The Upper West Side rowhouse that played Kathleen Kelly's home in You've Got Mail is officially for sale, asking $3.95 million for a slice of romantic-comedy history that movie fans still detour to photograph nearly three decades later. The four-story townhouse at 328 W. 89th St. measures 5,885 square feet and sits on a 20-foot-wide lot, carrying the same brick-and-limestone facade that filled the screen when Meg Ryan's character walked through its door in 1998.
According to the New York Post, the property is a late-19th-century Renaissance Revival rowhouse built in 1894. The listing broker, Richard Pretsfelder of Leslie Garfield, told the paper that fans of the film still come by. “People really love the movie and they love the house,” Pretsfelder said, adding that superfans sometimes visit on tours just to take photographs of the exterior.
What's Inside the Four-Story Rowhouse
Per StreetEasy's listing, the building spans five floors plus a basement and is currently configured as seven residential units, with the owner's duplex offering central air conditioning. The New York Post's reporting describes the layout as an owner's duplex plus six other residential units, along with an original stoop and a private garden out back. The home also features high ceilings, bay windows, parquet floors, and six fireplaces, with a limestone basement and parlor story anchoring the facade below three windows per floor and arched windows up on the fourth story.
Details on the exterior also include limestone balustrades atop the bay windows, framed in terra cotta — ornamentation typical of the era the rowhouse was built. The listing's broker is Leslie J. Garfield, which StreetEasy identifies as the corporate broker handling the sale.
Hollywood's Love Letter to the Upper West Side
You've Got Mail was directed by Nora Ephron, a former New York Post writer, who co-wrote the screenplay with her sister, Delia Ephron. The 1998 film wasn't Ephron's only contribution to the neighborhood's cinematic reputation — she also wrote the screenplay for When Harry Met Sally, the Rob Reiner-directed 1989 film starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal. Together, the two films helped romanticize the Upper West Side for generations of moviegoers.
Film buffs have long known that the Hollywood magic required some geographic sleight of hand. As Brick Underground reported back in 2015, most of the interiors seen inside Kathleen Kelly's apartment were actually filmed on a New Jersey sound stage, even though the exterior shots were captured right at 328 West 89th Street. The outlet's older report also noted that a one-bedroom in the building was listed for $2,295 a month in fall 2013, and that a unit at 210 Riverside Drive — identified as the exterior used for Joe Fox's home in the film — was listed around $3,850 a month at the time.
A Hot Market for Manhattan Townhouses
The listing arrives amid a notable run for Manhattan's townhouse market. Leslie J. Garfield's mid-year 2026 report found that 116 townhouse sales closed in the first half of the year, a 4.5% increase from the same period a year earlier. Gross sales volume climbed even faster, up 31.2% to $1.2 billion over that span.
The average Manhattan townhouse sale price jumped 25.5% to $10.5 million in the first half of 2026, while the average price per square foot rose 10.2% to $1,613, per the same report. Those figures suggest the ‘You've Got Mail’ house is entering the market at a moment when buyers are paying a premium for exactly this kind of historic Upper West Side stock — landmark pedigree, film history and all.
