580 West End Avenue
580 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10024
Upper West Side
BBL 1012360001 · BIN 1033288
- Year built
- 1926
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2021
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,395
- Listing discount
- 2.4%
- Recorded sales
- 12
- On record
- 2004–2021
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 580 West End Avenue 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.
580 West End Avenue is a connoisseur's pre-war building: a 1928 Emery Roth co-op of just 17 residences, most of them full-floor, on the northeast corner of West End Avenue and West 88th Street. Roth is the architect most identified with the Upper West Side's golden age — the San Remo, the Beresford, the Eldorado — and 580 West End is one of a small, designated group of his buildings on the West Side, a fact that places it among the most architecturally significant addresses on the avenue. Erected for the Morwitt Realty Corporation, it carries the distinguishing flourish of a magnificent oversized wrought-iron and glass entrance marquee, an immediately recognizable signature on the streetscape.
The building's rarity is structural. With 17 apartments across 15 stories, nearly every home is a full floor — a level of privacy, light, and proportion that almost no other building on West End can match. Every residence has a wood-burning fireplace. This is not a building of many small units; it is a building of a few exceptional ones, in the kind of low-density, high-pedigree configuration that defines trophy pre-war ownership.
Architecture and unit composition
Roth's design is restrained where it counts and emphatic where it matters: a beige-brick masonry tower that reads as quietly dignified, lifted by the drama of its wrought-iron-and-glass marquee and the careful detailing of a master of the form. Fifteen stories with only 17 apartments yields the building's defining quality — full-floor and near-full-floor living, with light on multiple exposures from the corner site overlooking West End and 88th.
The residences are large, gracious, and intact in their pre-war bones: high ceilings, generous room counts, defined entry galleries, and wood-burning fireplaces in every home. These are the layouts that pre-war buyers seek and rarely find at this scale of privacy — whole floors that live like townhouses in the sky, with the architectural provenance of an Emery Roth design and the protection of a historic district.
Building operations
580 West End operates as an intimate, white-glove-adjacent co-op rather than a large staffed tower — appropriate to a 17-unit building. Common amenities are streamlined: an elevator and a central laundry room, with day-to-day care from a resident superintendent. The cooperative is pet-friendly, permits financing up to 80%, and allows subletting with board approval, giving owners more flexibility than the most restrictive pre-war houses. As a designated building within a historic district, exterior alterations proceed through Landmarks Preservation Commission review, a protection that preserves the architecture and, with it, long-term value.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $13,972/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $68
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 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 engineer identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair before the next inspection cycle. 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 — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Management & transfer contacts
- Flip tax
- See Closing Fees document
- Sublet policy
- Sublet fee $1,000 billed monthly
- Notable fees
- Co-op. Max financing 75%. Background $125/person; mgmt processing $600; move-in/out deposits $500 each; refinance/HELOC $450
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 2021 | 11 | 4 BR · 3 BA · 2,795 sf | $3,900,000 | $1,395/sf | -2.4% |
| Jul 29, 2019 | 6 | 4 BR · 4 BA | $5,425,000 | -1.3% | |
| Jun 4, 2019 | 4 | 4 BR · 4 BA · 3,000 sf | $5,036,250 | $1,679/sf | -16.0% |
| Aug 26, 2015 | 4 | 4 BR · 4 BA · 3,000 sf | $5,425,000 | $1,808/sf | -7.3% |
| Aug 27, 2013 | 12 | 4 BR · 4 BA · 3,000 sf | $4,295,000 | $1,432/sf | +0.0% |
| Mar 28, 2013 | 1D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $340,000 | -9.3% | |
| Dec 9, 2009 | 1BC | 2 BR · 1,100 sf | $700,000 | $636/sf | off-mkt |
| May 12, 2008 | 2 | 3 BR | $3,030,000 | +1.2% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2021) cleared a median $1,395/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 2.4% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
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 1-01236-0001) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
This is a top-tier pre-war co-op purchase: a thorough board package and interview, and a building that prizes stable, owner-occupant shareholders. The reward is exceptional — a full-floor home in a designated Emery Roth building, with a wood-burning fireplace and corner light. The board's posture is relatively accommodating for a building of this caliber: pets are welcome, 80% financing is permitted, and subletting is allowed with approval. Underwrite the apartment on its proportions, light, and renovation scope, and recognize that inventory here is genuinely scarce — when a floor becomes available, it warrants decisive action.
What to know if you’re selling
Few West End addresses sell themselves the way this one does: an Emery Roth building, a full-floor apartment, a wood-burning fireplace, and the permanence of a historic-district designation. Lead with provenance and configuration — the architect, the whole-floor privacy, the corner exposures — and benchmark against the small set of full-floor pre-war homes on West End and Riverside rather than against ordinary multi-unit-per-floor stock. Because the building trades so seldom, a well-presented residence enters a market with little direct competition and motivated, knowledgeable buyers.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 580 West End Avenue, these nearby pre-war West End and Riverside cooperatives form a useful comparison set:
- 565 West End Avenue — pre-war co-op a block away
- 600 West End Avenue — large-layout pre-war co-op nearby
- 545 West End Avenue — pre-war West End cooperative
- 535 West End Avenue — pre-war co-op a few blocks south
- 607 West End Avenue — West End pre-war cooperative
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across West End Avenue — read The Roebling Team Guide to West End Avenue.
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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