317 East 57th Street
317 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022
BBL 1013500011 · BIN 1040000
- Year built
- 1929
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $906K
- Recent range
- $490K – $1.3M
- Listing discount
- 4.2%
- Recorded transfers
- 77
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317 East 57th Street is a small pre-war cooperative on the Sutton Place stretch of East 57th, between First and Second Avenues — the quiet, low-key eastern edge of Midtown, a short walk from the East River Greenway, Sutton Place Park, and the neighborhood's everyday retail. Built in 1929 as a pre-war elevator building and held as a cooperative, it is a roughly 62-apartment, 15-story building that trades the way small Sutton co-ops do: quietly, apartment by apartment, with turnover that is measured rather than steady.
The building's appeal is exactly that character: a compact, pre-war, owner-occupied co-op in a residential enclave, at pricing that sits well below the trophy towers a few blocks west toward Billionaires' Row. For buyers who want a small, well-held pre-war co-op on a quiet block near the river — the opposite of a large new-development tower — 317 East 57th is that kind of building.
Architecture and unit composition
317 East 57th Street is a 1929 pre-war building: a brick elevator building of 15 stories, with the proportions, masonry, and layout logic of late-1920s Manhattan apartment construction rather than the efficiency and glazing of postwar or new construction. The small apartment count — roughly 62 homes — makes it a genuinely boutique building by Midtown East standards.
The apartment mix runs to the pre-war range of studios and one- and two-bedroom layouts, with the higher ceilings and hard-plaster construction typical of the vintage. In a building this size, individual apartment condition, line, and floor drive value more than any building-wide average; each trade is best read on its own.
Building operations
317 East 57th Street runs as a small pre-war Sutton Place cooperative with an elevator and a co-op service staffing model appropriate to its scale. Buildings of this size and vintage typically carry a leaner operation than the larger postwar co-ops nearby, with the building's specific staffing, amenities, and house rules best confirmed directly during due diligence.
As a cooperative, the ownership terms are the co-op ones: purchases run through a board admissions process, financing is subject to the building's requirements, and maintenance covers the building's operating costs and underlying expenses. Pre-war Sutton Place co-ops tend toward the restrictive end on subletting and pied-à-terre use; the building's specific policies and financial requirements should be confirmed before any offer, and we review them with buyers as part of a transaction.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- Per unit / month range
- —
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 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 engineer 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 — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign 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 record last verified September 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 2026 | 11D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,250 sf | $1,280,000 | $1,024/sf | +0.1% |
| Feb 5, 2026 | 2D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,200 sf | $890,000 | $742/sf | -1.0% |
| Jun 17, 2025 | 6A | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $1,250,000 | -7.4% | |
| Mar 26, 2025 | 7C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $490,000 | +0.0% | |
| Feb 6, 2025 | 15B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $922,000 | -15.8% | |
| Dec 30, 2024 | 4A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,800 sf | $1,050,000 | $583/sf | +0.0% |
| Oct 29, 2024 | 1B | 2 BR · 1.5 BA · 1,300 sf | $600,000 | $462/sf | -14.2% |
| Feb 26, 2024 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $699,000 | -29.7% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $789/sf (floor-adjusted) across 2 sales. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. 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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2006 | 5E | $450,000 |
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 1-01350-0011). 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.
At the recent median sale of $922K (7 transfers since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $12,008 to close, or 1.3% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $12,008
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 buying
Underwrite this as a small pre-war co-op. The board process, the building's financing and post-closing-liquidity requirements, and the sublet and pied-à-terre policies all matter to your path — confirm the current house rules and the building's operating and reserve position before you commit, since a boutique building's economics ride on a small number of shareholders. On the upside, the value is a quiet, pre-war, owner-occupied co-op on a residential Sutton block at pricing below the towers to the west. We help buyers read the board package requirements, assess a small building's financials, and benchmark to comparable Sutton Place co-ops.
What to know if you’re selling
In a small pre-war co-op, marketing is apartment-specific: with few in-building comparables, pricing leans on the building's own recent history and comparable small Sutton Place co-ops, and on presenting the individual apartment's condition, light, and layout well. Sellers should present the building's operations and financials transparently to a co-op-literate buyer pool and lean into the enclave's quiet, residential character — the scarcity of a boutique pre-war co-op on this block is part of the story.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 317 East 57th Street, also look at these Sutton Place and Midtown East buildings:
- 351 East 57th Street — postwar Sutton Place cooperative on the same block
- 110 East 57th Street — Midtown East building near the Sutton corridor
- 117 East 57th Street — David Kenneth Specter's 1975 Manhattan condominium
- 25 Sutton Place South — a 1959 Sutton Place cooperative
- 45 Sutton Place South — postwar Sutton Place cooperative on the river
More Sutton Place buildings
- The Milan, 300 East 55th Street — 2003 condominium
- 303 East 57th Street (The Excelsior) — 1967 co-op by Philip Birnbaum & Associates
- 315 East 56th Street — 1950 co-op
- 320 East 57th Street — 1928 co-op
- 322 East 57th Street — 1929 co-op
- 323 East 53rd Street — condominium
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Sutton Place — read The Roebling Team Guide to Sutton Place.
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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