164 West 79th Street Co-op Lists for $1,999,000

by Co-op Board

There’s an open house at 164 West 79th Street for a 4th floor co-op apartment over Memorial Day weekend.

This is 3 bedroom, 3 bath, 1500+ sq. ft. ‘Classic-6′ cooperative is located in an Upper West Side building that’s had quite a few transactions over the last several years.

It’s pet-friendly co-op offering quite a few amenities that most others lack:

2 tranquil gardens in the back of the building, including a Zen rock garden;
A spectacular roof-terrace for all shareholders with completely unobstructed views looking South, views of Central Park facing East, and the Hudson River facing West; and
A finished children’s playroom in the basement adjacent to the laundry room (below)

Monthly maintenance is $1,853, and buyers must have a minimum of 25% of the purchase price for a downpayment.

Some interesting trivia on this building: this blogger learned from shareholders that The Village People actually used to live in an apartment at 164 West 79th Street, and not in Greenwich Village!

It’s an amazing location for foodies, being only 2 blocks from Zabar’s and H&H bagels, and a few more to Fairway.

Transportation is also a plus: it’s 1 block to the No. 1 subway at Broadway & 79th Street, and block in the other direction to the B and C trains.

What’s unusual about this listing is that there are four brokers from Prudential Douglas Elliman working on it: the husband and wife Michael Rosenblum and Sandra Gansberg, Jamie Heinlein, and Brad Gansberg (Sandra is his aunt!).

Open houses on holiday weekends can be a great opportunity for buyers to check out properties since a good percentage of other interested purchasers will be out of town. For brokers, however, that can be a potential negative — they want all the traffic they can get, and holidays can put a damper on that.

Some brokers offer a mid-week open house in this situation, to try and capture prospects who were out of town over the weekend.

Address: 164 West 79th Street, New York, NY 10024 on Manhattan’s Upper West Side