415 West 55th Street
415 West 55th Street, New York, NY 10019
BBL 1010650023 · BIN 1026844
- Year built
- 1911
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 22
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Pet-friendly
- Subletting
- Set by board policy — confirm at offer stage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf (floor-adjusted)
- $1,153
- Listing discount
- 3.0%
- Recorded sales
- 25
- On record
- 2004–2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 415 West 55th Street 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.
415 West 55th Street is a boutique pre-war cooperative on a quiet Hell's Kitchen block between Ninth and Tenth Avenues — a six-story elevator building completed in 1911 and converted to cooperative ownership in 1985. Its standout feature is genuinely rare for a building this size: a private on-site garage, an amenity that carries real weight in a part of Manhattan where parking is scarce and expensive.
For the buyer who wants a pre-war home with the cost discipline of a co-op rather than a condo — and the convenience of parking in the building — 415 West 55th Street is a clean proposition. A small, pre-war, elevator cooperative on a residential Clinton block, minutes from Columbus Circle, the Theater District, Hudson Yards, and the A/C/B/D and 1 trains, at price points below the trophy market.
Building operations
The cooperative runs on a characteristically pre-war model: an elevator, basement storage, an intercom, and the standout private on-site garage. There is no full-time doorman — typical and appropriate for a 22-unit pre-war cooperative of this scale, and a meaningful factor in keeping maintenance charges contained. The building is pet-friendly.
As a cooperative, ownership is by shares rather than deed: purchases require board approval and a board interview, financing is capped at a board-set percentage, and pied-à-terre, gifting, guarantor, and co-purchase arrangements are evaluated case by case. The exact financing maximum, any flip tax, and current sublet rules vary by board policy and should be confirmed at offer stage.
Architecture and residences
Built in 1911, the building is a six-story pre-war elevator apartment house on a standard 50-by-110-foot lot. The interiors carry pre-war scale — defined rooms and the layout logic of early-twentieth-century apartment living — and washer/dryers are permitted in units. Many residences have been renovated over the decades since the 1985 conversion.
The 22-residence count keeps the building intimate and the operation lean — a boutique cooperative rather than a full-service tower, with the character and contained carrying costs that scale implies.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $7,184/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $27
- Modeled exposure split equally across 22 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 SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the engineer 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 — 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
Co-op pricing is read on a per-room basis, and 415 West 55th Street trades as a boutique pre-war cooperative — pre-war layouts, an elevator, and the parking amenity, all at contained carrying costs. With only 22 residences, resale volume is thin: a small number of closings in an active year. Demand here is driven by the Hell's Kitchen location, the pre-war character, the garage, and the value a co-op structure offers relative to nearby condominiums. When underwriting a purchase or a list price, capture the room count, the floor, the exposure, the renovation condition, and any garage right rather than relying on a neighborhood average.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2025 | 1A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $825,000 | -8.3% | |
| Dec 16, 2022 | 1C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $970,000 | -3.0% | |
| Dec 6, 2021 | 2A | 1 BA | $992,500 | +0.3% | |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 4D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $759,500 | -20.1% | |
| Sep 26, 2019 | 3A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $925,000 | -2.6% | |
| Apr 30, 2018 | 2D | 1 BR | $765,000 | +2.0% | |
| May 19, 2017 | 5C | 2 BR · 1,650 sf | $1,903,000 | $1,153/sf | -3.6% |
| Mar 16, 2016 | 5A | 1 BR · 1,000 sf | $912,500 | $913/sf | -3.9% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2017): a median $1,153/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 3.0% 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 1-01065-0023). 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.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% 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 cooperative, so the path is a board package and interview, a financing cap set by the board, and underwriting of the building's financials and house rules. Note the operational realities up front: this is a boutique, self-managed pre-war building rather than a full-service tower, which suits some buyers and rules out others. The building is pet-friendly. Confirm the current sublet and pied-à-terre policy, any flip tax, and the terms and availability of garage parking at offer stage. Review the co-op's financials, reserve, and any planned capital work, particularly given the building's age.
The reasons to buy are the location, the parking, and the value: a quiet Clinton block minutes from Columbus Circle and Hudson Yards, a rare in-building garage, pre-war scale, and a cooperative cost structure that keeps the entry point and carrying costs below the condominium peers nearby.
What to know if you’re selling
The story is the pre-war character, the Hell's Kitchen location, and the garage. A small pre-war elevator co-op with its own parking on a residential Clinton block is a specific, marketable proposition — and it sells to a buyer who wants pre-war value and the convenience of parking. Pricing is an apartment-specific exercise: room count, floor, light, condition, and any garage right drive the number more than any block average. We position the pre-war and parking narrative, prepare the buyer for the co-op process, and benchmark against the right comparable tier of West Side pre-war cooperatives.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 415 West 55th Street, also look at these Hell's Kitchen and West Side buildings:
- 419 West 55th Street — pre-war building on the same block
- 357 West 55th Street — West Side building nearby
- 445 West 54th Street — Hell's Kitchen building one block south
- 421 West 54th Street — Clinton building nearby
- 405 West 57th Street — West Side cooperative nearby
- 405 West 53rd Street — Hell's Kitchen building nearby
More Hell's Kitchen buildings
- The Geneva (408 West 57th Street) — 1956 co-op
- 414 West 51st Street — 1910 condominium
- 414 West 54th Street (The Abbey) — 1986 condominium
- 416 West 52nd Street (Nine52) — 1940 condominium
- 419 West 55th Street (Loft 55) — 1911 condop
- The Adelaide, 420 West 47th Street — 1910 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Hell's Kitchen — read The Roebling Team Guide to Hell's Kitchen.
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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