340 Riverside Drive

The building rises 15 stories plus a penthouse level on a roughly 101-by-95-foot corner plot, with the tripartite massing the designation record describes: three-story limestone-trimmed base, nine-story brick midsection, and a three-story terra-cotta-dressed crown beneath an arcaded frieze and balustraded parapet. The primary entrance, with its scrolled-bracket limestone surround and iron-and-glass doors, faces Riverside Drive; a secondary entrance opens on 106th Street.

Inside, the layouts are classic pre-war Riverside Drive product: entrance foyers of 10 to 11 feet, living rooms to 25 feet, windowed formal dining rooms of 16 to 20 feet, butler's pantries, and maid's rooms in the larger lines, per architectural records of the building's floor plans. Two- and three-bedroom configurations dominate; select units carry terraces. Corner exposures stack park, river, and open-sky light to the west and south-west, while the wide 106th Street frontage keeps the north lines bright. The pre-war proportions renovate well, and pricing in the building tracks exposure and condition — park-facing lines carry the premium.

Full-service at the scale appropriate to 63 units: 24-hour doorman, live-in superintendent, central laundry, bike room, and private storage. There is no garage, roof deck, or fitness room — buyers comparing carrying costs against amenity-heavy buildings should weigh staff service against amenity breadth. The building sits inside a historic district, so facade, window, and any street-visible rooftop work runs through Landmarks review. The cooperative's offering plan and recent building insurance certificates are on file in The Roebling Research Library; financial statements should be reviewed by your attorney during diligence.

Recent sales

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.

Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,472/sf (floor-adjusted) across 2 sales. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01892-0001). 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.

• Billie Holiday — sang a private living-room set in the building on November 18, 1956, days after her Carnegie Hall concert; the recording, preserved in the University of Idaho's International Jazz Collection, has been covered in the press
• Leonard Feather — the jazz critic and historian whose apartment hosted that 1956 session
• Jasper Johns — lived and worked in the building in the mid-1960s; museum archives preserve 1964 photographs of his 340 Riverside Drive apartment

The corner is the asset. Park-facing west and southwest exposures look across Riverside Drive to the park; the historic district regulates changes to the surrounding streetscape, but views still depend on floor and exposure. Spend time in the specific line you're considering; the spread between park-facing and street-facing light is the building's main pricing axis.

The financing framework is liberal for the corridor. 75 percent financing per listing records is a meaningfully lighter requirement than the 50–66 percent conventions of many pre-war peers. Board expectations on post-closing liquidity still apply — run the Co-op Board Qualification Calculator before offering.

The conversion paper trail is on file. The March 1981 offering plan — an eviction plan under the law then in effect; New York's 2019 housing legislation ended eviction plans for new conversions — is in The Roebling Research Library. The plan still governs share allocations and proprietary-lease terms; your attorney should review it, its amendments and any surviving tenant or unsold-share rights alongside current financials.

Historic-district mechanics apply to renovations. Window replacement and anything touching the facade involves LPC review in addition to board alteration agreements. Budget timeline accordingly, and run the Renovation Cost Calculator against estate-condition units.

Verify the policy stack. Pet, pied-à-terre, and 75 percent financing terms come from listing records; the 3 percent flip tax's payer and the current sublet policy should be confirmed with the managing agent before contract.

Transit and the park are both at the door. The 1 train at 103rd and 110th Streets, the M5 down the drive, and Riverside Park's 106th Street entrances frame the block. The corridor's quiet is real — there is no commercial frontage on this stretch of the drive.

Lead with the corner and the record. Park exposure, the designation-report architecture, and the building's documented cultural history — Holiday, Feather, Johns — give this building a marketing narrative most Riverside Drive peers cannot match. Use it with precision.

Price to exposure, not building average. The park-facing premium is wide enough that building-average figures mislead; same-line history is the anchor. We maintain line-level records in The Roebling Research Library.

The liberal financing allowance widens your buyer pool. A 75 percent allowance admits buyers that stricter pre-war boards screen out — a genuine advantage worth stating plainly in marketing.

Condition honesty wins on the drive. The buyer pool here is deliberate; renovated classic lines clear at premiums, estate units clear when priced to the renovation math under historic-district constraints.

If you're considering 340 Riverside Drive, also evaluate:

• 325 Riverside Drive (The Sherwood) — the 1920–21 pre-war co-op neighbor one block south; the closest like-for-like
• 310 Riverside Drive (The Master Apartments) — the Art Deco landmark down the drive, with Sugarman & Berger in its design credits; the high-rise alternative
• 255 West 108th Street (The Manchester) — grand 1910 pre-war co-op two blocks north
• 300 West 109th Street (The Manhasset) — the turn-of-the-century full-blockfront pre-war nearby
• 315 West 106th Street — the pre-war neighbor on the same block; the condo-format alternative
• 380 Riverside Drive (The Hendrik Hudson) — the monumental pre-war at 110th Street
• 404 Riverside Drive — pre-war co-op at the Strauss Park bend
• 905 West End Avenue — full-service pre-war co-op one avenue east; the value alternative without park frontage