61 West 62nd Street (The Harmony)
61 West 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023
Lincoln Square, Upper West Side
BBL 1011157502 · BIN 1027461
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 276
- Floors
- 29
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Full-time doorman and concierge, live-in resident manager, central laundry, bike storage, a party room, and a children's playroom; fitness access through an adjacent health club
- Pets
- Pet-friendly
- Financing
- Up to 80% (20% minimum down) per brokerage records — verify at offer stage
- Flip tax
- Reported as none per brokerage records — verify against the by-laws at offer stage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $700K
- Recent range
- $500K – $4.5M
- Listing discount
- 5.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 378
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at The Harmony 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.
The Harmony is a large, full-service Lincoln Square cooperative delivered by the Giffuni Brothers at the turn of the 1980s and taken to co-op around 1985. It occupies a prime near-Lincoln-Center site — the former Colonial/Harkness Theater parcel — and wraps from West 62nd Street toward Broadway with a through-block arcade, putting Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle, and the southern edge of Central Park within a short walk.
The building's market position is a comparatively flexible co-op in a location dominated by higher-priced condominiums and a handful of trophy addresses. Relative to the pre-war co-ops of the Upper West Side, The Harmony's board is regarded as accommodating — pieds-à-terre with approval, co-purchasing and guarantors, gifting, and up to 80 percent financing per brokerage records. For buyers who want a full-service doorman building at a Lincoln Square address without condominium-level pricing, the cooperative structure here trades some flexibility for a materially lower entry basis.
Architecture and unit composition
Philip Birnbaum's design is a post-war modernist tower distinguished by a silvery metallic facade and a through-block arcade connecting the 62nd Street and Broadway frontages. It is a building of its era — the interest is in the massing, the arcade, and the efficient floor plates rather than in ornament. The roughly 276 to 278 apartments run from studios through combinable multi-bedroom lines, priced in cooperative practice by room count; higher floors carry open city and partial park- and river-direction exposures. Renovation quality varies widely line to line, as in any large co-op of this vintage.
Building operations
The Harmony runs as a full-service cooperative: full-time doorman and concierge, a live-in resident manager, central laundry, bike storage, a party room, and a children's playroom, with fitness access available through an adjacent health club. Maintenance charges are consistent with a large post-war Lincoln Square co-op; the offering plan, house rules, and recent financial statements are on file in The Roebling Research Library, and a board interview is required for every purchase.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $214,112/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $65
- Modeled exposure split equally across 276 units (the city tax-lot count). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
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
The Harmony trades in the accessible band of Lincoln Square ownership, at a basis below the surrounding condominium stock — one-bedroom lines, two-bedrooms, and larger combined units span a broad range priced by room count and renovation level. The building's comparatively flexible board policies support a wider buyer pool than most pre-war co-ops, which aids liquidity. Apartment-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 2026 | 6G | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,000 sf | $1,050,000 | $1,050/sf | -2.3% |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 5F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $785,000 | -4.8% | |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 17EF | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,100 sf | $2,813,000 | $1,340/sf | +0.0% |
| Jun 3, 2026 | 25E | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,895,000 | -2.8% | |
| May 27, 2026 | 6B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $615,000 | -12.1% | |
| Mar 19, 2026 | 17L | 1 BR · 1 BA | $790,000 | -3.1% | |
| Oct 1, 2025 | 8BC | 3 BR · 1,350 sf | $1,724,000 | $1,277/sf | -3.4% |
| Jun 18, 2025 | 12F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $825,000 | +0.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,214/sf (floor-adjusted) across 2 sales. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 2.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 2012 | 19L | $605,000 |
| Apr 13, 2006 | 10J | $560,000 |
| Apr 13, 2006 | 16N | $385,000 |
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 1-01115-7502). 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.
Closed rents at The Harmony, last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom | 2 | $4,400 |
3 closed leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease December 2025. Based on few leases. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
At the recent median sale of $785K (15 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $11,494 to close, or 1.5% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $11,494
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
The board is comparatively flexible — but it is still a co-op. Pieds-à-terre with approval, co-purchasing, guarantors, gifting, and up to 80 percent financing are reported, but a board interview and package are required. Prepare a complete financial presentation.
Price by room and renovation, not headline per-foot. Cooperative pricing here tracks room count and condition; the spread between original and renovated lines is significant.
Confirm the current policy stack. Sublet terms, pied-à-terre approval, financing maximum, and any flip tax should be verified against the current by-laws and house rules at offer stage — we provide both from the Research Library.
The location is the durable asset. A near-Lincoln-Center, walk-to-Columbus-Circle address at a co-op basis is the core value proposition. Evaluate light and exposure line by line.
Closing timelines are cooperative-standard. Plan for roughly six to ten weeks from contract through board approval to closing.
What to know if you’re selling
Market the flexibility. The board's comparative openness — pieds-à-terre, guarantors, gifting, financing latitude — widens the buyer pool relative to neighborhood pre-war co-ops. Make it part of the story.
Position by room count and condition. Price against the building's own recent trades at comparable room counts and renovation levels.
Prepare the buyer for the board. A clean, well-prepared package shortens the path to approval; we help sellers vet buyer readiness before contract.
Closing timelines are cooperative-standard. Six to ten weeks from contract through board approval to closing.
Comparable buildings
- 1965 Broadway (The Grand Millennium) — the Millennium Partners condominium nearby at West 66th
- 160 West 66th Street (Three Lincoln Center) — nearby Lincoln Center condominium
- 165 West 66th Street — nearby Lincoln Square building
- 200 Amsterdam Avenue — newer Lincoln Square condominium to the north
- 10 West 66th Street — nearby Upper West Side cooperative
More Upper West Side buildings
- 59 West 88th Street (Park West Community Apartments) — 1894 co-op
- 60 West 68th Street — 1920 co-op by George F. Pelham
- The Aldyn (60 Riverside Boulevard) — 2008 condominium by Costas Kondylis & Partners
- 62 West 62nd Street (The Allegro) — 1987 condominium
- 62 West 83rd Street — 1883 co-op
- 62 West 87th Street — 1891
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, 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. 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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