Hotel des Artistes (1 West 67th Street)
1 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023
- Year built
- 1917
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 119
- Floors
- 18
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Pets permitted
- Subletting
- Set by the board and proprietary lease; confirm during due diligence
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $1.6M
- Recent range
- $700K – $3.4M
- Listing discount
- 5.4%
- Recorded transfers
- 96
The Hotel des Artistes is the grandest survivor of one of the most distinctive episodes in New York residential history: the artists' studio buildings of West 67th Street. In the 1900s and 1910s, a cluster of artists, frustrated by the lack of large, north-lit, double-height studio apartments, organized to build their own. The des Artistes, completed in 1917 to a neo-Gothic design by George Mort Pollard for a syndicate led by Walter Russell with Penrhyn Stanlaws, was the last and largest of them. The word "Hotel" in the name was a device — partly to navigate building-height rules — and the building was never operated as a hotel. It was a cooperative of working artists from the start.
The architecture follows the program directly. Behind the Gothic-arched, battlemented limestone façade — its base studded with roughly a hundred carved heads of painters, sculptors, and writers — the building is organized in an H-plan to push the principal studios toward the rear, where double-height windows capture even north light prized by painters. The classic des Artistes residence is a duplex: a two-story living room with a balcony bedroom above, paneled walls, beamed ceilings, and a large fireplace. Many original units had no kitchen at all, because the building provided a central restaurant and meal service to the apartments — the genuinely communal infrastructure of a building conceived as a vertical artists' colony.
What makes the des Artistes a serious cooperative dossier rather than a curiosity is that the original premise has held its value for more than a century. The building converted to a conventional cooperative (widely cited as circa 1970) and remains one of the highest-rated co-ops on the Upper West Side. The buyer pool is specific: people who want the double-height studio loft, the Central Park West Historic District location a half-block off the Park, and an architectural pedigree that very few buildings in the city can match. The resident history is part of the asset — across its century the building has housed a remarkable roster of artists, writers, and performers, several of them documented in the historical and press record.
The structural trade-offs are the ones common to grand pre-war cooperatives: cooperative governance with the diligence and approval process that entails, the carrying costs of a fully staffed amenity building, and apartment layouts — duplexes, double-height rooms, idiosyncratic studio plans — that reward buyers who actually want that kind of space and frustrate those looking for conventional floor plans.
Architecture and unit composition
Pollard's design is among the most fully realized neo-Gothic studio buildings in the city. The façade combines Gothic arches, pinnacles, finials, and battlements with a sculptural program — the carved artists' heads, gargoyles, and busts across the base — that announces the building's purpose. Interiors carry the same vocabulary into the residences: English Renaissance-style paneling, beamed ceilings, Corinthian columns, and large fireplaces appear throughout the studio units.
The defining residential type is the double-height duplex studio: a two- or sometimes three-story living room with large industrial-scale sash windows, pushed to the rear of the H-plan for north light, with a balcony level holding the bedroom. The most celebrated unit was the Naumburg triplex penthouse — a 14-room, roughly 6,000-square-foot residence with 22-foot ceilings, whose interiors were later donated to a university museum and which traded again in recent years at the top of the building's range. The building holds approximately 119 residential units; the current configuration of any specific apartment — many have been combined or reconfigured over a century — should be confirmed during diligence.
The building was completed in 1917 and rises 18 stories.
Building operations
The Hotel des Artistes operates as a fully staffed cooperative with full-time doorman and concierge service. The building's amenities reflect its origins as a self-contained artists' community: an indoor swimming pool, a fitness center with a squash court reputed to be among the oldest in the world, and a high-walled roof deck. Many of the building's original communal facilities — the theater, the ballroom that later served as a television studio — were long ago converted to other uses, and most apartments now have their own kitchens rather than relying on central meal service.
The building's ground-floor restaurant deserves specific note. The space housed the celebrated Café des Artistes — famous for its Howard Chandler Christy murals, painted by an early resident of the building — for roughly ninety years before it closed in 2009. Its successor, the Leopard at des Artistes, operated for about fifteen years and closed in February 2026. As of this writing the restaurant space is not in operation; a buyer should treat the ground-floor dining amenity as currently inactive and confirm its status at the time of any inquiry.
Pets are permitted. As a cooperative, the building reviews prospective purchasers through a board-approval process, and the board-financial policies — subletting, pied-à-terre use, financing limits, and any flip tax — are set by the board and the proprietary lease. These terms should be confirmed against the offering plan, house rules, and current board package during due diligence, as they are material to underwriting a purchase here.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $41,489/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $29
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 | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2026 | 313 | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,450,000 | -3.3% | |
| Mar 20, 2026 | 608 | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,300,000 | -13.3% | |
| Jan 30, 2026 | 506 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $2,250,000 | -9.8% | |
| Jan 29, 2026 | 512 | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,155 sf | $2,625,000 | $2,273/sf | -11.0% |
| Oct 6, 2025 | 206 | 1 BR · 1 BA | $700,000 | -3.4% | |
| Aug 13, 2025 | 501/502 | 3 BR · 2 BA | $3,025,000 | -8.3% | |
| Jul 9, 2025 | 606607 | 2 BR · 3.5 BA | $4,737,000 | -13.1% | |
| Jul 2, 2025 | 616/6E | 2 BR · 1.5 BA · 1,800 sf | $4,200,000 | $2,333/sf | -6.6% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $2,273/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 7.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2025 | 501/2 | $3,025,000 |
| Jul 9, 2025 | 6W | $4,737,000 |
| May 15, 2024 | 403 | $2,300,000 |
| Jan 23, 2023 | 509 | $2,275,000 |
| May 20, 2022 | 2M | $1,116,500 |
| Apr 29, 2022 | 701/702 | $3,995,000 |
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 1-01120-0023) 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; square footage on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
What to know if you’re buying
The double-height studio is the whole point — make sure you want it. The building's signature residences are duplex studios with two-story living rooms and balcony bedrooms. They are spectacular and specific; buyers who want conventional flat layouts should look elsewhere, and buyers who want exactly this should recognize how rare the type is.
Underwrite the cooperative terms early. Financing limits, sublet policy, pied-à-terre rules, and any flip tax are set by the board and are not published publicly. Obtain the offering plan, house rules, and current board package, and model the board-qualification math, before going far down the path. Pets are permitted.
The location is a half-block off Central Park in a historic district. The building sits within the Upper West Side / Central Park West Historic District, steps from the Park, Lincoln Center, and the Central Park West corridor — a location that anchors the building's durable value.
Confirm the current state of the amenities. The pool, squash court, and roof deck are part of the building's appeal; the ground-floor restaurant is currently inactive. Confirm what is operating at the time of your inquiry.
Price on a per-room basis, but adjust for the studios. Standard co-op per-room comparison is the right starting frame, but the double-height units carry a premium that flat per-room math understates. Comparable analysis must be apartment-specific.
Plan for a cooperative timeline. Board application and approval add time relative to a condominium. Build the schedule accordingly.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the architecture and the history. The building's neo-Gothic studio character, double-height rooms, and documented artistic pedigree are the marketing story; apartment-specific marketing should foreground the original detail and the integrity of the studio layout.
Prepare the buyer for the board. Cooperative approval is substantive here. Sellers benefit from helping a serious, well-qualified buyer present a clean board package.
Price with apartment-level comparables. The right comparables are other des Artistes studios and combined units, adjusted for ceiling height, exposure, and condition — not generic Upper West Side co-op averages.
Closing timelines reflect cooperative process. Plan for the board-approval window in any timeline you set with a buyer.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering the Hotel des Artistes, also evaluate:
- The Dakota — Hardenbergh's landmark cooperative a few blocks north on Central Park West; the benchmark for storied pre-war co-op character
- The Langham — grand pre-war Central Park West cooperative with large classical layouts
- The San Remo — twin-towered Central Park West cooperative, the trophy tier of the corridor
- The Century — Art Deco Central Park West cooperative with double-height and duplex inventory
- 55 Central Park West — Art Deco cooperative on the Park with distinctive layouts
- The Beresford — Emery Roth's premier Central Park West cooperative for buyers prioritizing scale and pedigree
- 101 Central Park West — classic pre-war Central Park West cooperative a short distance south
The Roebling Team at The Hotel des Artistes
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in Central Park West, the Upper West Side, and the Park-facing pre-war cooperative market. We publish this building profile because buyers and sellers at an address this distinctive deserve building-specific intelligence — the architecture, the cooperative's operating reality, the transactional mechanics, and the realities of pricing the building's idiosyncratic studio layouts — not generic market commentary.
If you're considering a purchase or sale at the Hotel des Artistes, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point. We'll bring the full context this page provides plus the transactional specifics your situation requires — board-qualification analysis, due-diligence priorities, comparable analysis at the apartment level, and the pacing strategy that fits your timeline.
Corey Cohen, Principal The Roebling Team at Compass 646.939.7375 · c.cohen@compass.com
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