14 East 75th Street
14 East 75th Street, New York, NY 10021
Lenox Hill, Upper East Side
BBL 1013890056 · BIN 1041667
- Year built
- 1928
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 61
- Floors
- 12
- Flip tax
- 2% of purchase price, paid by seller
- Financing
- Up to 50% financeable (50% minimum down)
- Subletting
- Not permitted — an owner-occupancy building.
- Managing agent
- Orsid New York
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 2026). Reported and subject to confirmation. 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
- $4.5M
- Recent range
- $2.1M – $6.5M
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 54
14 East 75th Street is among the most architecturally distinctive prewar cooperatives in the entire Lenox Hill cross-street inventory — designed in a neo-Medieval (castle-like) vocabulary that contrasts sharply with the limestone-and-Renaissance idiom dominant in contemporary 1920s construction.
Credit the Schwartz & Gross architectural pedigree at the firm's 1920s peak, the same hand behind 930 Park, 90 Riverside, and 180 East 79th. Here that hand turned away from the era's dominant register entirely, producing a neo-Medieval castle-like brown brick composition that reads as a deliberate stylistic departure. The departure carries inside as well, in the double-height living rooms with 14-to-16-foot ceilings — a duplex-studio vocabulary drawn from the early-20th-century artist-studio tradition, in the lineage of 130 West 56th Street and 27 West 67th Street.
The building sits directly across from the former Whitney Museum of American Art (Marcel Breuer's 1966 building, now the Frick Madison and previously the Met Breuer) — placing it at the Madison-and-75th gallery-and-museum cultural anchor. One block from Central Park.
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
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.
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 →Management & transfer contacts
- Flip tax
- 2% of sale price (Seller, at closing)
- Sublet policy
- Not allowed
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed
- Notable fees
- App processing $700 +$200/addl applicant; Transfer Agent closing fee $850 ($1,100 remote); financing fee $400
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 1, 2026 | 4A | 3 BR · 3.5 BA | $5,200,000 | +0.0% | |
| Mar 12, 2026 | 2 | 2 BR · 3 BA · 2,500 sf | $4,500,000 | $1,800/sf | +0.0% |
| Oct 22, 2025 | 10D | 3 BR · 3.5 BA | $6,500,000 | +0.0% | |
| Aug 5, 2025 | 2 | 2 BR · 3 BA · 2,500 sf | $4,050,000 | $1,620/sf | +2.5% |
| May 19, 2025 | 2D | 3 BR · 2 BA | $3,750,000 | -27.9% | |
| Aug 27, 2024 | 7C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $2,060,000 | +17.7% | |
| May 2, 2024 | 9D | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $4,400,000 | -11.9% | |
| Apr 19, 2024 | 5E | 2 BR · 2 BA | $5,350,000 | -2.6% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,800/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 2.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2003 | 3E | $2,395,000 |
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 1-01389-0056) 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
The neo-Medieval double-height living room vocabulary is structurally distinguishing. Rare in the UES cross-street inventory — most prewar apartments hew to a single-height neoclassical idiom.
The Schwartz & Gross architectural pedigree is real institutional context. The firm's broader Manhattan body of work places 14 East 75th in a substantial 1920s prewar tradition.
The Madison-and-75th cultural anchor — the former Whitney Museum / Frick Madison directly across the street — is structurally valuable urban context.
The leaded glass windows, wood-burning fireplaces, and herringbone parquet floors with original custom built-ins are real institutional interior credentials. Verify line-specific configuration during walkthrough.
Sub-trophy pricing combined with architectural distinction makes the building a discovery-tier cooperative. The address hasn't priced into the Candela/Carpenter premium but trades on architectural grounds in the same conversation.
Comparable buildings
- 130 East 75th Street — Schwartz & Gross 1928; same-architect Lenox Hill peer
- 180 East 79th Street — Schwartz & Gross 1929-30; same-architect Lenox Hill peer
- 4 East 72nd Street — Hoffman 1929; nearby Lenox Hill peer
- 2 East 70th Street — Candela / Walker & Gillette 1927-28; nearby Lenox Hill peer
- 170 East 78th Street (The Morgan Studios) — 1927 artist-studio cooperative; nearby cross-street peer
Sources: The Roebling Research Library (offering plans, house rules, financial statements, board minutes, internal transaction records); NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers; publicly recorded NYC building data.
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