407 East 91st Street
407 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128
Yorkville, Upper East Side
BBL 1015710008 · BIN 1050751
- Year built
- 1901
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $658
- Listing discount
- 6.4%
- Recorded sales
- 28
- On record
- 2004–2025
407 East 91st Street is one of Yorkville's genuine loft cooperatives — a building that began life in 1901 as a piano factory and was reborn around 1980 as a 35-unit co-op, decades before the loft-conversion wave reached most of the Upper East Side. That industrial pedigree is the whole point. Where the surrounding blocks are filled with conventional pre-war and post-war apartment stock laid out in standard rooms, the residences here inherit the proportions of a factory floor: high ceilings, deep open spans, and the kind of light that comes from windows scaled for daytime work rather than parlor living.
The result is an address that reads differently from anything else in the immediate neighborhood. Buyers who want a downtown loft sensibility — volume, flexibility, and architectural character — without leaving the quiet, family-anchored streets of far East Yorkville come here precisely because the inventory is rare. At five stories and 35 apartments, it is intimate and low-key, an owner-occupied building rather than a managed tower, and it trades on the strength of its space rather than on a marble lobby.
Architecture and unit composition
The building's bones are its best argument. As a converted industrial structure, 407 East 91st Street offers loft-style homes with high ceilings and large open floor areas — layouts that lend themselves to lofts, home offices, and combined living-and-entertaining spaces in a way that boxy apartment plans rarely do. Some residences carry distinctive features that survived or were added in conversion, including upper-floor units with private outdoor space; the building's terraces and sunrooms are among its most sought-after attributes.
With 35 units across five floors, density is low and most owners enjoy a real sense of privacy. The masonry exterior is unfussy and authentic to its 1901 origins — a workmanlike façade that signals the building's history rather than dressing it up. Apartments range from studios and lofts to larger multi-room layouts, with the open plans giving buyers latitude to configure space to their own use.
Building operations
407 East 91st Street is run as a self-contained, owner-occupied cooperative. The building has an elevator, a live-in resident superintendent who handles day-to-day maintenance and security, a central laundry room, and a package and storage room. There is no doorman — consistent with a boutique loft building of this scale — and a parking garage sits directly across the street, an unusual convenience this far east. There is also bicycle storage for residents.
On house policy, the building is pet-friendly, and washer/dryers are permitted within apartments — both meaningful for loft buyers and not a given in pre-war Yorkville stock. As with most cooperatives, purchases are subject to board review and approval, and financing and sublet terms follow the building's proprietary lease and house rules; we walk buyers through the current specifics as part of any transaction.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $622/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $1
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 | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2025 | 4E | 1 BR · 1 BA · 1,124 sf | $740,000 | $658/sf | -12.9% |
| Jan 9, 2025 | 4B | 4 BR · 2 BA | $2,175,000 | -3.3% | |
| Apr 27, 2023 | 5B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,325,000 | -5.0% | |
| Jul 27, 2022 | 1A | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,330,000 | -5.0% | |
| Oct 27, 2021 | 5G | 3 BR · 2 BA | $1,925,000 | +2.7% | |
| Sep 9, 2021 | 2A | 2 BR · 1 BA | $835,000 | -6.7% | |
| Sep 20, 2019 | 2D | 1 BR · 1 BA · 1,100 sf | $795,000 | $723/sf | +0.0% |
| Aug 22, 2019 | 4B | 4 BR · 2 BA · 2,500 sf | $2,200,000 | $880/sf | -10.2% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $658/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 6.4% 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 1-01571-0008) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
The appeal here is space and character, and the diligence should follow the space. Confirm the exact ceiling height, window exposure, and outdoor-space rights of the specific unit, since loft conversions vary line to line. Because this is a cooperative, expect a board package and interview, and budget for the building's maintenance and any underlying-mortgage and reserve posture — a five-story building with 35 owners spreads costs across a small base, so reviewing the financials matters. The pet-friendly, washer/dryer-permitted rules are a genuine plus for the loft buyer. The location — between First and York in deep Yorkville — puts Carl Schurz Park, Asphalt Green, the Q train at 96th/Second Avenue, and the crosstown bus all within easy reach, with neighborhood restaurants and groceries close by.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with what is rare: this is a true loft cooperative in a neighborhood that has almost none. The marketing should foreground ceiling height, open volume, light, and — where applicable — private outdoor space, because those are the attributes a buyer cannot replicate in standard Yorkville inventory. Stage to show the flexibility of an open plan rather than forcing it into conventional rooms. With so few units, comparable sales are thin, so positioning against both the building's own history of trades and the broader Yorkville loft and value market is essential to pricing correctly. The pet and washer/dryer policies are selling points worth stating plainly.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 407 East 91st Street, these nearby Yorkville and East 80s/90s cooperatives make a useful comparison set:
- 333 East 91st Street — Yorkville cooperative a short walk west
- 161 East 91st Street — pre-war co-op on the same street toward Lexington
- 345 East 86th Street — full-service Yorkville cooperative to the south
- 400 East 85th Street — established East 80s co-op near the river
The neighborhood
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