4 East 95th Street

The building is 100 feet wide — a full mid-block presence — organized as an eight-bay center section between three-bay ends, with the original six-over-six sash surviving in quantity per the designation report. Inside, the apartments carry the Carpenter program at side-street scale: defined entrance foyers, proper dining rooms, windowed kitchens and baths, beamed ceilings, and wood-burning fireplaces in many units per listing records. Sixes run roughly two bedrooms plus staff or dining flexibility; sevens add the third bedroom. Because the building sits near the Fifth Avenue corner with low mansion neighbors across the street, upper-floor front rooms look north over the mansion roofs across the street — an open outlook mid-block buildings rarely get. Confirm the specific apartment's other exposures and its direct sunlight.

This is an intimate, full-service house: doorman service, central laundry, bike room, and dedicated storage for each apartment per brokerage records, run by an institutional managing agent. The cooperative's audited financial statements are on file in The Roebling Research Library and available to clients during diligence; as with any 37-unit co-op, the financial review should focus on reserve posture and the capital cycle for roof, facade, and mechanical work, since each shareholder carries a proportionally larger share than in a large building.

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. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2016): a median $1,022/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.

Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01506-0065). 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.

The block is the product. Mansion-scale neighbors, historic-district designation, and Central Park one short block west — the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District puts exterior changes on the block under landmarks review. Walk the block at dusk before you decide; it is one of the few in Manhattan where the 1920s composition survives whole.

Underwrite the co-op conservatively. The 50 percent financing maximum per brokerage records is real Carnegie Hill discipline — prepare for it, and run the Co-op Board Qualification Calculator before offering. Policies on pied-à-terre use, sublets, and purchase structures are thinly documented publicly; we verify them against management documents during diligence.

Small co-op math matters. With 37 units, every capital project divides across a small shareholder base. The audited financials on file with us show how the building funds itself — your attorney should review the reserve and assessment history before contract.

Price the renovation honestly. Estate and dated units appear regularly in buildings of this vintage. The bones — fireplaces, beams, 100-foot-wide floor plates — reward the work, but run the Renovation Cost Calculator against asking prices before assuming the discount covers it.

Verify the fee stack. The 2 percent purchaser-paid flip tax per brokerage records, current financing terms, and the laundry/washer-dryer policy should all be confirmed with the managing agent at offer stage.

Sell the Carpenter attribution and the document trail. The architect's name carries a measurable premium in pre-war marketing, and here the attribution is not brokerage lore — it is recorded in the city's designation report, along with the original room counts. We market from the primary record.

Anchor against the avenue, not the side streets generally. The right comparable set is Carpenter and peer-grade co-ops on upper Fifth and the low-90s side streets — buyers cross-shopping 1115 or 1136 Fifth should see this building as the same fabric at a sharper basis.

Condition transparency wins with this buyer pool. Carnegie Hill's family buyers are deliberate and well-advised; renovated sixes and sevens clear at premiums, and estate units clear when priced to the renovation math rather than to hope.

If you're considering 4 East 95th Street, also evaluate:

• 1115 Fifth Avenue — Carpenter on the avenue at 93rd; the direct prestige step-up
• 1120 Fifth Avenue — Carpenter at 93rd, park-fronting
• 1148 Fifth Avenue — Walter B. Chambers's 1922–23 building at the 96th Street corner, two blocks north
• 1136 Fifth Avenue — George F. Pelham pre-war co-op at 95th; the immediate avenue neighbor
• 1125 Fifth Avenue — Emery Roth pre-war co-op at 94th
• 14 East 90th Street — Carpenter's side-street co-op off the Engineers' Gate; the closest like-for-like
• 15 East 91st Street — peer side-street pre-war co-op in the heart of Carnegie Hill
• 3 East 95th Street — the Trumbauer-designed Carhart Mansion condominium directly across the street; the boutique condo alternative