386 Columbus Avenue
386 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY 10024
BBL 1011507502 · BIN 1030280
- Year built
- 1985
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 24
- Floors
- 18
- Pets
- Pet-friendly; confirm specifics at offer stage
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf (floor-adjusted)
- $1,428
- Listing discount
- 3.1%
- Recorded sales
- 29
- On record
- 2004–2025
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386 Columbus Avenue — Columbus House — is an intimate, full-service condominium at the center of the Upper West Side, on Columbus Avenue at West 79th Street, directly across from the American Museum of Natural History and the Rose Center for Earth and Space. That is one of the most enviable positions on the West Side: many of the homes look out over the museum campus and the Hayden Planetarium, an open, protected outlook that is rare in a neighborhood this dense. The building sits amid the avenue's best cafés, restaurants, and shopping, a short walk from both Central Park and Riverside Park.
For the buyer who wants full-service, boutique condominium living — a doorman, in-unit laundry, private elevator landings, and the flexibility of condo ownership — in a prime Upper West Side location, Columbus House is a distinctive and well-positioned choice.
Building operations
Columbus House is a genuinely full-service condominium: a 24-hour doorman, a full-time superintendent, a recently renovated lobby, bike storage, and individual storage lockers available in the basement for a separate fee. Each home has in-unit laundry and, in many cases, a private elevator landing. The building is pet-friendly.
As a condominium, ownership is by deed. That structure gives owners the flexibility condominium buyers value: no board approval to purchase, straightforward pied-à-terre and investor ownership, and the ability to lease under the condominium's rules. Purchases are subject to the condominium's right of first refusal rather than a co-op board interview. Specific leasing terms, the storage fee, and any current restrictions should be confirmed at offer stage.
Architecture and residences
Built in 1985, the building is an eighteen-story condominium tower holding only 24 residences — an unusually low unit count for its height, which translates into privacy and generous per-floor scale. Many homes have private elevator landings, so the elevator opens into the residence rather than a shared corridor, and each home has in-unit laundry. The upper floors and museum-facing exposures capture open views toward the American Museum of Natural History and the glass cube of the Rose Center directly across Columbus Avenue.
The building is a contemporary, full-service structure rather than a pre-war one — modern systems, larger windows, and the amenity base of a doorman building, delivered at a boutique 24-home scale.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $5,174/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $18
- Modeled exposure split equally across 24 units (the city tax-lot count). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as Unsafe — conditions requiring corrective action, which under FISP means a protective sidewalk shed and repairs. Review the subsequent filings, the repair status, and the building’s board and financial materials — we pull the repair scope and funding picture for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign 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 record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
Condominium pricing is read on a price-per-square-foot basis, and 386 Columbus Avenue trades as a full-service boutique Upper West Side condominium — private landings, in-unit laundry, doorman service, and the flexibility premium condominium ownership carries over a co-op. With only 24 residences, resale volume is thin: a small number of closings in an active year. Demand here is driven by the museum-facing views, the private-landing floor plans, the full-service amenity base, and the pied-à-terre and investor appeal that condo ownership unlocks. When underwriting a purchase or a list price, capture the square footage, the floor, the exposure and view, the private-landing configuration, and the renovation condition rather than relying on a neighborhood average.
Recent closings 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, 2025 | 2A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,250 sf | $1,772,500 | $1,418/sf | -1.3% |
| Jun 1, 2024 | 11A | 1,304 sf | $1,995,000 | $1,530/sf | off-mkt |
| Mar 15, 2023 | 15A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,304 sf | $2,200,000 | $1,687/sf | -4.1% |
| Feb 28, 2023 | 5A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,304 sf | $1,625,000 | $1,246/sf | -26.0% |
| Oct 19, 2022 | 3B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,033 sf | $1,747,500 | $1,692/sf | -2.9% |
| Nov 5, 2020 | 11B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,100 sf | $1,435,000 | $1,305/sf | -4.0% |
| Jan 31, 2020 | 7A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,304 sf | $2,245,000 | $1,722/sf | -16.7% |
| Sep 13, 2018 | 8A | 2 BR · 1,250 sf | $2,250,000 | $1,800/sf | -8.2% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $1,428/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. 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 3.1% 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.
Full closing history with price-per-square-foot over time, the complete retrade record, and every line that has traded.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01150-7502). 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
Closed rents at Columbus House, last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| 2 bedroom | 3 | $8,200 |
3 closed leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease February 2026. Based on few leases. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
Buying here? Condo closing costs with a mortgage typically run 3 to 6% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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What to know if you’re buying
This is a condominium, so the process is faster and more flexible than a co-op: no board interview, a right-of-first-refusal step rather than an approval vote, and freedom to use the apartment as a primary home, pied-à-terre, or rental. Review the condominium's financials, reserve, and common charges — a full-service building with a doorman and staff carries a higher common-charge base than an unstaffed building, which is the trade for the service and amenities. Confirm the storage-locker availability and fee, the leasing rules if you intend to rent, and the specific home's exposure and view, since the museum-facing outlook is a meaningful part of the value here.
The reasons to buy are service, views, and flexibility: a full-service doorman building with private elevator landings and in-unit laundry, open museum-facing outlooks, a prime Columbus Avenue location, and the ownership freedom that comes with a condominium.
What to know if you’re selling
The story is service, views, and flexibility. The 24-hour doorman, the private elevator landings, the in-unit laundry, and the open outlook toward the Museum of Natural History are the differentiators — and the condominium structure widens the buyer pool to pied-à-terre purchasers, investors, and international buyers who cannot or will not navigate a co-op. Pricing is an apartment-specific, per-square-foot exercise: square footage, floor, view, private-landing layout, and condition drive the number more than any block average. We position the full-service and view narrative and benchmark against the right comparable tier of boutique Upper West Side condominiums.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 386 Columbus Avenue, also look at these nearby Upper West Side buildings:
- 402 Columbus Avenue — nearby Upper West Side building
- 144 Columbus Avenue — nearby Upper West Side building
- 320 West End Avenue — nearby Upper West Side building
- 300 West End Avenue — nearby Upper West Side building
- 100 Riverside Drive — nearby Upper West Side building
- The Beresford — landmark Upper West Side cooperative nearby
More Upper West Side buildings
- The Santa Monica, 345 West 70th Street — 1905 co-op
- 350 West 71st Street — 1920 condominium
- 380 Amsterdam Avenue (The Gloucester) — 1975 co-op
- The Park Belvedere (402 Columbus Avenue) — 1985 condominium by Frank Williams (Frank Williams & Associates)
- Charlotte of the Upper West Side, 470 Columbus Avenue — condominium
- St. John Court, 500 West 111th Street — 1908 co-op by Neville & Bagge
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
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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