- Year built
- 2019
- Type
- Condominium
- Landmark
- No
30E31 is a slender, 42-story NoMad condominium built on a simple, powerful premise: one home per floor. With 42 residences stacked the full height of a 479-foot tower, almost every owner gets a full-floor apartment with light on multiple exposures — a layout type that, in this part of Manhattan, is otherwise the province of trophy pre-war buildings. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects, the tower is one of the more architecturally distinctive additions to NoMad's skyline, and it rose on a tight midblock site between Madison and Park where the Madison Avenue Baptist Church parish house once stood.
The architecture is the argument. Adjmi's design wraps the slender shaft in vertical mullions that climb the full height and resolve into pointed arches near the top, with triangular openings cut into the crown — a contemporary building that speaks fluently in the Neo-Gothic and Art Deco vocabulary of its older Midtown neighbors rather than against it. It reads as a tower with a memory, not a generic glass extrusion.
For buyers, the appeal is specific: a brand-new condominium with full-floor living, condominium ownership flexibility, and an architecturally serious envelope, in a NoMad-Midtown corridor minutes from Madison Square Park, the Empire State Building, and Grand Central.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $61,304/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $122
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 →What to know if you’re selling
The full-floor format and the architecture are the marketing core. One-residence-per-floor living, multiple exposures, and Morris Adjmi's distinctive Neo-Gothic envelope are durable differentiators that set a resale here apart from the conventional multi-unit floor plates around it. Benchmark to new-construction and boutique condominiums in NoMad and Midtown, weighting the full-floor premium. Closing mechanics are condominium-standard — a right-of-first-refusal rather than a board process — a faster, more predictable path that appeals to the flexibility-minded buyer this building attracts. With only 42 homes and one per floor, comparable inventory is genuinely scarce, which works in a well-positioned seller's favor.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 30E31, also evaluate nearby NoMad and Midtown condominium inventory:
- 846 Avenue of the Americas — boutique NoMad condominium nearby
- 15 East 30th Street — NoMad condominium a block south
- 11 East 29th Street — NoMad condominium nearby
- 14 East 33rd Street — NoMad / Midtown condominium nearby
- 20 East 35th Street — Murray Hill building to the north
The Roebling Team at 30E31
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in NoMad, Midtown East, and the broader Manhattan condominium market. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers of boutique, full-floor condominiums deserve building-specific intelligence — the architecture, the floor plate, the ownership structure, and where the pricing sits against the right comparable set. If you're considering a transaction at 30E31, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.
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