532 West 111th Street (The Charlemagne)
532 West 111th Street, New York, NY 10025
BBL 1018820054 · BIN 1056914
- Year built
- 1909
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 40
- Floors
- 8
- Landmark
- Designated
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at The Charlemagne, per the Landmarks Preservation Commission's building record 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.
The Charlemagne is the middle of three matched apartment houses that Mulliken & Moeller designed for this stretch of West 111th Street in 1909–10, at 528, 532 and 536. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes them as part of the wave of Morningside Heights apartment construction that followed the opening of the IRT subway under Broadway in 1904. The row is a compact example of the firm's Tudor Revival work; the firm's Royal Summit at 320 West 86th Street followed in 1915.
Since 2017 the building has sat inside the Morningside Heights Historic District, which covers most of the lots on this block. That fixes the streetscape: the three Mulliken & Moeller buildings, the Neville & Bagge and Schwartz & Gross houses at the Amsterdam and Cathedral Parkway ends of the block, and the row as a whole are protected. It also means any work on the exterior goes through LPC.
The cooperative dates to late 1986. ACRIS shows apartments trading between unrelated individual buyers and sellers in most years since 2004 — 24 distinct apartments over that span — with no sponsor or investor entity selling shares in that period. There is no sponsor position visible in the record.
Architecture and unit composition
The LPC report describes a tripartite façade: a limestone base, an asymmetrically placed Tudor-arched entrance with an elaborate surround and granite steps, individual windows with label moldings, two-story terra-cotta surrounds with decorative metal railings, a balcony, and a quatrefoil frieze with colonnettes. The report lists the alterations: the parapet has been removed, and the door and windows have been replaced.
Apartments are numbered by floor and line, with up to seven lines on a floor and a handful of ground-level apartments numbered separately. The unit mix has moved over time. DOB filings record combinations of apartments 53 and 54 (2003), 85 and 87 (2004), and 43 and 45 (2013), and a 2018 filing that separated a previously combined 73 and 74 back into two apartments. That is why unit counts differ from source to source, and why a line number alone is not a reliable comparable.
Building operations
Capital work on record. DOB filings show parapet and repointing work in 2000, façade campaigns in 2007 and 2011 (lintels, sills, brickwork, pointing, window caulking and parapet maintenance), a gas and oil burner conversion in 2014, a new laundry installation in early 2019, and façade and roof repairs filed later in 2019. As a landmarked building, any future façade cycle carries LPC review on top of Local Law 11. Ask where the current cycle stands.
Underlying mortgage. The most recent building-level mortgage instruments in ACRIS date to 1998: two mortgages from a cooperative bank, assigned to Fannie Mae in 2000. ACRIS shows no later mortgage and no satisfaction of those loans. The current debt position — lender, balance, rate and maturity — is not in the public record and has to come from the financial statements.
J-51. The building has used the program repeatedly. DOF's historical records show grants starting in 1969 (twelve years), 1986 (the conversion year, on about $163,000 of qualifying work), 2001, 2007 and 2010 (each fourteen years). DOF's current abatement detail still lists two J-51 cases on the lot, with benefit windows running to December 2027 and September 2030, but both show a remaining benefit pool of zero. The benefit is used up. There is no burn-off ahead because there is nothing left to burn off.
Policy framework
Board package and interview. A purchaser buys shares and a proprietary lease, subject to board approval after a full package and an 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. Get the financing ceiling, post-closing liquidity expectation, sublet rules, flip tax, pied-à-terre position and trust or LLC policy from the managing agent, in writing, before the offer.
Alterations. Combination and renovation work here has been routine, but window replacement and anything visible from the street now needs LPC sign-off as well as board approval.
Recent sales
Pricing at The Charlemagne is best read per room. Value turns on floor, line, light and renovation, with combined apartments at the top of the range. The natural comparables are the other prewar cooperatives in the Morningside Heights Historic District within a few blocks of Broadway and 110th Street. Index any market read to the last complete year; a forty-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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 2025 | 5 | $1,075,000 |
| Apr 9, 2025 | 74 | $615,000 |
| Aug 15, 2024 | 77 | $2,025,000 |
| Mar 7, 2024 | 33 | $540,000 |
| Oct 24, 2023 | 63 | $580,000 |
| Aug 28, 2023 | 64 | $720,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01882-0054) 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.
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
Settle the debt question. The last recorded mortgage instruments are from 1998. Ask for the audited statements and confirm the current loan, its maturity and any line of credit.
Price in landmark status. Designation protects the block, and it also adds review time and cost to window replacement and façade work.
Get the policy stack in writing. Financing, subletting, the flip tax and pied-à-terre rules are not public here.
What to know if you’re selling
Use the pedigree. A named Mulliken & Moeller building in a designated district is a concrete selling point. Cite the LPC record rather than general claims.
Have the capital history ready. The façade, roof and laundry work since 2011 answers most of a buyer's attorney's questions before they are asked.
Comparable buildings
- 535 West 110th Street — prewar co-op on the same block, also in the historic district
- 545 West 111th Street — The Rockfall, 1909–10 co-op across the street
- 603 West 111th Street — 1908–09 Morningside Heights co-op a block west
- 600 West 111th Street — 1920s co-op at Broadway and 111th
- 520 West 110th Street — 1911 Schwartz & Gross building on Cathedral Parkway
- 600 West 115th Street — The Luxor, prewar co-op in the same historic district
- 320 West 86th Street — a later Mulliken & Moeller co-op on the Upper West Side
More Upper West Side buildings
- The Park Belvedere (402 Columbus Avenue) — 1985 condominium by Frank Williams (Frank Williams & Associates)
- 520 West 110th Street — 1911 condominium by Schwartz & Gross
- 530 Amsterdam Avenue — 1931 co-op by Margon & Holder
- 535 West 110th Street — 1922 co-op
- The Vandewater (543 West 122nd Street) — 2021 condominium
- 545 West 110th Street — 2005 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
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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