402 East 74th Street

The building occupies the East 74th Street block between First and York Avenues. Six residential stories place the upper apartments close to the roof terrace, while lower apartments have a street-level relationship to surrounding buildings. The interiors reflect the late-prewar preference for a foyer, separate dining space and rooms connected by hallways.

One-bedroom homes can have a large dining foyer and a windowed kitchen set apart from the living room. Two-bedroom plans include layouts with one bathroom and a separate dining area, with closets distributed between the entrance hall and bedrooms. Ceiling heights around nine feet appear in part of the inventory.

Recorded apartment areas range across several sizes, with conventional homes often in the roughly 750-to-1,100-square-foot category. Larger homes and combinations also appear in the transaction history. Some apartments retain the original separation of rooms, while renovated examples have altered kitchens and finishes.

Windowed kitchens and bathrooms are a meaningful part of the prewar layouts. The amount of light depends on the direction of the windows and neighboring buildings, and a higher floor does not automatically reproduce the exposure of a home on another side. North-facing apartments and homes with multiple orientations both appear in the inventory.

A live-in superintendent provides an on-site presence and handles packages. The building has basement laundry, a bicycle room and storage, together with the elevator and roof terrace. These facilities support daily use without a large recreational amenity program.

The cooperative's financing allowance is unusually permissive for a prewar ownership building, but it is a building policy limit, not a commitment from a lender. A buyer still has to qualify for the mortgage and satisfy the cooperative's application requirements. The stated 90 percent ceiling should be confirmed for the specific purchase.

The property is in tax Class 2, with no statutory annual assessment-growth cap, and no building-wide abatement is shown. Its built FAR is close to the stated R8B residential allowance. The cooperative owns the property, and apartment owners hold shares with occupancy rights under their proprietary leases.

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 (2024): a median $714/sf (floor-adjusted) across 2 sales. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 3.6% 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 1-01468-0041). 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.

• 225 East 74th Street — Another six-story cooperative from the late 1930s, with a larger residential count on the same street.
• 1376 York Avenue — A smaller nearby prewar cooperative for buyers weighing a more limited building scale.
• 168 East 74th Street — A prewar cooperative with a similar-sized ownership group in a taller building farther west.
• 320 East 72nd Street — A prewar cooperative with a comparable residential count and a substantially taller profile.
• 235 East 73rd Street — A larger prewar Eastgate cooperative for comparing apartment-house scale and the surrounding side-street market.