- Year built
- 1928
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
3 East 84th Street carries one of the great architectural pedigrees on the Upper East Side. Completed in 1928 and designed by Raymond Hood — with John Mead Howells, his partner on Chicago's Tribune Tower and the Daily News Building — it is a piece of Art Deco history sitting half a block off Fifth Avenue, steps from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park. Hood was among the defining architects of American Deco, and a residential cooperative bearing his hand is a genuine rarity in a corridor built mostly by the era's apartment-house specialists.
The building was commissioned in the same orbit as the Daily News empire, and it has lived ever since as a small, intensely private cooperative — roughly eleven homes across nine floors, the great majority full-floor residences. That scale, on a museum-block side street within the Metropolitan Museum Historic District, makes it one of those East Side buildings that almost never trades and is treated as an event when it does.
For buyers, the appeal is specific: a designer-architect Art Deco co-op, full-floor scale, and a Carnegie Hill location that puts the Met, the park, and Madison Avenue's gallery row all within a short walk.
Architecture and unit composition
The building is Art Deco in the disciplined, architect's-architect register Hood is known for — a masonry apartment house whose interest is in proportion, line, and material rather than applied ornament. As a contributing building in the Metropolitan Museum Historic District, its exterior is landmark-protected, holding its 1928 character on a block of pre-war cooperatives.
Inside, the apartments are the draw. With about eleven homes on nine floors, the vast majority occupy the entire floor — gracious, full-floor layouts with grand proportions, high ceilings, large windows, wood-burning fireplaces, and the elegant room counts of a top-tier 1928 building. These are family-scale pre-war homes in a designer Deco frame, the kind of stock that rewards careful restoration and simply cannot be reproduced in new construction on this block.
Building operations
3 East 84th Street runs as the small white-glove house it is. The building offers doorman service from 8 a.m. to midnight, a live-in resident manager, a bicycle room, common storage, and elevator service — staffing scaled to an eleven-home co-op where personal service matters more than a long amenity menu. The building is pet-friendly. Carrying costs reflect a small shareholder base maintaining a landmark-era masonry structure and its staff; the intimacy and privacy are the trade-off buyers at this level seek out.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $25,893/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $196
Facade safety — Local Law 11
Safe to live in today — but the last inspection flagged repairs that are due on a deadline, so facade work and its cost are coming. Whether that’s a real concern depends on the scope, the timing, and how the building plans to pay for it — reserves or an assessment — which is exactly what we’d dig into for you.
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent). Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library.
See the full facade history →Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Apartment-level facts are independently verified before publishing; sale prices reflect the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2014 | 8 | 4 BR · 3,400 sf | $5,450,000 | $1,603/sf | -7.6% |
| Dec 21, 2012 | 4 | 4 BR | $4,700,000 | +4.5% | |
| Jun 27, 2003 | 8 | 3 BR · 3,400 sf | $3,950,000 | $1,162/sf | off-mkt |
Market read. Most recent trades (2014) cleared a median $1,603/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount -4.5% over ask.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2026 | 3RD | $5,700,000 |
| Nov 23, 2021 | 9 | $5,500,000 |
| Aug 21, 2014 | 8TH | $5,450,000 |
| Jun 18, 2010 | 3 | $4,839,336 |
| Jun 7, 2007 | 9 | $5,250,000 |
| Jun 1, 2005 | 3RD | $4,100,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01496-0006) 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
This is a traditional white-glove cooperative, and the board process matches the address. Financing is permitted up to 50%, so buyers should plan for a substantial cash position rather than a high loan-to-value. The building is pet-friendly. As with the premier museum-block co-ops, expect a board focused on financial strength, references, and primary-residence intent; pied-à-terre and investor purchases are not the building's profile, and subletting is restricted — this is a building to buy as a home. Preparation pays: at this scale the board weighs fit and stability heavily.
The reward is a full-floor Art Deco residence with a marquee architectural pedigree, on a museum block where supply is fixed and inventory is generational.
What to know if you’re selling
The architect's name is the headline. A Raymond Hood Art Deco cooperative, full-floor scale, half a block from the Met — that combination of pedigree, proportion, and location is a durable differentiator from the surrounding pre-war stock. Lead with the design provenance, the full-floor layouts, and the fireplaces; they are exactly what the discerning Carnegie Hill buyer pays for.
Benchmark pricing to the premier Fifth-and-Madison full-floor co-op market rather than the broad East Side, and recognize that with so few homes, a single sale can set the building's pricing for years. A board-ready buyer with the cash position the 50% financing cap implies will move through approval most smoothly — worth identifying before contract.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 3 East 84th Street, also evaluate these nearby Carnegie Hill and Fifth-and-Madison cooperatives:
- 103 East 84th Street — pre-war cooperative on the same block
- 114 East 84th Street — Carnegie Hill co-op nearby
- 124 East 84th Street — pre-war cooperative on the corridor
- 125 East 84th Street — established East 84th Street co-op peer
- 1016 Fifth Avenue — Fifth Avenue cooperative facing the Met
The Roebling Team at 3 East 84th Street
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in the Upper East Side, Fifth and Madison Avenues, Carnegie Hill, and the museum-block co-op market. We publish this profile because a designer-architect Art Deco co-op trades on factors the broad market data misses — pedigree, full-floor scale, and the board's posture. Buyers and sellers here deserve building-specific counsel.
If you're weighing a transaction at 3 East 84th Street, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.
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