- Year built
- 1930
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 79
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2002–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $1.4M
- Recent range
- $560K – $2M
- Listing discount
- 10.6%
- Recorded transfers
- 74
1230 Park Avenue sits at the northern edge of Carnegie Hill, on the southwest corner of East 96th Street — the point where the grand stretch of Park Avenue meets the more intimate, residential character of upper Carnegie Hill. Completed in 1930 to designs by Gronenberg & Leuchtag, the firm responsible for several substantial pre-war apartment houses in the neighborhood, it is a sixteen-story building of 79 apartments laid out at family scale, with roughly 1,500 square feet per unit on average.
The building's case is the classic Park Avenue case, at a slightly more attainable point on the avenue. Buyers get a full-service pre-war co-op inside the Carnegie Hill Historic District — attended lobby, live-in superintendent, period detail — without the eight-figure entry that defines the avenue's lower-numbered blocks. The corner position delivers light and air on two exposures, and the location places residents within a short walk of Central Park, the Madison Avenue retail corridor, and the 96th Street subway.
Architecture and unit composition
Gronenberg & Leuchtag designed 1230 Park in the restrained pre-war Renaissance Revival idiom that defines so much of Carnegie Hill: a brown-brick shaft rising from a two-story limestone base, with a canopied entrance crowned by a row of arched openings filled with shell-motif ornament. It is a building that reads as established rather than showy — exactly the register the avenue rewards.
The 79 apartments span a range of pre-war layouts, with the larger homes offering the gracious proportions, separated formal and service spaces, high ceilings, and hardwood floors that buyers seek in the era's product. The corner of the building yields the most desirable lines, with cross-exposures and avenue light. The unit mix and intimate per-floor count make this a building of long-tenured shareholders rather than rapid turnover.
Building operations
The building runs as a full-service cooperative, with a full-time doorman, a live-in resident manager, central laundry, and storage. It is pet-friendly. Purchases proceed through the standard co-op board package and interview, and the building maintains the conservative financial posture characteristic of a well-run Carnegie Hill pre-war — a deliberate, owner-occupant culture rather than an investor building.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- Per unit / month range
- —
Facade safety — Local Law 11
Safe to live in today — but the last inspection flagged repairs that are due on a deadline, so facade work and its cost are coming. Whether that’s a real concern depends on the scope, the timing, and how the building plans to pay for it — reserves or an assessment — which is exactly what we’d dig into for you.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2025 | 16C | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,375,000 | -8.0% | |
| Feb 20, 2025 | 9/10A | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,455,000 | -3.0% | |
| Sep 11, 2024 | 9E | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $1,975,000 | -14.1% | |
| Jun 17, 2024 | 6B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,140,000 | -10.6% | |
| Jun 14, 2023 | 5B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,250,000 | -3.5% | |
| Oct 17, 2022 | 4D | 3 BR · 3 BA | $1,525,000 | -18.7% | |
| May 27, 2022 | 12D | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,800 sf | $1,775,000 | $986/sf | -24.5% |
| Sep 28, 2021 | 8A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $650,000 | -3.7% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2022) cleared a median $882/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 5.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2024 | 6C | $1,150,000 |
| Apr 14, 2023 | 11A | $560,000 |
| Dec 18, 2018 | 8E | $2,036,500 |
| May 15, 2014 | 4C | $880,000 |
| Dec 18, 2013 | 9B | $980,000 |
| Dec 12, 2013 | 5E | $1,795,000 |
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 1-01507-0040) 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 a board package and interview are part of the process, and buyers should be prepared for the financial review a conservative pre-war building conducts. The payoff is a full-service Park Avenue address inside the Carnegie Hill Historic District at a more reachable basis than the avenue's marquee blocks to the south. Focus your diligence on the apartment's exposure and renovation state, and on the building's financials and reserve position. We help buyers benchmark asking prices against comparable Carnegie Hill pre-wars and assemble a board package that presents cleanly.
What to know if you’re selling
The selling story is location plus value: a full-service pre-war co-op on Park Avenue, in a protected historic district, at a price point that draws a broad pool of family buyers priced out of the lower avenue. Corner apartments with strong light and tasteful renovations are the building's standouts and should be marketed as such. Pricing belongs against the upper-Carnegie-Hill pre-war comparable set rather than the avenue's trophy tier. We position these homes to buyers who want the Park Avenue address and the full-service building without the lower-block premium.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 1230 Park Avenue, also evaluate these nearby Park Avenue and Carnegie Hill pre-war cooperatives:
- 1220 Park Avenue — pre-war co-op a block south
- 1199 Park Avenue — full-service Carnegie Hill co-op
- 1192 Park Avenue — pre-war Park Avenue peer
- 1185 Park Avenue — full-block pre-war cooperative nearby
- 1175 Park Avenue — Carnegie Hill pre-war co-op
The Roebling Team at 1230 Park Avenue
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in Park Avenue, Carnegie Hill, Madison Avenue, and the broader pre-war Manhattan co-op market. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers evaluating a Carnegie Hill pre-war co-op deserve building-specific intelligence — the architecture, the layouts, the staffing, and where pricing sits against the avenue's comparable stock.
If you're weighing a purchase or sale at 1230 Park, a 30-minute consultation is the right place to start.
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