323 East 53rd Street
323 East 53rd Street, between First and Second Avenues, Sutton Place
BBL 1013467504 · BIN 1039832
- Type
- Condominium
- Floors
- 6
- Amenities
- Elevator, virtual doorman, package room, dedicated storage for each residence and common roof deck
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and City Planning records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- Virtual doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2015–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2025
- $1,518
- floor-adjusted, 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 6.2%
- Recorded sales
- 15
- On record
- 2015–2025
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323 East 53rd Street is a recent eleven-home condominium behind a limestone facade on a twenty-foot-wide lot. Its inventory consists of studios and one-bedrooms, with garden and terrace residences adding private outdoor space to a compact apartment mix. An elevator, individual storage rooms and a shared roof deck are substantial amenities for a building of this size.
The current building followed a multiyear redevelopment. A six-story, eleven-dwelling new-building scheme was permitted in 2015, followed by an alteration permitted in 2017 and signed off in March 2023. The Attorney General accepted the condominium filing in March 2021, and it became effective in November 2022.
Architecture and unit composition
The six-story structure has a narrow street frontage and a longer interior plan. Typical apartments measure approximately 540 to 560 square feet. The inventory is concentrated in smaller homes, with two residences on most upper floors.
A garden apartment occupies the lower portion of the building, and terrace apartments sit higher in the stack. Their outdoor areas accompany interiors comparable in size to those of the standard apartments. Buyers can therefore compare outdoor access without assuming that a terrace home necessarily provides a larger interior.
The lobby includes a seating area. Its package room and storage spaces accommodate functions that would otherwise compete with the apartments' compact floor plans. The residents' roof deck is available separately from the terraces belonging to specific homes.
Building operations
Virtual doorman service manages entry, and deliveries go to the package room. Every residence has a dedicated storage room. The common roof is shared by an eleven-home association, and an elevator serves the building.
All eleven residential tax lots have separate owners in the current DOF roll. The condominium has no building-wide tax abatement. Its historic-looking limestone frontage is outside an LPC-designated district, and the current residential construction belongs to the recent redevelopment period.
Application and transaction fees
Fees below are from building management's published schedule, as of August 2026. They are shown as published, item by item; no total is added because the total depends on the transaction. Deposits are listed apart from nonrefundable charges.
Purchase
4 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Fee | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $650 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Credit Check FeePer applicant | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $150 Per Applicant and any occupant 18 or older residing in the unit | Refundable Non-refundable |
Deposits
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move In Deposit | Paid by Buyer | When With the application | Amount $1,000 | Refundable Refundable |
| Move Out Deposit | Paid by Seller | When With the application | Amount $1,000 | Refundable Refundable |
Rental or lease
5 items
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Processing Fee | Paid by Tenant | When With the application | Amount $600 | Refundable Non-refundable |
| Credit Check FeePer applicant | Paid by Tenant | When With the application | Amount $20 per additional applicant after applicant 1 and any occupant 18 or older residing in the unit | Refundable Non-refundable |
Deposits
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move Out Deposit | Paid by Landlord | When With the application | Amount $1,000 | Refundable Refundable |
| Move In Deposit | Paid by Tenant | When With the application | Amount $1,000 | Refundable Refundable |
Lease renewal
Fees and charges
| Item | Paid by | When | Amount | Refundable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Processing Fee | Paid by Tenant | When With the application | Amount $300 | Refundable Non-refundable |
Management updates its schedule without a public filing. The date is when management last updated the page, not when a rule changed. Confirm the current schedule with management before you apply.
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Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Common charges + taxes, per room
- $828 per room a monthMedian of 6 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Common charges + taxes, per square foot
- $3.51 per square foot a monthMedian of 6 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Common charges alone, per square foot
- $1.44 per square foot a monthMedian of 3 listings since October 2023 that give the annual taxSource: listing records, refreshed October 2026
- Real estate taxes alone, per square foot
- $2.11 per square foot a monthMedian of 3 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
- Virtual doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Virtual or video entry
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Package room
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Roof deck, 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
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 limits apply to a building on its own. It is still covered if it shares a tax lot or condominium board with buildings totaling over 50,000 sq ft; confirm on DOB’s covered-buildings list.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 2025 | 2B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 560 sf | $850,000 | $1,518/sf | -2.9% |
| Jul 11, 2024 | TERRACE | 1 BR · 1 BA · 542 sf | $885,000 | $1,633/sf | -6.3% |
| Jun 27, 2024 | TSA | 542 sf | $885,000 | $1,633/sf | — |
| May 23, 2024 | 5A | 1 BR · 1 BA · 542 sf | $875,000 | $1,614/sf | -6.4% |
| Mar 24, 2024 | TERRACE | 1 BR · 1 BA · 560 sf | $960,000 | $1,714/sf | -13.9% |
| Mar 22, 2024 | TSB | 560 sf | $977,520 | $1,746/sf | — |
| Dec 4, 2023 | 4B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 560 sf | $860,000 | $1,536/sf | -7.0% |
| Nov 28, 2023 | 3B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 560 sf | $850,000 | $1,518/sf | +0.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $1,518/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. 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 6.2% 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 1-01346-7504; 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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Comparable buildings
- M at Beekman — a small condominium redevelopment on a nearby side street.
- The Pantheon — a low-rise condominium with a larger residential inventory west of Second Avenue.
- 1154 First Avenue — a small prewar condominium with walk-up access and commercial space at the base.
- 975 First Avenue — a larger low-rise condominium near the same avenue junction.
- 320 East 54th Street — a postwar elevator condominium offering a larger building and wider apartment mix.
More Sutton Place buildings
- 317 East 57th Street — 1929 co-op
- 320 East 57th Street — 1928 co-op
- 322 East 57th Street — 1929 co-op
- 330 East 57th Street — 2005 condominium
- 333 East 55th Street (Sutton55) — 1962 co-op
- Sutton House, 333 East 57th Street — 1928 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Sutton Place — read The Roebling Team Guide to Sutton Place.
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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