890 West End Avenue
890 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10025
BBL 1018750061 · BIN 1056579
- Year built
- 1924
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Riverside-West End Historic District Extension II
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not stated
- Doorman
- Full-time doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median, 2023–2025
- $1.6M
- 3 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $960K – $1.9M
- Listing discount
- 9.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 61
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890 West End Avenue, known as Cambridge House, is a grand-scaled pre-war cooperative of the kind West End Avenue does better than almost any street in Manhattan. Designed by Schwartz & Gross — one of the most prolific and accomplished apartment-house firms of the 1920s — and completed in 1924, it is a sedate, handsome Italian Renaissance palazzo at the corner of 104th Street, the architectural language that defined upper West End Avenue's residential blocks. The building was converted from rental to cooperative ownership in 1980.
The proposition is classic West End: enormous, well-planned pre-war apartments at prices that remain a relative value against the Central Park West and Riverside tiers. Cambridge House delivers the generous room counts, real foyers, and separate dining rooms that buyers come to West End Avenue to find, in an established cooperative with a landscaped roof deck and a pet-friendly posture.
For buyers, it is space, light, and pre-war character on a quiet residential avenue. For sellers, the Schwartz & Gross pedigree, the room count, and the roof deck are the assets that distinguish a home here from the newer and smaller inventory nearby.
Architecture and unit composition
Schwartz & Gross gave 890 West End the dignified, symmetrical massing of an Italian Renaissance palazzo: a solid masonry facade with a defined base, a quietly ornamented body, and the restrained cornice line that anchors the West End streetscape. The building is handsome rather than flashy — exactly the register that has aged well across the avenue's pre-war stock.
Inside, the apartments are laid out in the generous pre-war manner, with roughly five residences per floor and homes typically running from four to six rooms, many beautifully proportioned. Expect hardwood floors, high ceilings, entry foyers, and the separate kitchens and dining areas of 1924 planning. The building is of thick masonry construction, and the most sought-after apartments are the larger, light-filled lines that have been sensitively updated.
Building operations
Cambridge House is a full-service cooperative with a 24-hour doorman and a live-in superintendent — the staffing buyers expect of a serious West End Avenue building. Amenities are practical and well-used: a beautifully landscaped common roof deck with open views, a central laundry room, a bike room, and common storage. The building is pet-friendly, a meaningful draw on the family-oriented upper West Side.
The cooperative is established; review the current budget, audited statements, debt and any assessments. Buyers should anticipate a standard board package and interview; sublet policy, financing limits, and any flip tax or transfer fee are set by the board and confirmed through the cooperative's documents during the application.
Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not statedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Not verified
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Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Full-time doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Roof deck, bike storage, laundry roomSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $1,616/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $2
- Modeled exposure split equally across 82 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the inspector (QEWI) identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair, with repairs due by the deadline stated in the filing. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 2025 | 3E | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,050 sf | $960,000 | $914/sf | -10.7% |
| Jan 16, 2024 | 16A | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,665,000 | -7.2% | |
| May 3, 2023 | 15B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,625,000 | -5.8% | |
| Feb 14, 2023 | 14B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,900,000 | -11.6% | |
| Dec 6, 2022 | 16B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,400,000 | -9.7% | |
| Jun 8, 2022 | 4B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,440,000 | +3.2% | |
| Mar 8, 2022 | 7A | 3 BR · 2.5 BA | $1,875,000 | +0.0% | |
| Feb 15, 2022 | 10D | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,300,000 | +8.8% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $943/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 1.0% 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.
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 1-01875-0061). 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
This is a straightforward pre-war co-op purchase with a buyer-friendly amenity set. Plan for a board package and interview, and use diligence to focus on the apartment itself — room count, light, condition of the kitchen and baths, and any prior renovation — alongside the cooperative's reserves, recent capital projects, and maintenance history.
The location is a genuine selling point: a quiet, handsome stretch of West End Avenue with Riverside Park and Central Park both within reach, the 96th and 103rd Street subway stations nearby, and the everyday retail of Broadway a block to the east. Buyers who want maximum pre-war space and a pet-friendly, well-run building at upper West Side value are the natural audience. We help buyers assess the home, the finances, and the right offer.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with what Cambridge House offers that the surrounding inventory does not: a Schwartz & Gross-designed Italian Renaissance cooperative with large pre-war layouts, a landscaped roof deck, and a pet-friendly, full-service operation. Those are concrete, marketable distinctions.
Price to the building's own resale history and to comparable upper West End Avenue pre-war cooperatives, with condition and light as the decisive variables. A well-renovated, larger-line apartment should be positioned at the top of the building's range. We advise sellers on staging, timing, pricing, and buyer qualification so the home reaches the audience that values pre-war space and a serious West End address.
Comparable buildings
If you're evaluating 890 West End Avenue, consider these nearby West End Avenue cooperatives:
- 871 West End Avenue — pre-war cooperative a few blocks south
- 790 West End Avenue — established West End cooperative
- 685 West End Avenue — pre-war full-service cooperative
- 680 West End Avenue — West End Avenue rental building nearby
- 670 West End Avenue — pre-war cooperative on the corridor
More West End Avenue buildings
- 871 West End Avenue — 1924 co-op
- 878 West End Avenue — 1922 co-op by Rosario Candela
- 885 West End Avenue — 1915 co-op by Gaetano Ajello
- 895 West End Avenue — 1912 co-op by Gaetano Ajello
- 905 West End Avenue — 1916 condominium by Gaetano Ajello
- 915 West End Avenue — 1922 by Rosario Candela
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across West End Avenue — read The Roebling Team Guide to West End Avenue.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
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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