45 East 85th Street

Schwartz & Gross designed the building in the confident Renaissance Revival idiom they used across the prewar city — the same hand behind landmark apartment houses elsewhere on the Upper West and East Sides. Here the result is a red-brick elevation rising from a half-story white-marble base, anchored by a grand two-story marble entrance surround and dressed with terracotta detailing. The nine-story height keeps the building in scale with the townhouses and low apartment houses around it, in keeping with the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District.

Inside, the homes are predominantly six-, seven-, and eight-room layouts, with a few smaller apartments — the entry-gallery, separate-dining, high-ceilinged plans the period was built for. With 46 residences across nine floors, the floor plates are generous and the building stays personal, supported by an attentive full-service staff.

45 East 85th is a full-service cooperative with an attended lobby, a live-in superintendent, central laundry, private storage, and a bike room. As a long-established Carnegie Hill house, it operates on board approval with a thorough package-and-interview process and the conservative financial posture typical of the neighborhood's best prewar buildings — terms that keep the building well-capitalized and its resident base owner-committed. A transfer fee may apply at closing under house policy; we confirm the building's current financing cap and any sublet terms for clients in contract so the underwriting is exact.

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.

Market read. Most recent trades (2023) cleared a median $1,359/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 6.7% 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 1-01497-0028) 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.

This is a board-approval cooperative with the conservative posture of a top Carnegie Hill house. Plan a thorough package and underwrite to strong post-closing liquidity; confirm your intended use against the building's owner-occupancy orientation. Budget any transfer fee into your closing math. The reward is a gracious six-, seven-, or eight-room prewar home on a quiet Madison-to-Park block, with the relative value Carnegie Hill side streets offer against the marquee avenue addresses. We pressure-test your package against the board's expectations before you submit.

The marketing case is the apartment and the address: a Schwartz & Gross prewar home with classic six-, seven-, or eight-room proportions, on one of Carnegie Hill's most desirable blocks. Inventory is thin, so a well-prepared listing draws a focused, qualified pool — preparation, light staging, and accurate pricing against the live comparable set convert that interest into an accepted offer. Price to recent Carnegie Hill prewar closings of similar size, floor, and condition. The Roebling Team prepares the board-package narrative alongside the listing so an accepted offer clears review the first time.

If you're considering 45 East 85th Street, also evaluate these nearby Carnegie Hill and Upper East Side cooperatives:

• 35 East 85th Street — prewar cooperative on the same block
• 111 East 85th Street — full-service East 85th Street cooperative
• 205 East 85th Street — Carnegie Hill / Yorkville cooperative
• 400 East 85th Street — Upper East Side cooperative peer
• 1115 Madison Avenue — prewar Madison Avenue cooperative nearby

The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in Carnegie Hill, Madison and Fifth Avenue, and the Upper East Side prewar cooperative market. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers evaluating a building this specific deserve building-level intelligence — the architecture, the board posture, the amenity set, and where a given apartment sits against the live comparable set.

If you're weighing a purchase or sale at 45 East 85th, a 30-minute consultation is the right first step — we'll walk the building, the policies, and the pricing with you.