264 Lexington Avenue
264 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016
BBL 1008910023 · BIN 1018902
- Year built
- 1924
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 35
- Floors
- 12
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Permitted
- Subletting
- Permitted on a case-by-case basis with board approval; confirm current terms at offer stage
- Flip tax
- Applicable per the proprietary lease; confirm the current rate and payer at offer stage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $1000K
- Recent range
- $635K – $1.4M
- Listing discount
- 0.8%
- Recorded transfers
- 35
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264 Lexington Avenue is a small, well-kept pre-war cooperative in the heart of Murray Hill — a 12-story brick building completed in 1924 and converted to cooperative ownership in 1980. With just 35 apartments, it is a genuinely boutique co-op, the kind of building where the shareholder body is small, the common areas are manageable, and carrying costs are shaped by a compact operating footprint rather than an amenity arms race.
The location is the everyday argument for the building. It sits between 35th and 36th Streets, a short walk from the 6 at 33rd Street and Grand Central's 4/5/6/7 lines, with Murray Hill's restaurants and services immediately at hand and Midtown's office core minutes away. It is a practical, quiet residential block — the version of Murray Hill that buyers who want pre-war character and central access, rather than a trophy address, look for.
The building's signature amenity is its planted roof deck, renovated with a grill and seating, framing open views to the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. For a 35-unit co-op, that is a meaningful shared asset.
Architecture and unit composition
The 35 residences distribute across 12 stories in a pre-war brick envelope, arranged on a boutique floor plate — historically a small number of apartments per landing, which gives units strong light and cross-exposure relative to larger post-war buildings. The unit mix runs from studios and one-bedrooms through larger layouts, with pre-war bones: beamed or higher ceilings in many lines, hardwood floors, and separated kitchens.
As with most pre-war co-ops, renovation quality varies apartment to apartment and is a primary driver of the pricing spread within the building. Buyers should read each apartment on its own condition, exposure, and floor rather than against a single building-wide number.
Building operations
264 Lexington Avenue is a boutique full-character co-op: a part-time doorman, a live-in superintendent, central laundry, basement resident storage, an elevator, and the planted roof deck. There is no gym and no on-site parking — expected for a 35-unit pre-war building of this vintage, where service is scaled to the small shareholder count and carrying costs benefit accordingly.
The co-op is pet-friendly and permits pieds-à-terre and subletting on a case-by-case basis with board approval. Financing has historically been limited to a conservative loan-to-value with a higher minimum down, and a flip tax applies under the proprietary lease. Buyers should confirm the current maximum financing, the flip-tax rate and payer, any assessments, the reserve position, and recent capital work during due diligence.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $27,021/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $64
- Modeled exposure split equally across 35 units (the city tax-lot count). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
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 FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
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).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2025–30. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
Recent sales
As a cooperative, 264 Lexington Avenue is read on a price-per-room basis. Many apartments trade without a published square footage, so per-room and per-estimated-room pricing is the more reliable comparison than dollars per square foot. Recent closings have run in the mid-hundreds of thousands to the low seven figures depending on size, floor, exposure, and renovation condition — with renovated, higher-floor, and light-filled apartments commanding the premium within the building.
Because the building is small, comparable sales are infrequent, and any single closing carries outsized weight in the apparent trend. Pricing is best read at the apartment level against genuinely comparable condition and floor. Specific recent figures should be confirmed against current recorded transfers at offer stage.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2026 | 3A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,200,000 | +0.0% |
| Dec 11, 2025 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $775,000 | -2.5% |
| Aug 13, 2025 | 1D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $635,000 | +5.8% |
| May 7, 2025 | 6A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $1,400,000 | -15.2% |
| Mar 12, 2025 | 1C | 2 BR · 1 BA | $999,500 | -0.1% |
| Aug 21, 2023 | 6C | 2 BR · 1 BA | $945,000 | -1.6% |
| Dec 5, 2022 | 7A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $800,000 | -15.7% |
| May 4, 2022 | 4C | 2 BR · 1 BA | $990,000 | +1.5% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2017): a median $788/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 2.9% 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 1-00891-0023). 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.
At the recent median sale of $999,500 (5 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $12,298 to close, or 1.2% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $12,298
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
This is a boutique co-op — value the scale. Thirty-five apartments means a small shareholder body, manageable common charges, and a genuinely residential feel. Weigh that against the trade-off of limited staffing and no gym or parking.
Understand the co-op economics. Financing has historically been conservative with a higher minimum down; a flip tax applies. Model the full carry and confirm the current financing threshold, flip-tax rate, and any assessments.
Condition drives price. Renovation quality is a primary variable in a pre-war building. Inspect kitchens, baths, and mechanicals and price against comparable condition and floor.
The roof deck is a real amenity. For a building this size, the planted roof deck with skyline views is a differentiator. Confirm access rules and any usage policies.
Board approval applies. As a cooperative, purchases require board approval. Prepare a complete, well-documented board package.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the pre-war character and the roof deck. The 1924 bones, the boutique scale, and the skyline roof deck are the differentiators against larger, more generic post-war stock nearby.
Presentation matters. Because condition drives the pricing spread, staging and preparation materially affect outcome.
Price per room against the right comps. Comparable analysis should weight floor, exposure, and condition, and account for the building's small sample of recent sales.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 264 Lexington Avenue, also evaluate the broader Midtown East and Murray Hill cooperative market — pre-war and post-war co-ops of similar boutique scale, where floor, exposure, and renovation condition drive apartment-level pricing more than any building-wide average.
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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