16 East 80th Street
16 East 80th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues · Upper East Side
Upper East Side
BBL 1014910062 · BIN 1046459
- Year built
- 1886
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Passenger elevator, intercom and common laundry
Every recorded sale at this building, 2006–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $690K – $690K
- Listing discount
- 1.7%
- Recorded transfers
- 14
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16 East 80th Street is a former private mansion whose apartments range from compact studios to substantial combined homes. The house retains a narrow residential frontage between Fifth and Madison Avenues. Its elevator adds access through the five-story structure, while some residences also have internal stairs connecting levels.
Construction began in 1884 for developer Anthony Mowbray. The original design used brick and brownstone; a 1905 remodeling by Janes & Leo replaced the front with limestone and introduced the Beaux-Arts composition. Historical records describe an arched parlor window and balconies with decorative metal and stone railings.
A 1962 alteration removed the stoop and lowered the entrance. Subsequent apartment combinations have reshaped the residential inventory. The converted-house plan therefore includes homes with substantially different proportions and circulation within the same building envelope.
Architecture and unit composition
The original house is approximately twenty-five feet wide. Subdivision created smaller apartments within its rooms, while later work combined portions horizontally and vertically. Studios and one-bedrooms remain part of the mix alongside larger multilevel residences.
DOB's alteration record documents a project creating a home across basement and principal-floor levels with mezzanines, signed off in 2014. That history helps explain why floor count and interior level count differ here. The upper inventory also includes combined apartments, with internal circulation that is specific to the combination.
The building's façade and window arrangement derive from its mansion history. A street-facing room and a rear-facing room occupy different parts of the old house; their dimensions and light depend on that position and on the later partitions.
Building operations
A passenger elevator serves the cooperative, and common laundry is provided. The historic limestone front, balconies and entrance are part of the protected exterior. Apartment work that affects the façade or exterior openings must account for the district designation.
For a combined home, the cooperative shares, maintenance allocation and approved physical connection need to correspond to the property being sold. The recurring combination history makes that a particular issue at this address.
Policy framework
Financing: Minimum 25% down — confirm with the managing agent.
Pets, pied-à-terre and subletting: Permitted, subject to applicable approvals and terms — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 5, 2025 | 4AB5BC | 3 BR · 4 BA · 1,785 sf | $3,100,000 | $1,737/sf | +5.1% |
| Dec 3, 2025 | 3D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $690,000 | -1.4% | |
| Feb 4, 2015 | 4AB | 750 sf | $910,000 | $1,213/sf | -8.1% |
| Oct 2, 2014 | 1A | $499,000 | +0.0% | ||
| Sep 26, 2008 | 4AB | $875,000 | -2.2% | ||
| Feb 3, 2006 | PH5D | 1 BR | $565,000 | -1.7% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $1,737/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 1.6% 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 1-01491-0062) 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.
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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Comparable buildings
- The Warburg Mansion: A nearby mansion conversion with apartments shaped by a former private house.
- 51 East 78th Street: A low-rise prewar cooperative of similar residential scale.
- 1040 Madison Avenue: A small cooperative in a much taller apartment-house form.
- 21 East 79th Street: A prewar cooperative with a limited number of residences and a different vertical layout.
- 73 East 79th Street: A small apartment-house cooperative for comparing full-building services and layout scale.
More Upper East Side buildings
- 15 East 69th Street (The Westbury) — 1927 condominium
- 15 East 82nd Street — 1894 condominium
- 15 East 91st Street — 1946 co-op
- 16 East 96th Street — 1906 co-op by Clinton & Russell
- 16 East 98th Street — 1925 co-op
- 17 East 63rd Street — 1901 co-op by Welch, Smith & Provot
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper East Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper East Side.
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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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