30 East 31st Street
30 East 31st Street, New York, NY 10016
BBL 1008607504 · BIN 1090512
- Year built
- 2019
- Type
- Condominium
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- Full-time doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2020–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $1,252
- 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 1.0%
- Recorded sales
- 50
- On record
- 2020–2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 30E31 would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
30E31 is a slender, 42-story NoMad condominium built around full-floor living. The city's condominium tax roll lists thirteen smaller apartments on floors two through eight, recorded in sales as studios and one-bedrooms; above them, most of the 42 residences occupy a full floor of the 479-foot tower, 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 a design-driven envelope, in a NoMad-Midtown corridor minutes from Madison Square Park, the Empire State Building, and Grand Central.
Architecture and residences
The exterior is the building's signature. The slim massing — narrow footprint, considerable height — gives 30E31 its vertical drama, and the deep mullions emphasize the rise before breaking into the pointed-arch detailing and triangular apertures at the upper levels. Bronze-toned and masonry accents keep it firmly in conversation with the Midtown masonry stock around it.
Inside, the full-floor configuration of the upper floors is the headline. From the ninth floor up, each home occupies a full floor, with key-locked elevator entry, multiple exposures, oversized windows, open kitchens, and contemporary ceiling heights and systems; floors two through eight hold smaller apartments, most two to a floor. Compare the specific unit's floor plan, exposure and elevator arrangement. The slender plate produces efficient, light-filled layouts and, on the higher floors, long views over Midtown and toward the parks. The upper-floor residences, set within the building's crowning geometry, are the most distinctive homes in the building.
Building operations and lifestyle
30E31 operates as a full-service condominium with a 24-hour attended lobby, a fitness center, a resident lounge, and private storage — a focused amenity set appropriate to a boutique building of mostly full-floor residences, where the residences themselves are the principal draw.
The location is among the building's strongest assets. NoMad — North of Madison Square Park — has become one of Manhattan's best dining-and-hotel neighborhoods, and 30E31 sits in the heart of it: Madison Square Park and its restaurant row a few blocks south, the flagship retail and offices of Midtown a few blocks north, and Grand Central and Penn Station both within easy reach. The 6 train at 33rd Street and the broader Midtown transit network put the rest of the city within a short ride.
Ownership and what buyers should know
As a condominium, 30E31 has no admissions board; purchases run through the condominium's application and right-of-first-refusal process. Confirm financing, pied-à-terre, ownership-entity, subletting and resale rules in the current declaration, bylaws and house rules. For buyers who want full-floor living without a co-op board, the building is purpose-built for it.
Pricing sits in the boutique new-condominium tier, with the full-floor format pushing the building above the per-unit comparables of multi-unit-per-floor towers nearby; the higher floors and crown residences command the top of the range. The residences were offered under a condominium plan accepted for filing by the New York State Attorney General. We help buyers read the plan, benchmark the full-floor pricing against the right comparable set, and structure the deal.
Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Common charges + taxes, per room
- $1,600 per room a monthMedian of 15 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Common charges + taxes, per square foot
- $4.32 per square foot a monthMedian of 15 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Common charges alone, per square foot
- $1.84 per square foot a monthMedian of 30 listings since October 2023 that give the annual taxSource: listing records, refreshed October 2026
- Real estate taxes alone, per square foot
- $2.21 per square foot a monthMedian of 30 listings since October 2023 that give the annual taxSource: listing records, refreshed October 2026
Common charges plus real estate taxes, combined into one monthly figure the way New York condominium listings show them. Add a mortgage payment for the monthly outlay. The split into common charges and taxes comes from the listings that also give the annual tax, a different sample, so the two lines need not add up exactly to the combined median; a tax abatement can hold taxes below the full amount until it expires. A summary of recorded sales and listings, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Full-time doormanSource: recent listing records
- Concierge
- YesSource: recent listing records
- Attended lobby
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of Buildings elevator records
- Amenities noted
- Fitness room, residents' lounge, 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
- $78,416/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $156
- Modeled exposure split equally across 42 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; condominium owners are typically charged by each unit's common-interest percentage.
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 FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. A filed Safe grade is not a guarantee of current condition: owners still maintain the facade and, where required, observe parapets each year. Future inspection timing (Local Law 49 of 2025 changed the cycle framework from October 1, 2026), repair and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
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).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
Recent sales
Recent closings 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2026 | 14 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,677 sf | $2,100,000 | $1,252/sf | -1.6% |
| Sep 25, 2025 | 18 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,677 sf | $2,300,000 | $1,371/sf | -2.1% |
| Jul 23, 2025 | 26 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,677 sf | $2,340,000 | $1,395/sf | -7.9% |
| Jan 14, 2025 | 36 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,677 sf | $2,525,000 | $1,506/sf | -1.0% |
| Nov 27, 2024 | 8B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 741 sf | $1,245,000 | $1,680/sf | -7.8% |
| Oct 7, 2024 | 37 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,677 sf | $2,755,000 | $1,643/sf | -12.5% |
| Oct 2, 2024 | 4A | 1 BR · 1.5 BA · 988 sf | $1,411,111 | $1,428/sf | -5.9% |
| Sep 23, 2024 | 35 | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,677 sf | $2,637,086 | $1,573/sf | -2.3% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,252/sf (recorded) across 1 sale. Median listing discount 1.0% 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.
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 1-00860-7504; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
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At the recent median sale of $2.2M (6 sales in the past 24 months, since October 31, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $92,633 to close, or 4.2% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $27,500
- Mortgage recording tax: $31,763
- Title insurance: $9,900
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $23,470
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re selling
The full-floor format and the architecture are the marketing core for the upper-floor residences. Full-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 only for the full-floor homes; the smaller apartments on floors two through eight price against comparable studios and one-bedrooms. 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, most of them full-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
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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