3 East 84th Street
3 East 84th Street, New York, NY 10028
BBL 1014960006 · BIN 1046811
- Year built
- 1928
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Metropolitan Museum Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Subletting by shareholders
- Permitted with conditions
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not stated
- Doorman
- Part-time doorman
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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. Its scale and museum-block location within the Metropolitan Museum Historic District describe the setting; establish availability and turnover from listings and recorded sales.
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.
Sublet and pied-à-terre policy
A condominium owner leasing a unit and a co-op shareholder subletting are different rules, and a building-wide rule is different from a restriction on one apartment. This is the building's rule; confirm it for the specific apartment.
- Subletting by shareholders
- Permitted with conditionsRestrictedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Pied-à-terre ownership
- Not verified
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Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Pets
- Pets permitted; species and limits not statedSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- In-unit washer/dryer
- Not verified
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Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Part-time doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Attended lobby
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Bike storageSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $33,119/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $251
- Modeled exposure split equally across 11 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 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 inspector (QEWI) identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair, with repairs due by the deadline stated in the filing. 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 — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs 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 data last refreshed October 2026.
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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 2021 | 9 | 3 BR · 4.5 BA | $5,500,000 | +0.0% | |
| 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% | |
| Oct 7, 2003 | 1W | 1 BR · 720 sf | $399,000 | $554/sf | +0.0% |
| Jun 27, 2003 | 8 | 3 BR · 3,400 sf | $3,950,000 | $1,162/sf | +0.0% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2014): a median $1,603/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01496-0006). 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.
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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 current availability should be checked against active listings.
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 is a limited reference point requiring adjustments for date, apartment characteristics and terms. 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 street
- 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
More Upper East Side buildings
- 2 East 88th Street — 1929 co-op
- 3 East 69th Street — 1938 co-op by Sylvan Bien
- 3 East 71st Street — 1944 co-op
- 3 East 85th Street — 1912 co-op
- 3 East 95th Street (The Carhart Mansion) — 1913 condominium
- The Stuart Duncan House, 3 East 75th Street — 1902 condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, 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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