3 East 71st Street
3 East 71st Street, New York, NY 10021
Lenox Hill, Upper East Side
BBL 1013860006 · BIN 1041353
- Year built
- 1944
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $1.6M
- Recent range
- $1.1M – $6.1M
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded transfers
- 61
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3 East 71st Street occupies one of the most cultured corners of Lenox Hill — a mid-1940s Emery Roth cooperative directly across the street from the Frick Collection and a half-block from Central Park and Fifth Avenue. Roth, the architect behind a remarkable share of New York's finest apartment houses, designed it in the transitional moment between prewar and postwar construction, and the building carries the best of both: prewar-quality scale and detail in a slightly cleaner, mid-century envelope.
The appeal is location and bones. Upper floors look out over the Frick's formal gardens, Central Park, and the Midtown skyline; the apartments are large and well-proportioned, many with wood-burning fireplaces; and the building's policy posture is accommodating for the avenue. For the buyer who wants an Emery Roth co-op steps from the Park and the museums — with pied-à-terre flexibility and financing latitude — 3 East 71st is a standout.
Architecture and unit composition
Roth gave 3 East 71st a dignified two-story limestone base with a pink-granite entrance surround, set beneath a warm beige-brick shaft — a facade that bridges prewar gravity and postwar economy. The 13-story building reads as a refined Lenox Hill apartment house, scaled to its blue-chip block between Fifth and Madison.
The roughly 46 apartments offer a variety of configurations, including impressive duplex residences. Many homes carry wood-burning fireplaces, high ceilings, and the generous, well-zoned layouts that define a Roth building. The upper floors are the prizes, with sweeping outlooks over the Frick's gardens, Central Park to the west, and the skyline to the south — views protected, in part, by the low-rise institutional and townhouse context immediately around the building.
Building operations
3 East 71st is a full-service cooperative. A 24-hour doorman covers the lobby, and a live-in resident manager runs the building with porter support. For a building of this vintage, the amenity set is generous: a fitness center, a central laundry room, bike storage, and private storage units.
The board's policy posture is notably welcoming for prime Lenox Hill. The cooperative permits pied-à-terre purchases, allows pets, and accommodates diplomatic buyers. Financing is permitted, generally in the 40–50% range with board approval, and a 4% flip tax is collected on resale and is paid by the purchaser. Those terms — pied-à-terre and diplomatic flexibility opposite the Frick — distinguish 3 East 71st from the more restrictive Fifth Avenue houses a block away, while the board maintains the standards the address commands.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $3,350/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $6
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 filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the engineer identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair before the next inspection cycle. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
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.
Management & transfer contacts
- Flip tax
- 4% of purchase price, due from Purchaser
- Sublet policy
- Not Allowed
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed (case by case)
- Notable fees
- Individual Sale $900; Estate Sale $1,000; Recognition Agreement $300 if financing
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2026 | 11 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $3,850,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jan 14, 2026 | 10 | 3 BR · 2.5 BA | $5,088,000 | -4.9% | |
| Dec 22, 2025 | 2E | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,100,000 | +15.8% | |
| Dec 10, 2025 | 4E | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,100,000 | +0.0% | |
| Apr 30, 2025 | 9E | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,520,000 | +1.3% | |
| Feb 19, 2025 | 11 | 4 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,940 sf | $6,125,000 | $2,083/sf | +11.5% |
| Oct 9, 2024 | 12D | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,799,000 | +0.0% | |
| Jul 24, 2023 | 10D | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,712,500 | -4.6% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2025): a median $2,083/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 4.6% 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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 3, 2004 | 4B | $3,400,000 |
| Aug 25, 2004 | 9A | $1,650,000 |
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 1-01386-0006) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
The board process is real — a full package, financials, references, and an interview — but the terms are accommodating: pied-à-terre and diplomatic purchases are permitted, pets are allowed, and financing up to roughly 50% is available with board approval. Budget the 4% buyer-paid flip tax into your underwriting; it is higher than the 1–2% common elsewhere and materially affects total cost. Evaluate apartments for view (the Frick-and-Park outlook on the upper floors is the building's signature), fireplace, and layout. The location — across from the Frick, a half-block from Central Park and Fifth Avenue, near the 6 at 68th Street and the Q at 72nd — is permanent value.
What to know if you’re selling
3 East 71st sells on its address and its flexibility: an Emery Roth co-op opposite the Frick and steps from the Park, with pied-à-terre and diplomatic rules that broaden the buyer pool relative to the cash-only houses nearby. The Frick-and-Central-Park view, a working wood-burning fireplace, high floor, and duplex configuration are the differentiators that set a strong price within the building. Sellers should account for the 4% flip tax in their net-proceeds analysis. Because turnover is thin, price to the building's own most recent comparable and to the peer prime-Lenox-Hill co-ops nearby. We market each home to the qualified, internationally-minded buyer this building attracts.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 3 East 71st Street, these nearby Lenox Hill and Fifth Avenue cooperatives are the natural comparison set:
- 2 East 70th Street — prewar co-op a block south, near Fifth
- 10 East 70th Street — full-service co-op on the same blue-chip stretch
- 834 Fifth Avenue — one of Fifth Avenue's grandest prewar co-ops nearby
- 845 Fifth Avenue — Park-facing co-op a few blocks south
- 19 East 72nd Street — full-service co-op two blocks north
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Upper East Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper East Side.
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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