157 East 75th Street
157 East 75th Street, New York, NY 10021
Lenox Hill, Upper East Side
BBL 1014100024 · BIN 1043146
- Year built
- 1881
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 12
- Floors
- 5
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $987K
- Recent range
- $725K – $2.2M
- Listing discount
- 8.6%
- Recorded transfers
- 15
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157 East 75th Street began as two brownstone-front buildings that were combined and substantially remodeled in 1920. Mott B. Schmidt's alterations removed the original ornamental brownstone and iron cornices, applied a stucco façade and added a fifth story. The project created a cooperative apartment house within the footprint of the earlier buildings.
The original structures were designed by John C. Burne in 1881–82. Their later conversion gives the property a different architectural date from its underlying construction: the nineteenth-century buildings survive inside an exterior shaped by the early twentieth-century work. LPC classifies the resulting design as simplified Colonial Revival.
The cooperative now combines twelve residences with elevator access and a shared rear garden. Those services sit within a five-story building on an Upper East Side side street, with a resident manager receiving packages and distributing mail.
Architecture and unit composition
The combined-house origin produces a range of apartment sizes. The apartments range from compact one-bedroom homes to larger one- and two-bedroom arrangements and a full-floor configuration. Upper-level homes and lower apartments overlooking the garden occupy different parts of the building.
Apartments retain high ceilings, fireplaces and substantial windows. Some homes retain traditional molding and entrance foyers; others have been renovated with more open living arrangements. The first residential level is raised above the sidewalk, while the basement accommodates service and storage functions.
The shared garden is reached through the basement. Rear bedrooms can face this landscaped space, while street-facing rooms look across East 75th Street. Some apartments also have private outdoor space, with access rights separate from the shared garden.
Building operations
An elevator serves the building, including the basement laundry. The building provides individual locked storage and a resident manager. There is no doorman service.
The cooperative's small apartment count concentrates the cost of its lift, shared garden and staffing among relatively few shareholders. Its service package is therefore material to the maintenance comparison with other converted houses in the neighborhood.
Policy framework
Financing: Up to 50% — confirm with the managing agent.
Flip tax: 1%, paid by the purchaser — confirm with the managing agent.
Pets: Permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Subletting: Subject to board approval — confirm with the managing agent.
In-unit washer/dryer installation: Subject to board approval — confirm with the managing agent.
Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 2026 | 1E | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,057,500 | -3.4% | |
| Dec 19, 2025 | 2E | 1 BR · 1 BA | $725,000 | -6.5% | |
| Apr 17, 2025 | 3E | 1 BR · 1 BA · 1,000 sf | $975,000 | $975/sf | -17.7% |
| Sep 11, 2024 | 3W | 1 BR · 2 BA | $1,595,000 | +0.0% | |
| May 22, 2024 | 5S | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $2,225,000 | -10.8% | |
| May 25, 2023 | 4 | 1 BR · 1 BA | $999,000 | -16.4% | |
| Sep 15, 2021 | 3W | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,350 sf | $1,100,000 | $815/sf | -12.0% |
| Oct 1, 2015 | 2FW | 1 BR · 1 BA · 700 sf | $565,000 | $807/sf | -16.3% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2025): a median $975/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 8.6% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
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 1-01410-0024) 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.
At the recent median sale of $975K (3 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $12,206 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: $12,206
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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Comparable buildings
- 188 East 75th Street — A nearby prewar elevator cooperative with a larger association in a purpose-built apartment house.
- 1065 Lexington Avenue — A prewar residential cooperative within a condominium, offering a different ownership structure and taller building form.
- 103 East 75th Street — A larger masonry cooperative on the same street, with an early apartment-house floor plan.
- 1019 Lexington Avenue — A purpose-built cooperative with a taller Renaissance-derived exterior and a larger residential count.
- 112 East 74th Street — A small prewar elevator cooperative whose original apartment-house design contrasts with the subject's combined-house plan.
More Upper East Side buildings
- 155 East 93rd Street — 1928 co-op
- 156 East 79th Street — 1917 co-op by Schwartz & Gross
- 157 East 74th Street — 1985 condominium
- 158 East 72nd Street — 1928 co-op
- 160 East 65th Street (The Phoenix) — 1968 co-op by Emery Roth & Sons
- 161 East 79th Street — 1915 co-op by W. K. Rouse & L. A. Goldstone
The neighborhood
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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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