37 West 93rd Street
37 West 93rd Street, New York, NY 10025
BBL 1012070015 · BIN 1031642
- Year built
- 1920
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Dogs and cats
- Permitted
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at The Norman would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
The Norman, at 37 West 93rd Street, is a pre-war cooperative on a prized park-block stretch between Central Park West and Columbus — close enough to Central Park that residents step onto the green at the 96th Street and 90th Street entrances within a couple of minutes. Built by Norman Tishman, whose name the building carries, it is an eight-story, 32-unit apartment house from the era that lined the side streets off Central Park West with handsome, solidly built homes for families who wanted park proximity without an avenue address.
The building leads with character the moment you enter: a spacious marble lobby with wrought-iron doors and stained-glass windows, the kind of pre-war entry sequence that signals the quality of what was built here. Behind it sit gracious apartments with the proportions, ceilings, and light that define the period, on a quiet, low-rise block protected by its place in the Central Park West historic-district landscape.
For a buyer, the appeal combines a near-park address, real pre-war space, pet and washer/dryer policies to confirm, and costs to be compared against identified Central Park West apartments using dated sales and current maintenance; no neighborhood value ranking is established here.
Architecture and unit composition
The Norman is a classic early-1920s masonry apartment house, low-rise and dignified, with its architectural ambition concentrated where pre-war buildings often put it: the lobby. A marble entry hall with wrought-iron detailing and stained glass carries the building's name and sets its tone. The eight-story building's roughly 53,500 square feet divided by 32 apartments gives about 1,670 square feet of gross building area per apartment, not interior living area. Confirm individual room dimensions, dining rooms, foyers and bedroom configurations from unit plans.
The apartment mix runs from comfortable one- and two-bedrooms to larger three-bedroom homes, many on the park-facing south block enjoying good light and quiet. Pre-war features — high ceilings, hardwood floors, deep floor plans — are the building's signature, with renovation condition varying apartment to apartment, so The Norman offers both move-in-ready homes and units with renovation upside.
Building operations
The cooperative has a pre-war service model: a live-in superintendent with porter support handles maintenance, packages, and the central laundry, with elevator access; current expenses, debt service and reserve funding determine maintenance for the 32 apartments. The building maintains private storage and a bicycle room, and crucially for a pre-war building, it permits in-unit washer/dryer installations and is pet-friendly, allowing both dogs and cats — two features that meaningfully widen its appeal.
At 32 apartments across eight floors, The Norman is a mid-sized cooperative. Buyers should review the building's financials, reserve fund, debt, any assessments and any planned capital projects through the board-package process, as with any pre-war co-op of this vintage.
Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Dogs and cats
- PermittedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Not verified
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Building staffing and amenities
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Bike storage, storage, laundry roomSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the inspector (QEWI) identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair, with repairs due by the deadline stated in the filing. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 2026 | 29 | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,300,000 | -13.3% | |
| Aug 8, 2024 | 5 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,450 sf | $1,995,000 | $1,376/sf | +5.8% |
| Dec 19, 2022 | 18 | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,799,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jan 6, 2022 | 14 | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,400 sf | $1,950,000 | $1,393/sf | +2.9% |
| Nov 17, 2021 | 32 | 3 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,501,000 | +8.0% | |
| Apr 22, 2021 | 15 | 2 BR · 1 BA | $975,000 | +2.7% | |
| Feb 17, 2021 | 24 | 3 BR · 1.5 BA · 1,217 sf | $1,430,000 | $1,175/sf | -4.7% |
| Feb 3, 2021 | 17 | 5 BR · 3 BA · 2,800 sf | $2,550,000 | $911/sf | -5.4% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2024): a median $1,376/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. 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.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01207-0015). 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 co-op, so the purchase runs through a board application and interview, with the financial review that comes with it — clean financials and reasonable post-closing reserves matter. The building is pet-friendly and permits in-unit washer/dryers. Confirm the building's current financing, occupancy and subletting requirements from its governing documents and application instructions. Evaluate the near-park block, pre-war layouts and policies alongside the actual price and maintenance rather than assuming a discount to Central Park West. The right buyer values space, light, park access, and a relaxed, livable building.
What to know if you’re selling
The selling case is built on the building's genuine differentiators: a park-block location off Central Park West, a marble pre-war lobby with original detail, and pet- and washer/dryer-friendly policies that pre-war buyers actively seek. Compare actual renovation quality, floor and exposure, and account for the scope and cost of work in original-condition units rather than assigning a top price band in advance. After reviewing dated resale volume and current listings, anchoring to a relevant comparable set — near-park pre-war side-street co-ops rather than amenity towers or avenue frontage — drives accurate pricing. We qualify buyers for financial and board readiness early to protect the deal through the application.
Comparable buildings
If you're evaluating The Norman, these nearby Upper West Side and near-park pre-war cooperatives form a useful comparison set:
- 175 West 93rd Street — pre-war co-op on the same block corridor
- 18 West 87th Street — near-park pre-war cooperative
- 10 West 86th Street — pre-war co-op near Central Park West
- 15 West 84th Street — park-block pre-war cooperative
- 215 West 84th Street — nearby Upper West Side building; confirm its ownership structure separately
More Upper West Side buildings
- 35 West 90th Street — 1931 co-op by Robert T. Lyons
- 35 West 92nd Street — 1930 co-op
- 36 West 84th Street — 1923 co-op by George F. Pelham
- 39 West 67th Street — 1906 co-op
- 40 West 67th Street — 1928 co-op by Rosario Candela
- 40 West 76th Street — 1887 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
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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