590 West End Avenue
590 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10024
- Year built
- 1915
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 77
- Floors
- 12
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Pets permitted — cats and dogs allowed
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,318
- Listing discount
- 1.7%
- Recorded sales
- 82
- On record
- 2003–2025
590 West End Avenue is a 1915 Neville & Bagge apartment house at the corner of West 89th Street, and it carries the architectural DNA of the moment West End Avenue became one of New York's great residential boulevards. Neville & Bagge were among the most productive apartment-house architects of the early-twentieth-century Upper West Side, and 590 is a clean expression of the type: a U-shaped, twelve-story building wrapped around an interior courtyard, faced in orange-and-brown brick laid in Flemish bond with terra-cotta and stone trim, anchored by a deeply rusticated stone base and crowned with a modillioned terra-cotta cornice.
The building's interior history is the Upper West Side prewar story in miniature. It opened with two enormous full-floor apartments per floor — roughly ten rooms each, with ten-foot ceilings, four bedrooms, and staff rooms — built for the affluent families the boulevard was courting. Beginning around 1929, those grand layouts were progressively reconfigured into smaller units, and four penthouses were added at the roof. The result today is a heterogeneous building of roughly 77 residences spanning studios through larger combined apartments — not a uniform classic-six-and-seven building, but a layered one where the original grand scale survives in some apartments and has been carved up in others.
590 sits as a contributing building within the Riverside Drive–West End Historic District, designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1989. That designation protects the façade and the streetscape and signals the building's place in one of the city's most coherent prewar residential districts. For buyers, the appeal is the combination: genuine prewar scale and detail, a landmark-protected setting two blocks from Riverside Park, and a co-op board that — unusually for a prewar building — permits both pied-à-terre ownership and subletting.
Architecture and unit composition
The twelve-story building is organized around a U-shaped plan with an interior courtyard opening east, roughly 100 feet along West End Avenue and 90 feet along West 89th Street. The Neo-Renaissance façade carries tripartite window bays flanked by double-height fluted pilasters with modified Corinthian capitals, second-story metal balconies, a decorative frieze, and a crowning terra-cotta cornice. The original wood windows have been replaced with one-over-one aluminum sash, and a canopy was added at the entrance over the years.
Inside, the unit composition is varied by design and by history. The original full-floor apartments ran to roughly ten rooms; many have been recombined or subdivided. The current mix spans studios, one- and two-bedrooms, larger combined homes, and four penthouses — a building where apartment-level due diligence on layout and condition matters more than at a uniform prewar co-op.
Building operations
590 West End Avenue operates as a full-service prewar cooperative with round-the-clock staffing — a full-time doorman, a live-in superintendent, and a porter. Resident services include a basement laundry, a bicycle room, private storage, and cold storage for grocery and produce deliveries. There is no gym or roof deck on record; the building's appeal rests on prewar scale, staffing, and location rather than a modern amenity stack. As with any prewar co-op, buyers should review recent financial statements, the maintenance trend, and any capital assessment history during due diligence.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $13,346/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $14
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 →Management & transfer contacts
- Sublet policy
- Sublet fee 20% of annual rental income
- Notable fees
- Co-op. Max financing 75%; tax deductibility 28%. Credit $125/person; processing $700; transfer fee to managing agent $750 ($1,000 mail); financing $400; alteration $250-$2,500 + $5,000 deposit + $200/mo elevator
Recent sales
590 West End Avenue prices in the mid-to-upper Upper West Side prewar co-op range, on a per-room basis as is standard for cooperatives. A top-floor penthouse has been offered in the high-$2 million range; smaller one- and two-bedroom apartments trade well below that, commonly from the high six figures into the low seven figures depending on size, floor, light, and condition. Because the building's layouts are heterogeneous, per-room comparables should be read against apartments of similar room count and configuration rather than building-wide averages. Maintenance levels, the building's land position, and the condition of a given apartment all factor into value at this address.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2025 | 1A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $385,000 | -35.7% | |
| Apr 8, 2025 | 9DE | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,100 sf | $2,800,000 | $1,333/sf | -12.5% |
| Mar 18, 2025 | PHB | 1 BR · 1 BA · 950 sf | $1,400,000 | $1,474/sf | -6.5% |
| Nov 22, 2024 | 2E | 1 BR · 1 BA · 800 sf | $875,000 | $1,094/sf | -2.2% |
| Sep 20, 2024 | 9G | 1 BA | $405,000 | -16.5% | |
| Jul 26, 2024 | 10B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 790 sf | $796,000 | $1,008/sf | +6.1% |
| Jul 16, 2024 | 8E | 1 BR · 1 BA · 825 sf | $975,000 | $1,182/sf | -2.0% |
| Feb 14, 2024 | 4D | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,950,000 | -3.7% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $1,318/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 1.7% 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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2003 | 3A | $399,000 |
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 1-01236-0061) 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 genuine prewar, in a landmark district. Neo-Renaissance Neville & Bagge architecture, a U-shaped courtyard plan, and contributing-building status in the Riverside Drive–West End Historic District.
The layouts vary widely. Decades of combinations and subdivisions mean apartment-level diligence on room count, light, and condition matters. The original ten-room grandeur survives in some homes and has been reconfigured in others.
The board is relatively flexible. Pied-à-terre ownership and subletting are permitted — unusual for a prewar co-op. Confirm the financing maximum, flip tax, and post-closing liquidity requirements at offer stage.
Pets are welcome. Cats and dogs are permitted.
Co-op mechanics apply. Board package and interview; plan for a longer timeline than a condominium. Price the apartment on a per-room basis against comparable layouts.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the prewar architecture and the landmark setting. The Neville & Bagge design and the Riverside Drive–West End Historic District context are the differentiators.
The board flexibility widens the buyer pool. Pied-à-terre and sublet permissions matter to a meaningful set of buyers; make them explicit.
Price by the room, against comparable layouts. The heterogeneous unit mix makes apartment-specific comparables essential.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 590 West End Avenue, also evaluate:
- 600 West End Avenue — prewar West End Avenue cooperative directly adjacent in scale and era
- 565 West End Avenue — prewar West End Avenue building converted to condominium
- 400 West End Avenue — prewar West End Avenue cooperative peer
- The Apthorp — landmark Clinton & Russell courtyard building; West End-area prewar trophy
- The Belnord — landmark courtyard building converted to condominium
- The Eldorado — Emery Roth Central Park West prewar cooperative peer
The Roebling Team at 590 West End Avenue
The Roebling Team at Compass works the Upper West Side and the West End Avenue corridor as part of our broader Park-facing Manhattan practice. We publish this building profile because 590 West End Avenue buyers and sellers deserve building-specific intelligence — the Neville & Bagge architecture, the landmark-district context, the board policy posture, and per-room comparable analysis — not generic neighborhood commentary.
If you're considering a purchase or sale at 590 West End Avenue, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.
The neighborhood
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