224 East 17th Street
224 East 17th Street, at Rutherford Place, Gramercy
BBL 1008970063 · BIN 1019542
- Year built
- 1855
- Type
- Cooperative
- Floors
- 5
- Amenities
- Complimentary common laundry, basement storage and bicycle storage
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Stuyvesant Square Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not stated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median, 2025–2026
- $1M
- 2 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $800K – $1.1M
- Listing discount
- 11.4%
- Recorded transfers
- 21
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224 East 17th Street occupies the corner of Rutherford Place opposite Stuyvesant Square. The building began as a row house in 1855–56 and was altered in the early twentieth century. Its ten cooperative apartments occupy five walk-up floors, with park-facing windows giving part of the inventory an unusually open outlook for a converted townhouse.
The corner location is central to the building's appeal. Northern and eastern exposures occur in the apartments facing East 17th Street and the square, while other rooms face toward the rear. The setting is within the Stuyvesant Square Historic District, designated in 1975.
Architecture and unit composition
The former house has been divided into front and rear apartments. Smaller homes around five hundred square feet coexist with larger one-bedroom layouts that include additional office space or more generous living rooms. The corner apartments can have windows on two street exposures.
Oversized windows, wood floors, decorative moldings and substantial ceiling heights survive in the residential interiors. Kitchens range from separate rooms to more open arrangements after renovation. The broad windows in the park-facing homes bring the square into the main living spaces.
A 2007 LPC application proposed a rear-yard addition to the nineteenth-century house. It is an example of the building's later adaptation, with rear alterations subject to the same historic-district review as changes to its street fronts.
Building operations
The common laundry is complimentary, with additional storage and bicycle space in the basement. A part-time superintendent serves the corporation. Access to upper-floor apartments is by stairs.
Ten residences share the exterior and roof of a house that predates its cooperative use. The two street fronts enlarge the amount of exterior wall and window area associated with corner apartments. LPC oversight applies to replacement windows and visible facade changes, so the building's exterior work is tied to its historic configuration.
Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not statedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Not verified
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Building staffing and amenities
- Elevator
- NoSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Bike storage, storage, 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
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 limits apply to a building on its own. It is still covered if it shares a tax lot or condominium board with buildings totaling over 50,000 sq ft; confirm on DOB’s covered-buildings list.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →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 | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 2026 | 5R | 1 BA | $800,000 | +3.9% |
| Feb 27, 2026 | 1F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $885,000 | -11.4% |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 2F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,135,000 | -24.1% |
| May 1, 2019 | 1F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $950,000 | -17.3% |
| Nov 10, 2017 | 1F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $930,000 | +3.9% |
| Sep 27, 2017 | 2F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $1,695,000 | -9.8% |
| Aug 16, 2017 | 5R | $780,850 | -5.4% | |
| Jan 13, 2017 | 2F | 1 BR | $1,150,000 | +23.0% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2016): a median $1,392/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 5.2% 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.
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 1-00897-0063). 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.
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At the recent median sale of $885K (3 transfers in the past 24 months, since November 12, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $11,869 to close, or 1.3% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $11,869
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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Comparable buildings
- 230 East 18th Street — A nearby cooperative formed from historic houses, with a similarly modest scale.
- 48 Gramercy Park North — A small cooperative in an Italianate brownstone with a historic veranda.
- 3 Gramercy Park West — Another early house adapted to a small cooperative, facing a different park setting.
- 132 East 19th Street — A prewar elevator cooperative providing an alternative to walk-up access.
- Onyx Court — A Harde & Short cooperative with more elaborate purpose-built apartment architecture.
More Gramercy buildings
- 211 East 18th Street — 1957 co-op
- 215 East 17th Street — co-op
- 220 Third Avenue — 1901 condominium
- 224 East 18th Street — 1869 co-op
- 230 East 15th Street (The Rutherford) — 1959 co-op
- 230 East 18th Street — 1945 co-op
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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