611 West 111th Street
611 West 111th Street, between Broadway and Riverside Drive, Manhattan · Upper West Side
BBL 1018940036 · BIN 1085324
- Year built
- 1905
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Elevator, resident superintendent, basement laundry, bicycle storage and private storage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $919
- Listing discount
- 1.7%
- Recorded sales
- 58
- On record
- 2003–2026
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The Markenfield is one half of a paired apartment development constructed in 1905–1906 by Markenfield Construction Company. Lawlor & Haase designed the two matching buildings, at 605 and 611 West 111th Street, under the same new-building application. They share a tax lot and now form a single cooperative property.
The design gives light and ventilation a structural role. Each building has an I-shaped plan with side courts; placing matching courts next to one another creates a wider opening between the buildings. LPC identifies this arrangement as part of the early-twentieth-century development of apartments under the new tenement law.
The apartments retain evidence of their original room organization, including separate parlors and dining rooms in some layouts. Sliding parlor doors, built-in cabinetry and original wood floors survive in some homes. Renovations have also joined rooms or opened kitchens, leaving a mix of original and altered plans within the same exterior.
Architecture and unit composition
The six-story façades use brick, limestone, terra cotta and metal detailing. Their Colonial Revival ornament belongs to a period when Morningside Heights was filling with substantial elevator apartment houses. The matching building forms and repeated window bays give the cooperative a broader street presence than a single narrow lot.
The apartment inventory includes one-bedroom and junior-four layouts as well as larger homes with several bedrooms. Some larger plans retain a distinct dining room, while others use that room as additional sleeping or work space. Interior circulation, including connecting doors between principal rooms, can be more consequential than a nominal bedroom count.
Windows face either the street, the rear or the paired courts. A court-facing room can receive its light through the opening created by the original building plan. Front-facing apartments have a more direct relationship to West 111th Street, with corner and dual-exposure arrangements in some homes.
Ground-floor layouts include homes that have been configured with a separate work area. Any professional use remains subject to its specific approvals; the presence of an extra room does not by itself establish a separate commercial tenancy.
Building operations
An elevator and resident superintendent support the two-building cooperative. Laundry is in the basement. Bicycle storage and private storage provide additional space outside the apartments, with availability and charges tied to the particular allocation.
The historic-district designation covers the exterior of the property. Its paired façades and surviving architectural details are part of the designated streetscape. Window replacement and other exterior changes therefore sit within the district's preservation framework.
The cooperative owns the property as a whole, including its basement and light courts. Class 2 taxation has no assessment-growth cap, and no building-wide abatement is identified. The built floor-area ratio remains below the R8 residential allowance, but the historic-district setting constrains the form of exterior alterations.
Policy framework
Financing: Up to 80%, implying a minimum 20% down payment — confirm with the managing agent.
Subletting: Permitted after one year of ownership, for up to two years with board approval — confirm with the managing agent.
Pets: Subject to board approval — confirm with the managing agent.
Recent sales
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 11, 2026 | 6 | 1 BR · 1 BA · 805 sf | $740,000 | $919/sf | -2.0% |
| Apr 10, 2026 | G2 | 1 BR · 1 BA | $535,000 | -2.7% | |
| Mar 2, 2026 | 43 | 3 BR · 1 BA | $962,500 | -1.3% | |
| Feb 24, 2026 | 25 | 3 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,185,000 | -1.3% | |
| Dec 19, 2025 | 27 | 2 BR · 1 BA · 880 sf | $775,000 | $881/sf | +0.0% |
| Nov 17, 2025 | 45 | 3 BR · 1.5 BA | $955,000 | -2.1% | |
| Apr 25, 2025 | 1 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,000 sf | $885,000 | $885/sf | -0.6% |
| Apr 24, 2024 | 61 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,200 sf | $1,225,000 | $1,021/sf | -18.1% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $919/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 1-01894-0036) 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.
Comparable buildings
- The Strathmore: A nearby prewar cooperative with a larger apartment-house scale and Riverside Drive frontage.
- The Charlemagne: A prewar cooperative on the same street, useful for comparing original room plans.
- The Rutherfurd: A historic cooperative alternative with a different relationship to Riverside Park.
- The Luxor: A Morningside Heights prewar cooperative with a larger residential inventory.
- 355 Riverside Drive: A nearby prewar cooperative for comparing park-facing apartments with side-street layouts.
More Upper West Side buildings
- The Altamonte, 604–606 West 113th Street — 1898 co-op
- Heathcote Hall, 609 West 114th Street — co-op
- 610 West 110th Street — 1921 condominium by Schwartz & Gross
- 611 West 56th Street — 2018 condominium
- 640 West End Avenue — 1912 condominium
- 661 Amsterdam Avenue (The Clayton) — 1940 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper West Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper West Side.
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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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