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74 West 85th StreetRecorded sales & closing prices

74 West 85th Street, on the south side between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, Upper West Side

10 recorded closings, 2004–2026. Sortable and searchable below.

Recorded closings
10
Date range
2004–2026
Median $/sf
$1,457
2026 · recorded
Listing discount
1.0%
median, from last ask
Monthly carry/sf
$1.81
≈ $850/mo · recent
Price range
$444K – $1.23M
Price shift · median $/sf · raw yearly
Since 2004
▲ +47.4%
10-Year
not enough data
Since 2022
not enough data
1-Year
▲ +0%

Change in the building’s median $/sf over each window, from the raw yearly medians — too few standardized single-line units here to adjust to an average-floor basis, so which apartments happened to trade moves these alongside price. (2022 marks the rate-shock inflection.) Like-for-like repeat-sale figures to follow.

The complete recorded-sale history for The Clifton; historically The Clifford, compiled from NYC Department of Finance transfer records, with apartment-by-apartment detail from The Roebling Research Library. Across sales with a public asking price, the building carries a median listing discount of 1.0% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.

Price per square foot over time

9 sales with a known square footage, by closing date.

$650$1,077$1,503'04'08'12'16'20'24'267 · $696/sf · 20042 · $1,444/sf · 20044 · $1,003/sf · 20048 · $987/sf · 20065 · $922/sf · 20064 · $1,191/sf · 20073 · $1,011/sf · 20144 · $1,444/sf · 20199 · $1,457/sf · 2026
Each dot is one recorded sale with a known interior square footage, plotted by closing date against price per square foot. The line is the median $/sf each year, adjusted to a floor-standardized (average-floor) unit — so it reflects price movement, not which floors happened to sell that year. Individual sale prices in the table below are unadjusted — and you can click any dot to jump straight to that sale.

Recent closings

The building’s 10 most recent market sales.

DateUnitApartmentPrice$/sfvs. Ask
Mar 10, 202692 BR · 1 BA · 841 sf$1,225,000$1,457-2.0%
Aug 22, 201941 BR · 1 BA · 450 sf$650,000$1,444-3.7%
Jun 13, 20143841 sf$850,000$1,011—
Nov 6, 200741 BR · 470 sf$560,000$1,191+1.8%
Aug 3, 200721 BR$895,000+0.0%
Jul 28, 200652 BR · 1 BA · 841 sf$775,000$922—
Jun 21, 20068450 sf$444,000$987—
Dec 16, 200441 BR · 450 sf$451,230$1,003—
Nov 15, 200421 BR · 450 sf$650,000$1,444—
Jul 30, 20047841 sf$585,000$696—

The retrade record

Lines that have changed hands more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.

4 · 450 sf+44%
$451,230 ($1,003/sf) 2004 → $560,000 ($1,191/sf) 2007 → $650,000 ($1,444/sf) 2019

Every recorded sale

Sort any column; filter by unit or keyword. Prices are the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance. Every sale sits in one of three states: counted in the building’s medians and trend; shown but excluded as a non-arms-length or nominal transfer; or shown and ⚑ flagged for review — a possible duplicate filing or an extreme $/sf outlier, held out of the statistics pending manual verification rather than allowed to move them.

10 recorded sales
Apartment
Mar 10, 202692 BR · 1 BA841$1,225,000$1,457-2.0%
Aug 22, 201941 BR · 1 BA450$650,000$1,444-3.7%
Jun 13, 20143841$850,000$1,011—
Nov 6, 200741 BR470$560,000$1,191+1.8%
Aug 3, 200721 BR—$895,000—+0.0%
Jul 28, 200652 BR · 1 BA841$775,000$922—
Jun 21, 20068450$444,000$987—
Dec 16, 200441 BR450$451,230$1,003—
Nov 15, 200421 BR450$650,000$1,444—
Jul 30, 20047841$585,000$696—
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01198-7501). 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans. Storage, parking, and commercial units are excluded from all figures. Floor- and line-level $/sf are time-controlled (each sale measured against the building’s going rate at the time of sale) and expressed at today’s pricing, so they isolate the floor or line premium rather than blend two decades of market movement.

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