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
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
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.
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 →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. 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 | +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.
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