455 East 57th Street
455 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022
Sutton Place
BBL 1013690019 · BIN 1040542
- Year built
- 1927
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2005–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- Recent range
- $850K – $2.3M
- Listing discount
- 3.3%
- Recorded transfers
- 39
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 455 East 57th 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.
455 East 57th Street belongs to the quietest, most rarefied stretch of Manhattan's East Side: the tail of 57th Street where it slips past Sutton Place and reaches the river. This is not the 57th Street of Billionaires' Row towers — it is the older, lower, intensely private Sutton enclave, the neighborhood Effingham B. Sutton tried to establish in the 1870s and that the Vanderbilts, Morgans, and a generation of society architects finished in the 1920s. By the time Kenneth Murchison designed 455 in 1927, the surrounding blocks were filling with the masonry co-ops and discreet townhouses that still define the area.
The building's defining quality is its intimacy. At roughly four dozen residences across sixteen floors, 455 East 57th Street is a genuinely small cooperative — the kind of building where the staff knows every shareholder, where turnover is rare, and where the appeal is privacy rather than spectacle. Murchison gave it a restrained Neo-Renaissance face in red brick with limestone detailing, the kind of dignified pre-war envelope that has aged into permanence.
For buyers, the case is the Sutton trade itself: a serene, river-adjacent address; a small, well-run cooperative with a full-time doorman and a live-in resident manager; and board policies that are notably more accommodating than the Sutton norm — pets welcome, pied-à-terre purchases permitted, and financing allowed to a useful 70%.
Architecture and unit composition
Murchison's design is pre-war in the best Sutton sense: a sixteen-story red-brick mass over a limestone base, with the proportioned windows, modest cornice, and quiet ornament of the late-1920s Neo-Renaissance idiom. There is no flourish for its own sake; the building's confidence is in its scale and its materials, which read as solid and aristocratic rather than showy.
Inside, the small unit count translates to generous, low-density floors — most levels hold only a few apartments, so layouts tend to be gracious, with the hard-plaster walls, real foyers, separate dining rooms, and high ceilings that buyers seek in pre-war stock. The lobby and elevators retain their period character, a detail that matters to buyers shopping for the genuine article rather than a renovated facsimile. Many homes capture light and air from the building's near-riverfront position, with the better lines reaching toward the East River.
Building operations
455 East 57th Street runs as a traditional full-service cooperative. A full-time doorman attends the lobby and a live-in resident manager oversees the building day to day, with the private storage and central laundry that shareholders expect. The scale is the point: a small building with steady staffing and low turnover tends to be well-kept and tightly run, with maintenance reflecting a modest household count rather than a sprawling tower.
The board's policies are unusually flexible for the corridor. Pets are permitted, pied-à-terre ownership is allowed — a meaningful concession in a neighborhood where many co-ops require primary residence — and the building permits financing up to 70% of the purchase price. A 2% flip tax is paid by the buyer at closing. Together these terms make 455 more accessible to part-time New Yorkers and to buyers who need conventional financing than many of its Sutton peers.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- Per unit / month range
- —
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City record last verified September 2026.
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 7, 2025 | 11A | 5 BR · 3 BA | $2,287,500 | -16.8% | |
| Aug 7, 2025 | 15B | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,200 sf | $1,600,000 | $727/sf | -3.0% |
| Jul 15, 2025 | MAISA | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,900,000 | -5.0% | |
| May 27, 2025 | 4C | 2 BR · 2 BA | $950,000 | -3.6% | |
| Aug 2, 2023 | 1B | 1 BR · 3 BA · 850 sf | $850,000 | $1,000/sf | +0.0% |
| Aug 11, 2022 | 12A | 1 BR · 1.5 BA | $986,000 | -10.0% | |
| Apr 29, 2022 | 2C | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,300 sf | $1,375,000 | $1,058/sf | -8.0% |
| Apr 8, 2022 | 12D | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,080 sf | $1,855,000 | $892/sf | -6.1% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2025): a median $779/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 3.8% 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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2006 | 5B | $495,000 |
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 1-01369-0019) 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
This is a pre-war cooperative, so plan for a board package and interview — but with friendlier terms than the corridor average. The 70% financing allowance means you do not need the deep cash position many Sutton co-ops demand, and the pied-à-terre policy makes the building viable for buyers who keep a primary home elsewhere. Budget the 2% buyer-paid flip tax into your closing costs.
Buy for the layout and the light. In a small pre-war building the homes vary line by line; the gracious floor plans, real foyers, and separate dining rooms are the draw, and the higher, river-facing lines are the ones to chase. Because turnover is low, be prepared to move when the right apartment surfaces rather than waiting for a wide field of choices.
Underwrite the building's small scale as a feature. A modest household count means attentive staffing and a closely held reserve picture; review the building's financials and any planned capital work, and weigh the value of a quiet, well-run cooperative over a larger building with more amenities but less intimacy.
What to know if you’re selling
Market the Sutton story and the building's accommodating terms together. A serene, near-riverfront address; a small, full-service 1927 cooperative; and a board that welcomes pets, permits pied-à-terre ownership, and allows 70% financing is a combination that widens your buyer pool well beyond the typical Sutton co-op. Those policies are a selling point — say so plainly.
Lead with the apartment's pre-war bones. Foyers, separate dining rooms, ceiling height, and light are what this buyer is paying for; stage and present the layout to make them legible. Price against the small, full-service pre-war cooperatives of Sutton and Beekman rather than against newer or larger buildings, and use the building's low turnover to frame scarcity — when a home here is available, comparable inventory is genuinely limited.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 455 East 57th Street, also evaluate nearby Sutton and Beekman cooperatives:
- 430 East 57th Street — McKim, Mead & White–designed Sutton cooperative
- 444 East 57th Street — the 1929 Lafayette A. Goldstone pre-war condominium
- 1 Beekman Place — prestigious Beekman Place cooperative
- 2 Beekman Place — the Rosario Candela co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, 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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