120 East 85th StreetRecorded sales & closing prices
120 East 85th Street, between Park and Lexington avenues · Upper East Side
11 recorded transfers, 2004–2026. Sortable and searchable below.
Co-ops are normally measured by price per room, since square footage is not officially recorded for them. This building is shown in price per square foot because most of its sales carry documented footage, which makes the sharper measure the honest one here.
- Recorded transfers
- 11
- Date range
- 2004–2026
- Median $/sf
- $1,319
- Listing discount
- 0.8%
- Monthly carry/sf
- $1.86
- Price range
- $1.19M – $1.9M
Change in the building’s median $/sf over each window, from the raw yearly medians — too few standardized single-line units here to adjust to an average-floor basis, so which apartments happened to trade moves these alongside price. (2022 marks the rate-shock inflection.) Like-for-like repeat-sale figures to follow.
The complete recorded-sale history for 120 East 85th Street, compiled from NYC Department of Finance transfer records, with apartment-by-apartment detail from The Roebling Research Library. Across sales with a public asking price, the building carries a median listing discount of 0.8% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.
Price per square foot over time
7 sales with a known square footage, by closing date.
Recent closings
The building’s 10 most recent market sales.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | $/sf | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2026 | 2W | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,440 sf | $1,900,000 | $1,319 | +0.3% |
| Nov 21, 2025 | 2E | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,400 sf | $1,830,000 | $1,307 | -6.2% |
| Aug 8, 2023 | 2E | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,400 sf | $1,875,000 | $1,339 | -5.1% |
| Oct 17, 2018 | 3E | 3 BR · 1,450 sf | $1,700,000 | $1,172 | -2.8% |
| Jul 22, 2015 | 2W | 2 BR · 1,440 sf | $1,675,000 | $1,163 | +0.0% |
| Jul 12, 2012 | 2E | 3 BR · 1,400 sf | $1,200,000 | $857 | -7.3% |
| Aug 30, 2007 | 2W | 2 BR | $1,438,250 | +2.7% | |
| Jul 12, 2006 | 2E | 3 BR · 1,400 sf | $1,199,000 | $856 | +0.0% |
| Jan 10, 2006 | 4W | $1,300,000 | — | ||
| Jan 7, 2005 | 4E | 2 BR | $1,185,000 | -0.8% |
The retrade record
Lines that have changed hands more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Every recorded sale
Sort any column; filter by unit or keyword. Prices are the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance. Every sale sits in one of three states: counted in the building’s medians and trend; shown but excluded as a non-arms-length or nominal transfer; or shown and ⚑ flagged for review — a possible duplicate filing or an extreme $/sf outlier, held out of the statistics pending manual verification rather than allowed to move them.
| Apartment | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2026 | 2W | 3 BR · 2 BA | 1,440 | $1,900,000 | $1,319 | +0.3% |
| Nov 21, 2025 | 2E | 3 BR · 2 BA | 1,400 | $1,830,000 | $1,307 | -6.2% |
| Aug 8, 2023 | 2E | 3 BR · 2 BA | 1,400 | $1,875,000 | $1,339 | -5.1% |
| Oct 17, 2018 | 3E | 3 BR | 1,450 | $1,700,000 | $1,172 | -2.8% |
| Jul 22, 2015 | 2W | 2 BR | 1,440 | $1,675,000 | $1,163 | +0.0% |
| Jul 12, 2012 | 2E | 3 BR | 1,400 | $1,200,000 | $857 | -7.3% |
| Aug 30, 2007 | 2W | 2 BR | — | $1,438,250 | — | +2.7% |
| Jul 12, 2006 | 2E | 3 BR | 1,400 | $1,199,000 | $856 | +0.0% |
| Jan 10, 2006 | 4W | — | $1,300,000 | — | — | |
| Jan 7, 2005 | 4E | 2 BR | — | $1,185,000 | — | -0.8% |
| Jun 4, 2004 | 2W | 2 BRnon-market transfer (excluded from $/sf & trends) | — | $751,000 | — | — |
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01513-0062). Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified in The Roebling Research Library. 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. Storage, parking, and commercial units are excluded from all figures. Floor- and line-level $/sf are time-controlled (each sale measured against the building’s going rate at the time of sale) and expressed at today’s pricing, so they isolate the floor or line premium rather than blend two decades of market movement.
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