720 Fort Washington Avenue

The Art Deco design uses substantial masonry walls and repeated window groupings. Garden courts interrupt the building's mass and provide inward-facing exposures. Other apartments look toward surrounding streets, park approaches or the wider neighborhood. River and park outlooks occur in selected locations; neither is a building-wide attribute.

Inside, original layouts often use an entry foyer as a transition into the living room. Some larger plans place a dining area between the foyer and kitchen, while corner rooms gain windows on more than one wall. Arched passages and built-in storage remain in some apartments. Renovations have changed the degree of separation between kitchens, dining areas and living rooms.

Studios and smaller one-bedroom homes form one segment of the inventory. Larger homes commonly offer additional dining or work space, and the recorded transfer history includes apartments around 1,200 to 1,500 square feet. Room count alone can obscure those differences. A separate dining room and an enclosed extra room use floor area differently, and some alterations change the circulation that made the original plan work.

The broad footprint gives apartments a range of orientations at the same floor level. A courtyard-facing room can have a close garden outlook, while a street-facing room reads across the avenue. The site also rises toward the park, making the actual window position more useful than a floor label when judging light and outlook.

A resident superintendent, handymen and porters support the cooperative's day-to-day operation. The common facilities include a gym, laundry rooms, bicycle storage and storage lockers. Garden courtyards are shared building spaces. Availability and charges for optional facilities are distinct from the right to occupy an apartment.

The scale is significant for an elevator cooperative of this height: 150 residential units share the common infrastructure. Multiple entrance areas, garden spaces and laundry facilities sit within that operating structure. Storage and exercise facilities add functions beyond the original apartment corridors and lobby.

DOF identifies no property-wide tax benefit beyond personal exemptions. Taxes are a corporate expense reflected in cooperative maintenance. The Class 2 assessment category has no annual growth cap, so the current maintenance structure should be considered independently of any comparison with small-building tax treatment.

Pets: Cats and dogs are permitted — confirm with the managing agent.

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.

Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $728/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. 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 2.6% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-02180-0614). 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.

The park and subway approaches are at the top of the hill. The nearby A-train entrance connects to a deep station through elevators. The route from the avenue is different from approaches lower down the slope; walk the entrance-to-platform trip you expect to use. A visit that ends at the street entrance misses a material part of the daily journey.

• 100 Bennett Avenue: a smaller prewar elevator cooperative for comparing late-1930s apartment proportions at a reduced building scale.
• Hudson View Gardens: a larger prewar cooperative complex where landscaped grounds and multiple buildings are central to ownership.
• Castle Village: a prewar cooperative with taller buildings and a larger shared campus, useful for comparing outlooks and operating scale.
• 1825 Riverside Drive: a smaller prewar cooperative with a similar low-rise elevator format farther north.
• Lafayette Gardens: a postwar cooperative of comparable overall scale, offering a different generation of apartment layouts.
• The Bennett: a newer condominium alternative for buyers comparing ownership structure with the area's prewar cooperative stock.