2 East 70th Street
2 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
BBL 1013840069 · BIN 1041322
- Year built
- 1927
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 17
- Floors
- 14
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Upper East Side Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Subletting by shareholders
- Not permitted
- Flip tax
- 3% of the purchase price, paid by the buyer
- Doorman
- Doorman (hours not stated)
- Subletting
- Not permitted — an owner-occupancy building.
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 2026). Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $3.5M – $14.9M
- Listing discount
- 4.3%
- Recorded transfers
- 13
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2 East 70th Street is, in qualitative terms, one of the half-dozen most-desirable cross-street cooperatives in Manhattan. The 1927-1928 commission by Rosario Candela with Walker & Gillette for Anthony Campagna sits directly across from the Frick Collection.
At its core is the Candela / Walker & Gillette architect collaboration — Walker & Gillette's broader UES body of work includes the Goelet residence and substantial luxury residential commissions, and their partnering with Candela on a single building is uncommon enough to produce a genuinely hybrid composition. That pedigree governs just 17 apartments, simplex and duplex units across 14 floors that rank among the smallest cross-street cooperatives in Manhattan. Sustaining it all is the Frick Collection direct frontage: the Frick reopened April 2025 after the multi-year Annabelle Selldorf expansion, the East 70th Street art-gallery row (Berry-Hill, Knoedler's former home, Hirschl & Adler) continues east, and Madison and 70th retail sits one block north.
Robert A.M. Stern, Gregory Gilmartin, and Thomas Mellins, in New York 1930, called the building's construction "the most dramatic signal that an era had abruptly ended."
Architecture and building operations
The site was originally occupied by the C. Ledyard Blair mansion, designed by Carrère & Hastings in 1917 as a "southern wall" to the Frick garden — a deliberate Beaux-Arts compositional decision that treated 70th Street between Fifth and Madison as a unified architectural ensemble.
Stern, Gilmartin, and Mellins in New York 1930: "The Blair house had been designed by Carrère & Hastings as a southern wall to the garden they had created for their Frick Mansion across the street. While the new apartment building, known as 2 East Seventieth Street, permanently robbed the Frick garden of southern light, the architects nonetheless sensitively restarted the Blair House parti at a much greater height. The apartment was further distinguished by its combination of simplex and duplex units."
The 1927-28 zoning context is structural. The 1916 Zoning Resolution permitted 150-foot buildings on Fifth Avenue. In 1920, the Fifth Avenue Association, the City Club, and the Real Estate Board attempted to roll the limit back to 75 feet to preserve the mansion fabric. The 1921 amendment was challenged and overturned in court by a coalition including Vincent Astor and J.E.R. Carpenter — the same Carpenter who would design 1148 Fifth and the broader Park-and-Fifth tradition.
Because the Frick across the street is low-rise, the apartments keep open views.
Operations: full-service cooperative with doorman. Boutique-scale shareholder community of only 17 units (floor-through and duplex configurations).
Policy framework
Standard tier-one Fifth-Avenue cooperative thresholds apply:
- Type: Cooperative — board interview required
- Pets: Verify with managing agent
- Pied-à-terre: Typically restricted for trophy Fifth Avenue cooperatives
- Financing maximum: Conservative (verify at offer stage)
- Flip tax: Verify with managing agent
- Subletting: Restrictive; board approval required
- Trust ownership: Case-by-case
- LLC ownership: Not typical
- Foreign buyer: Substantial board diligence
- Post-closing liquidity: Multiples of purchase price expected
- Board interview: Required; institutional review
Application and transaction fees
Fees below are from building management's published schedule, as of September 2026. They are shown as published, item by item; no total is added because the total depends on the transaction. Deposits are listed apart from nonrefundable charges.
- Terms
- 3% of Purchase Price
- Rate
- 3% of the purchase price
- Paid by
- Buyer
Source: building management's published schedule, as of September 2026
Purchase
6 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Processing FeeConditional | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $600 or $1,000 (Trust Purchase - if permitted by Corporation) | Refundable Not stated |
| Application Processing Fee for Co-applicant or GuarantorPer applicant | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $250 per Co-applicant/ Guarantor | Refundable Not stated |
| Lead Based Paint Disclosure Fee | Paid by Seller | When With the application | Amount $75 | Refundable Not stated |
| Financing FeeConditional | Paid by Buyer | When At closing | Amount $300 (if financing) | Refundable Not stated |
| Closing FeePer share | Paid by Seller | When At closing | Amount $800 ($850 without a Broker) plus $0.05 per share | Refundable Not stated |
| Sale by an Estate or Trust - Closing FeePer share | Paid by Seller | When At closing | Amount $1,000 plus $0.05 per share | Refundable Not stated |
Refinance
1 item
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financing Fee | Paid by Shareholder | When With the application | Amount $400 | Refundable Not stated |
Ownership transfer
1 item
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transfer Fee | Paid by Shareholder | When With the application | Amount Please contact the Transfer Agent for the fee schedule for the proposed transfer. | Refundable Not stated |
Management updates its schedule without a public filing. The date is when management last updated the page, not when a rule changed. Confirm the current schedule with management before you apply.
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Sublet and pied-à-terre policy
A condominium owner leasing a unit and a co-op shareholder subletting are different rules, and a building-wide rule is different from a restriction on one apartment. This is the building's rule; confirm it for the specific apartment.
- Subletting by shareholders
- Not permittedSource: building management's published schedule, as of September 2026
- Pied-à-terre ownership
- Not verified
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Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Doorman (hours not stated)Source: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $36,112/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $158
- Modeled exposure split equally across 19 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
- At the 17 residences in our building profile: $0 – $177. The two counts differ; confirm the count with the building.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified 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 engineer 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 — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Management & transfer contacts
- Flip tax
- 3% of purchase price
- Sublet policy
- Not Allowed
- Notable fees
- Application Processing $600 ($1,000 trust); Co-applicant/guarantor $250 each; Financing Fee $300; Closing Fee $800 ($850 without broker) + $0.05/share
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 23, 2025 | 4A | 3 BR · 3 BA | $14,900,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jul 9, 2024 | 8B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,350 sf | $3,500,000 | $2,593/sf | +7.7% |
| Apr 6, 2022 | 9ASR7 | 3 BR · 3.5 BA | $11,000,000 | -24.1% | |
| Jul 17, 2013 | 4 | 2 BR | $9,100,000 | -6.7% | |
| Mar 20, 2013 | 4A | 3 BR | $13,250,000 | -1.9% | |
| Nov 16, 2010 | 9 | 4 BR | $11,750,000 | -21.4% | |
| Sep 27, 2010 | MAIS | 3 BR | $13,500,000 | -10.0% | |
| Jun 17, 2005 | 6 | 2 BR | $5,995,000 | -13.7% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2024): a median $2,593/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 8.3% 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 1-01384-0069). 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.
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What to know if you’re buying
The Frick Collection direct frontage is structurally distinguishing. No peer UES cross-street cooperative carries the same architectural-cultural adjacency.
The Candela / Walker & Gillette architect collaboration is a rare institutional credential. Real architectural-history depth.
The 17-shareholder boutique configuration is at the smallest scale of institutional UES cooperative inventory.
The Stern / Gilmartin / Mellins New York 1930 reading positions the building in the canonical scholarly literature on the 1920s Manhattan luxury construction cycle.
Plan for the most institutional board review standards in the city. Multi-decade reference history, substantial philanthropic profile, primary-residence orientation customary.
The East 70th Street art-gallery row continuation east and the Madison-and-70th retail context anchor the broader cultural setting.
Comparable buildings
- 1 East 66th Street — Candela 1947; same-architect Fifth Avenue cross-street peer
- 4 East 72nd Street — Hoffman 1929; immediate Lenox Hill peer
- 45 East 66th Street — Harde & Short 1906-08; nearby UES peer
- 810 Fifth Avenue — Carpenter 1926; nearby Fifth Avenue trophy peer
- 834 Fifth Avenue — Candela 1931; same-architect Fifth Avenue trophy peer
Sources: The Roebling Research Library (offering plans, house rules, financial statements, board minutes, internal transaction records); NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers; publicly recorded NYC building data.
More Upper East Side buildings
- 1 East 66th Street — 1947 co-op by Rosario Candela
- 2 East 67th Street — 1928 co-op by Rosario Candela
- 2 East 88th Street — 1929 co-op
- 3 East 69th Street — 1938 co-op by Sylvan Bien
- 3 East 71st Street — 1944 co-op by Emery Roth
- 3 East 84th Street — 1928 co-op
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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