34 West 88th Street
34 West 88th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue · Upper West Side
Upper West Side
BBL 1012010147 · BIN 1031493
- Year built
- 1887
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Apartment storage, bicycle storage and private outdoor space in selected homes
- Financing
- Up to 80% — confirm with the managing agent
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About the building
34 West 88th Street occupies an 1887–89 rowhouse designed by Thom & Wilson for developer James J. Spaulding. Its Renaissance Revival exterior is protected within the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. The cooperative conversion dates to 1986. The building stands on the first residential block west of Central Park, with the park entrance and Columbus Avenue at opposite ends of the block.
The apartments include a large three-bedroom duplex and a two-bedroom penthouse with private roof-level outdoor space. The upper residence has north and south exposures, ceilings around ten feet high and a fireplace. In-home laundry and separate basement storage add usable capacity to the apartments; bicycle storage is also available. The duplex extends to approximately 2,200 square feet, making internal stairs and the division of living and sleeping space meaningful features of the layout.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2025 | 4 | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,715,000 | -2.0% | |
| Jun 28, 2017 | 3 | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,200 sf | $3,625,000 | $1,648/sf | -14.7% |
| Jan 31, 2014 | 3 | 4 BR | $2,700,000 | -6.1% | |
| Sep 12, 2013 | 4 | 2 BR | $1,600,000 | -5.9% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2017): a median $1,648/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 6.0% 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.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01201-0147) 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
The penthouse's outdoor space sits over a small cooperative. Establish which roof surfaces the apartment may occupy and how the proprietary lease allocates work on the terrace and the waterproofing below it. With five residential interests, the division of that work can materially affect each owner's share of a capital project.
Comparable buildings
- Park West Community Apartments: A nearby small prewar cooperative on the same street.
- 18 West 87th Street: Another low-rise cooperative in the park-side rowhouse blocks.
- 45 West 89th Street: A prewar cooperative with a somewhat larger apartment inventory.
- Dundonald Flats: A nineteenth-century cooperative for comparing an apartment-house layout with rowhouse conversions.
More Upper West Side buildings
- 32 West 82nd Street — 1926 co-op by George F. Pelham
- 33 West 67th Street — 1904 co-op
- 34 West 76th Street — 1891 co-op
- 35 West 71st Street — 1890 co-op
- 35 West 82nd Street — 1912 co-op by Schwartz & Gross
- 35 West 90th Street — 1931 co-op by Robert T. Lyons
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
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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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