- Year built
- 1903
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 25
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Resident superintendent, outdoor bicycle storage, rentable storage and mobile-access video intercom
- Financing
- Up to 80% — confirm with the managing agent.
- Flip tax
- Confirm the rate and responsible party with the managing agent.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $949K
- Recent range
- $910K – $999K
- Listing discount
- 0.5%
- Recorded transfers
- 45
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Mon Bijou is George F. Pelham's ornate 1903–1904 apartment house on East 17th Street, with a columned entrance, marble stairs and decorated common interiors. It became a cooperative in 1976 and contains 25 residences. Its architecture is unusually elaborate for a six-story walk-up of this scale.
The building stands on the block leading from Third Avenue toward Stuyvesant Square. The name, meaning “my jewel,” appears over the entrance. Its limestone base, oval windows and classical columns make the street-level composition a defining part of the property.
Apartments include flexible four-room plans and split-bedroom arrangements, with a mix of street and courtyard exposures. The shared stairs preserve the building's early-twentieth-century character, while in-unit laundry and a mobile-access entry system supply more recent conveniences.
Architecture and unit composition
Pelham designed the building for Wilhelmina Bohlend, the original owner identified in LPC records. The entrance sits within a portico supported by polished granite Ionic columns. Rusticated stonework radiates around oval windows at the base, with ornamental treatment carried above through the façade.
Inside, decorative ceramic tile, moldings and marble staircases survive in the common areas. Windows along the stair route bring daylight into the circulation spaces. These shared elements form part of the building's architecture, not merely the finishes of an individual apartment.
Residential plans include rooms arranged around a central kitchen, with bedrooms or flexible rooms separated from the principal living space. High ceilings, original hardwood floors and windowed kitchens and bathrooms recur through the inventory. Individual renovations have introduced more open connections, updated appliances and in-unit washers and dryers.
Street-facing homes look toward the historic East 17th Street frontage. Rear and side windows can face courtyard trees, brick walls and rooftops. The upper floors offer different sightlines across that lower fabric, but each apartment's window positions determine the actual exposure.
Building operations
The cooperative has a resident superintendent, outdoor bicycle storage and storage units available for rent. The entry system permits mobile access. Apartments are reached by stairs, with no passenger elevator.
The historic-district designation covers the building's exterior. Its carved stone, columns and ornamental façade therefore carry preservation requirements when repaired or altered. The existing floor area also exceeds the current R7B residential allowance: city records show a built FAR of 4.02 against 3.0 permitted.
The building's in-unit laundry provision is useful in a walk-up, but equipment approval remains specific to the proposed installation. Shared storage provides another option for bulky belongings; availability and charges are separate from the apartment's interior storage.
Policy framework
Pets are permitted with approval, and subletting is permitted after an initial ownership period — confirm with the managing agent. The ownership period matters to a buyer expecting an immediate rental.
Financing of up to 80% is permitted — confirm with the managing agent. Confirm the transfer-fee rate and responsible party with the managing agent before calculating acquisition costs.
Guarantors, gifting and parental purchases are considered — confirm with the managing agent. In-unit washer/dryer installation is permitted with 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2026 | 5C | 2 BR · 1 BA | $925,000 | +0.0% | |
| May 9, 2025 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $950,000 | -1.0% | |
| May 29, 2024 | 6A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $910,000 | -2.2% | |
| Apr 5, 2024 | 3B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $999,000 | +0.4% | |
| Oct 26, 2022 | 6B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $865,000 | -3.8% | |
| Apr 7, 2021 | 3D | 2 BR · 1 BA | $650,000 | -7.0% | |
| Dec 31, 2019 | 5B | 2 BR · 1 BA · 673 sf | $840,000 | $1,248/sf | -1.1% |
| Jan 30, 2019 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $790,000 | -5.8% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2019): a median $1,248/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 1.0% 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 1-00897-0069) 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.
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Comparable buildings
- 132 East 19th Street — A smaller prewar cooperative within the same Gramercy side-street market.
- 105 East 19th Street — A low-rise cooperative with a similar apartment count and prewar construction.
- 121 East 10th Street — A six-story prewar cooperative of comparable size farther downtown.
- 103 East 10th Street — A modestly smaller low-rise cooperative for buyers considering older apartment layouts.
- 193 Second Avenue — Onyx Court — A smaller architectural prewar cooperative along the Second Avenue corridor.
More Gramercy buildings
- 208 East 28th Street — 1940 co-op
- 210 East 15th Street (Parc Fifteen) — 1964 co-op
- 210 East 36th Street (Murray Hill) — 1960 co-op
- 211 East 18th Street — 1957 co-op
- 215 East 17th Street — co-op
- 220 Third Avenue — 1901 condominium
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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