36 Gramercy Park East

The façade is the building's argument: white terracotta worked into an elaborate Gothic Revival program, restored to bring back its sculpture and detail. The original plan placed two apartments to a floor — grand homes of eight to ten rooms, each with three baths and a staff room — and while some have been reconfigured over more than a century of ownership, the building retains the scale and bones of those layouts. Ceiling heights, room proportions, and light off the park define the most desirable residences. As at any building of this age, individual homes reflect decades of renovation, so condition and configuration are unit-specific, and the park-facing lines are the building's crown.

36 Gramercy Park East runs as a managed condominium with attended entry, a resident superintendent, and the central courtyard that gives the building its distinctive plan. The defining amenity is intangible and irreplaceable: a key to Gramercy Park, the two-acre private garden that only the surrounding buildings' residents may enter. As a condominium, resales run through the board's application and any right of first refusal in the bylaws rather than a co-op admission vote, and the building's policies on financing, leasing, and pied-à-terre ownership follow its declaration and bylaws; confirm them before contract.

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.

Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $2,255/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 4.7% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00876-7503). 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.

This is a condominium, so the purchase runs through the board's application and right-of-first-refusal process set by the declaration and bylaws rather than a co-op admission interview; confirm financing, leasing and occupancy rules in those documents before contract. Value turns on the rare things: a park-facing exposure, the original room count, the integrity and quality of the restoration, and the simple scarcity of homes that come to market here at all. We help buyers assess the building's financials, prepare the purchase application, and benchmark a given home against the very small comparable set of Gramercy Park-facing homes.

Few buildings sell themselves more readily. A James Riely Gordon Gothic Revival landmark, restored, on Gramercy Park, with a park key — the marketing case is the building. The buyer pool is discerning and motivated, and the constraint is supply rather than demand. Presentation and restoration quality drive the premium; pricing belongs against the handful of comparable park-facing homes rather than the broader Gramercy market. A park-facing residence with intact proportions is among the scarcest products in the neighborhood, and should be positioned accordingly.

If you're considering 36 Gramercy Park East, also evaluate the surrounding Gramercy Park inventory:

• 34 Gramercy Park East — pre-war cooperative next door on the park
• 44 Gramercy Park North — cooperative on the park's north side
• 45 Gramercy Park North — pre-war Gramercy Park cooperative
• 50 Gramercy Park North — full-service building on the park
• 32 Gramercy Park South — cooperative on the park's south side