4 East 95th Street
4 East 95th Street, New York, NY 10128
Carnegie Hill, Upper East Side
BBL 1015060065 · BIN 1047412
- Year built
- 1923
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 37
- Floors
- 9
- Landmark
- Designated
- Pets
- Permitted per brokerage records
- Financing
- 50 percent maximum per brokerage records
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $1.9M
- Recent range
- $1.6M – $2.5M
- Listing discount
- -1.8%
- Recorded transfers
- 44
East 95th Street between Fifth and Madison is one of Carnegie Hill's mansion blocks — the Horace Trumbauer-designed Carhart Mansion at No. 3 and the Fabbri mansion farther east face this building across the street — and 4 East 95th Street is the block's apartment-house anchor. The pedigree is structural rather than decorative: J.E.R. Carpenter, the architect most responsible for the form of the Fifth and Park Avenue luxury apartment building, designed it in 1923–24 and, per the city's designation report, developed it through a corporation that shared his own office address. When the architect of 825 and 1120 Fifth Avenue builds for his own account a hundred feet from Fifth, the result tends to be disciplined — and it is.
The building reads as a country-Georgian set piece: Flemish-bond brick and cast stone over a pilastered two-story base, balustrades and bas-reliefs at the top floors, and a slate pitched roof with dormers that gives the ninth-floor-plus-penthouse massing a mansard silhouette unusual for the side streets. The city's designation report records the original program precisely — 37 apartments of either six rooms with two baths or seven rooms with three baths — and that program survives nearly intact: city records still count 37 units, roughly four to a floor. This is a building of classic sixes and sevens, full stop, with no studio or one-bedroom tier diluting the shareholder base.
For buyers, the location argument is Carnegie Hill's quietest version of itself: one short block to Central Park at Engineers' Gate, the Cooper Hewitt and the Jewish Museum within three blocks, the 96th Street Q and 6 both walkable, and the neighborhood's private-school cluster effectively at the door. For a Carpenter pre-war with this address quality, the entry price runs well below the avenue co-ops a hundred feet west — that spread is the building's market thesis.
Architecture and unit composition
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 draw open southern light over the mansion roofs — a quality of exposure mid-block buildings rarely get.
Building operations
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.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $44,130/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $99
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent). Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library.
See the full facade history →Management & transfer contacts
- Flip tax
- 2% of sales price
- Sublet policy
- Not Allowed
- Notable fees
- Max financing 50%; Sublet Fee 25% of annual maintenance; Transfer Agent Closing Fee $850 ($1100 remote)
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 | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2025 | 7A | 3 BR · 3 BA | $2,400,000 | +0.2% |
| May 20, 2025 | 2A | 3 BR · 2.5 BA | $2,495,000 | +4.2% |
| Mar 25, 2025 | 7D | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,600,000 | +4.9% |
| Oct 17, 2023 | 4C | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,550,000 | +3.3% |
| Jul 12, 2023 | 2C | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,850,000 | +0.0% |
| Feb 16, 2023 | 5C | 2 BR · 2 BA | $2,200,000 | +0.0% |
| Oct 18, 2022 | 8C | 2 BR · 2 BA | $2,010,000 | -4.3% |
| Apr 26, 2022 | 7C | 2 BR · 3 BA | $1,675,000 | -1.5% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2016): a median $1,022/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2003 | 8C | $1,750,000 |
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 1-01506-0065) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
The block is the product. Mansion-scale neighbors, landmark protection on all sides, and Central Park one short block west — the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District guarantees the streetscape you are buying into cannot meaningfully change. 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.
What to know if you’re selling
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.
Comparable buildings
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 — Carpenter 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
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Upper East Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper East Side.
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