- Year built
- 1926
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2021
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Listing discount
- 4.5%
- Recorded transfers
- 15
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 and is 100% sold and owner-occupied — a long-established, financially settled house. Admissions follow a conventional co-op board application and interview, with the board underwriting buyers to the conservative financial standard expected of a building of this caliber; primary-residence ownership is the norm. With only thirty shareholders, capital decisions are made deliberately, and the building has the stable, closely held character that comes with a small two-per-floor co-op.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $26,618/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $72
Facade safety — Local Law 11
An active hazard: the building must keep a sidewalk shed up and make repairs now — expect construction, disruption, and a likely special assessment. We’d get you the repair scope and the building’s funding plan up front, so you go in knowing exactly what’s underway and what it’s likely to cost.
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 →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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2021 | 5A | 3 BR · 2 BA | $2,999,625 | +0.2% | |
| Oct 18, 2017 | 4B | 3 BR | $1,925,000 | -16.1% | |
| 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% | |
| Sep 9, 2013 | 12A | 3 BR · 2.5 BA | $3,900,000 | -1.3% | |
| Jun 6, 2007 | 6B | 2 BR · 1,900 sf | $2,155,000 | $1,134/sf | +2.6% |
| Jan 26, 2007 | 9B | 2 BR · 1,800 sf | $1,495,000 | $831/sf | -4.5% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2015) cleared a median $1,451/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 1.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 2021 | 16A | $3,200,000 |
| Jul 7, 2016 | 10B | $2,595,000 |
| Jun 30, 2015 | 5B | $715,000 |
| Oct 6, 2003 | 4B | $1,195,000 |
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 1-01250-0094) 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 a Candela layout — so buy the layout. Read the apartment for what makes Candela's work special: the foyer, the flow between public rooms, the separation of the bedroom wing, the light off West End. Higher floors and the best exposures are the rarest and most competitive when they appear. Come prepared for a conventional co-op board package and interview, plan financing to a conservative standard, and budget for standard New York co-op closing costs. The two-per-floor privacy and the live-in super are exactly the operations that make this kind of building worth owning.
What to know if you’re selling
Name the architect and let the plan speak. A genuine Rosario Candela building, two apartments per floor, on West End Avenue is a rare and defensible position — the provenance and the layout are the marketing core. Price against the building's own recent trades and the upper tier of comparable West Side pre-war co-ops rather than against larger, more anonymous buildings, and stage to let the foyer, the public-room flow, and the light read. In a thirty-unit two-per-floor building, a clean, board-ready package and a well-priced, smooth sale protect the value of the next one.
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 co-op to the north
- 685 West End Avenue — West End pre-war cooperative
- 545 West End Avenue — pre-war co-op to the south
The Roebling Team at 607 West End Avenue
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in the Upper West Side — West End Avenue, Riverside Drive, and the Broadway corridor pre-war market. A Candela building rewards a broker who can read and market the layouts credibly and price them against the upper tier of a thin comparable set. Whether you're buying or selling here, a focused consultation is the right first step.
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