705 Columbus Avenue
705 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY 10025
BBL 1012080001 · BIN 1079518
- Year built
- 1968
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 246
- Pets
- Pets are permitted
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705 Columbus Avenue is one of the larger full-service rental towers on the northern Upper West Side — a 26-story building completed in 1968 with 246 residences, occupying the full blockfront between West 94th and West 95th Streets. It belongs to the cohort of high-rise apartment buildings that rose across the West 90s during the urban-renewal period, when large floor plates, modern systems, and real amenity packages replaced older low-density stock and turned this district into the West Side's deepest source of value-oriented full-service living.
The case for the building is lifestyle and location, not pedigree. This is a doorman building with a rooftop sun deck, a fitness center, a parking garage in the building, a children's playroom, and a package room — the full operational depth of a large tower — two avenues from Central Park. The 96th and 100th Street park entrances are a short walk east; the Columbus and Amsterdam retail corridors, with their restaurants, cafes, groceries, and the Whole Foods and Trader Joe's anchors of the West 90s, are immediate; and the 96th Street station on the 1, 2, and 3 lines puts the express subway one block away, with the B and C at Central Park West a few blocks east. The ground floor carries neighborhood retail and institutional tenancy along Columbus, reinforcing the corner's everyday convenience.
At 246 units across 26 floors, the building offers institutional staffing and amenity provision that smaller buildings cannot match, and the upper floors pick up open city light and, on favorable exposures, longer views across the West Side.
Architecture and unit composition
705 Columbus is a tall postwar masonry tower built for efficient, light-filled apartment living rather than period ornament. The unit mix runs the postwar range — studios and one-bedrooms through larger two- and three-bedroom layouts across the 26 stories — with floor plates and proportions consistent with high-volume 1968 construction. Renovated lines carry updated kitchens with stainless appliances and dishwashers, and in-unit washer/dryers appear on the upgraded apartments.
The strengths are practical: larger windows than the pre-war era allowed, functional layouts, generous closets, and meaningful light on the upper tiers. Exposure and floor altitude are the variables that most affect any given apartment's desirability, with higher floors capturing open sky and, on the better-oriented lines, distance views toward the park and the West Side.
Building operations
705 Columbus operates as a full-service rental under single ownership, with a 24/7 attended lobby and concierge, on-site staff, a fitness center, a rooftop sun deck, an on-site parking garage, a children's playroom, a package room, and central laundry. The building's economics are institutional — a single rent roll and management structure rather than the shareholder-board governance of a cooperative.
Because the building predates 1974 and is registered with the Rent Guidelines Board, a portion of the apartments carry rent stabilization, with the balance leased at market terms. Pets are permitted. For renters, that combination — stabilization on some lines, full-service amenities, and West 90s pricing below the marquee Central Park West blocks — is the building's core proposition.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $44,047/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $15
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
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It is value-and-amenity rental product. The proposition is full-service living — doorman, gym, roof deck, garage, playroom — at West 90s pricing, below the pre-war co-op blocks to the south and east.
Stabilization matters. With the building registered with the Rent Guidelines Board, some lines are rent-stabilized; the regulatory status of a specific apartment shapes both rent trajectory and renewal rights.
Light and exposure drive desirability. In a 26-story tower, floor altitude and orientation matter more than period detail; upper floors carry the open light and the longer views.
The location is park-adjacent and transit-rich. Central Park's West 90s entrances, the Columbus/Amsterdam retail row, and the 96th Street express are all within a short walk.
What to know if you're an owner or investor at 705 Columbus Avenue
The value is institutional, not unit-level. This is large-scale postwar rental product whose economics rest on rent roll, the stabilized/market mix, occupancy, and operating efficiency.
Scale is the operating advantage. A 246-unit full-block tower supports the staffing, garage, and amenity provision that smaller buildings can't carry.
Positioning is lifestyle and convenience. The marketing case is space, services, the roof deck and gym, and park-adjacent West Side access rather than architectural heritage.
Comparable buildings
If you're evaluating 705 Columbus Avenue, also consider these nearby West 90s and northern Upper West Side full-service buildings:
- 700 Columbus Avenue — directly adjacent full-service Columbus Avenue tower
- 275 West 96th Street — nearby northern-UWS full-service building
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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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