332 West 85th Street
332 West 85th Street, New York, NY 10024
BBL 1012460046 · BIN 1033866
- Year built
- 1896
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 20
- Floors
- 5
- Landmark
- In a historic district
- Pets
- Confirm current house rules at offer stage
- Subletting
- Set by board policy — confirm at offer stage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $885K – $885K
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 20
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332 West 85th Street is a landmarked pre-war cooperative on a quiet historic-district block, mid-block between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive. Built around 1896, it is a low-rise elevator building with roughly 20 apartments, sitting within the Riverside–West End Historic District — the kind of intimate, protected-block co-op that keeps carrying costs sensible and the ownership base settled.
The proposition here is location and character. The building is steps from Riverside Park and close to the 1 train at 86th and Broadway, on one of the Upper West Side's most gracious tree-lined blocks. For the buyer who wants a genuine pre-war address inside a landmark district near the park, the building is a straightforward, sensibly run choice.
Building operations
The cooperative runs lean for its size: an elevator, laundry, storage, and superintendent service, with no doorman — appropriate and cost-efficient for a boutique pre-war building, and a meaningful factor in keeping maintenance contained. Confirm the exact amenity set — elevator, laundry, storage, and superintendent coverage — at offer stage.
As a cooperative, ownership is by shares rather than deed: purchases require board approval and a board interview, financing is capped at a board-set percentage, and pied-à-terre, sublet, gifting, and guarantor arrangements are evaluated case by case. Confirm the current pet policy, financing maximum, any flip tax, and sublet terms with the board at offer stage.
Architecture and residences
Completed around 1896 as a pre-war elevator apartment house, the building holds roughly 20 residences across approximately five to six stories, within the landmarked Riverside–West End Historic District. It carries the pre-war attributes buyers look for — defined rooms and turn-of-the-century proportions rather than open-plan new construction — at a boutique scale that keeps the co-op simple to operate, on a protected historic-district block near Riverside Park. (The original architect is not documented in the public record.)
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 emissions caps apply. No regulatory capital pressure from this law specifically, current or 2030.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
Co-op pricing is read on a per-room basis, and 332 West 85th trades as a boutique landmarked pre-war cooperative — modest carrying costs and the value a co-op structure offers relative to condominiums. With only about 20 residences, resale volume is thin, with a small number of closings in an active year. When underwriting a purchase or a list price, capture the room count, the floor, the exposure, and renovation condition rather than relying on a neighborhood average. Genuinely variable financial figures should be confirmed at offer stage.
Recent transfers at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2024 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $885,000 | -1.1% | |
| Mar 21, 2022 | 1A | 2 BR · 908 sf | $775,000 | $854/sf | +0.0% |
| Dec 20, 2021 | 2B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $850,000 | -5.0% | |
| Dec 30, 2019 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $725,000 | -3.3% | |
| Sep 18, 2018 | 5AB | 3 BR | $2,250,000 | +18.7% | |
| Dec 23, 2015 | 2B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $800,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jul 27, 2011 | 3D | 2 BR | $825,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jun 16, 2010 | 4D | 3 BR | $1,150,000 | +0.0% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2022): a median $854/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
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 1-01246-0046). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
This is a cooperative, so the path is a board package and interview, a financing cap set by the board, and underwriting of the building's financials and house rules. Read the rules on the points that matter to you — the pet policy, financing maximum, and sublet terms — and review the co-op's reserve and any planned capital work given the building's age and its position within a landmark district, where exterior work is subject to Landmarks review. The reasons to buy are the address, the character, and the value: a landmarked pre-war co-op steps from Riverside Park at a cost structure well below the doorman condominiums nearby.
What to know if you’re selling
The story is the landmarked pre-war character and the quiet historic-district block near Riverside Park. The 1890s architecture, the intimate roughly-20-unit scale, and the protected setting between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive sell to a specific buyer who wants a pre-war address inside a landmark district. Pricing is an apartment-specific exercise: room count, floor, light, and condition drive the number more than any block average. We position the building's landmark setting and pre-war character, prepare the buyer for the co-op process, and benchmark against the right comparable tier of boutique pre-war cooperatives.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 332 West 85th Street, also look at these nearby Upper West Side buildings:
- 342 West 85th Street — pre-war building on the same block
- 310 Riverside Drive — pre-war building nearby
- 325 West 83rd Street — boutique pre-war cooperative nearby
- 316 West 84th Street — pre-war building nearby
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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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