- Year built
- 1929
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 32
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 4BR+ median
- $4M
- Recent range
- $1.9M – $4M
- Listing discount
- 9.8%
- Recorded transfers
- 28
1 East End Avenue is one of the most distinctive pre-war cooperatives on the Upper East Side, and its plot is the reason. Erected in 1929 to designs by Pennington & Lewis, the fourteen-story building stands on a trapezoidal lot along the East River and the FDR Drive — just 29 feet wide at its southern end, where it tapers to a ship's-prow, widening to 51 feet at the north. The result is a building shaped by its site, with four projecting bay windows oriented squarely at the river and some of the best East River views the Upper East Side has ever offered.
From the start the building drew an established clientele — financiers, executives, and insurance men competing for the river outlook — and it has remained a small, closely held, full-service co-op of just 32 apartments. For buyers, the appeal is specific and scarce: direct river frontage, a one-of-a-kind footprint, and pre-war proportions on the quiet East End Avenue enclave, a short walk from Carl Schurz Park and the East 79th Street crosstown corridor.
Architecture and unit composition
Pennington & Lewis gave 1 East End a warm, restrained pre-war face: soft orange brick over a limestone base, with the four projecting bays that distinguish the river elevation and make the most of the unusual plot. The ship's-prow southern end is the building's signature — an architectural response to the trapezoidal site that no conventional rectangular building could match.
The 32 apartments are pre-war in scale and detail — high ceilings, hardwood floors, gracious and well-separated rooms — and the river-facing homes carry the projecting bays and the open eastern water views that define the building's value. With so few apartments and such a specific footprint, the layouts are individual rather than uniform, and the river lines are the most coveted. The building's intimacy and provenance make it a long-tenured, owner-occupant co-op.
Building operations
1 East End operates as a full-service cooperative, with a full-time doorman, a live-in resident manager, central laundry, and storage; the building is pet-friendly. Purchases proceed through the standard co-op board package and interview. As a small, established pre-war co-op, the building carries the conservative financial posture and owner-occupant culture characteristic of the category — a deliberate, residential building rather than an investor one.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $24,079/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $63
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The facade passed its last inspection with no required repairs — nothing to budget for here, and no facade assessment on the horizon for roughly five years.
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent). Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library.
See the full facade history →Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Apartment-level facts are independently verified before publishing; sale prices reflect the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2026 | 3C | 4 BR · 4 BA | $2,100,000 | -6.7% | |
| Jul 16, 2024 | 5C | 4 BR · 4 BA · 2,695 sf | $4,050,000 | $1,503/sf | -4.7% |
| Mar 13, 2024 | 7A | 3 BR · 3 BA | $2,700,000 | -9.8% | |
| Jan 11, 2024 | 1C | 3 BR · 3.5 BA · 3,200 sf | $1,850,000 | $578/sf | -17.8% |
| Jan 11, 2024 | MAIS | 3 BR · 3 BA | $1,850,000 | -17.8% | |
| Dec 21, 2022 | 12C | 4 BR · 4 BA | $3,400,000 | -2.9% | |
| Nov 17, 2021 | 10C | 3 BR · 4 BA | $2,775,000 | -18.4% | |
| Sep 23, 2020 | 9C | 3 BR · 2.5 BA | $2,600,000 | -25.7% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2024) cleared a median $1,503/sf across 2 sales. Median listing discount 9.1% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2026 | 4/5B | $3,500,000 |
Full closing history with price-per-square-foot over time, the complete retrade record, and every line that has traded.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01589-0002) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price; square footage on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
What to know if you’re buying
This is a co-op, so plan for a board package and interview and the financial review a conservative pre-war building conducts. The reward is genuinely scarce: direct East River frontage, projecting bay windows, and a one-of-a-kind plot in a small, full-service building near Carl Schurz Park. Because river-facing homes here come to market so rarely, a buyer drawn to the water views should be ready to move when one appears. We help buyers understand the building's financials, evaluate the exposure and layout of an individual home, and prepare a board package that clears cleanly.
What to know if you’re selling
The selling story is the river and the building's singularity. A bay-windowed, water-facing home in a ship's-prow pre-war on the East River is a category buyers seek out by name, and the marketing should lead with the view, the projecting bays, and the Pennington & Lewis provenance and unusual plot. Pricing belongs against the building's own history and the small set of river-front East End pre-wars rather than against ordinary Upper East Side comparables. We position these homes to the buyer who specifically wants the East River and the one-of-a-kind footprint.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 1 East End Avenue, also evaluate these nearby East End Avenue and Yorkville cooperatives:
- 2 East End Avenue — pre-war co-op directly across the avenue
- 25 East End Avenue — full-service East End building
- 40 East End Avenue — East End Avenue pre-war peer
- 120 East End Avenue — river-facing co-op nearby
- 180 East End Avenue — full-service East End cooperative
The Roebling Team at 1 East End Avenue
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in East End Avenue, Yorkville, the broader Upper East Side, and river-facing pre-war Manhattan co-ops. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers evaluating a one-of-a-kind river-front building deserve building-specific intelligence — the history, the unusual plot, the river exposures, and where pricing sits for a scarce home.
If you're weighing a purchase or sale at 1 East End, a 30-minute consultation is the right place to start.
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