- Year built
- 1896
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 20
- Floors
- 5
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Confirm current house rules at offer stage
- Subletting
- Set by board policy — confirm at offer stage
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.
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 →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
The Roebling Team at 332 West 85th Street
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in Manhattan's pre-war cooperative and condominium market. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers of boutique pre-war cooperatives deserve building-specific intelligence — the architecture and neighborhood context, the cooperative structure, the staffing and amenity reality, and where pricing sits against the right comparable tier.
If you're weighing a purchase or sale at 332 West 85th Street, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.
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