28 East 94th Street

The building is a survivor from the era when this stretch of Carnegie Hill was still filling in with rowhouses and small flats. It reads as a turn-of-the-century masonry low-rise — modest in ornament, human in scale — and it sits within the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District, so its exterior character is protected and any visible alteration goes before the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

The 40 apartments are intimate pre-war homes, generally configured as studios, one-bedrooms, and modest two-bedrooms suited to a building of this footprint. Buyers come here for the location and the boutique feel rather than for grand layouts; many units have been individually renovated over the years while the building retains its quiet, residential pre-war character.

28 East 94th runs as a small, owner-occupied cooperative with a live-in resident manager handling day-to-day operations, plus central laundry and private storage in the building. There is no doorman; compare actual maintenance, debt and assessments with staffed avenue buildings before judging total cost.

At forty units, the building has a small shareholder base. Buyers should plan for a board package and interview; the documented terms are financing up to 75% of the purchase price and subletting permitted with conditions — confirm the current rules with the building.

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 $1,395/sf (recorded) across 2 sales. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01505-0056). 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.

This is a co-op purchase in one of the most protected, residential corners of the Upper East Side — so the value case is location, scale, and price relative to the avenue stock. Expect a board package and interview. The documented terms are financing up to 75% of the purchase price, subletting permitted with conditions and no pied-à-terre use; confirm the current rules as part of your underwriting.

The lifestyle is the draw. You are minutes from Central Park's 90th Street entrances, the Cooper Hewitt and the Jewish Museum, the boutiques and cafés of Madison Avenue, and the 96th Street stop on the 6 and the Second Avenue line a short walk east. For buyers who prize a quiet, landmark-protected block over building amenities, this is a strong entry into Carnegie Hill.

Lead with location and scale: a boutique pre-war co-op on a landmarked Carnegie Hill block between Madison and Fifth is the product, and that address carries the listing. Document renovation condition and compare matched closed sales before estimating any premium.

Price to the building's own recent trades and to comparable Carnegie Hill boutique co-ops, not to the white-glove avenue buildings. With so few sales in any given year, accurate day-one positioning matters more here than in a large building. We bring the building's transaction history and the live comparable set to every listing.

If you're considering 28 East 94th Street, these nearby Upper East Side cooperatives form the natural comparison set:

• 152 East 94th Street — Art Deco Carnegie Hill cooperative a block east
• 2 East 88th Street — Fifth Avenue–adjacent pre-war co-op nearby
• 4 East 88th Street — pre-war cooperative near Central Park
• 60 East 88th Street — Carnegie Hill pre-war co-op
• 19 East 88th Street — pre-war cooperative on a comparable block