- Year built
- 1927
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $1.9M
- Recent range
- $875K – $2.4M
- Listing discount
- 2.7%
- Recorded transfers
- 53
330 West 72nd Street occupies one of the best positions on the Upper West Side: the foot of Riverside Park, where 72nd Street meets the green ribbon of the park and the Hudson beyond. Completed in 1927 to designs by George and Edward Blum — the brothers whose inventive, ornament-rich apartment houses are among the most distinctive of pre-war New York — the building commands sweeping views north over Riverside Park and the river. Four row houses were cleared to make way for it, part of the maturing of the West Side into a corridor of grand apartment living.
The building was converted to a cooperative in 1979. At 16 stories and 63 apartments, it is a full-service co-op of comfortable scale, with a two-story stone base, a canopied entrance, and a pair of maisonettes with their own stoops — a gracious, street-level grace note. Decorative bandcourses and ornamental balconies on the upper floors give the façade the textured character the Blums were known for.
For buyers, the appeal is simple and rare: a pre-war apartment with open park-and-river views, inside a well-run full-service cooperative, directly on Riverside Park.
Architecture and unit composition
The Blums detailed 330 West 72nd with the period's vocabulary applied with a designer's eye — a substantial two-story stone base anchors the building, with bandcourses at the third, sixth, and fourteenth floors and decorative balconies at the eighth and fourteenth adding rhythm to the masonry shaft. The canopied entrance and the two stoop-fronted maisonettes give the ground floor a residential, townhouse-like warmth.
Inside, the apartments are pre-war West Side: high ceilings, hardwood floors, decorative moldings, and gracious entertaining layouts. The building's signal feature is its outlook — the foot-of-the-park position delivers sweeping northern views over Riverside Park and the Hudson River from the upper floors, the kind of open exposure that is increasingly scarce and impossible to replicate. The unit mix runs across the range typical of a 63-unit pre-war building, with the larger and higher homes capturing the best of the views.
Building operations
330 West 72nd operates as a full-service cooperative with a full-time doorman and a live-in superintendent. Amenities suit the building's scale and era: a central laundry room, a bicycle room, and a video security system serve shareholders, with the staffing and maintenance standards of a long-established West Side co-op.
On house rules, the building runs with the diligence standard to a serious pre-war cooperative, reviewing purchases with a focus on financial soundness and primary residency; expect a complete board package and interview. As with the avenue's better co-ops, the board's conservative posture is a feature for buyers who value a well-run, financially stable building.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $34,458/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $46
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The facade passed its last inspection with no required repairs — nothing to budget for here, and no facade assessment on the horizon for roughly five years.
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 →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 11, 2026 | 8A | 2 BR · 2 BA | $2,400,000 | -1.8% | |
| Nov 6, 2025 | 7A | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,855,000 | -7.0% | |
| Jun 17, 2025 | 12D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $875,000 | -2.7% | |
| Jan 21, 2025 | 14C | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,450,000 | -2.7% | |
| Feb 7, 2024 | 11C | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,200 sf | $1,400,000 | $1,167/sf | -6.7% |
| Aug 30, 2022 | 4C | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,100 sf | $1,270,000 | $1,155/sf | -1.9% |
| Sep 1, 2021 | 4A | 2 BR · 2 BA | $2,625,000 | -6.2% | |
| Aug 10, 2021 | 11B | 3 BR · 2 BA | $2,712,500 | -1.4% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2024) cleared a median $1,167/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 4.4% 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 12, 2023 | 8B | $2,100,000 |
| May 18, 2022 | 7D | $985,000 |
| Apr 30, 2020 | 6A | $1,750,000 |
| Apr 17, 2018 | 7D | $899,000 |
| Nov 10, 2016 | 7C | $1,400,000 |
| Dec 12, 2013 | 13C | $1,500,000 |
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 1-01183-0046) 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
Buying here means buying the view as much as the apartment — the foot-of-Riverside-Park position is the building's defining asset, and upper-floor homes with open northern exposures over the park and river are the prize. Expect a complete board package and interview and a board focused on financial soundness and primary residency.
The location pairs the calm of the park with the convenience of the West Side: Riverside Park is at the doorstep, the 1/2/3 express station at 72nd Street is a short walk east, and Broadway's restaurants and markets are close by. We help buyers judge which exposures and floors capture the views, weigh condition against price, read the building's financials, and prepare a board package that clears.
What to know if you’re selling
The marketing core writes itself: a George & Edward Blum pre-war at the foot of Riverside Park with sweeping, protected river-and-park views. Open northern exposure of this quality is genuinely scarce, and it is the headline of any sale here. Presenting the view, the apartment's proportions, and its condition to the right primary-residence buyer is the path to a strong result.
Pricing should be anchored to recent Riverside Park pre-war trades and to the apartment's specific floor and exposures, with high-floor view homes benchmarked separately from lower or interior layouts. A well-run, financially stable co-op on the park is an easy story to tell. We market these homes to the qualified, board-ready audience the cooperative requires.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 330 West 72nd Street, also evaluate nearby pre-war West Side cooperatives:
- 322 West 72nd Street — pre-war cooperative on the same block
- 340 West 72nd Street — full-service West 72nd Street co-op nearby
- 277 West End Avenue — pre-war West End Avenue cooperative peer
- 315 West 70th Street — pre-war co-op near Riverside Park to the south
- 329 West 77th Street — pre-war West Side cooperative to the north
The Roebling Team at 330 West 72nd Street
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in the pre-war Upper West Side, Riverside Drive, and West End Avenue cooperative market. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers of West Side pre-war apartments deserve building-specific intelligence — architecture, views, board posture, house rules, and where a given apartment sits in its comparable set.
If you're weighing a purchase or sale at 330 West 72nd Street, a 30-minute consultation is the right first step.
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