- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Cats and dogs permitted
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 1BR median
- $985K
- Recent range
- $550K – $1.4M
- Listing discount
- 5.3%
- Recorded transfers
- 66
351 East 57th Street is a full-service postwar cooperative on the Sutton Place stretch of East 57th, between First and Second Avenues — a quiet residential enclave at the eastern edge of Midtown, a short walk from the East River Greenway, Sutton Place Park, and the neighborhood's everyday retail. A correction worth making up front: this is a cooperative, not a condominium. It trades as a co-op, with monthly maintenance and board review, and buyers should approach it on co-op terms.
The building's appeal is the combination that defines this pocket of Sutton Place: a postwar white-brick building with full-time staffing and a genuine amenity set — a landscaped roof deck, an on-site garage, and private terraces on a number of apartments — at co-op pricing that sits well below the trophy towers a few blocks west toward Billionaires' Row. For buyers who want a quiet, well-run, pet-friendly co-op with outdoor space and an easy remove from the Midtown East core, 351 East 57th is built to that brief.
Architecture and unit composition
351 East 57th Street is a postwar building in the white-brick idiom that shaped this stretch of the East Side in the mid-20th century: a light-brick body, a regular window line, and the efficient floor plates and mechanical systems of postwar luxury apartment construction rather than the ornament of the pre-war era. A distinguishing physical feature is outdoor space — a number of apartments carry long private terraces, the kind of setback-driven amenity the postwar development model made possible and that pre-war Sutton inventory generally lacks.
The apartment mix runs from studios and alcoves through one- and two-bedroom homes, with the postwar vocabulary of roughly 8.5-to-9-foot ceilings and practical layouts. Terrace apartments command the in-building premium; light and quiet improve with floor and with distance from the avenue.
Building operations
351 East 57th Street runs as a full-service postwar cooperative: a 24-hour doorman, a live-in superintendent, a furnished landscaped roof deck, a laundry room, an on-site parking garage, and bike and private storage. The garage and the roof deck are meaningful amenities for the price band, and the full-time staffing is the operational baseline buyers expect on this stretch of Sutton Place.
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. The building is pet-friendly and has historically accommodated pied-à-terre use; sublet policy and the specific financial requirements follow the co-op's rules, which we review with buyers as part of any transaction.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2026 | 6D | 2 BR · 2 BA | $900,000 | -5.3% | |
| Jan 5, 2026 | 3D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,300 sf | $1,100,000 | $846/sf | -4.3% |
| Dec 12, 2025 | 8B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $550,000 | -8.2% | |
| May 20, 2025 | 20C | 2 BR · 1 BA | $580,000 | +4.5% | |
| Apr 25, 2023 | 19A | 1 BR · 1.5 BA | $1,420,000 | -11.3% | |
| Sep 20, 2022 | 7B | 1 BR · 1 BA | $542,500 | -1.3% | |
| Jul 15, 2022 | 18D | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,300 sf | $1,470,000 | $1,131/sf | -1.7% |
| Jul 1, 2022 | 15D | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,095,000 | -4.8% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $843/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 2.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2018 | 15B | $595,000 |
| Oct 30, 2015 | 10F | $560,000 |
| Oct 25, 2013 | RES | $520,000 |
| Sep 3, 2013 | RES | $799,000 |
| May 13, 2013 | 16D | $1,045,000 |
| May 30, 2012 | 10D | $721,000 |
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 1-01350-7501) 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
Underwrite this as a co-op. The board process, the building's financing and post-closing-liquidity requirements, and the sublet policy all matter to your path and your carrying math — model the maintenance alongside price, and confirm the current house rules before you commit. On the upside, the value is real: a full-service, pet-friendly Sutton Place co-op with a garage, a roof deck, and — on the right apartments — a private terrace, at pricing below the towers to the west. We help buyers read the board package requirements, value terrace apartments against interior ones, and benchmark to comparable Sutton Place co-ops.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the amenity combination that is scarce at the price: an on-site garage, a landscaped roof deck, private terraces, and full-time staffing in a quiet Sutton Place enclave, all pet-friendly. Sellers should benchmark to recent in-building resales and comparable East 50s cooperatives, present the maintenance and building operations transparently to a co-op-literate buyer pool, and — for terrace apartments — market the outdoor space, which is the building's scarcest and most defensible asset. Pricing a co-op requires apartment-level context; view, floor, terrace, and maintenance all drive it.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 351 East 57th Street, also look at these Sutton Place and Midtown East buildings:
- 110 East 57th Street — Midtown East building near the Sutton corridor
- 117 East 57th Street — Midtown East cooperative
- 126 East 57th Street — Midtown East building
- 25 Sutton Place South — postwar East River Sutton Place cooperative
- 45 Sutton Place South — postwar Sutton Place cooperative on the river
The Roebling Team at 351 East 57th Street
The Roebling Team at Compass works Sutton Place and Midtown East closely — the postwar and pre-war cooperatives of the East 50s, their board cultures, and how their pricing sits relative to the new-development towers nearby. We publish this profile because co-op buyers and sellers deserve building-specific intelligence: architecture, amenities, ownership structure, and the realities of pricing at the apartment level.
If you're weighing a purchase or sale at 351 East 57th Street, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.
The neighborhood
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