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Lincoln Towers, 170 West End Avenue - Upper West Side
Lincoln Towers, 170 West End Avenue
Doorman Co-Op in Lincoln Center
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170 West End Avenue

Lincoln Towers,
170 West End Avenue

Doorman Co-op located in Upper West Side, between West 68th Street & West 69th Street  Map

  • Apartments For Sale (7)
  • Recent Sales (79)
  • All Units in Building (484)
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Listed on
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Apt. 18N
(14 Photos)
2 beds
2 baths
$1,495,000
Jan 21, 2025
29 days
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Overview of Lincoln Towers at 170 West End Avenue

.Lincoln Towers, 170 West End Avenue was built in 1961 and has a total of 484 apartments. Located in the Upper West Side, the building is very close to the 1, 2 and 3 subway lines and offers the convenience of full-service living in a 24-hour doorman building. Residents enjoy access to a gym, storage room, playroom, package room, bike room, and laundry facilities.

Moreover, the complex boasts a private 5-acre park with meticulously maintained gardens, playgrounds, and basketball courts. Its prime location places it near Lincoln Center, Riverside Park, and Central Park, with easy access to public transportation, theaters, restaurants, shopping, and more. Board approval allows for pets, making this a truly accommodating community.

Similar nearby buildings include 160 West End Avenue, 180 West End Avenue and 150 West End Avenue

 

Year Built
1961
Apartments
484
Floors
29
Pets: Allowed
Neighborhood
Min Down
25%
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Amenities

  • Concierge
  • FT Doorman
  • Post War
  • Resident Storage
  • Full Service Garage
  • Garden
  • Health Club
  • Washer/Dryer in building
  • Elevator
  • Children's Playroom
  • Fitness Center
  • On-Site Parking
  • Bike Room
  • Live-In Superintendent

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Nearby Subways

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
at Broadway 0.17 miles
  1. B
  2. C
at Central Park West 0.42 miles

Carter’s Review

"This is one of the eight 28-story apartment buildings that were built as part of the Lincoln Towers residential component of the vast Lincoln Square Urban Renewal Project that also created the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and a Manhattan campus for Fordham University.More than 7,000 low-income families and about 800 businesses were displaced on the vast redevelopment site, once known as San Juan Hill, and before their demolition the tenement buildings were vacated and provided many of the sets for the movie version of the plan "West Side Story."The Lincoln Towers enclave contains a total of 3,897 apartments of which 484 are in this building that was completed in 1961 and converted to a cooperative in 1987.The residential towers, all designed by S. J. Kessler & Sons, are located on 19 percent of a 36-acre site that is divided by West End Avenue and runs from 66th to 70th Streets and from Amsterdam Avenue to Freedom Place that was named to honor Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Cheney who were civil rights workers killed near Meriden, Mississippi in 1964. The west side of Freedom Place is the eastern boundary of the former New York Central rail yards along the Hudson River that developer Donald Trump is developing as Riverside South, a huge, high-rise apartment enclave.Much of the opposition to Trump's mammoth project, which finally went into construction in 1997, came from residents of Lincoln Towers, many of whose views of the Hudson River were threatened by the proposed new towers. On the other hand, Trump's project is replacing long abandoned and derelict rail yards with a coordinated architectural ensemble modeled in part after the great towers of Central Park West and which are likely to result in further gentrification of the area.Writing about Lincoln Towers in their book, "New York 1960, Architecture and Urbanism Between The Second World War And The Bicentennial," (The Monacelli Press, 1995), authors Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins and David Fishman wrote that:The towers, indeed, are very long slabs: in his book, "Upper West Story, A History And Guide," (Abbeville Press, 1989), Peter Salwen describes "the great gray mass of Lincoln Towers, apartment mega-blocks on a scale immense enough to satisfy a Mussolini." The Mussolini here, of course, was none other than the legendary Robert Moses, a visionary planner who attained incredible political power and was the most prodigious builder in the city's history albeit not the most aesthetically inspired. In his unauthorized biography of Robert Moses, "The Power Broker, Robert Moses and the Fall of New York," (Alfred A. Knopf, 1974), Robert A. Caro maintained that "Moses was not making even a pretense of creating new homes for the families displaced." The largest slum clearance project of its kind in the nation when it was built, Lincoln Square (including the performing arts center) has radically transformed the Upper West Side, but that transformation has taken a long time. It must be ruled a success economically even if, aesthetically, it is a tremendous disappointment. Only in the 1990's, however, has the Lincoln Center district really come into its own as a very desirable "luxury" location and the more recent projects have begun to dwarf, at least vertically, this otherwise monumentally large complex whose open spaces will undoubtedly become more and more appreciated."
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Pros & Cons

  • Close to Lincoln Center
  • Health club
  • Doorman
  • Close to Riverside Park
  • Landscaped parks
  • Garage
  • Many good views
  • Centrally air-conditioned
  • Many balconies
  • Close to Subway
  • Very large complex and buildings
  • No sundeck
  • Many views will be impaired by new high-rise construction to the west

CityRealty Rating

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Architecture
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22
/36
Location
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12
/39
Features
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  • How is the CityRealty Rating calculated?

    Architecture
    • 30+ remarkable
    • 20-29 distinguished
    • 11-19 average
    • < 11 below average
    Location
    • 27+ remarkable
    • 18-26 distinguished
    • 9-17 average
    • < 9 below average
    Features
    • 22+ remarkable
    • 16-21 distinguished
    • 9-15 average
    • < 9 below average
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Sales History

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For some co-ops, instead of price per square foot, we use an estimate of the number of rooms for each sold apartment to chart price changes over time. This is because many co-op listings do not include square footage information, and this makes it challenging to calculate accurate square-foot averages.

By displaying the price per estimated room count, we are able to provide a more reliable and consistent metric for comparing sales in the building. While we hope that this gives you a clearer sense of price trends in the building, all data should be independently verified. All data provided are only estimates and should not be used to make any purchase or sale decision.

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