30 Beekman Place
30 Beekman Place, New York, NY 10022
- Year built
- 1931
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2024
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $868
- Listing discount
- 4.4%
- Recorded sales
- 39
- On record
- 2003–2024
Beekman Place is one of the smallest and most coveted residential addresses in Manhattan — a two-block, dead-end enclave that runs along the bluff above the East River, insulated from cross-town traffic and reachable only by intention. 30 Beekman Place sits squarely in that world: a 1931 pre-war cooperative of just 38 homes, designed by the prolific apartment-house architect George F. Pelham, on a street whose entire appeal is that almost nothing happens on it.
What buyers respond to here is the combination of scarcity and quiet. The building is small, the street is private, and the cooperative is full-service in the genuine pre-war sense — a live-in resident manager, an attended lobby, and a household-scaled staff who know every resident. The river is at the end of the block; the noise of the city is not. For a certain buyer, Beekman Place is the answer to the question of how to live in the middle of Manhattan and feel entirely removed from it.
The architecture is restrained rather than showy. Pelham gave the building a red-brick body, a dignified canopied entrance, and the kind of solid pre-war massing that has aged well precisely because it never reached for spectacle. The result reads as a peer to the townhouses and small cooperatives that define the block.
Architecture and unit composition
George F. Pelham built widely across Manhattan in the early decades of the twentieth century, and 30 Beekman Place is a characteristic example of his apartment-house work: ten stories of red brick, modest ornament concentrated at the base and entry, and a plan organized for generous, well-proportioned homes rather than a high unit count. At 38 residences across ten floors, the building averages a small number of apartments per landing — the layout of a building conceived for space, not density.
Interiors run to the classic pre-war vocabulary that the era's East Side cooperatives were built on: hard-plaster walls, real room separation, and the high ceilings and deep windows that distinguish 1930s construction. The building has long attracted a design-minded ownership; over the decades its homes have been the subject of careful private renovation, and one of its penthouse apartments was reworked by the architect I.M. Pei — a marker of the caliber of resident this small co-op has drawn.
Building operations
This is a full-service cooperative run the way the best small pre-war buildings are: a 24-hour doorman, a live-in resident manager on site, and a staff scaled to a 38-home building rather than a tower. Common amenities include a fitness room, central laundry, private storage, and a furnished, landscaped courtyard — an unusual luxury for a building of this size and a direct benefit of Beekman Place's wider, garden-friendly lots.
On policy, the board is more flexible than many of its Gold Coast peers. Financing is permitted up to 75% of the purchase price. The building is pet-friendly. Pied-à-terre ownership is welcomed, which is genuinely rare among small full-service co-ops and a meaningful draw for buyers who want a second home on the East River rather than a primary residence. As with any cooperative, purchases proceed through a board-application and interview process, and subletting follows the board's stated policy — the buy here is to live in a quiet, well-run, owner-occupied building, not to operate an investment unit.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $2,125/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $5
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The facade passed its last inspection with no required repairs — nothing to budget for here, and no facade assessment on the horizon for roughly five years.
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 →Management & transfer contacts
- Flip tax
- 2% of gross sale price, minimum $15,000 (seller)
- Sublet policy
- Allowed (Corporate Sublet Fee 25% of monthly maintenance)
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed
- Notable fees
- Move In Fee $2,000; Move Out Fee $2,000; Estate/Trust closing $1,000 + $0.05/share
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 19, 2024 | 7A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,900 sf | $1,575,000 | $829/sf | off-mkt |
| Aug 12, 2024 | 5D | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,050,000 | -4.1% | |
| Dec 29, 2023 | 6C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 1,000 sf | $515,000 | $515/sf | +3.2% |
| Oct 25, 2021 | 9A | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,870 sf | $1,875,000 | $1,003/sf | -3.6% |
| Jun 21, 2021 | 7C | 4 BR · 2.5 BA · 2,400 sf | $1,660,000 | $692/sf | -2.3% |
| Aug 28, 2019 | 4B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 900 sf | $515,000 | $572/sf | -14.0% |
| Apr 26, 2018 | 8C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 1,000 sf | $850,000 | $850/sf | -5.0% |
| Nov 18, 2016 | 6D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,500 sf | $1,425,000 | $950/sf | -15.9% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2024) cleared a median $868/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 4.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2023 | 6D | $999,000 |
| Dec 29, 2021 | 1D | $950,000 |
| Dec 29, 2021 | 2A | $2,500,000 |
| Nov 18, 2021 | 2D | $999,995 |
| Sep 9, 2021 | 1D | $550,000 |
| Apr 14, 2014 | 10D | $1,400,000 |
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 1-01362-0038) 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 first thing to understand is the address itself. Beekman Place is a destination street, not a thoroughfare — the supply of apartments on it is permanently fixed and small, and that scarcity is the foundation of value here. Buyers should expect to compete for the best homes when they come to market.
On the practical side, the cooperative's posture is comparatively accommodating: 75% financing, a pet-friendly policy, and a board that permits pied-à-terre ownership make 30 Beekman Place more approachable than the strictest primary-residence-only co-ops nearby. That said, this is still a board building, and a clean, well-documented application is essential. We help buyers read the building's financial statements, structure the purchase to the board's expectations, and prepare for the interview.
Condition is the variable that moves price most. Homes range from carefully restored to original; because the building has attracted serious design talent over the years, the renovated apartments set the top of the building's range and the unrenovated ones trade at a discount that should be weighed against renovation cost and the board's alteration process.
What to know if you’re selling
The address sells itself, but it must be positioned correctly. Beekman Place is not a place every buyer knows to look for — its value is understood by a specific, often older and design-literate audience, and reaching them is the heart of the marketing strategy. The pitch is the enclave, the river, the small full-service building, and the pre-war proportions.
The flexible policies are a selling point. A board that allows pied-à-terre ownership, pets, and 75% financing widens the buyer pool meaningfully relative to the more restrictive cooperatives on the block — that flexibility should be stated plainly in any marketing.
Condition and exposure drive your number. River-facing and high-floor homes, and those that have been renovated to a high standard, command the building's premium; an honest pre-listing assessment of where a particular apartment sits in that spectrum is what produces an accurate ask and a clean sale.
Time the launch to thin inventory. With so few apartments, a well-prepared listing that comes to market when little else is available on Beekman Place benefits directly from the enclave's permanent scarcity.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 30 Beekman Place, the natural comparison set is the small full-service cooperatives of the Beekman and Sutton riverside:
- 1 Beekman Place — pre-war cooperative at the foot of the enclave
- 2 Beekman Place — neighboring riverside cooperative
- 12 Beekman Place — full-service co-op on the same private street
- 1 Sutton Place South — Cross & Cross's 1927 Sutton Place cooperative
- The Grand Beekman, 400 East 51st Street — full-service building at the edge of the enclave
The Roebling Team at 30 Beekman Place
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in the far East Side — Sutton Place, Beekman, and the quieter riverside cooperatives that most buyers never see. We publish this profile because the value of a building like 30 Beekman Place is in details a casual search will miss: the scarcity of the street, the board's flexibility, and the difference condition makes in a small pre-war co-op.
If you're weighing a purchase or sale here, a focused consultation is the right first step — we'll walk the building, the policies, and the comparison set with you.
The neighborhood
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