- Year built
- 1925
- Type
- Cooperative
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $1.7M – $2.5M
- Listing discount
- 4.3%
- Recorded transfers
- 45
755 West End Avenue carries the most coveted signature on the Upper West Side: it is a Rosario Candela building. Candela — widely regarded as the greatest designer of luxury apartment houses in New York history, the hand behind the legendary co-ops of Park and Fifth — brought his planning intelligence to West End Avenue in 1925, and the result is a building that trades on his name alone. For a buyer who wants a Candela floor plan without a Park Avenue price, West End Avenue is the place to find it, and 755 is among the most desirable addresses on the corridor.
The building sits at West 97th Street, two short blocks from Riverside Park to the west and the West Side's transit and retail spine to the east. It was built as a rental and converted to cooperative ownership in 1984 — the disqualifier for a co-op is current rental operation, not rental history, and 755 has been a share-and-board cooperative for four decades. What buyers get is the combination Candela perfected: large, gracious, well-zoned apartments in a dignified masonry building, run as a full-service white-glove co-op.
Architecture and unit composition
The façade is classic Candela: a red-brick body enriched with limestone and terra-cotta trim, pilasters rising from a rusticated base topped by carved urns, balustrade-like projections, and urn carvings on many window lintels. It is ornamented without being ostentatious — the dignified, classically literate elevation that defines his work and that has aged far better than the plainer rental stock around it.
The interiors are the reason the name matters. Candela laid the building out at three apartments per floor — typically two six-room homes and one seven-room home — with the gracious entry foyers, separated public and private wings, and well-proportioned principal rooms that are his hallmark. Ceiling heights, room sequences, and light are all pre-war generous. Across fifteen stories and 49 apartments, the building is intimate by Upper West Side standards, which keeps the per-floor density low and the apartments large.
Building operations
755 West End Avenue is run as a full-service cooperative. Staffing includes a full-time doorman, concierge, a live-in superintendent, and porter — the white-glove model. On-site amenities include a children's playroom, a central laundry room, bike storage, and private storage units available via waitlist. The building is pet-friendly. On the financial side, the co-op permits financing up to 80% of the purchase price — generous for a pre-war building of this caliber — and charges a 2.5% flip tax paid by the seller at closing. The board considers pied-à-terre purchases, co-purchasing, guarantors, and gifting on a case-by-case basis, which gives buyers more structural flexibility than many of the corridor's stricter boards.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $1,960/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $3
Facade safety — Local Law 11
Safe to live in today — but the last inspection flagged repairs that are due on a deadline, so facade work and its cost are coming. Whether that’s a real concern depends on the scope, the timing, and how the building plans to pay for it — reserves or an assessment — which is exactly what we’d dig into for you.
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent). Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library.
See the full facade history →Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Apartment-level facts are independently verified before publishing; sale prices reflect the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 2025 | 14B | 2 BR · 3 BA | $1,675,000 | -4.3% |
| May 10, 2023 | 11B | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,750,000 | -2.5% |
| Jul 27, 2021 | 9B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,449,000 | -5.0% |
| Jul 9, 2020 | 12C | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $1,800,000 | -4.5% |
| May 16, 2019 | 10C | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,925,000 | -14.4% |
| Jul 25, 2018 | 8B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,587,000 | -6.6% |
| Jul 23, 2018 | 11A | 4 BR | $3,150,000 | +5.9% |
| Sep 20, 2017 | 7A | 3 BR · 3 BA | $2,450,000 | -3.9% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2016) cleared a median $1,142/sf across 3 sales. Median listing discount 4.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2024 | PHA/B | $2,490,000 |
| Dec 1, 2023 | 2A | $2,500,000 |
| Jul 5, 2017 | 11C | $1,821,125 |
| Feb 18, 2015 | 6A | $2,400,000 |
| May 1, 2013 | 12C | $1,950,000 |
| Feb 8, 2013 | 8A | $2,160,000 |
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 1-01887-0022) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
You are buying a Candela floor plan. The gracious foyers, separated wings, and room proportions are the product, and they are scarce — most new construction cannot replicate them at any price. Underwrite the apartment for what a Candela layout is worth, not just the per-square-foot average of the block.
The financial terms are buyer-friendly for a pre-war co-op. Financing to 80% is unusually generous, and the case-by-case posture on pied-à-terre, co-purchasing, guarantors, and gifting opens the building to buyers a stricter board would turn away. Budget the 2.5% flip tax as a seller cost when you eventually exit.
It is a full-service building. Doorman, concierge, live-in super, porter, playroom, laundry, and storage are all on site — the operating substance that supports value, with maintenance reflecting that level of service.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the architect. "Rosario Candela" is the single most powerful line in the marketing of any apartment on the Upper West Side. A resale here should be positioned as a Candela first and a West End Avenue address second — the name draws the buyer who is specifically hunting for his work.
Benchmark against Candela and the best pre-war West End stock. Comparable analysis belongs against other Candela buildings and the corridor's top full-service pre-wars, not against generic Upper West Side inventory. The large six- and seven-room layouts are the scarce, premium product.
The terms help the sale. A pet-friendly, 80%-financing, case-by-case-flexible board widens the buyer pool relative to stricter neighbors — a real advantage worth stating clearly to prospective purchasers.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 755 West End Avenue, also evaluate these nearby pre-war Upper West Side cooperatives:
- 770 West End Avenue — pre-war West End Avenue cooperative nearby
- 790 West End Avenue — full-service West End Avenue pre-war
- 680 West End Avenue — West End Avenue cooperative to the south
- 145 West 86th Street — Emery Roth pre-war cooperative nearby
- 300 West 108th Street — pre-war Upper West Side cooperative
The Roebling Team at 755 West End Avenue
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in the Upper West Side, West End Avenue, Central Park West, and Riverside Drive — the pre-war co-op heart of the West Side. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers evaluating a Candela building deserve building-specific intelligence: the floor plans, the financial terms, the board posture, and where the pricing sits against the rest of the corridor.
If you're weighing a purchase or sale at 755 West End Avenue, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.
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