402 East 74th Street
402 East 74th Street, between First and York Avenues, Lenox Hill, Manhattan, Upper East Side
Lenox Hill, Upper East Side
BBL 1014680041 · BIN 1045886
- Year built
- 1937
- Type
- Cooperative
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Elevator, live-in superintendent, shared roof deck, common laundry, bicycle room and storage
- Financing
- Up to 90%, with a 10% minimum down payment — confirm with the managing agent.
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $714
- Listing discount
- 3.6%
- Recorded sales
- 51
- On record
- 2003–2025
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402 East 74th Street is a six-story prewar cooperative with elevator access, a live-in superintendent and a shared roof deck. Built in 1937, it contains large one-bedroom and two-bedroom layouts as well as smaller apartments and combinations. Separate dining areas, windowed kitchens and substantial closets are recurring features of its interior plans.
The service model centers on the resident superintendent and practical shared facilities. The roof deck provides outdoor space above the street, while laundry, bicycle storage and general storage sit within the building. Its low-rise form keeps the ownership group relatively small for an Upper East Side elevator cooperative.
Architecture and unit composition
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.
Building operations
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, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. 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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2025 | 4D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $615,000 | -6.7% | |
| Sep 11, 2024 | 4B | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,000 sf | $750,000 | $750/sf | -6.1% |
| Jul 18, 2024 | 6G | 1 BR · 1 BA · 900 sf | $590,000 | $656/sf | -15.1% |
| Oct 27, 2023 | 4C | 1 BR · 1 BA | $492,000 | +0.0% | |
| Dec 20, 2021 | 6B | 2 BR · 1 BA | $805,000 | -8.0% | |
| Dec 2, 2021 | 6A | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,000 sf | $1,081,000 | $1,081/sf | -3.9% |
| May 28, 2021 | 1D | 1 BA | $416,000 | -5.0% | |
| May 25, 2021 | 4E | 2 BR · 1 BA | $850,000 | -2.9% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2024): a median $714/sf across 2 sales. The building has traded as recently as 2025. Median listing discount 3.6% 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.
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 1-01468-0041) 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.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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Comparable buildings
- 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.
More Upper East Side buildings
- Bridge Tower Place (401 East 60th Street) — 2000 condominium by Costas Kondylis & Partners
- Gracie Towne House (401 East 89th Street) — 1960 condop by Philip Birnbaum & Associates
- The Amherst (401 East 74th Street) — 1962 co-op
- River East Plaza (402 East 90th Street) — condominium
- 404 East 66th Street — 1960 condominium
- 404 East 76th Street (The Impala) — 2000 condominium
The neighborhood
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How to read the facts on this page. Items attributed to an offering plan describe the building as it was offered at that filing — unit mix, square footage, the amenity program as planned. They are not a statement about how the building operates today. Tax and compliance figures are sourced separately to current City records and carry their own dates. House rules, staffing and fee policy can change by board resolution without any public filing: treat every policy line here as a starting point for diligence and confirm it with the managing agent. Where this page compares one building or neighborhood to another, that is our analysis of the recorded record — it names the measure, the period and the sample it rests on, and it is an observation about medians rather than a prediction about any particular apartment.
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