552 Riverside Drive
552 Riverside Drive, near West 125th Street, Morningside Heights, on Riverside Drive
BBL 1019950077 · BIN 1059892
- Year built
- 1910
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 68
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Resident superintendent, shared roof deck, courtyard, fitness room, laundry room, bicycle storage and storage facilities
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $407K
- Recent range
- $385K – $1.2M
- Listing discount
- 5.7%
- Recorded transfers
- 53
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552 Riverside Drive is a six-story cooperative at the northern end of Morningside Heights, with park-facing apartments and a common roof deck overlooking the Hudson River. The building dates to 1910. Its masonry apartment-house form contains 68 residences, including smaller homes and larger combinations assembled over time.
The shared outdoor spaces operate at two levels: a courtyard within the property and a roof deck above the apartments. River views from the roof are a building amenity available beyond the homes with west-facing windows. The fitness room adds an indoor common facility to an early twentieth-century building.
The location is close to the elevated 125th Street station on the 1 line and the transition into Manhattanville. Riverside Drive frontage gives the building a different orientation from the avenue-facing residential blocks farther east. Exposure is especially consequential here because an apartment facing the park has a different outlook from one facing into the block.
Architecture and unit composition
The apartment stock includes studios and one-bedroom homes alongside larger residences. Older combinations have created some of the most substantial plans. That history leaves a broader range of room sizes than the six-story envelope alone suggests, and the cooperative's original apartment lines do not describe every current interior.
Prewar features include wood floors, separate entrance areas and rooms divided by conventional walls and doorways. Renovations have changed kitchens and bathrooms at different times. Some homes retain a distinct kitchen, while others open it more directly to the living area. These changes affect usable wall space as well as the division between cooking and living rooms.
West-facing apartments can look toward Riverside Park. The common roof deck has a wider river outlook, but that doesn't reflect the view from any individual apartment. Floor height and the location of the windows within the building determine whether the principal rooms face open space, trees or nearby construction.
The larger residences include homes created through combinations, with recorded interiors exceeding the size of the typical one-bedroom inventory. Their circulation and number of bathrooms depend on the alterations undertaken when the apartments were joined. Existing layout drawings are particularly useful for these homes because adjoining original lines can leave an irregular sequence of rooms.
Building operations
The cooperative has elevator service and a resident superintendent. Central laundry, bicycle storage and storage facilities support apartments whose internal utility space varies. Storage access and allocation are separate from the apartment's room count and should be established for the shares being purchased.
A fitness room and communal outdoor areas form part of the building's shared operations. The roof deck is a common amenity, so a top-floor purchase does not itself establish exclusive rooftop rights. The courtyard provides another outdoor setting at a lower level of the property.
The building is taxed as Class 2, with no building-wide abatement beyond personal exemptions, and real estate taxes are included among the cooperative's expenses. Its built floor-area ratio is below the residential allowance listed for R8 zoning. That difference is not a promise of an addition: any project would require analysis of the lot, height and bulk rules, structural capacity and cooperative approvals.
Policy framework
Pets: Cats and dogs are permitted, subject to approval — confirm with the managing agent.
Pied-à-terre ownership: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Co-purchasing, guarantors and parents buying: Governed by cooperative policy — confirm current terms with the managing agent.
Subletting: Permitted subject to the cooperative's conditions — confirm duration limits, eligibility and charges with the managing agent.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 2026 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $765,000 | -4.3% | |
| Mar 21, 2025 | 3F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $385,000 | -7.2% | |
| Feb 24, 2025 | 6G | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,200,000 | -4.0% | |
| Aug 8, 2024 | 6F | 1 BR | $429,000 | -7.7% | |
| Apr 26, 2022 | 2D | 2 BR · 1 BA · 790 sf | $740,000 | $937/sf | -7.5% |
| Feb 11, 2022 | 6K | 2 BR · 1 BA | $875,000 | +9.5% | |
| Jun 3, 2021 | 1K | 1 BR · 1 BA | $295,000 | +0.0% | |
| Nov 4, 2019 | 1L | 1 BR · 1 BA | $435,000 | -2.2% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2022): a median $936/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 0.9% 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.
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 1-01995-0077) 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; square footage on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
At the recent median sale of $765K (3 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $11,419 to close, or 1.5% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $11,419
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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Comparable buildings
- The Hamilton, 420 Riverside Drive — A larger prewar cooperative along the same corridor, with a taller apartment-house form.
- 114 Morningside Drive — A smaller six-story prewar cooperative for comparing an early apartment house on the other side of Morningside Heights.
- The Luxor — A prewar cooperative with fewer residences distributed through a taller building.
- Claremont Hall — A modern condominium tower, useful when the alternative is a newer building with condominium ownership and a broader amenity program.
- Eleven Hancock — A contemporary condominium with a similar overall apartment count and a different ownership structure.
More Riverside Drive buildings
- 390 Riverside Drive — 1924 co-op by Gaetano Ajello
- 395 Riverside Drive (The Matincote) — 1925 co-op by Gaetano Ajello
- 404 Riverside Drive (The Strathmore) — 1908 co-op by Schwartz & Gross
- 420 Riverside Drive (The Hamilton) — 1911 co-op by Gaetano Ajello
- The Paterno, 440 Riverside Drive — 1909 co-op by Schwartz & Gross
- The Huntingfield, 615 West 113th Street — 1906 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Riverside Drive — read The Roebling Team Guide to Riverside Drive.
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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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