790 West End Avenue

The fifteen-story facade is full Classical Revival: a sculpted stone base, an entrance incorporating second-story windows framed by pilasters and the Paterno cipher, leaf-and-tongue door molding, balustraded balconies with molded window surrounds, swag-decorated spandrels at the top floor, and the lion-and-fleur-de-lis cornice that crowns the building. It reads unmistakably as the work of an architect who understood proportion and ornament at the highest level.

The roughly 89 apartments span a range of configurations, from one- and two-bedroom layouts to larger three- and four-bedroom family residences. Pre-war signatures are typical of the vintage and the architect: high ceilings in the principal rooms, entry foyers and galleries, separate dining rooms in the larger lines, hardwood floors, and the deep closets and service-zone planning that distinguish 1920s luxury apartments from later construction. West-facing apartments capture light and partial Hudson and Riverside Park exposures across the avenue; eastern apartments look toward the cross streets and Broadway.

790 West End Avenue operates as a full-service pre-war cooperative with a full-time doorman and attended lobby, an on-site superintendent, a central laundry room, and private resident storage. At roughly 89 apartments, the building spreads the fixed costs of full service across a mid-sized base. Its position inside the Riverside–West End Historic District Extension II means exterior alterations pass through Landmarks Preservation Commission review ; this regulates change rather than guaranteeing permanent preservation of every feature or surrounding view.

Board approval is required; confirm the building's current financing, liquidity and occupancy requirements from its governing documents and application instructions.

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 $993/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 2.0% 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 1-01870-0004). 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 Candela authorship is the differentiator. Describe the Rosario Candela design and regulated façade; compare actual sales and costs without assuming those features protect value across market cycles.

The pre-war scale is structural. Apartment layouts, ceiling heights, and detail reflect 1926-era luxury design — authentic scale and proportion that newer construction rarely matches.

Northern West End positioning shapes value. The 99th Street setting offers a setting to compare with lower-avenue alternatives using on-site conditions, matched sales and total carry, one block from Riverside Park and two from the 1/2/3 at 96th Street.

Confirm the board's current requirements. Maximum financing is 75% of the purchase price; confirm the board's liquidity, ownership and occupancy requirements from the governing documents and application instructions.

Lead with Candela and the landmark setting. The architect's name, the Classical Revival facade, and the designated historic-district context are the strongest, most durable marketing assets — most of the avenue's stock cannot claim a Candela attribution.

Pricing requires apartment-level comparable analysis. Floor, exposure, configuration, and renovation history all move value materially within a building of this size.

Closing timelines are co-op standard — generally 6–10 weeks from contract signing to closing.

If you're considering 790 West End Avenue, also evaluate:

• 670 West End Avenue — 1927 pre-war West End co-op
• 280 Riverside Drive — 1926 Rosario Candela pre-war rental building nearby
• 300 Riverside Drive — 1923 pre-war Riverside co-op nearby