1376 York Avenue

The cooperative runs at a boutique scale: an elevator and attended entry / doorman service as reported, with ground-floor retail on York Avenue. Note that the attended-entry service may be virtual or part-time rather than a traditional full-time doorman — describe it as attended entry / doorman service and confirm the exact staffing at offer stage.

As a cooperative, ownership is by shares rather than deed: purchases require board approval and a board interview, financing is capped at a board-set percentage, and pied-à-terre, sublet, gifting, and guarantor arrangements are evaluated case by case. Confirm the current pet policy, financing maximum, any flip tax, sublet terms, and the precise nature of the attended-entry service with the board at offer stage.

This is a cooperative, so the path is a board package and interview, a financing cap set by the board, and underwriting of the building's financials and house rules. Confirm the attended-entry / doorman service — whether it is full-time, part-time, or virtual — since it affects both livability and value. Because the building is thinly traded, lean on the apartment's specifics and the building's financials rather than a deep comp set. The reasons to buy are the address and the value: a real pre-war Yorkville co-op near NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell and John Jay Park, at an accessible cost structure. Review the co-op's reserve and any planned capital work given the building's age.

The story is the pre-war character, the practical far-East-Side location near the hospital campus, and the price point. The circa-1910 architecture, the intimate 18-to-20-unit scale, and the York Avenue location sell to a specific buyer — often tied to the medical community — who wants a pre-war address without a trophy budget. Because the building trades thinly, pricing is an apartment-specific exercise: room count, floor, light, and condition drive the number, and we build the comp picture carefully given the limited resale volume. We position the building's location and staffing, prepare the buyer for the co-op process, and benchmark against the right comparable tier of boutique pre-war cooperatives.

If you're considering 1376 York Avenue, also look at these nearby Upper East Side and Yorkville buildings:

• 359 East 68th Street — full-service Lenox Hill condominium
• 237 East 88th Street — pre-war Yorkville condominium
• 170 East 92nd Street — pre-war Carnegie Hill cooperative
• 120 East 83rd Street — pre-war cooperative near the Met

The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in Manhattan's pre-war cooperative and condominium market. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers of boutique pre-war cooperatives deserve building-specific intelligence — the architecture and neighborhood context, the cooperative structure, the staffing and amenity reality, and where pricing sits against the right comparable tier.

If you're weighing a purchase or sale at 1376 York Avenue, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.