50 Morningside Drive
50 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10025
BBL 1018670059 · BIN 1056052
- Year built
- 1921
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 24
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 3BR median, 2023–2025
- $1.3M
- 3 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $1.2M – $1.5M
- Listing discount
- 2.2%
- Recorded transfers
- 27
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at La Touraine 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.
Owner-occupied apartments on Morningside Drive are scarce. The Drive runs along the top of the Morningside Park escarpment, and its west side is lined with apartment houses of six to fifteen stories, mostly prewar, most of which city records show held by Columbia University and Teachers College as institutional housing. On La Touraine's own tax block, every residential building except two is university-owned: La Touraine and its neighbor at 54 Morningside Drive are the only cooperatives. That makes No. 50 one of a small number of ways to own a park-facing prewar apartment on this stretch of the Drive.
The reviewed ownership record shows individual transfers. ACRIS shows recorded transfers between separately named buyers and sellers, whose beneficial relationships are not established by those records, across 18 of the 24 apartments since 2006, with no sponsor or investor entity selling blocks of shares. ACRIS's indexed record for this lot begins only in the mid-2000s, so the conversion date is not documented in public records; ask the managing agent.
Architecture and unit composition
The building is a six-story masonry apartment house with terra-cotta trim — a 2001 DOB filing covered replacement of damaged terra-cotta lintels and spandrels and flashing of the steel behind them. A 2006 filing covered roof work and restoration of the north elevation.
The plan is four apartments per floor, numbered by floor and line (apartment 32 is the second line on the third floor), with apartments at the first floor as well. On an 85-foot lot, the park-facing lines carry the building's value. DOB filings since 2014 show individual renovations that relocate kitchens and open masonry walls; confirm from a floor plan which lines face the park and which face the side street or the rear.
Building operations
Facade. The building files under the city's facade inspection program (FISP), and every cycle on record — 6 (2007), 7 (2012), 8 (2018) and 9 (2023) — was reported SWARMP: safe, with a repair and maintenance program. That means repair items are identified and must be completed by the completion date set in each report, one to five years after filing; the same condition cannot be reported SWARMP in consecutive cycles. PLUTO's six-floor count sits at the edge of FISP's threshold, which applies to buildings taller than six stories; confirm the story count, and ask what the Cycle 9 report requires and whether the work is funded.
Underlying mortgage. ACRIS shows a $530,000 cooperative-lender mortgage in February 2012, satisfied in November 2022, with no later mortgage recorded against the lot. The corporation may carry no underlying mortgage, or its current debt may be an unrecorded line of credit. The financial statements will settle it.
J-51. DOF's historical J-51 file, which runs through 2018, has no record for this lot, and DOF's current abatement detail carries none. Carrying costs are fully taxed, with no burn-off ahead.
Policy framework
Board package and interview. A purchaser buys shares and a proprietary lease, subject to board approval after a full package and interview. Budget four to eight weeks from a signed contract to a board decision.
Financing, liquidity, sublets, pied-à-terre, trusts and the flip tax. None is published and none is documented in any record available to us. The financing ceiling, post-closing liquidity requirement, sublet policy, flip tax, pied-à-terre and trust or LLC ownership rules all come from the managing agent. Get them in writing before the offer.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $11,852/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $41
- Modeled exposure split equally across 24 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 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 inspector (QEWI) 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 — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
Recent sales
Pricing at 50 Morningside Drive is best read per room. Value turns on whether an apartment faces the park, its floor and the age of its renovation; park-facing upper-floor apartments set the top of the range. The comparable set is small because most of the neighboring buildings do not sell apartments at all, so the right benchmarks are the few cooperatives on the Drive and the prewar cooperatives of the Morningside Heights Historic District to the west, adjusted for the park frontage. A 24-apartment building trades only a few times a year.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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 13, 2025 | 32 | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,502,200 | +7.4% | |
| Mar 16, 2023 | 62 | 3 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,270,000 | -2.2% | |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 23 | 3 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,165,000 | -19.7% | |
| Feb 16, 2022 | 52 | 3 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,335,000 | +6.8% | |
| Nov 1, 2021 | 3 | 2 BR · 1 BA | $752,500 | -1.0% | |
| Dec 11, 2020 | 1 | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,435,000 | -15.3% | |
| Oct 24, 2017 | 64 | 2 BR · 1,285 sf | $1,420,000 | $1,105/sf | -5.3% |
| Sep 25, 2017 | 34 | 2 BR | $1,275,000 | -1.9% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2017): a median $1,105/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 1.9% 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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2020 | 41 | $1,375,000 |
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 1-01867-0059). 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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What to know if you’re buying
Confirm the debt position. The last recorded mortgage was paid off in 2022. Ask for two years of audited statements and confirm whether the corporation carries any loan or line of credit, and how large its reserves are.
Ask about the Cycle 9 repairs. The facade has been SWARMP for four cycles. Find out what repairs the 2023 report lists and whether they will be paid from reserves or an assessment.
Get the policy stack in writing. Nothing about financing, subletting or the flip tax is public for this building.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the park. Park-facing apartments on this stretch of the Drive are scarce because most of the blockfront is institutional housing that never comes to market.
Have the financials and the facade file ready. A buyer's attorney will ask about the underlying mortgage and the facade program. Clean answers on both are part of the pitch.
Comparable buildings
- 114 Morningside Drive — 30-apartment prewar cooperative on the Drive at West 121st Street; the closest park-facing comparison
- 603 West 111th Street — William L. Rouse's 1908–09 Morningside Heights cooperative
- 535 West 110th Street — prewar co-op in the Morningside Heights Historic District
- 545 West 111th Street — The Rockfall, a larger 1909–10 Morningside Heights cooperative
- 600 West 111th Street — 1920s Morningside Heights cooperative at Broadway
- 600 West 115th Street — The Luxor, prewar co-op at Broadway and 115th
- 308–312 West 113th Street — condominium on the east side of Morningside Park
More Upper West Side buildings
- 46 West 71st Street — 1889 co-op
- 46 West 95th Street — 1922 co-op
- 48 West 86th Street — co-op
- 50 West 66th Street — 2025 condominium by SLCE Architects
- 50 West 67th Street (The Musicians' Building) — 1916 co-op
- 50 West 96th Street — co-op by George F. Pelham
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
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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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