The Pulitzer Mansion
11 East 73rd Street, between Fifth and Madison avenues · Upper East Side
Lenox Hill, Upper East Side
BBL 1013880008 · BIN 1041491
- Year built
- 1901
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $4.9M
- Recent range
- $4.5M – $5.4M
- Listing discount
- 4.8%
- Recorded transfers
- 18
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The Pulitzer Mansion preserves a Venetian Renaissance house as a small residential cooperative just east of Central Park. Stanford White designed it for newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer in 1900, and construction followed in 1901–03. Its broad limestone front, arcaded upper stories and west-side garden occupy a site assembled from five earlier rowhouses.
LPC records an apartment conversion by James E. Casale in 1934. Cooperative ownership followed in the 1950s. The resulting apartments retain different portions of a large private house: garden-facing rooms, high principal-floor spaces, smaller upper-floor homes and a penthouse with a private terrace.
Architecture and unit composition
The entrance is recessed behind rusticated Doric columns. Above it, a two-story arcade uses Ionic columns on the second floor and Corinthian columns on the third. Stone balustrades, a bracketed cornice and carved decorative bands organize the upper facade. The top of the building steps back behind another balustrade.
The west elevation continues the architectural treatment along the garden, using pilasters in place of freestanding columns. An iron railing and gate enclose the garden. A rear extension by Foster, Gade & Graham dates to 1904, adding another layer to the original house.
Apartments differ substantially in room proportions and exposure. Some occupy former principal rooms with large windows and pronounced ceiling heights. Others have more compact one-bedroom plans. Combined residences and a duplex penthouse add further variety, so the building's apartment count does not imply a repeated stack of identical layouts.
Building operations
The building has an elevator, a resident manager and part-time doorman service. The garden is a shared feature of the property, while certain upper homes have private outdoor space. Service is maintained across a small cooperative with a substantial historic exterior.
The mansion's district designation includes the building's exterior and setting. Changes to its prominent windows, limestone work, garden enclosure or roofline can require LPC review. Although the R8B zoning allowance exceeds the existing floor area, the landmark controls remain a separate constraint on alterations.
Policy framework
Financing: Up to 50 percent, requiring at least 50 percent down — confirm with the managing agent.
Pets: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Pied-à-terre use: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
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 | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2025 | 2BC | 2 BR · 3 BA · 2,000 sf | $4,500,000 | $2,250/sf | -24.9% |
| Aug 8, 2023 | 1E | 2 BR · 3 BA | $5,390,000 | +19.9% | |
| May 24, 2022 | 3AC | 3 BR · 3 BA | $16,607,000 | +38.4% | |
| May 23, 2018 | 4B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $950,000 | -4.5% | |
| Mar 29, 2018 | 4C | 1 BR | $1,300,000 | -13.0% | |
| Mar 7, 2017 | 4A | 1 BR | $1,550,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jan 12, 2017 | 4D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,700,000 | -8.1% | |
| Apr 9, 2014 | 4C | 1 BR | $1,625,000 | -9.5% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $2,250/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 5.5% 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.
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 1-01388-0008) 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.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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Comparable buildings
- 927 Fifth Avenue: A small prewar cooperative nearby, with a taller apartment-house form and substantial residences.
- 4 East 72nd Street: A prewar cooperative close to the park, useful for comparing a purpose-built apartment house with a mansion conversion.
- 944 Fifth Avenue: Another small cooperative inventory near Fifth Avenue, organized vertically in a taller building.
- 800 Park Avenue: A similarly limited prewar cooperative inventory on an avenue setting.
- 36 East 72nd Street: A nearby prewar cooperative with more conventional apartment-house planning.
More Upper East Side buildings
- 11 East 92nd Street
- 11–15 East 70th Street — 1909
- The Marquand (11 East 68th Street) — 1913 condominium
- 12 East 87th Street (The Capitol) — 1910 co-op by George and Edward Blum
- 12 East 88th Street — 1931 condominium
- 14 East 68th Street — co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper East Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper East Side.
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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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