Co-Op Buildings
Co-op ownership implies owning shares in a company that
owns the building, rather than owning the apartment outright.
This form of ownership has both advantages
and drawbacks (see notes below).
Many older (prewar) Manhattan buildings fall into this category.
The following is the list of the co-op buildings we've surveyed.
Downtown Manhattan Co-Op Buildings
This is a partial list of co-op buildings in Downtown Manhattan.
The longer
complete list of downtown co-op buildings
is also available.
- 111 Fourth Avenue
(East Village)
A pre-war high-rise doorman building offering laundry facilities. The apartments have very high ceilings. - 160 Bleecker Street
(Central Village)
2 listings: 1 no-fee and 1 fee
A turn-of-the-century mid-rise doorman building offering laundry facilities. - 165 Christopher Street
(West Village)
2 listings, both fee
A post-war mid-rise doorman elevator building offering laundry facilities. - 24 Fifth Avenue
(Central Village)
1 listing, no-fee
A high-rise landmark doorman building offering a gym and laundry facilities. - 250 Mercer Street
(Central Village)
1 listing, fee
A turn-of-the-century mid-rise landmark doorman building offering laundry facilities. - 34 Leonard Street
(TriBeCa)
A modern mid-rise doorman elevator building offering a gym. - 344 West 12th Street
(West Village)
A mid-rise landmark elevator building. - 48 Bond Street
(NoHo)
A modern mid-rise landmark doorman building offering a gym and a pool. The apartments have very high ceilings. - 720 Greenwich Street
(West Village)
2 listings, both fee
A pre-war mid-rise landmark doorman elevator building offering laundry facilities. - 78 Grand Street
(SoHo)
A low-rise landmark elevator building. - 815 Greenwich Street
(West Village)
1 listing, fee
A post-war low-rise landmark walk-up building offering laundry facilities. The apartments have very high ceilings. - 92 Horatio Street
(West Village)
1 listing, fee
A pre-war elevator building.
The apartments have high ceilings. - The Cezanne
(61 Jane Street, West Village)
1 listing, no-fee
A post-war high-rise landmark doorman building offering a garage and laundry facilities. - The Powell Building
(105 Hudson Street, TriBeCa) photos
A pre-war building with 24 offices and 16 residential lofts.
The apartments have very high ceilings. - Seward Park Cooperative
2 listings, both no-fee
A 4-building complex.
See all downtown co-op buildings (242 buildings)
Midtown Manhattan Co-Op Buildings
Below is a partial list of midtown co-op buildings.
The longer
complete list of midtown co-op buildings is also available.
- 16 Park Avenue
(Murray Hill) photos
1 listing, no-fee
A pre-war high-rise doorman building offering laundry facilities. - 343 East 51st Street
(Midtown East)
3 listings, all fee
A mid-twentieth century low-rise elevator building offering laundry facilities. The apartments have high ceilings. - 420 West 46th Street
(Hell's Kitchen)
A low-rise walk-up building offering laundry facilities. The apartments have high ceilings. - The Chesapeake House
(201 East 28th Street, Kips Bay)
1 listing, no-fee
A post-war high-rise doorman building. With a white-brick façade rather typical of its era, this building fits in will with other residential mid- and high-rises lining up Th....
- The Excelsior
(303 East 57th Street, Midtown East)
3 listings, all fee
A post-war high-rise doorman building offering a garage. At the time it was built in 1967, the Excelsior was the tallest residential tower in the city. - Gramercy Arms
(145 East 15th Street, Gramercy Park) photos
A post-war high-rise doorman building offering a garage and laundry facilities. - Gramercy East
(301 East 22nd Street, Gramercy Park)
A post-war high-rise doorman building offering laundry facilities. - Park Towers
(201 East 17th Street, Gramercy Park) photos
A post-war high-rise doorman building offering a gym, a garage and laundry facilities. - The Peter Stuyvesant
(210 East 15th Street, Gramercy Park) photos
A post-war high-rise doorman building offering a gym, a garage and laundry facilities. - Quaker Ridge
(201 East 21st Street, Gramercy Park)
A post-war high-rise doorman building offering laundry facilities. - Riverview East
(251 East 32nd Street, Kips Bay)
A post-war high-rise doorman building offering laundry facilities. - The Rutherford
(230 East 15th Street, Gramercy Park) photos
A post-war high-rise doorman building offering a garage and laundry facilities. - Stonehenge 57
(400 East 57th Street, Midtown East)
3 listings, all no-fee
A pre-war high-rise doorman building offering a garage and laundry facilities. A white brick and black masonry façade. - Tudor Tower
(25 Tudor City Place, Murray Hill)
A high-rise landmark doorman building offering laundry facilities. The apartments have high ceilings. - The Van Dorn
(150 West 58th Street, Central Midtown) photos
2 listings, both no-fee
A pre-war high-rise doorman building offering laundry facilities. Many apartments have high-end renovations with oak moldings and marble baths. Located steps from Central Par....
See
all midtown co-op buildings
(326 buildings)
Uptown Manhattan Co-Op Buildings
A partial list of uptown buildings can be seen below. As usual, the
complete list of uptown co-op buildings
is also available.
See
all uptown co-op buildings
(544 buildings)
The latest additions/updates to the database of co-op buildings were made on:
June 17, 2024.
Recently Added/Updated Co-op Buildings:
54 India Street , 181 31st Street , 21-32 Hoyt Ave South , 241 Lafayette Street , 67-07 Woodside Avenue
NOTES
Buying a co-op is different from buying a condo in several respects:
- Technically, you don't own your apartment, you own shares in the building.
The number of shares is usually determined by square footage.
- Most buildings are older. Coops started appearing in New York
early in the 20th century. Condo buildings came later. In fact,
most pre-war buildings in Manhattan are co-ops.
- Most co-op apartments are cheaper than comparable condos.
- On the other hand, maintenance fees tend to be higher than
in comparable condo buildings.
- There are tax differences as well.
- Most things (starting with getting admitted into the building)
require board approval.
Co-ops tend to be much restrictive with allowing
renovations, especially those that are
considered disruptive to neighbors.
- For the same reason, renting out your co-op apartment may be difficult.
It all depends on the co-op board.
- Financing a co-op purchase can be more difficult (or, in some cases,
even impossible).
The most prestigious (and restrictive) buildings have been known
to require the full purchase price upfront, without possibility of getting a mortgage (This may seem a little extreme, but the thinking of those boards, apparently, is that if you can't afford paying in cash, you can't afford being their neighbor).
Other boards may be more understanding but still require a significant downpayment.
- The boards themselves range from reasonable to eccentric. While the
reasonable variety is more common, horror stories abound, too -
from applicants having to supply 1,000+ page tomes of documentation and
countless "character references" to board interviews conducted in French.
(Presumably, in the last case, non-French-speaking applicants were deemed to be of insufficiently good character to qualify as neighbors).
- As you might imagine, all these factors can complicate the sale of your
co-op apartment, should you decide to eventually sell it. Some buildings
with exceptionally demanding boards have been known to have apartments
on the market for several years.
Renting in a co-op is also a possibility, but depending on how the building functions, you may have to be approved by the co-op board first, which may be quite a process. Again, it all depends on the board!
If all this sounds like too much trouble, your options are:
buying/renting a condo or
finding a good apartment in a
rental building.
