170 Second Avenue
170 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003
BBL 1004520006 · BIN 1006435
- Year built
- 1928
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- Full-time doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median, 2023–2026
- $2.5M
- 5 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $550K – $3M
- Listing discount
- 1.6%
- Recorded transfers
- 90
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 170 Second Avenue 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.
In the 1920s, Second Avenue was the Lower East Side's “Yiddish Rialto” of theaters and cafés. Developer Saul Birns built 170 Second Avenue in 1928 as upscale housing intended to retain prosperous residents as the city expanded northward.
The building stands near St. Mark's Place, East Village restaurants and transit. Inspect the apartment's street exposure and noise alongside that convenience.
Architecture and unit composition
The fifteen-story Art Deco apartment house has a masonry facade and a lobby with marble, terrazzo checkerboard floors, hand-painted murals and a fireplace.
The roughly 76 residences carry pre-war bones: hard-plaster walls, proportioned rooms, real entry foyers in many lines, and ceiling heights to verify by apartment. The unit mix runs across the range of pre-war layouts, from one-bedrooms to larger apartments on the upper floors. As in most buildings of this vintage, the homes vary line by line; inspect actual light and roofline views in each apartment.
Building operations
A full-time doorman attends the lobby; the building has elevator service and central laundry.
As a cooperative, the building governs ownership through a board approval process, with maintenance covering the building's operating costs, staff, and underlying expenses. Confirm the building's current financing, subletting and pied-à-terre requirements from its governing documents and application instructions, and plan for a board package and interview as part of any purchase.
Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Maintenance, per room
- $568 per room a monthMedian of 8 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Maintenance as recorded with each sale. A co-op's maintenance already covers the building's real estate taxes and the building's own mortgage, if it has one; add your own loan payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Full-time doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Laundry roomSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $16,387/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $18
- Modeled exposure split equally across 76 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the inspector (QEWI) identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair, with repairs due by the deadline stated in the filing. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs 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 data last refreshed September 2026.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2026 | 10E | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,240,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jun 11, 2026 | 3E | 1 BR · 1 BA | $770,000 | -3.8% | |
| Apr 30, 2026 | 5A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,415,000 | -2.4% | |
| Feb 11, 2026 | 9B | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,340 sf | $2,750,000 | $2,052/sf | -1.6% |
| Nov 19, 2025 | 5C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $875,000 | +0.0% | |
| Aug 27, 2025 | 6B | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | $2,500,000 | +0.0% | |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 8B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $2,999,999 | -0.0% | |
| Jul 1, 2024 | 3D | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,710,000 | -2.3% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,902/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 1.2% 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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 2020 | 16B | $2,890,000 |
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 1-00452-0006). 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.
Closed rents at 170 Second Avenue, last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| 2 bedroom | 2 | $8,075 |
3 closed sublet leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease May 2025. Based on few leases. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
What would your apartment rent for?
The figures above are the building's closed leases. Enter your apartment and I'll send you what yours would rent for, from comparable leases at 170 Second Avenue and nearby.
At the recent median sale of $1.42M (7 transfers in the past 24 months, since October 21, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $28,006 to close, or 2.0% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $14,150
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $13,856
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
Allow for a board package and interview, and budget closing costs and maintenance using the current application and financial statements.
Check ceiling heights, room proportions, exposure and alteration history in the particular apartment. Review planned capital work and carrying costs before comparing it with other downtown buildings.
What to know if you’re selling
Provide current service and financial information so buyers can compare staffing and carrying costs with other East Village buildings.
Use measured plans and photographs to show the apartment's layout and light. Compare suitable full-service prewar co-ops, adjusting for actual services, costs and condition, and quantify any advantage of a corner or upper-floor exposure.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 170 Second Avenue, also evaluate nearby downtown cooperatives and ownership buildings:
- 305 Second Avenue — Gramercy-edge building to the north; verify its ownership structure
- 323 Second Avenue — Second Avenue cooperative nearby
- 205 Third Avenue — residential building on the Third Avenue corridor; verify its construction history
- 84 Third Avenue — a 2012 East Village condominium
More East Village buildings
- 133 Second Avenue (The Theatre Condominium) — 1912 condominium
- 143 Avenue B (The Christodora House) — 1928 condominium
- 160 East 3rd Street — 1940 co-op
- 172 East 4th Street (Ageloff Tower) — 1929 co-op
- 175 East 2nd Street — 1920 condominium
- 182 East 2nd Street — 1920 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across East Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to East Village.
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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