430 West 34th Street (Convention Overlook)
430 West 34th Street, New York, NY 10001
- Year built
- 1963
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 178
- Floors
- 17
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- 24-hour doorman, live-in superintendent, renovated lobby (listing records document lobby and hallway renovations as recently as 2025), central laundry, private storage, bike room, landscaped and furnished roof deck with open 360-degree views
- Pets
- Cats and dogs permitted
- Financing
- Maximum financing should be confirmed with the managing agent at offer stage
Convention Overlook is one of the stranger value stories in Manhattan: a plain 1963 white-brick cooperative that was built when Far West 34th Street was warehouses and open rail yards — and that now sits, unchanged, in the middle of the most expensive redevelopment district in American history. The building predates everything around it: the Javits Center (1986) that gave it its name, the Special Hudson Yards District rezoning (2005), the 7-train extension to 34th Street–Hudson Yards (2015), the High Line's northern terminus, Manhattan West, and the Hudson Yards towers themselves. The neighborhood was rebuilt around a co-op that never left.
That sequence is the market thesis. The corridor's residential stock is now dominated by new-development condominiums trading at multiples of this building's pricing; Convention Overlook is the corridor's structural entry point — full-service co-op mechanics, studio-and-one-bedroom scale, and maintenance that bundles heat, hot water, and gas, at prices that start in the $400,000s. For a buyer who wants to own at the center of the Hudson Yards transit and amenity map without new-development carrying costs, there is very little else like it.
The building itself is honest post-war product. Architectural records attribute the design to H.I. Feldman, whose firm put up hundreds of apartment houses across the boroughs; this one is a representative example — a wide white-brick slab with an entrance marquee, sidewalk landscaping, and efficient lines rather than grand ones. What it does have is the roof: 17 stories was tall for the block in 1963, and the landscaped, furnished roof deck now reads as a viewing platform for the supertall skyline that grew up around it, with open 360-degree exposure.
Architecture and unit composition
The building runs 17 floors and approximately 178 apartments per city records, configured almost entirely as straight studios, alcove studios, and one-bedrooms, with a small number of terraced units, garden-level lines, and penthouses. Layouts are classic Feldman-era efficiency: defined entry foyers, pass-through or enclosed kitchens, and generous closet runs for the size class. Select lines carry private terraces or garden frontage that are unusual at this price point — listing records have documented one-bedrooms with 20-foot-plus terraces and planted garden extensions. Upper-floor units on the south face look toward the Hudson Yards towers and Javits; north-facing lines look into the Hell's Kitchen mid-blocks.
Building operations
Full-service for its tier: 24-hour doorman, live-in superintendent, porter staff, central laundry, storage, and bike room. The lobby was renovated in 2005 and listing records document a fresh lobby and hallway renovation cycle completed in 2025. Maintenance is repeatedly characterized in listing records as low for a doorman building, with heat, hot water, and gas bundled — a meaningful line item when comparing against the corridor's condo carrying costs. The offering plan and amendments are on file in The Roebling Research Library; current financials should be reviewed by counsel during diligence.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $55,539/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $26
Recent sales
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent transfers at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 2026 | 15E | $545,000 |
| Oct 22, 2025 | 5H | $765,000 |
| Jun 6, 2025 | 2A | $500,000 |
| Apr 28, 2025 | 5D | $725,000 |
| Sep 18, 2024 | 12H | $787,500 |
| Jul 31, 2023 | 16D | $755,000 |
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 1-00731-0060) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price.
What to know if you’re buying
You are buying the location's future at the location's past pricing. The block's infrastructure — the 7 at Hudson Yards, the A/C/E at Eighth Avenue, Moynihan Train Hall, the High Line entrance, Hudson Yards and Manhattan West retail — is fully delivered, and this building's pricing has not converged with it. The value case is structural, not speculative.
Calibrate expectations on the block itself. West 34th Street between Ninth and Tenth is a working crosstown corridor: Javits event traffic, Lincoln Tunnel approaches, and Penn Station flows are all real. Spend time on the block at rush hour and on an event day before offering.
The policy framework is unusually flexible for a co-op. Pets, pieds-à-terre, co-purchasing, gifting, and guarantors are all documented as permitted, and the sublet posture is liberal by co-op standards — which supports both investors and parents buying for children. Verify current sublet terms directly, as records conflict on the details. Run the Co-op Board Qualification Calculator before offering.
Underwrite the maintenance bundle. Heat, hot water, and gas inside the maintenance changes the monthly math against condos that bill everything separately. Run the True Monthly Carrying Cost Calculator on a true apples-to-apples basis.
Verify the fee stack at offer stage. Flip tax, financing maximum, and current sublet fees are thinly documented publicly. We verify against the offering plan and amendments on file, and the managing agent, during diligence.
What to know if you’re selling
Sell the corridor, not the brick. Your buyer pool is priced out of the Hudson Yards condos but wants the same map. The marketing should lead with transit, the High Line, Manhattan West, and the roof deck's skyline frame — the building's 1963 envelope is the discount mechanism, not the headline.
The investor-flexible policies widen your exit. A sublet-friendly, pied-à-terre-friendly co-op clears to a deeper pool than a primary-residence-only building. Make the policy framework explicit in the listing; many co-op buyers assume the opposite by default.
Price to the line, and to condition. The spread between renovated terraced lines and estate-condition studios is wide in percentage terms at this price point. Run the Renovation Cost Calculator against your asking strategy before listing.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 430 West 34th Street, also evaluate:
- 433 West 34th Street (Haddon Hall) — the pre-war co-op directly across the street; the closest like-for-like alternative with older bones
- 15 Hudson Yards — the corridor's new-development condo benchmark two blocks west; the price ceiling against which this building is the value case
- 35 Hudson Yards — the corridor's top-tier condo alternative
- London Terrace Towers (435 West 23rd Street) — the landmark Chelsea co-op a half-mile south; the larger, more famous post-war-priced alternative
- 325 West 45th Street (The Whitby) — Midtown West co-op comparable in scale and price tier
- 405 West 23rd Street — full-service Chelsea co-op in the same studio/one-bedroom-driven segment
- 520 West 23rd Street (The Marais) — West Chelsea co-op alternative near the High Line's mid-section
The Roebling Team at Convention Overlook
The Roebling Team at Compass works the Hudson Yards corridor and the broader West Side market as a core practice area. We publish this building profile because Hudson Yards buyers and sellers deserve building-specific intelligence — conversion documentation, policy framework, and corridor-level comparables — not generic neighborhood commentary.
If you're considering a transaction at 430 West 34th Street, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.