200 East 74th Street

The building is postwar white-brick pragmatism done at scale: a 101-foot Third Avenue corner front, massing that steps from a broad base to the tower (the title survey in the offering plan describes a twelve-to-twenty-one-story structure), corner windows where the setbacks break, and terraces on upper lines. The original architect is not firmly documented in public records, and we decline to guess; the 1979 plan's engineering report was prepared by Charles B. Ferris Associates.

Inside, the roughly 150 apartments — 458 rooms by the Building Department count cited in the plan — run from studios and one-bedrooms, which dominate the stock, through combinations that today trade as three-, four-, and in reconfigured cases five-bedroom homes per listing records. Layouts are efficient rather than grand: defined foyers, separated kitchens, and generous closets that renovate well. The lobby and hallways have been renovated in recent cycles per listing records, and the strongest lines pair corner light with Third Avenue's open southern and western exposures.

Full-service: full-time doorman, live-in superintendent, fitness center (recently re-equipped per listing records), residents' lounge and meeting room, central laundry, bike room, package room, private storage, and on-site parking. The Third Avenue retail base — long anchored by a national drugstore per listing records — and the garage generate cooperative income that listing records consistently credit for the building's low maintenance, a pattern the board has reinforced by holding or reducing maintenance in recent years per brokerage records. Management is institutional (Midboro), and the purchase application, house rules, smoking policy, alteration guidelines, and estate-sale requirements are on file in The Roebling Research Library.

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. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $946/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 2.3% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01428-0045). 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.

Confirm the land position first. The offering plan on file documents the leasehold conversion and the 2058 ground lease; city records indicate the cooperative took a deed to the parcel in 1998–99. Your attorney should confirm with the managing agent that the fee is held by the corporation and that no residual ground-lease obligations survive — it is a ten-minute question that settles the building's single most important structural fact.

The framework is genuinely flexible for the corridor. 75 percent financing and a permissive pied-à-terre posture per listing records widen the buyer pool relative to the 50–70 percent, primary-residence-only co-ops nearby. Confirm current policy in writing; postures drift. Run the Co-op Board Qualification Calculator before offering.

Underwrite the maintenance engine. Low maintenance here is a function of commercial and garage income. Your attorney should review the retail lease posture in the financials — tenancy changes at the base are the main variable in the carry math. Run the True Monthly Carrying Cost Calculator on the specific unit.

Studios and one-bedrooms are the building's currency. That makes it a natural first-purchase and parents-buying building, and it also means same-line comparables are plentiful — use them, not building averages.

Budget the application mechanics. The package on file itemizes the fees, deposits, registration forms, and alteration requirements; it is a standardized, well-run process, but it is thorough. We walk clients through it line by line.

The flip tax shapes your net. The seller-paid 2.5 percent transfer fee to the corporation is among the higher rates in the corridor — build it into pricing strategy from the start. Run the Seller Closing Cost Calculator before listing.

Sell the carry, document the land. Low maintenance is the headline buyers respond to; the land-ownership history is the question their attorneys will raise. We provide the offering plan and the recorded-deed history from the Research Library to buyers' counsel proactively — it shortens diligence.

Position against the corner's energy, honestly. The J.G. Melon corner is an asset for most buyers and a noise question for some. Third Avenue-facing lines should be shown at varied hours; quiet 74th Street-facing lines should be marketed as such.

If you're considering 200 East 74th Street, also evaluate:

• 176 East 77th Street (Lenox Manor) — the closest like-for-like: a postwar Third Avenue corner co-op with retail income, three blocks north, with a stricter framework (70 percent financing, no pieds-à-terre)
• 175–177 East 77th Street — Boak & Paris Art Moderne condominium; the flexibility alternative at a per-foot premium
• The Mayfair (207 East 74th Street) — the co-op neighbor across East 74th Street
• 300 East 74th Street — 1967 postwar tower co-op one avenue east; the balcony-and-views alternative
• 245 East 72nd Street — cooperative two blocks south; verify its building name and construction era
• 160 East 65th Street (The Phoenix) — Emery Roth & Sons postwar co-op; the southern peer
• Manhattan House (200 East 66th Street) — the landmarked postwar benchmark, now a condominium
• 255 East 77th Street — new-development condominium; the neighborhood's new-construction price ceiling