60 West 68th Street
60 West 68th Street, New York, NY 10023
Lincoln Square, Upper West Side
BBL 1011200057 · BIN 1028253
- Year built
- 1920
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 73
- Floors
- 11
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Permitted with board approval, per management-sourced records
- Financing
- No published ceiling — confirm the maximum financing percentage and the post-closing liquidity requirement with the managing agent. Management-sourced records do carry a $325 recognition-agreement fee where a purchase is financed, so financed purchases are contemplated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $617K
- Recent range
- $556K – $3.4M
- Listing discount
- 12.1%
- Recorded transfers
- 75
The building was not designed as apartments. George F. Pelham filed it in 1919 and completed it in 1920 as The Hotel Cambridge — a residential hotel on a mid-block site that had held four four-story rowhouses, built in steel-frame fireproof construction with a brick, limestone and terra cotta elevation that LPC classifies as neo-Renaissance with Jacobean detail. That origin explains almost everything about how the building lives now.
Apartment hotels of this vintage were built with a great many small units served by a common front door, which is why an 11-story building on a 7,858-square-foot lot carries 73 apartments on the tax roll. It also explains the building's defining characteristic today: it has been steadily consolidating for decades. The DOB record on file reads as an almost continuous sequence of combinations from 2000 forward — two apartments joined on the second floor, two on the fifth, a three-part assembly on the seventh that was later extended, a vertical pairing across the ninth and tenth, a three-apartment combination on the tenth, two on the eleventh, two on the fourth. The certificate still says 73. The building that a buyer actually walks into is materially fewer and materially larger homes than that, and the gap between those two numbers is the single most useful thing to understand before analyzing anything here.
Location does the rest of the work. This is the Central Park West blockfront belt without the Central Park West price: the park is a two-minute walk east, Lincoln Center is three blocks south, and the 1/2/3 at 72nd Street and the B/C at 72nd are both within a few blocks. The block itself is a designated historic-district streetscape of brownstones and prewar apartment houses, which means the view corridor and the low-rise character of the street are protected in a way that no private covenant could manage.
That protection cuts both ways, and it is the building's second structural fact. 60 West 68th Street sits inside the Upper West Side / Central Park West Historic District, designated in 1990 — and unlike a great many buildings that people assume are landmarked, this one demonstrably is. LPC's building database carries a designation record for this exact tax lot, PLUTO carries the district, and every DOB alteration filing for the building carries the landmark flag as "Y." Exterior work here requires a Certificate of Appropriateness. Window replacement programs, façade restoration, ironwork and anything visible from the street go through LPC review before they go out to bid, and the cost and calendar of the building's Local Law 11 cycles reflect that. It is not a defect. It is a line item, and it belongs in any assessment analysis a buyer runs.
Architecture and unit composition
Pelham's elevation is a straightforward but well-handled 1920 composition: a limestone and terra cotta base carrying the entrance, brick above, and Jacobean detail concentrated where the street sees it. The building runs eleven stories with a partial level above — PLUTO's 11.5 — and holds the mid-block line on the south side of West 68th Street between Central Park West and Columbus. Steel-frame fireproof construction was still a selling point in 1920 and it is why the structure has taken a century of interior reconfiguration without difficulty.
The apartment stock is the hotel legacy, worked over for four decades of cooperative ownership. Original units were small and numerous; the letter lines run at least A through G on most floors. Combinations documented in DOB filings have produced horizontal pairings, three-apartment assemblies and at least one vertical duplex across the ninth and tenth floors. What that means for a buyer is that the inventory is genuinely heterogeneous — a studio or one-bedroom that has never been touched sits in the same stack as a combined four- or five-room home with reconfigured plumbing and mechanicals, and the two have almost nothing in common except a maintenance formula.
A medical office occupies unit 1B, altered under a 2013 filing. It is a professional unit inside the residential count rather than a separate commercial condominium, which is a common arrangement in converted apartment hotels and produces modest daytime traffic through the entrance.
Building operations
The building runs with a live-in superintendent, an elevator, a fitness center, bike storage, a landscaped roof garden, a playroom and a video security system, per management-sourced and architectural records. We could not document full-time door staffing from any source and do not assert it; confirm the staffing schedule with the managing agent, because it is a meaningful difference in both service and budget against the doorman buildings on Central Park West a block east.
The exterior maintenance record on file with DOB is substantial and consistent with a landmarked prewar envelope. Filings document a full façade repair and restoration campaign in 2004 including parapet replacement and brick replacement, sidewalk replacement in 2008, further façade restoration with a sidewalk shed in 2012, another shed in 2015, and parapet repair in 2020. That is roughly a project every four to six years, which is what a landmarked masonry building of this age costs to keep. Ask for the current Local Law 11 cycle status, the reserve position, the underlying mortgage balance and maturity, and whether an assessment is live or recently concluded.
Policy framework
Ownership form: Cooperative. Apartments transfer as share transfers, and ACRIS confirms it directly for this lot: recorded instruments carry property type SP — the share-transfer code — across dozens of separate transactions to separate purchasers over the life of the cooperative. You are buying shares in 60-68 Apartments Corp. and a proprietary lease to a specific apartment, not a deed.
Board approval: Required, with a full package and an interview. Management-sourced records show a $700 application fee, a $500 compliance fee, $150 per adult applicant for credit reporting and a $200 surcharge where there is more than one co-applicant, guarantor or financial statement — a fee structure that indicates the corporation reviews co-purchasers and guarantors rather than refusing them outright, but confirm the board's actual posture before structuring an offer around either.
Subletting: Permitted with board approval, on unusual economics. The monthly sublet fee is 25 percent of the difference between the monthly rent and the monthly maintenance, charged to the shareholder's maintenance bill in equal monthly installments until the sublease expires or the subtenant moves out, and charged again on renewal. That structure taxes the spread rather than the rent, which means a marginally profitable sublet stays marginally profitable and an aggressively priced one is heavily penalized. No seasoning requirement or maximum sublet term is published; both should come from the managing agent.
Flip tax: 2.5 percent of the purchase price, payable by the seller at closing, plus a $750 closing fee. Confirm the current schedule before pricing a sale.
Financing and post-closing liquidity: not published. No offering plan for this building was available to us, and neither the financing ceiling nor the board's post-closing liquidity standard appears in any accessible source. Both must come from the managing agent, and both should be established before an offer rather than after. Management-sourced records do carry a recognition-agreement fee for financed purchases, so financing is plainly contemplated; the question is the ceiling.
Pied-à-terre, trust and LLC purchase: pied-à-terre policy is not documented. Trust and estate transfers are clearly contemplated — the corporation maintains separate fee schedules for both — but the approval standard is not published. LLC purchase is not documented at all. Resolve any entity or part-time-use plan with the managing agent before contract.
Real estate taxes: no building-wide benefit. The exemptions that appear against this lot in Department of Finance records are shareholder-level veteran and senior-citizen-homeowner exemptions belonging to individual residents; they attach to a person, not to an apartment, and they do not transfer on a sale. Underwrite the full maintenance figure without them.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $5,832/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $7
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 FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
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.
Recent sales
60 West 68th Street prices as a Central Park West-adjacent prewar cooperative rather than as a Central Park West one, and that discount is the reason most buyers arrive. What they get for it is the same historic-district streetscape, the same walk to the park and Lincoln Center, and the same subway access, in a building with a hotel plan rather than a grand apartment-house plan.
Within the building, pricing is driven by combination status more than by anything else. A never-combined original unit and a three-apartment assembly on the same line are different products for different buyers, and the per-room math that works for the small stock does not describe the large one. On a per-room basis the building sits below the Central Park West cooperatives and in line with the West 67th through West 69th Street prewar stock; on a per-square-foot basis the combined apartments compete directly with the smaller Central Park West lines. The 2.5 percent seller-paid flip tax and the landmark-driven capital cycle are the two structural facts that should sit in every pricing conversation from the outset. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 2025 | 5BC | 3 BR · 3 BA | $2,468,750 | -11.8% | |
| Aug 13, 2025 | 4FG | 3 BR · 3 BA · 1,500 sf | $1,995,000 | $1,330/sf | -12.3% |
| Apr 8, 2025 | 1C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $617,000 | -5.1% | |
| Oct 10, 2024 | 6C | 2 BR · 2 BA | $999,999 | -16.3% | |
| Aug 12, 2024 | 6G | 1 BR · 1 BA | $556,000 | -20.0% | |
| Feb 9, 2024 | 10DEF | 4 BR · 3 BA | $3,400,000 | -4.2% | |
| Oct 28, 2022 | 2G | 1 BR · 1 BA | $439,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jun 1, 2022 | 4A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $965,000 | +3.2% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $1,201/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 3.4% 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 1-01120-0057) 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
You are buying shares, and the board decides. Transfers here are recorded as share transfers under ACRIS property type SP. Expect a full board package, an interview, and a reference and financial review. Run the Co-op Board Qualification Calculator before you offer, and build the package to the standard of a Central Park West co-op rather than to the standard of the price.
The financing ceiling and the liquidity standard are the two unknowns that matter. Neither is published for this building, and no offering plan was available to us. Get both from the managing agent before you bid. An Upper West Side prewar of this vintage can run anywhere from 75 percent financing to a materially tighter number, and the post-closing liquidity expectation can be the binding constraint even for a well-capitalized buyer.
Read the sublet formula carefully if rental flexibility matters. Twenty-five percent of the spread between rent and maintenance, billed monthly for the whole term and again on renewal, is a real and continuing cost. It is not a one-time fee. Model it against the actual rent you would expect before assuming the apartment can carry itself.
Resolve entity and pied-à-terre questions first. Trust and estate transfers are contemplated; LLC purchase and pied-à-terre use are not documented. If your plan depends on any of these, it is a threshold question rather than a diligence item.
Underwrite the landmark cycle. This lot is in the Upper West Side / Central Park West Historic District and a Certificate of Appropriateness is required for exterior work. The DOB record shows façade campaigns in 2004, 2012, 2015 and 2020. Ask for the current Local Law 11 status, the reserve, the underlying mortgage and its maturity, and whether an assessment is running.
Confirm the staffing. A fitness center, roof garden, playroom, bike room and live-in superintendent are documented. Full-time door coverage is not. Verify the hours, because it is the largest single difference in service against the buildings a block east.
Buy the apartment, not the unit count. The certificate says 73. The combination history says the real number is lower and the real apartments are larger. Confirm from DOB filings what the specific apartment is, what was combined into it, and whether every alteration was signed off.
What to know if you’re selling
Sell the address and the streetscape. A protected historic-district block a two-minute walk from Central Park and three blocks from Lincoln Center is the argument. The building's hotel origin is a good story and a real architectural credential — Pelham, 1920, the Hotel Cambridge — and it explains the layouts rather than apologizing for them.
Have the financing ceiling and liquidity standard in hand before you list. These are the two questions that stall Upper West Side co-op deals, and neither is published for this building. Getting them from the managing agent up front lets you qualify buyers early rather than losing one in week six.
Budget the 2.5 percent. The flip tax and the $750 closing fee are yours at closing. Model net proceeds with the Seller Closing Cost Calculator before setting a price.
If your apartment is a combination, market it as one. The building average is not your comparable. Document what was combined, when, and under which approved filings, and price against the larger Upper West Side prewar inventory rather than against the small stock in your own building.
Get ahead of the capital question. Buyers' counsel will find the façade filings. Presenting the current Local Law 11 status, reserve position and assessment history yourself reads as command of the file.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 60 West 68th Street, also evaluate:
- 24 West 69th Street — prewar cooperative one block north on a comparable historic-district blockfront
- 26 West 69th Street — the adjacent West 69th Street cooperative; the closest peer on scale and buyer pool
- 27 West 67th Street — artists'-studio cooperative on the block behind; double-height layouts and a different architectural argument
- 33 West 67th Street — studio-building cooperative on the same block behind
- 15 West 67th Street — West 67th Street studio cooperative; the same tenure, very different plans
- Hotel des Artistes (1 West 67th Street) — the neighborhood's landmark apartment-hotel conversion, on the same tax block; the aspirational version of this building's own story
- 75 Central Park West — Rosario Candela cooperative on the same tax block at the park; the price step-up for the same location
- 65 Central Park West — park-facing prewar cooperative; the Central Park West benchmark
- 155 West 68th Street — the Lincoln Square condominium on the same street; the tenure alternative
- 50 West 67th Street — cooperative a block south; similar vintage and scale off the park
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
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.
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