44 West 96th Street
44 West 96th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue · Upper West Side
BBL 1012090049 · BIN 1031738
- Type
- Cooperative
- Amenities
- Elevator, roof deck, intercom, part-time superintendent, laundry, bicycle storage and private storage
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Upper West Side / Central Park West Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $785K – $785K
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 28
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44 West 96th Street is a six-story elevator cooperative on the short block between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West. The building contains a substantial inventory of compact one-bedroom apartments, with a common roof deck adding outdoor space above the residential floors. Its footprint is relatively narrow, roughly 39 feet across the street frontage.
Its apparent postwar date conceals an older structure. LPC identifies the architect Joseph Schafran with a 1961 alteration of an existing flats building at this address. That is a more specific account of the building's history than treating the early 1960s as the date of an entirely new apartment house. The property became a cooperative in 1984.
The service arrangement includes a part-time superintendent, shared laundry and storage. Elevator access reaches the upper residences within a small cooperative, while the park is at the end of the block. The common roof deck serves the building as a whole and is separate from the interior floor area of an individual apartment.
Architecture and unit composition
The building's present six-story scale fits within the lower-rise portion of the West 96th Street streetscape. Its established structure underwent a mid-century alteration, and later apartment renovations have introduced additional variation inside. A buyer will encounter the combined effects of the older envelope, that alteration and the particular home's subsequent work.
Measured one-bedroom sales have commonly fallen around 570 to 675 square feet. That relatively compact range is a useful starting point for comparing the inventory. It still allows meaningful differences in the size of the bedroom, the position of the kitchen and the amount of space available to living and dining functions.
Apartments on the same floor can face different parts of the property. A street-facing home has a relationship to West 96th Street that differs from a residence toward the rear. Being close to Central Park doesn't guarantee a park view from every apartment; the actual outlook depends on the position of its windows and the surrounding structures.
The roof deck provides a shared outdoor destination above the apartments. Its presence should not be conflated with private terrace rights. Indoor storage is supplemented by basement facilities, including bicycle and private storage, which can be particularly useful for homes with smaller interior footprints.
Building operations
The cooperative has intercom entry and a part-time superintendent. Common laundry and storage are in the basement. These services support the building's relatively small residential inventory, with the elevator, roof and common spaces maintained at the cooperative level.
The property lies inside the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District. Its mid-century alteration history does not remove it from the designated district or exempt exterior changes from the applicable LPC review. Window work and alterations visible from the street need to follow the requirements for this property.
The residential lot is Class 2 and has no building-wide tax abatement. Its existing floor area is below the residential allowance associated with the R9 district, but landmark controls and other building requirements remain relevant to any expansion proposal. The zoning comparison is not an approval to add floors or enclose roof space.
Policy framework
Pets: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Subletting: Permitted, subject to the cooperative's current conditions — confirm with the managing agent.
Financing: Up to 80% — confirm with the managing agent.
Application and transaction fees
Fees below are from building management's published schedule, as of October 2026. They are shown as published, item by item; no total is added because the total depends on the transaction. Deposits are listed apart from nonrefundable charges.
Purchase
4 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Fee | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $650 | Refundable Not stated |
| Credit Check FeePer applicant | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $20.00 per applicant | Refundable Not stated |
| Move in fee | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $250 | Refundable Not stated |
Deposits
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move in Deposit | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $500 | Refundable Refundable |
Management updates its schedule without a public filing. The date is when management last updated the page, not when a rule changed. Confirm the current schedule with management before you apply.
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Building staffing and amenities
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Roof deck, 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.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 limits apply to a building on its own. It is still covered if it shares a tax lot or condominium board with buildings totaling over 50,000 sq ft; confirm on DOB’s covered-buildings list.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2025 | 2C | 2 BR · 2 BA | $785,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jul 12, 2022 | 4D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $580,000 | +0.0% | |
| May 26, 2022 | 3B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 570 sf | $585,000 | $1,026/sf | +0.0% |
| Jul 22, 2021 | 6D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 605 sf | $595,000 | $983/sf | +0.0% |
| Apr 28, 2021 | 2B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $520,000 | -1.0% | |
| Dec 13, 2018 | 4B | 1 BR | $570,000 | +0.9% | |
| Aug 17, 2016 | 1D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $495,000 | +2.1% | |
| Feb 26, 2016 | 6C | 1 BR · 600 sf | $515,000 | $858/sf | -2.6% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2022): a median $1,017/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. 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.
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 1-01209-0049). 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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Comparable buildings
- 46 West 95th Street: A nearby cooperative of comparable scale in a taller prewar structure.
- The Norman: A small prewar cooperative for comparing ownership near Central Park.
- 31 West 93rd Street: A lower-rise cooperative with a somewhat larger apartment inventory.
- 50 West 96th Street: A taller, larger cooperative on the same cross street.
- The Rudolph: A smaller cooperative with a direct Central Park West address.
More Upper West Side buildings
- 43 West 64th Street (Liberty Lofts) — 1900 condominium by Costas Kondylis & Partners
- 44 West 62nd Street — 1974 co-op by Horace Ginsbern & Associates
- 44 West 77th Street — 1909 co-op by Harde & Short
- 45 West 67th Street — 1983 condominium
- 45 West 89th Street — 1893 co-op
- 46 West 71st Street — 1889 co-op
The neighborhood
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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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