600 West 111th Street
600 West 111th Street, New York, NY 10025
BBL 1018947501 · BIN 1075440
- Year built
- 1925
- Type
- Prewar apartment building with ground-floor stores, built as a rental
- Units
- 151
- Floors
- 15
- Landmark
- Designated
- Financing
- Up to 75 percent per management-sourced records
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $1.9M
- Recent range
- $490K – $2M
- Listing discount
- 2.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 58
The single most useful thing a buyer can know about this building is that it is not a condominium, whatever the tax class says. The Department of Finance carries the tax lot as building class RM. The entity on the deed is called Broadway 111 Street Condominium. PLUTO, and every automated system that reads PLUTO, will tell you this is a condo. It is not. The condominium here has exactly two units: the stores on Broadway, and everything above them. The residential unit is owned by a cooperative corporation, and apartments are sold as shares with a proprietary lease. This is the structure the market calls a condop, and it changes everything about how a purchase works — board package, board interview, board approval, financing limits, sublet rules, and a flip tax if the corporation has one. A buyer who underwrites this building as a condominium will be surprised at the wrong moment.
The second thing to know is the architecture, and here the public record is also commonly wrong. Listing records describe the building as Art Deco. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's designation report identifies it as Colonial Revival, and the report is right. Jacob M. Felson designed it for the Alart Building Corporation in 1925–26 under new-building application 726 of 1925, at the moment when the subway had made upper Broadway buildable and tall apartment houses were filling the Morningside Heights blocks. The vocabulary is classical throughout: an ashlar limestone base, a two-story entrance surround on West 111th Street with paired Corinthian pilasters carrying an entablature with a honeysuckle-and-bell-flower frieze and draped shields, a shallow balcony with masonry balustrade above it, and a door opening edged in spiral moldings under a cornice with antefixes and a central cartouche. Nothing in that description is Deco.
The building has lost some of its crown. The paneled parapet and much of the continuous arched corbel table above the top-story windows were removed at some point, the parapet rebuilt with panels salvaged from the removed one, and the original multi-light double-hung sash replaced with aluminum windows and panning. The Broadway storefronts were replaced piecemeal. The LPC designation report catalogs all of this, and it matters practically: the building is now landmarked, so any future restoration or replacement work on those elevations goes through the Commission. That is a cost the co-op carries and a constraint on what a shareholder can do to a window line.
The third structural fact is the tax and capital posture, and it is clean. The building took two J-51 benefits after its 1988 conversion — a 1992 grant against roughly $382,000 of certified alteration cost, and a smaller 1997 grant against about $91,000 — and both abatement pools ran out, the first in tax year 2003 and the second in tax year 2007. There is no J-51 exemption or abatement remaining. That means no burn-off cliff ahead, which is a genuine advantage: a buyer here is looking at a stabilized, fully-taxed maintenance number rather than a subsidized one that will step up. What remains is the Cooperative/Condominium Property Tax Abatement, which attaches to owner-occupancy rather than to the building's history.
Finally, the retail. The five ground-floor stores on Broadway are not owned by the co-op. They are the separate commercial condominium unit, held by the original sponsor partnership. That is a common condop arrangement and it has a direct consequence: the residential corporation does not collect the Broadway retail rent, and cannot use it to hold maintenance down. Buyers who assume that an avenue blockfront's retail income is subsidizing the apartments should verify that assumption against the corporation's financial statements before relying on it.
Architecture and unit composition
The building fills a 17,661-square-foot lot with 175 feet of Broadway frontage, on a corner site with light on Broadway, West 111th Street and a west elevation facing the interior of the block. Its 174,081 square feet of built area produce a floor-area ratio of 9.86 against the current R8 residential maximum of 6.02 — the building is substantially overbuilt relative to today's zoning and could not be reproduced, which is the usual condition for a 1920s Morningside Heights apartment house and one reason the floor plates are generous.
The elevation is tripartite. Two stories of smooth ashlar limestone form the base; above them the shaft is striated dark and light buff brick in Flemish bond with wide mortar joints, articulated by profiled belt courses, architrave window surrounds, stone sills, relief panels and masonry Juliet balconies. The top two stories carry double-height window surrounds with rope moldings and low-relief spandrel panels with garlands and shields. Remnants of the historic arched corbel table survive above the top story. The formal entrance is on West 111th Street rather than Broadway, which is the correct reading of the building: it is an apartment house with stores, not a commercial building with apartments over it.
The apartment stock runs the full prewar Morningside Heights range — studios and one-bedrooms in the smaller lines through three- and four-bedroom layouts in the corner lines, with lettered lines running from A through I on a typical floor. Line-to-line variation is significant, and combinations recorded at the Department of Buildings have altered several floors, so the published unit count is a poor guide to what exists on any specific floor. Walk the specific apartment and confirm the room count and exposures against the current floor plan rather than the building average.
Building operations
The building runs as a full-service prewar cooperative: 24-hour doorman coverage, a live-in resident manager, a renovated lobby, a landscaped roof deck, a laundry room, a bicycle room and storage cages. For a 151-apartment building at this scale, that staffing model spreads across a large enough denominator to be economical, which is the structural advantage a big prewar co-op holds over a boutique condominium with the same service level.
Capital history visible in the Department of Buildings record is consistent with a building that has kept up with its façade obligations rather than deferring them: a 325-foot heavy-duty sidewalk shed and remedial repairs under the old façade-inspection law in 2002, another shed and façade cycle in 2013, and a 2012 façade job cited in the LPC designation report. Landmark designation in 2017 changes the terms of the next cycle — restoration-grade work on a designated elevation costs more and takes longer than the equivalent work on an undesignated one. Ask for the current façade-inspection status, the most recent audited financial statements, the reserve position, the underlying mortgage balance and maturity, and whether any assessment is live or recently concluded.
Policy framework
Ownership form: Cooperative shares with a proprietary lease, held through a two-unit condominium structure. Purchases go through a full board package, board interview and board approval. Expect a 60-to-90-day timeline from contract to closing rather than a condominium's 30 to 45.
Financing: Up to 75 percent per management-sourced records, which is a comparatively liberal ceiling for a prewar cooperative and one of the building's practical selling points. Confirm the current limit with the managing agent.
Subletting: Permitted two years out of every five per management-sourced records — a real sublet policy rather than a nominal one, but not an investor policy. Confirm the current rule and any waiting period.
Guarantors, gifting, co-purchasing and trust purchases: Considered case by case per management-sourced records. None of these is a categorical no, and none is a categorical yes; the board's practice is the operative fact and should be understood before a bid.
In-unit washer/dryer and through-wall air conditioning: Permitted per management-sourced records. Because the building is a designated landmark, any work that alters an exterior opening or adds a through-wall sleeve visible from the street requires Landmarks Preservation Commission review in addition to co-op board approval.
Pets and pied-à-terre: Not documented in the public record. Confirm both with the managing agent before making an offer that depends on either.
Flip tax: Not documented in public records. Confirm with the managing agent before pricing a sale — on a co-op it is normally borne by the seller and it is a material line in net-proceeds math.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $87,618/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $48
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
Apartments here trade as cooperative shares, so transfers appear in ACRIS as transfer-tax returns rather than deeds. Sixty-four such returns are recorded against the residential unit lot in the digitized ACRIS record, running from 2004 through early 2026 and covering apartments across the full height of the building. They go to separate, unrelated purchasers — individuals, couples, and estate and revocable-trust transfers among existing shareholders. This is a functioning open-market cooperative resale market, not a sponsor-held rental.
Co-op pricing in Morningside Heights is best evaluated per room rather than per square foot, because the prewar layouts here carry proportions that square footage does not capture, and because the building's larger lines behave differently from its studios and one-bedrooms. The relevant comparable set is the prewar cooperative stock of Morningside Heights and the upper Riverside Drive blocks, not the small number of new-construction condominiums in the neighborhood, whose closing mechanics, tax profiles and buyer pools are structurally different. Index any market judgment to the last complete year rather than to a partial current year. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 2026 | 10D | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,500 sf | $1,400,000 | $933/sf | -6.4% |
| Dec 17, 2025 | 4D | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,580,000 | +1.9% | |
| Nov 13, 2025 | 11A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $490,000 | -2.0% | |
| Sep 4, 2025 | 14C | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,955,000 | -2.0% | |
| Jul 18, 2024 | 7C | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,560 sf | $1,760,000 | $1,128/sf | -1.9% |
| Jan 24, 2024 | 8E | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $1,999,000 | -8.9% | |
| Aug 22, 2022 | 12E | 2 BR · 3 BA | $2,040,000 | off-mkt | |
| May 26, 2022 | 13D | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,600 sf | $1,960,000 | $1,225/sf | -4.4% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $933/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.
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 1-01894-7501) 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 co-op. Underwrite it as one. The DOF class, the entity name and PLUTO all suggest condominium. The apartments are cooperative shares. Board approval, financing limits, sublet rules and a possible flip tax all apply. Any valuation model that treats this as condominium inventory will be wrong on both price and process.
The J-51 is gone, and that is good news. Both grants burned off — 2003 and 2007. There is no benefit expiration ahead to blow up your maintenance projection. What you see in the current maintenance is the fully-taxed number.
Confirm what the corporation actually owns. The Broadway stores are a separate condominium unit held by the sponsor partnership. If a broker or a listing implies retail income supports the building's budget, verify it against the financial statements.
Landmark designation is new and it has consequences. The district was designated in 2017. Window replacement, through-wall units, storefront work and façade restoration on the street elevations now go through the Commission. Ask about the next façade cycle and whether the co-op has reserved for it.
Verify the floor count and the line. LPC says 15 stories; the tax record says 16; DOB filings say 15, 16 and 17 at different times. It matters for a top-floor apartment. Confirm against the current certificate of occupancy and the floor plan.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the policy stack. Seventy-five percent financing and a two-in-five sublet allowance are liberal for a prewar Morningside Heights cooperative, and they widen your buyer pool materially against buildings that cap financing lower or prohibit subletting outright.
Explain the condop structure before the buyer's attorney finds it. Buyers and their lenders will encounter the two-unit condominium in diligence. Framing it up front as a normal and well-understood ownership form avoids a mid-deal renegotiation.
Correct the Art Deco description. The Landmarks Preservation Commission identifies the building as Colonial Revival by Jacob M. Felson. Attributing the design correctly, with the designation report behind it, is a stronger story than a generic prewar label.
The absence of a tax benefit is a selling point. In a neighborhood where several buildings still carry expiring abatements, a fully-taxed, fully-stabilized maintenance number is easier to underwrite and easier to finance.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 600 West 111th Street, also evaluate:
- 610 West 110th Street — the 1922 Schwartz & Gross apartment house one block south, converted to condominium in 2008; the nearest peer by vintage and scale, on the opposite side of the ownership question
- 545 West 110th Street — the 2006 ground-up condominium two blocks south; the new-construction alternative in the same submarket
- 600 West 115th Street — The Luxor, Gaetano Ajello's 1911 Paterno-built cooperative at Broadway and 115th; the closest structural analogue, a Broadway-front prewar co-op with stores
- 404 Riverside Drive — the Strathmore, Schwartz & Gross's 1908–09 Beaux-Arts co-op at West 113th, also in the Morningside Heights Historic District
- 390 Riverside Drive — Gaetan Ajello's 1924–25 park-front cooperative at West 111th Street, one long block west, in the same historic district
- 395 Riverside Drive — Ajello's final commission, a park-front Morningside Heights co-op at West 112th Street
- 100 Claremont Avenue — Claremont Hall, the Robert A.M. Stern condominium tower; the trophy new-development alternative in the neighborhood
- The Vandewater — INC Architecture & Design's 2021 Morningside Heights condominium at West 122nd Street
- The Hendrik Hudson — Rouse & Sloan's 1907 cooperative at Riverside and 110th; the grand prewar alternative at a larger unit scale
- 2721 Broadway — The Armstead, a 1925 Gronenberg & Leuchtag Renaissance Revival co-op with stores at West 104th; the same building type further south on Broadway
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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