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420 East 86th StreetRecorded sales & closing prices
420 East 86th Street, New York, NY 10028
28 recorded closings, 2003–2025. Sortable and searchable below.
- Recorded closings
- 28
- Date range
- 2003–2025
- Median $/sf
- $892
- Listing discount
- 2.3%
- Monthly carry/sf
- $1.58
- Price range
- $325K – $1.09M
Change in the building’s median $/sf over each window, on a floor-adjusted basis — standardized to the building’s average floor, so it reflects price rather than which floors happened to sell. This is a different method from The Roebling Index, which publishes plain medians and applies no floor adjustment; the two are not interchangeable. Floor adjustment standardizes for floor only. It does not control for condition, size, exposure, renovation or the mix of what happened to trade. (2022 marks the rate-shock inflection.) Like-for-like repeat-sale figures to follow.
Units trade by the square foot, and sizes vary by line. The E and H units are the smallest entry apartments, and the A and D lines are the largest layouts. Pricing sits below the full-service postwar condominiums on 86th Street and above most Yorkville walk-up co-ops, because fee ownership and condominium rules come at a prewar scale. Sponsor sales and private resales are different transactions: check which one you are comparing against.
Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The complete recorded-sale history for 420 East 86th Street, compiled from NYC Department of Finance transfer records, with apartment-by-apartment detail from The Roebling Research Library. Across sales with a public asking price, the building carries a median listing discount of 2.3% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.
Price per square foot over time
22 sales with a known square footage, by closing date.
Recent closings
The building’s 10 most recent market sales.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | $/sf | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 2025 | 4H | 1 BA · 562 sf | $485,000 | $863 | -11.7% |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 3B | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,100 sf | $1,075,000 | $977 | +0.0% |
| Oct 18, 2022 | 2E | 1 BA · 600 sf | $415,000 | $692 | -4.6% |
| Jul 27, 2017 | 1B | 2 BR · 1.5 BA · 950 sf | $920,000 | $968 | -0.5% |
| Jun 3, 2014 | 3E | 556 sf | $479,000 | $862 | +0.0% |
| May 15, 2014 | 3G | 1 BR · 1 BA · 845 sf | $750,000 | $888 | -2.0% |
| Oct 29, 2013 | 2F | 860 sf | $325,000 | $378 | — |
| Jun 27, 2013 | 6E | 1 BA · 556 sf | $432,000 | $777 | — |
| Feb 11, 2013 | 5C | 2 BR · 950 sf | $770,000 | $811 | -14.3% |
| Nov 18, 2011 | 3B | 2 BR · 1,100 sf | $825,000 | $750 | -5.7% |
The retrade record
Lines that have changed hands more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Every recorded sale
Sort any column; filter by unit or keyword. Prices are the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance. Every sale sits in one of three states: counted in the building’s medians and trend; shown but excluded as a non-arms-length or nominal transfer; or shown and ⚑ flagged for review — a possible duplicate filing or an extreme $/sf outlier, held out of the statistics pending manual verification rather than allowed to move them.
| Apartment | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 2025 | 4H | 1 BA | 562 | $485,000 | $863 | -11.7% |
| Oct 31, 2025 | 3B | 2 BR · 2 BA | 1,100 | $1,075,000 | $977 | +0.0% |
| Oct 18, 2022 | 2E | 1 BA | 600 | $415,000 | $692 | -4.6% |
| Dec 31, 2018 | 4A | 2 BR · 2 BAoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,260,000 | — | +5.4% |
| Jul 27, 2017 | 1B | 2 BR · 1.5 BA | 950 | $920,000 | $968 | -0.5% |
| Mar 14, 2016 | 6E | 1 BAoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $550,000 | — | +0.0% |
| Jun 3, 2014 | 3E | 556 | $479,000 | $862 | +0.0% | |
| May 15, 2014 | 3G | 1 BR · 1 BA | 845 | $750,000 | $888 | -2.0% |
| Oct 29, 2013 | 2F | 860 | $325,000 | $378 | — | |
| Jun 27, 2013 | 6E | 1 BA | 556 | $432,000 | $777 | — |
| Feb 11, 2013 | 5C | 2 BR | 950 | $770,000 | $811 | -14.3% |
| Nov 18, 2011 | 3B | 2 BR | 1,100 | $825,000 | $750 | -5.7% |
| Apr 20, 2011 | 2C | 2 BR | 1,100 | $800,000 | $727 | -5.3% |
| Nov 9, 2010 | 4F | 1 BR | 860 | $610,000 | $709 | -2.4% |
| Sep 4, 2009 | 6E | 556 | $425,000 | $764 | -2.3% | |
| Aug 25, 2009 | 6F | 1 BR | 835 | $545,000 | $653 | -9.0% |
| Nov 5, 2008 | 6E | 556 | $370,000 | $665 | -14.9% | |
| Jul 8, 2008 | 1H | 550 | $495,000 | $900 | -2.9% | |
| Apr 4, 2007 | 3A | 2 BR | 1,186 | $1,089,000 | $918 | — |
| Nov 28, 2006 | 4F | 1 BR | 860 | $650,000 | $756 | -3.7% |
| Sep 25, 2006 | 5H | 556 | $460,000 | $827 | — | |
| Apr 13, 2006 | 6E | non-market transfer (excluded from $/sf & trends) | 556 | $260,000 | — | — |
| Jan 31, 2006 | 4F | 1 BRnon-market transfer (excluded from $/sf & trends) | 860 | $150,000 | — | — |
| Oct 12, 2004 | 3E | 556 | $350,000 | $629 | +7.7% | |
| Oct 6, 2004 | 4G | 1 BRoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $527,500 | — | +0.5% |
| Jun 14, 2004 | 5C | 2 BR | 1,100 | $769,000 | $699 | +0.0% |
| May 20, 2004 | 2E | outside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $315,000 | — | +0.0% |
| Oct 15, 2003 | 3D | 2 BR | 1,200 | $675,000 | $563 | — |
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01565-7501; each condominium apartment is its own tax lot). 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans. Storage, parking, and commercial units are excluded from all figures. Floor- and line-level $/sf are time-controlled (each sale measured against the building’s going rate at the time of sale) and expressed at today’s pricing, so they isolate the floor or line premium rather than blend two decades of market movement.
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