Madison Gardens, 408 West 34th Street

The residential plans reflect a postwar apartment house, with studios and separate-bedroom layouts organized around shared halls and elevator access. Studios can have a distinct kitchen and enough main-room length to arrange sleeping and living areas separately. Such an arrangement remains a studio unless the space qualifies as a legal bedroom.

One-bedroom homes include separate living rooms and kitchens, while two-bedroom plans provide another enclosed room within the building's modest floor plate. Windowed kitchens occur in some apartments. Closets, entry areas and the position of the kitchen produce meaningful differences among homes with the same bedroom count.

Wood and parquet floors appear in the inventory, with renovation histories varying across apartments. Some kitchens remain enclosed; others have been opened or extensively refitted. Those choices change the amount of storage and the connection between cooking and living space, so the current floor plan matters more than a generic postwar description.

The rear parking area is part of the property's ground-level arrangement. Apartments looking toward the rear can face that open area and adjoining buildings, while the West 34th Street frontage looks over the street. A higher floor doesn't guarantee an unobstructed skyline view.

A resident superintendent handles on-site responsibilities, supported by video entry at the building entrance. Shared laundry and rentable storage provide facilities outside the apartments. The surface parking lot operates with a waitlist for spaces.

The cooperative's tax treatment is Class 2, and its real estate taxes are included in the corporation's operating expenses. There is no building-level tax abatement identified for the property. A shareholder's maintenance payment also supports the common building services and expenses allocated through the cooperative.

The property sits in C6-4 zoning within the Special Hudson Yards District. Its built floor-area ratio is substantially below the listed residential allowance. Additional development potential cannot be calculated from that numerical gap alone: the special district's rules, the lot's development history and any transferred rights would affect what could be built.

Financing: Up to 80%, with a minimum 20% down payment — confirm with the managing agent.

Pets: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.

Pied-à-terre ownership: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.

Subletting: Permitted, with a monthly fee that depends on how long the shareholder has owned the apartment — confirm the current schedule and other conditions with the managing agent.

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. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2022): a median $950/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 2.1% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00731-0050). 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.

• Convention Overlook — A larger postwar cooperative on the same block, with a substantially taller residential structure.
• Haddon Hall — A prewar cooperative nearby, offering a different construction era and a larger apartment-house scale.
• The Courant — A smaller prewar cooperative for buyers considering the area's older residential inventory.
• 313 Eighth Avenue — A postwar cooperative with a much larger residential inventory and a taller building form farther south.
• 348 West 36th Street — A low-unit-count prewar cooperative, useful for comparing ownership in a smaller association.
• Dylan House — Another small prewar cooperative in the surrounding Midtown market, with apartments distributed through a taller structure.