434 East 58th Street
434 East 58th Street, New York, NY 10022
BBL 1013690033 · BIN 1040548
- Year built
- 1930
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 24
- Floors
- 5
- Pets
- Confirm current board policy at offer stage
- Subletting
- Permitted under board-set terms; confirm at offer stage
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $315K – $315K
- Listing discount
- 1.4%
- Recorded transfers
- 23
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 434 East 58th Street would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
434 East 58th Street is a pre-war cooperative on one of the most desirable stretches of the East Side — the low-rise, tree-shaded Sutton Place blocks that run down toward the East River. Sutton Place has been a byword for quiet, patrician Manhattan living since the 1920s, when society families and design tastemakers reshaped these streets into an enclave of townhouses and intimate apartment buildings. 434 East 58th Street belongs to that world: a boutique, human-scaled building on a block that has kept its calm despite sitting a few minutes from Midtown's business core.
For the buyer who wants pre-war character and a genuinely quiet address without the mass and cost structure of a full-service tower, the building is a clean proposition — a 24-unit, five-story cooperative with the pre-war detail, including wood-burning fireplaces, that new construction cannot replicate.
Building operations
The cooperative runs lean and appropriately for its scale: an elevator, private storage, and a live-in superintendent. There is no doorman — standard and sensible for a boutique 24-unit pre-war co-op, and a meaningful factor in keeping monthly maintenance contained.
As a cooperative, ownership is by shares rather than deed: purchases require board approval and a board interview, financing is capped at a board-set percentage, and pied-à-terre, gifting, guarantor, and co-purchase arrangements are evaluated case by case. Subletting is permitted under terms set by the board. The exact financing maximum, any flip tax, the pet policy, and current sublet rules vary by board policy and should be confirmed at offer stage.
Architecture and residences
Built in 1930, the building is a five-story pre-war elevator cooperative — the modest, well-proportioned scale typical of the Sutton Place side streets rather than the avenue towers. Inside, the homes carry pre-war fundamentals: defined rooms, solid construction, and the layout logic of early-twentieth-century apartment living. A notable distinction here is that many of the apartments retain working wood-burning fireplaces, an increasingly rare amenity in Manhattan and a signature of the building's era and character.
With only 24 residences across five floors, the building is small by design, which keeps the common areas intimate and the shareholder community tight-knit.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 emissions caps apply. No regulatory capital pressure from this law specifically, current or 2030.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
Co-op pricing is read on a per-room basis, and 434 East 58th Street trades as a boutique pre-war cooperative — modest carrying costs, pre-war layouts, and the added draw of wood-burning fireplaces. With only 24 residences, resale volume is thin: a small number of closings in an active year. Demand here is driven by the Sutton Place address, the quiet block, and the value a co-op structure offers relative to nearby condominiums. When underwriting a purchase or a list price, capture the room count, the floor, the exposure, the fireplace, and the renovation condition rather than relying on a neighborhood average.
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.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 2025 | 3D | 1 BA · 475 sf | $385,000 | $811/sf | -3.5% |
| Oct 3, 2024 | 1A | 1 BA · 475 sf | $315,000 | $663/sf | -24.1% |
| Jul 1, 2021 | 1CD | 2 BR · 3 BA | $850,000 | -5.5% | |
| May 14, 2019 | 4C | $395,000 | -1.0% | ||
| Apr 10, 2018 | 4AB | 3 BR · 1,250 sf | $875,000 | $700/sf | -2.8% |
| Jan 10, 2018 | 5A | 450 sf | $472,000 | $1,049/sf | -1.7% |
| Dec 22, 2016 | 6B | $349,000 | +0.0% | ||
| Jun 27, 2014 | 4D | 1 BA · 400 sf | $275,000 | $688/sf | +0.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $811/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 1.7% 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 1-01369-0033). 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.
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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What to know if you’re buying
This is a cooperative, so the path is a board package and interview, a financing cap set by the board, and underwriting of the building's financials and house rules. Confirm the points that matter to you — the pet policy, sublet rules, and pied-à-terre stance — directly against current board policy. Review the co-op's financials, reserve, and any planned capital work, particularly given the building's age. Note also that the block has seen significant nearby development pressure; a clear-eyed read of the building's light, exposures, and any adjacent construction is part of prudent diligence here.
The reasons to buy are the address and the character: a genuinely quiet Sutton Place block, pre-war scale, wood-burning fireplaces, and a cooperative cost structure that keeps the entry point and carrying costs below full-service condominium peers nearby.
What to know if you’re selling
The story is location and character. The Sutton Place address, the 1930 pre-war architecture, and the wood-burning fireplaces are the differentiators — and they sell to a specific buyer who wants a quiet, established East Side enclave and is comfortable with a co-op. Pricing is an apartment-specific exercise: room count, floor, light, fireplace, and condition drive the number more than any block average. We position the Sutton Place narrative, prepare the buyer for the co-op process, and benchmark against the right comparable tier of pre-war East Side cooperatives.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 434 East 58th Street, also look at these nearby Sutton Place and Midtown East buildings:
- 430 East 58th Street — pre-war cooperative on the same block
- 425 East 58th Street — nearby Sutton Place building
- 420 East 58th Street — nearby Sutton Place building
- 339 East 58th Street — nearby Midtown East building
- 1 Beekman Place — Sloan & Robertson with Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray's 1929 Sutton Place cooperative
- 303 East 57th Street — nearby Sutton Place / Midtown East building
More Sutton Place buildings
- 433 East 57th Street — 1927 co-op
- The George, 433 East 56th Street — 1967 co-op
- 434 East 52nd Street — 1928 co-op by Emery Roth
- River House (435 East 52nd Street) — 1931 co-op by Bottomley, Wagner & White
- Beekman Mansion, 439 East 51st Street — 1925 co-op
- 440 East 57th Street — 1961 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Sutton Place — read The Roebling Team Guide to Sutton Place.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
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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