The Charleston

The Charleston reads as a clean contemporary condominium of its era: a 22-story masonry-and-glass tower with regular fenestration and a restrained, durable envelope. The architecture prioritizes light, efficient layouts, and amenity space over ornament — the building's value was always in how it lives, not in its silhouette.

The 191 residences span studios through three-bedrooms, with the open kitchens, floor-to-ceiling windows, and hardwood floors typical of mid-2000s new construction. Higher floors and corner lines capture open city light and, from the upper reaches, partial skyline and river views over the low-rise stock toward the East River. The mix describes the available apartment types; it does not establish buyer-pool breadth or steady resale turnover. Evaluate dated transactions and current inventory for the relevant configuration.

The Charleston is a full-service condominium, and its amenity program is its calling card. A 24-hour doorman and concierge attend the lobby; the second-floor club includes a fitness center with an adjoining terrace, a residents' lounge with a catering kitchen, a library, a business lounge, and an enclosed Zen garden with a barbecue. The landscaped roof deck offers wide, open Manhattan views, and the building maintains an outdoor dog run, a bike room, and private storage. For a building at this price tier, the amenity depth is unusually complete — a meaningful part of why owners stay.

The neighborhood is built for daily convenience. Murray Hill / Kips Bay around 34th Street puts the building near Grand Central and the 33rd Street 6 station, with the Midtown Tunnel, the East River esplanade, NYU Langone, and a dense grid of restaurants, supermarkets, and services within a few blocks. It is one of the most functional, transit-rich residential pockets in eastern Midtown.

Recent sales

Recent closings 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 $1,318/sf (floor-adjusted) across 6 sales. 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 0.9% 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 1-00915-7501; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.

The Charleston is a condominium, which is its central advantage. There is no co-op board admissions process — purchases clear the condominium's right-of-first-refusal — and owner leasing is permitted; confirm financing, pied-à-terre, investment, trust and LLC rules in the current declaration and bylaws. That ownership structure plus the amenity depth is the building's case.

Underwrite the full carrying picture. Common charges fund the doorman, the amenity floor, and building operations; real estate taxes complete the monthly figure. We help buyers model the all-in cost and weigh it against the co-op and rental alternatives nearby, where the trade-offs on flexibility and amenities differ.

The Charleston sells on flexibility and amenities. The condominium structure, the deep amenity floor, the roof deck, and the dog run are concrete, marketable differentiators — particularly to first-time buyers, dog owners, and pied-à-terre purchasers who value the freedom a condominium provides over a co-op's restrictions.

Price to the Murray Hill / Kips Bay condominium set, adjusted for floor, exposure, and renovation. A high-floor line with open light and an updated kitchen belongs at the top of the building's range; an original lower-floor studio sets the entry. Condominium closing mechanics — a right-of-first-refusal rather than a board process — are themselves a selling point to the flexibility-minded buyer this building attracts, and a clean, well-presented listing moves quickly in this corridor.

If you're considering The Charleston, also evaluate nearby Murray Hill and Kips Bay buildings:

• 222 East 35th Street — Murray Hill building nearby
• 160 East 38th Street — full-service Murray Hill building
• 144 East 36th Street — Murray Hill building
• 630 First Avenue (Manhattan Place) — Kips Bay condominium tower
• 34 East 35th Street (The Morgan) — new Murray Hill condominium