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
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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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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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