607 West End Avenue
607 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10024
BBL 1012500094 · BIN 1034050
- Year built
- 1926
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Riverside-West End Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $2.8M – $2.8M
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 17
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 607 West End Avenue would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
607 West End Avenue carries the most coveted byline in pre-war New York: Rosario Candela, the architect whose name has become shorthand for the city's finest apartment layouts. Most of Candela's celebrated work sits on Fifth and Park; finding a Candela building on West End Avenue — and a two-per-floor one at that — is a genuine rarity, and it is the reason this building rewards attention.
The history is clean. In 1925 the newly formed 607 West End Avenue Corporation bought and demolished the row houses at 607–613 West End Avenue and hired Candela to design a replacement; plans were filed in August 1925, and the sixteen-story building opened in May 1926, built at a cost of roughly $500,000. Candela answered with a subdued neo-Renaissance design — a brown-brick shaft over a two-story striated limestone base, a canopied entrance, and wrought-iron grilles at the ground-floor windows. The restraint is the point: this is a Candela that earns its quality in the plans rather than the ornament.
With only two apartments per floor across thirty homes, 607 West End is the kind of intimate, owner-occupied, layout-driven co-op that buyers who know the West Side market specifically seek out.
Architecture and unit composition
Candela's exterior is deliberately understated — brown brick rising from a two-story striated limestone base, with a canopied entrance and wrought-iron window grilles giving the ground floor its texture. It is a confident, quiet facade that reads as a peer to the avenue's best pre-war stock without straining for effect.
The plans are where Candela's reputation lives, and the two-per-floor configuration is the giveaway: thirty residences across sixteen stories means large, semi-private-landing apartments with the gracious foyers, separated entertaining and bedroom wings, and proportioned public rooms that define Candela's work. High ceilings, real layouts, and the light a generous West End frontage provides make these homes the kind buyers chase — and the small floor plate keeps the building intimate.
Building operations
607 West End runs as a full-service cooperative with an attended lobby, a live-in superintendent, basement storage, and a bike room. The building converted to cooperative ownership in 1972, but that conversion does not establish current sponsor holdings; confirm the share register and amendments. Admissions follow a co-op board application and interview; confirm the building's current financing, liquidity, occupancy and subletting requirements from its governing documents and application instructions. With only thirty apartments in a two-per-floor plan, capital costs fall on few shareholders; review the current budget, audited statements, debt and any assessments.
Building staffing and amenities
- Attended lobby
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Bike storage, storageSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $40,920/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $110
- Modeled exposure split equally across 31 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 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. A filed Safe grade is not a guarantee of current condition: owners still maintain the facade and, where required, observe parapets each year. Future inspection timing (Local Law 49 of 2025 changed the cycle framework from October 1, 2026), repair and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2025–30. 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 data last refreshed October 2026.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2026 | 4A | 4 BR · 3 BA · 2,200 sf | $2,800,000 | $1,273/sf | +0.0% |
| Dec 1, 2021 | 16A | 3 BR · 3 BA | $3,200,000 | +0.0% | |
| Oct 6, 2021 | 5A | 3 BR · 2 BA | $2,999,625 | +0.2% | |
| Oct 18, 2017 | 4B | 3 BR | $1,925,000 | -16.1% | |
| Jul 7, 2016 | 10B | 2 BR | $2,595,000 | +0.0% | |
| Oct 30, 2015 | 8B | 2 BR · 1,800 sf | $2,612,000 | $1,451/sf | +4.7% |
| Aug 25, 2015 | 3A | 3 BR | $3,500,000 | -16.6% | |
| May 6, 2015 | 10A | 3 BR | $3,600,000 | -7.7% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,273/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
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 1-01250-0094). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
Inspect the apartment’s foyer, circulation, room separation, light and current condition against its plans. Compare actual availability and prices by floor and exposure. Prepare for the co-op board package and interview, confirm current financing requirements and closing costs, and assess the stated two-per-floor arrangement and live-in-super service without inferring privacy or future value.
What to know if you’re selling
Document Rosario Candela’s design, the stated two apartments per floor, and the specific apartment’s layout and light. Compare dated transactions with matched West Side pre-war homes, adjusting for services, size, condition and carrying costs. Prepare complete sale and board materials for review; neither a smooth transaction nor the thirty-unit configuration guarantees later sale values.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 607 West End Avenue, these nearby West End co-ops make a useful comparison set:
- 600 West End Avenue — pre-war co-op directly across the avenue
- 670 West End Avenue — full-service West End cooperative nearby
- 680 West End Avenue — pre-war rental building to the north
- 685 West End Avenue — West End pre-war cooperative
- 545 West End Avenue — pre-war co-op to the south
More West End Avenue buildings
- 595 West End Avenue — 1922 condominium by Sugarman & Berger
- 600 West End Avenue — 1911 co-op by Schwartz & Gross
- 601 West End Avenue — 1915 co-op by Emery Roth
- 610 West End Avenue (The Evanston) — 1910 co-op by George and Edward Blum
- 617 West End Avenue — 1925 co-op by Schwartz & Gross
- The Arbutus, 639 West End Avenue — 1927 co-op by Gronenberg & Leuchtag
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across West End Avenue — read The Roebling Team Guide to West End Avenue.
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. Where this page compares one building or neighborhood to another, that is our analysis of the recorded record — it names the measure, the period and the sample it rests on, and it is an observation about medians rather than a prediction about any particular apartment.
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