35 West 71st Street
35 West 71st Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, on the Upper West Side
Lincoln Square, Upper West Side
BBL 1011240016 · BIN 1028612
- Year built
- 1890
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 2
- Floors
- 5
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Upper West Side / Central Park West Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
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About the building
35 West 71st Street is an eighteen-foot-wide brownstone completed in 1890 as part of a speculative row developed by George Crawford. Martin V. B. Ferdon gave the house a neo-Grec façade with a rounded Renaissance-style bay and elaborate carved ornament. Its pierced stone stoop walls and decorated entrance survive from the original design. The house stands on the Central Park block of West 71st Street, within the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District.
After a period as a rooming house, the building was converted to apartments in 1968 and altered again in 1996. Later combinations reduced the residential inventory to two homes. A DOB alteration signed off in September 2023 records the merger of the second through fourth floors and conversion to a two-family building. The present cooperative therefore divides a single historic rowhouse between two residences, with substantial portions of the house held within each home.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 limits apply to a building on its own. It is still covered if it shares a tax lot or condominium board with buildings totaling over 50,000 sq ft; confirm on DOB’s covered-buildings list.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | 1 | 3 BR · 3 BA | $3,850,000 | +2.7% | |
| Dec 17, 2012 | 1 | 3 BR | $2,895,000 | +3.6% | |
| Dec 17, 2012 | PH1 | 3 BR | $2,895,000 | +3.6% | |
| Nov 21, 2005 | 3B | 450 sf | $429,000 | $953/sf | +14.4% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2005): a median $953/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount -3.6% over ask.
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 1-01124-0016). 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
Two residences share the historic building. Roof and façade projects, insurance and operating decisions depend on a very small ownership group. The voting allocation and procedure for funding shared work matter particularly where two residences occupy different portions of one rowhouse; lenders may also apply additional review to a cooperative this small.
Comparable buildings
- 267 West 71st Street — A rowhouse cooperative on the same street, with a later bowed brick façade and walk-up circulation.
- 105 West 70th Street — Part of a four-brownstone cooperative, offering a larger association behind historic rowhouse fronts.
- 30 West 74th Street — Two early-twentieth-century townhouses combined into one elevator cooperative on a Central Park block.
More Upper West Side buildings
- 33 West 67th Street — 1904 co-op
- 34 West 76th Street — 1891 co-op
- 34 West 88th Street — 1887 co-op
- 35 West 82nd Street — 1912 co-op by Schwartz & Gross
- 35 West 90th Street — 1931 co-op by Robert T. Lyons
- 35 West 92nd Street — 1930 co-op
The neighborhood
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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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