By Gus Saltonstall

A more than century-old building on the corner of a bustling Upper West Side block is slated to be replaced by a 12-story building that will have commercial and residential space, according to a permit submitted to the city on Tuesday.

At the beginning of March, West Side Rag reported that the four-story building at 2160 Broadway, on the corner of West 76th Street, was set to be demolished. The property had been purchased in December of 2024 by a Brooklyn developer.

At the time, there were no specifics on what the developer had planned for the Upper West Side site, but there was a marketing pamphlet that advertised between 13,000 and 18,000 feet of unused air rights.

On Tuesday, it appears we got our answer, as the developer and new owner of 2160 Broadway, Aleksandr Finkelshteyn, filed a permit for a 12-story mixed-use building at 215 West 76th Street, which is an alternative address for the location.

The proposed building would be 149 feet tall, with 20,926 square feet of residential space, and 989 square feet for commercial space, permits show. The new property would have 10 residential units, according to New York Yimby, which was the first publication to report on the building permits filed on Tuesday.

A demolition permit for the current four-story building at the address, which opened in 1907 and most recently served as a First Republic Bank branch, was filed in April, but it is unclear when construction will begin.

There is also not an available timeline for the new building.

The architecture and culture nonprofit Landmark West has a page dedicated to the history of 2160 Broadway, including the fanfare surrounding the address when it opened 118 years ago, and its connection to the man who invented the speedometer