1060 Park Avenue
1060 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10128
Carnegie Hill, Upper East Side
BBL 1014990032 · BIN 1046918
- Year built
- 1923
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 88
- Floors
- 14
- Landmark
- Designated
- Subletting
- Restrictive (typical of tier-one Carnegie Hill pre-war cooperatives)
- Financing
- Up to 50% financeable (50% minimum down).
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 2026). Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $1.5M
- Recent range
- $525K – $3.1M
- Listing discount
- 3.4%
- Recorded transfers
- 103
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1060 Park Avenue — known historically as The Niagara — is one of two J.E.R. Carpenter-designed pre-war cooperatives anchoring the Park Avenue / East 87th intersection. 1060 Park (northwest corner) and 1050 Park (southwest corner) together form a Carpenter "book-end" pair completed in 1923–24, at the early peak of Carpenter's Park Avenue / Fifth Avenue luxury apartment-house era. The building's positioning between East 87th and East 88th Streets places 1060 Park at the heart of the Carnegie Hill Park Avenue cluster, within walking proximity to the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Jewish Museum, the Guggenheim, and the broader Museum Mile cultural concentration.
The 1923–24 vintage and the building's position in the Park Avenue Carnegie Hill cluster (1040, 1050, 1060, 1075, 1080, 1130, 1133, 1175, 1185, 1199 Park) places 1060 Park within the most architecturally consequential single-corridor / single-decade construction concentration in American residential history. The Carnegie Hill identity is anchored by its pre-war cooperative inventory, its cultural-institution proximity, and its consistent residential character across more than a century.
Truman Capote took an apartment at 1060 Park in 1952. The cultural memory of the building is partly bound up in his early-career residency.
For buyers, 1060 Park represents a particular tier of central Carnegie Hill Park Avenue inventory: pre-war architectural credentialing, central Carnegie Hill positioning at the heart of Museum Mile, and pricing materially more accessible than the trophy Lenox Hill Gold Coast peak.
Architecture and unit composition
The building's pre-war Park Avenue vintage indicates the standard 1920s luxury cooperative idiom: limestone-clad base, brick body above, classical detailing, formal canopied entrance. 10–11 foot ceilings, formal entry galleries, library-living combinations, primary suites with closet infrastructure, service wings characteristic of 1920s design.
Park Avenue-facing apartments (west exposure) look across the Park Avenue median plantings.
Building operations
1060 Park Avenue operates as a full-service pre-war cooperative. Specific operational details should be confirmed directly with property management during due diligence.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $30,867/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $29
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Management & transfer contacts
- Flip tax
- Transfer Fee 2.5% of Gross Sales Price (Seller)
- Notable fees
- Application Processing Fee $500 ($1,000 Trust); Closing Fee $800 ($850 without Broker) plus $0.05/share; Sublet Application Processing Fee $300; Max financing 50% of purchase price
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Prices are the transfer amounts recorded with the NYC Department of Finance; apartment-level detail is checked against the building’s own file in The Roebling Research Library before publishing.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2026 | 11E | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,325,000 | -3.9% |
| May 7, 2026 | 3B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $460,000 | -8.0% |
| Sep 10, 2025 | 10B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $655,000 | -13.7% |
| May 14, 2025 | 14A | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,537,500 | -3.9% |
| May 1, 2025 | 3D | 2 BR · 1 BA | $990,000 | -1.0% |
| Nov 25, 2024 | 12E | 1 BR · 1 BA | $950,000 | -3.6% |
| Nov 18, 2024 | 9F | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,936,000 | +7.9% |
| Sep 23, 2024 | 7F | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | $2,200,000 | +10.3% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2023): a median $1,200/sf across 2 sales. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 4.0% 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 7, 2008 | 3F | $1,450,000 |
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 1-01499-0032) 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.
At the recent median sale of $990K (7 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $12,263 to close, or 1.2% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $12,263
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
Central Carnegie Hill positioning at the heart of Museum Mile.
Pricing is more accessible than trophy Lenox Hill peers.
Confirm specific policies directly with management.
Board approval follows tier-one Carnegie Hill norms.
Renovation is constrained by historic district status.
What to know if you’re selling
Carnegie Hill Museum Mile positioning is the primary marketing asset.
Pricing requires apartment-level comparable analysis. The relevant comparable is the same line on a nearby floor, adjusted for condition, not a building-wide average.
Closing timelines are co-op standard. 6–10 weeks.
Comparable buildings
- 1050 Park Avenue — immediate neighbor south
- 1075 Park Avenue — Blum brothers 1929
- 1080 Park Avenue — Carnegie Hill pre-war peer
- 1133 Park Avenue — Schwartz & Gross 1928
- 1175 Park Avenue — Schwartz & Gross 1925
- 1185 Park Avenue — Schwartz & Gross 1929
More Park Avenue buildings
- 1045 Park Avenue — 1923 co-op by Schwartz & Gross
- 1049 Park Avenue — 1919 co-op by Bottomley, Wagner & White
- 1050 Park Avenue — 1923 co-op by J.E.R. Carpenter
- 1065 Park Avenue (The Carlton Park) — 1969 co-op
- 1070 Park Avenue — 1928 co-op by Schwartz & Gross
- 1075 Park Avenue — 1923 co-op by George and Edward Blum
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Park Avenue — read The Roebling Team Guide to Park Avenue.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
How to read the facts on this page. Items attributed to an offering plan describe the building as it was offered at that filing — unit mix, square footage, the amenity program as planned. They are not a statement about how the building operates today. Tax and compliance figures are sourced separately to current City records and carry their own dates. House rules, staffing and fee policy can change by board resolution without any public filing: treat every policy line here as a starting point for diligence and confirm it with the managing agent. Where this page compares one building or neighborhood to another, that is our analysis of the recorded record — it names the measure, the period and the sample it rests on, and it is an observation about medians rather than a prediction about any particular apartment.
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