146 East 49th Street
146 East 49th Street, New York, NY 10017
BBL 1013030045 · BIN 1036230
- Year built
- 1920
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 36
- Floors
- 9
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Elevator, renovated lobby, live-in superintendent, laundry room, bike room, rentable private storage, video intercom; select units carry board-approved in-unit washer/dryer
- Financing
- Confirm the financing maximum against current board policy at offer stage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $580K
- Recent range
- $518K – $950K
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 42
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 146 East 49th Street would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
146 East 49th Street is the Turtle Bay pre-war cooperative at its most boutique: a 1920 masonry mid-rise, roughly four apartments to a floor, on one of the most graceful tree-lined blocks in Midtown East. The building carries an Emery Roth attribution — the architect whose name anchors much of pre-war Manhattan's luxury apartment tradition — and a room-count-driven co-op value proposition that is increasingly scarce this close to Grand Central.
The block matters as much as the building. East 49th Street between Lexington and Third sits at the western edge of Turtle Bay, the garden-residence enclave that drew Katharine Hepburn, Stephen Sondheim, and Leopold Stokowski to the rowhouses a block east. 146 is not one of those landmarked rowhouses — it sits outside the Turtle Bay Gardens Historic District — but it shares the district's quiet, its mature street trees, and its walk-everywhere geography: Grand Central, the Chrysler Building, and the United Nations are all within a short walk, with the E/M/6 at Lexington–51st and the 4/5/6/7 and shuttle at Grand Central both close by.
For buyers, the thesis is boutique pre-war ownership at a Midtown East value point — a full-service-adjacent co-op with low fixed costs, priced by the room rather than the square foot.
Architecture and unit composition
The building is a 1920 pre-war masonry apartment house rising nine residential floors to a penthouse level, taller than the rowhouses around it. The roughly 36 apartments distribute about four to a floor across a compact plan — a one-bedroom, a larger two-bedroom, and a pair of south-facing one-bedrooms over the interior courtyard on the typical floor, with studio penthouse units above and combined homes created by joining adjacent lines. Interiors carry the pre-war vocabulary: beamed and roughly nine-foot ceilings, wide windows, hardwood floors, decorative fireplaces, and classic moldings.
Building operations
This is boutique pre-war co-op ownership run lean and well: an elevator, a renovated lobby, a live-in superintendent widely praised in the building's service reputation, a laundry room, a bike room, and rentable storage. There is no doorman — a deliberate trade that keeps the maintenance base low. Cooperative governance at this scale is intimate; the offering plan, by-laws, financial statements, and current house rules should be reviewed carefully during diligence, and we obtain current building documents from the managing agent for clients at offer stage.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $18,879/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $41
- Modeled exposure split equally across 38 units (the city tax-lot count). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →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.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Management & transfer contacts
- Flip tax
- $10.00 per share
- Sublet policy
- Allowed; monthly sublet fee $275
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed with board approval
- Notable fees
- Transfer Agent/Processing Fee $750; Aztec Recognition Fee $300; Move-In deposit $1,000 refundable; max financing 80%
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2026 | 6CD | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,400 sf | $950,000 | $679/sf | +0.0% |
| Jul 10, 2025 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,000 sf | $800,000 | $800/sf | +0.0% |
| Mar 8, 2024 | 2A | 1 BR · 1 BA · 830 sf | $600,000 | $723/sf | +0.8% |
| Jul 20, 2023 | 8C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 725 sf | $517,500 | $714/sf | -3.3% |
| May 8, 2023 | 7A | 1 BR · 1 BA · 830 sf | $662,500 | $798/sf | -1.9% |
| Nov 23, 2022 | 9C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $560,000 | -11.0% | |
| Feb 24, 2021 | 5A | 1 BR · 1 BA · 830 sf | $660,000 | $795/sf | -3.6% |
| Aug 29, 2019 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $782,000 | -5.2% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $713/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 2.6% 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 1-01303-0045). 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.
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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What to know if you’re buying
Price it by the room. This is a per-room co-op market, not a per-square-foot condo market. The line — north-facing two-bedroom versus south-facing courtyard one-bedroom — drives value as much as the floor. Run the True Monthly Carrying Cost Calculator with the actual maintenance in hand.
Boutique governance, no doorman. Roughly four apartments to a floor and a live-in super in place of a staffed lobby. The trade is low fixed cost against self-service logistics; confirm the financial statements and reserve posture during diligence.
The block is the amenity. A tree-lined, quiet stretch a short walk from Grand Central and the E/M/6 — walk it at the times you'd use it.
Verify the policy stack. Financing maximum, sublet terms, pied-à-terre allowance, and flip tax should be confirmed against current board policy.
What to know if you’re selling
Market the Emery Roth pedigree and the block. The 1920 Roth attribution and the tree-lined Turtle Bay setting are genuine credentials — lead with them.
Use line-specific comps. With a compact unit count, your own building's line history is the right comp set; adjust for floor and exposure rather than leaning on building averages.
Position the value story honestly. Low maintenance and boutique scale against the absence of a doorman — the buyer shopping this block understands the trade, and it converts when priced correctly.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 146 East 49th Street, also evaluate:
- 303 East 57th Street — larger Midtown East cooperative to the north; the full-service alternative
- 322 East 57th Street — pre-war Sutton-edge cooperative; a step up in scale and service
- 430 East 58th Street — Sutton Place–edge cooperative comparable
- 117 East 57th Street — nearby Midtown East ownership stock
- 1 Beekman Place and the Beekman/Sutton co-op cluster — the white-glove pre-war alternative a few blocks east
More Midtown East buildings
- 141 East 55th Street (The 141 Condominium) — 1956 condominium
- 142 East 49th Street — 1924 co-op
- 145 East 48th Street (The Cosmopolitan) — 1986 condominium by Gruzen Samton Steinglass
- 150 East 49th Street — 1923 co-op
- Blair House (200 East 58th Street) — 1963 condominium
- Elysia (200 East 59th Street) — 2018 condominium by CetraRuddy Architects
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Midtown East — read The Roebling Team Guide to Midtown East.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
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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