150 East 93rd Street
150 East 93rd Street, New York, NY 10128
Carnegie Hill, Upper East Side
BBL 1015210051 · BIN 1048364
- Year built
- 1923
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 63
- Floors
- 11
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Attended lobby (16-hour coverage per management-sourced records), live-in superintendent, private courtyard, roof deck, basement laundry and shared storage
- Financing
- Up to 80% per listing records. Confirm with the managing agent
- Flip tax
- 2% of the purchase price, paid by the buyer at closing. On a sponsor sale, the buyer pays a 1% fee (management-sourced records, August 2026). A flip tax is a transfer fee paid to the cooperative when an apartment sells
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150 East 93rd Street is a 1923 corner apartment house on Lexington Avenue in Carnegie Hill, three blocks south of the 96th Street station on the Lexington Avenue line. It has 63 apartments, mostly one- and two-bedrooms, above a retail base. For buyers who want a prewar Carnegie Hill cooperative at a lower entry price than Park and Madison, it is a straightforward option.
Two policies define the purchase, and both should be understood before an offer. The flip tax is paid by the buyer, at 2% of the price. Most Manhattan cooperatives charge the seller, so this adds directly to a buyer's closing costs. The building does not allow LLCs, trusts or corporations to own shares. Buyers who planned to hold through an entity for estate-planning reasons need to plan around that. The management-sourced records also warn that moving shares into a trust can affect the cooperative tax abatement.
Landmark status needs a clear answer because the district boundary sits nearby. The Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District covers most of this tax block, but by LPC's own lot-level database this building is outside it. Window, facade and rooftop work does not require LPC review. The Board's approval process still applies.
Architecture and unit composition
The building is an eleven-story red-brick apartment house of the early 1920s. Its main entrance is a step up under a canopy, set in an arched stone surround with wall lanterns. The fenestration is regular, and some upper apartments have terraces. Brokerage and management records attribute the design to George and Edward Blum, brothers whose speculative apartment houses are common across the Upper East Side and Upper West Side. We have not confirmed that attribution against a DOB or LPC record.
Apartment lines run from studios and one-bedrooms to two-bedroom layouts, with combinations recorded in ACRIS (for example, a 6A/C combination) and penthouse units at the top. The Lexington Avenue frontage holds ground-floor retail, which DOF carries as roughly 3,500 square feet across the commercial units. Retail income usually helps a cooperative's budget, but it is also a lease-rollover exposure. Ask the managing agent for the terms of the commercial leases.
Building operations
Underlying mortgage. An underlying mortgage is the loan the cooperative corporation itself carries on the building. Shareholders pay for it through maintenance. ACRIS shows the mortgage moving from NCB in 2006 to Investors Bank in 2016, consolidated at $5.2 million, and consolidated again with Investors Bank on July 16, 2021 at $4.9 million, with a small new-money advance. The maturity date and rate are not in the public index. Ask for both, together with the reserve balance and any planned assessment.
J-51 history. The historical J-51 file records one J-51 on this lot starting in 1974, a 12-year term at 75% on a modest $11,700 of certified alteration cost. The abatement was used through 1982, and exemption amounts are carried through 1985, where the historical file ends. No J-51 appears on the FY2021–FY2027 exemption rolls, so there is no benefit left to expire.
Cooperative abatement — confirm current status. DOF's abatement detail shows the cooperative and condominium abatement applied to this lot through the first half of FY2023, then a zero applied amount through FY2024, where the public file ends. That can reflect a recalculation or a timing entry rather than a loss of eligibility, but it is a line item every shareholder pays. Ask the managing agent how the abatement is credited on current maintenance bills.
Sponsor position. The converting sponsor sold shares steadily from 2006 to June 2018 per ACRIS. The current fee schedule still includes a 1% sponsor-sale fee, which suggests the sponsor may still hold apartments. Ask how many sponsor-held apartments remain, whether they are rented, and whether they are paying maintenance on time.
Recent sales
150 East 93rd Street trades as a prewar Carnegie Hill cooperative and is priced per room. It sits below the Park and Madison Avenue prewar stock a block or two west, because of its Lexington Avenue corner position, its unit mix and door coverage that is not round-the-clock. Within the building, the main pricing variables are floor, the quieter 93rd Street exposure versus the Lexington exposure, private terraces, and combined apartments. Resale has been steady rather than heavy, with several share transfers in each recent year, and 2026 has been more active than 2025. For a buyer, the 2% buyer-paid flip tax works like a small price increase and should be included in the offer. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent transfers at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2026 | 4C | $870,000 |
| Jun 24, 2026 | 10D | $635,000 |
| Mar 27, 2026 | PHW | $5,075,000 |
| Mar 5, 2026 | 9B | $899,000 |
| Oct 3, 2025 | PHE | $2,100,000 |
| Nov 26, 2024 | 3F | $525,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01521-0051) 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.
At the recent median sale of $899K (6 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $11,921 to close, or 1.3% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $11,921
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
Add 2% to your closing budget. The buyer pays the flip tax here. Run it through the Buyer Closing Cost Calculator before you set a number.
Buy in your own name. LLC, trust and corporate purchases are not allowed. Co-purchasers must all be on the stock and lease. If parents are buying for a child, the child has to qualify to carry the maintenance.
Plan around the summer recess. The Board does not meet in July and August. A contract signed in late June may not reach an interview until September. Build that into the closing date and your rate lock.
Board package and interview. Expect a full financial package, an in-person interview at the building, and post-closing liquidity and debt-to-income tests that are not published. Get them from the managing agent before you bid.
What to know if you’re selling
Price with the buyer's flip tax in mind. Buyers compare the total cost of the purchase. In a close negotiation, the 2% buyer-paid fee is part of the gap you are bridging.
Screen buyers for the entity rule early. A buyer who plans to purchase through a trust or LLC will fail at the board stage. Ask before you accept the offer.
Time the listing for the calendar. With a July–August recess, a spring contract gives the cleanest route to a pre-summer closing.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 150 East 93rd Street, also evaluate:
- 131 East 93rd Street — a 1923 cooperative on the same street, smaller, at four apartments per floor
- 125 East 93rd Street — George F. Pelham's 1924 cooperative, converted in 1986; a close contemporary
- 134 East 93rd Street (The Royal Carnegie) — the late-1980s condominium on the same block; the tenure alternative
- 1165 Park Avenue — a 1925 cooperative at the Park Avenue end of the same tax block, inside the historic district
- 1175 Park Avenue — Emery Roth's 1925 cooperative on the same block; the Park Avenue step up
- 49 East 96th Street — a Carnegie Hill cooperative of similar size at the north edge of the neighborhood
- Madison Court (1361 Madison Avenue) — a converted early-prewar Carnegie Hill cooperative
More Upper East Side buildings
- 148 East 84th Street — 1930 co-op
- 150 East 73rd Street — 1922 co-op by Cross & Cross
- 150 East 78th Street — 2021 condominium by Robert A.M. Stern Architects
- Imperial House (150 East 69th Street) — 1959 co-op by Emery Roth & Sons
- 151 East 76th Street — 1959 co-op
- 151 East 78th Street — 2014 condop by Peter Pennoyer Architects
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper East Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper East Side.
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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