- Year built
- 1926
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2006–2021
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
- 10
- On record
- 2006–2021
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
Facade safety — Local Law 11
Safe to live in today — but the last inspection flagged repairs that are due on a deadline, so facade work and its cost are coming. Whether that’s a real concern depends on the scope, the timing, and how the building plans to pay for it — reserves or an assessment — which is exactly what we’d dig into for you.
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent). Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library.
See the full facade history →Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Apartment-level facts are independently verified before publishing; sale prices reflect the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance.
| 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 | off-mkt |
| 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% | |
| Sep 10, 2007 | 6 | 3 BR | $3,955,000 | -4.7% |
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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 2021 | 14 | $3,850,000 |
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 1-01236-0001) 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 Roebling Team at 580 West End Avenue
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in the Upper West Side, the West End and Riverside corridors, and the city's significant pre-war co-ops. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers at architecturally important, low-density buildings deserve building-specific intelligence — the provenance, the full-floor configuration, the board posture, and where value sits against the trophy tier.
If you're considering a purchase or sale at 580 West End Avenue, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.
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