idiosyncratic in the best sense: no two lines are quite alike, and the period character is original rather than reproduced.
With twenty-four homes across six floors, the building runs to gracious pre-war proportions on a low-rise, double-wide frame. The bay windows pull light into the principal rooms, and the apartments reward buyers who value architectural texture over the uniformity of newer construction. The roof deck — a genuine amenity in a six-story building — adds open-air space and long views over the surrounding low-rise blocks toward the river.
Building operations
The Cloisters runs as the intimate house it is. The building offers a roof deck, a central laundry, bicycle and common storage, elevator service, and part-time doorman coverage, with a superintendent overseeing the property. The building is pet-friendly, a meaningful draw on this family-oriented stretch of the West Side. There is no pool or large gym — the model is a small, owner-occupied co-op that spends on service, the roof deck, and the structure rather than a deep amenity program. Common charges support staff, the systems of an early-20th-century masonry building, and the reserve, keeping monthly costs disciplined for the corridor.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 2025 | 4A | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,100,000 | -4.3% | |
| Jan 26, 2024 | PHD | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,800,000 | +0.3% | |
| Jul 20, 2023 | 3A | 1 BR · 2 BA · 1,180 sf | $1,250,000 | $1,059/sf | -7.4% |
| Mar 9, 2022 | 3C | 1 BR · 994 sf | $1,075,000 | $1,081/sf | -2.3% |
| Dec 6, 2021 | 2A | 3 BR | $2,800,000 | +7.7% | |
| Sep 23, 2020 | 5C | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,650,000 | +0.0% | |
| Feb 20, 2020 | 4B | 4 BR | $2,995,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jun 25, 2019 | 1B | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,900 sf | $1,100,000 | $579/sf | -8.3% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2023): a median $1,059/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. 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 1-01893-0006) 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 Cloisters is a traditional cooperative, so purchases clear a board package and interview. The building is pet-friendly, and as a small owner-occupied house it runs with the board posture typical of the type — financing held to standard co-op parameters, primary residency favored, and subletting restricted in the manner of an intimate building. This is a co-op to buy as a home.
The defining feature for a buyer is the apartments themselves: because the building was adapted from two townhouses, layouts and detail vary line to line. Tour several homes to understand the range, prize the bay-windowed lines for light, and weigh the trade-off between an original-detail apartment and a renovated one. Budget for the updates that century-old systems often invite.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the building's singular story: a pre-war co-op built from two 1890s townhouses, with original bay windows, leaded glass, and mosaic detail that purpose-built apartment houses cannot match. That character, plus the roof deck and the pet-friendly board, is exactly what the West Side character-buyer pays for — and it differentiates a listing here from the standard pre-war stock.
Because the homes are individual, presentation matters more than usual; a well-staged apartment that showcases its original detail will outperform. Benchmark pricing to recent Riverside-edge pre-war co-op trades at the northern end of the corridor rather than to amenity-heavy buildings, and a board-ready buyer with a primary-residence story will move through approval most smoothly in a small house that values fit.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering The Cloisters, also evaluate these nearby Upper West Side and Riverside cooperatives:
- 300 West 108th Street — pre-war cooperative on the same block
- 255 West 108th Street — West 108th Street co-op nearby
- 300 West 109th Street — pre-war cooperative one block north
- 311 West 106th Street — established West Side co-op peer
- 355 Riverside Drive — Riverside Drive cooperative a short walk west
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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