151 East 83rd Street

The building is a confident example of 1929 apartment-house design: an eleven-story red-brick elevation detailed with decorative limestone spandrels and a four-story limestone surround framing the canopied entrance, the kind of facade treatment that signals a building constructed to a higher standard than the era's plainest stock. Behind it, the 77 residences span the prewar range, from efficient studios and one-bedrooms that make the building accessible through larger family layouts — with the gracious ceilings, entry foyers, and hardwood floors of the period throughout.

The differentiating features are the extras: working fireplaces in a number of homes, the large terraces on the upper floors, and the landscaped interior garden, an outdoor common area whose outlook and noise should be assessed in the particular apartment. Light and layout vary line to line, so exposure and floor matter materially when comparing units.

This is a full-service cooperative — a full-time doorman and a live-in resident manager, with a porter staff maintaining the building, its garden, and its public spaces — supported by central laundry, a bike room, and private storage. The cooperative was formed in the 1986 conversion. Purchases clear through a standard cooperative board application and interview; buyers should review the building's financing and policy posture and reserve position as part of diligence, as at any well-run prewar co-op.

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.

Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2023): a median $986/sf (floor-adjusted) across 2 sales. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01512-0025). 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.

The case is full-service prewar living in a prime East 80s location, at an accessible scale, with character features — fireplaces, terraces, a landscaped garden. The variables to weigh are floor, light, and which extras a given line carries, since those drive both livability and resale value here. Plan for a cooperative board application and interview, and read the building's financials, reserve posture, and house rules before you commit. We help buyers benchmark the line, weigh the features, and prepare a complete board package.

Lead with the building's differentiators — the full-service staffing, the interior garden, and any fireplace or terrace the apartment carries — and price to the building's recent comparable lines and the East 80s prewar set. Those character features are what separate a home here from the generic East Side co-op inventory, so make them central to the presentation. A clean, complete board package keeps the deal on schedule. We position resales here against the comparable prewar cooperatives of the East 80s, where the building most directly competes.

If you're considering 151 East 83rd Street, also evaluate the prewar cooperative stock of the East 80s:

• 140 East 81st Street — prewar cooperative nearby
• 108 East 82nd Street — full-service prewar co-op
• 140 East 83rd Street — prewar cooperative on the same block-line
• 124 East 84th Street — prewar cooperative to the north
• 112 East 81st Street — full-service prewar co-op