520 Fifth Avenue
520 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10036
Central Midtown
BBL 1012597503 · BIN 1091887
- Type
- Condominium
- Landmark
- No
Every recorded sale at this building, 2025–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $2,645
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded sales
- 106
- On record
- 2025–2026
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520 Fifth Avenue is among the tallest residential buildings on Fifth Avenue — a roughly 1,000-foot supertall rising near the Empire State Building, developed by Rabina and designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox. It is a rare thing on this stretch of Midtown: a brand-new, top-of-market condominium dropped into a corridor defined by commercial towers and prewar stock, conceived to bring trophy-tier residential product to the heart of Fifth Avenue.
The building is mixed-use by design — boutique luxury office floors and Moss, a private members' club, occupy the lower portion, with the 100 condominium residences beginning high in the tower. That structure gives buyers altitude, light, and protected views that lower buildings on these blocks cannot, paired with the financing latitude and ownership flexibility a condominium offers. For a buyer who wants a new supertall home on Fifth Avenue — with a members' club downstairs and the entire Midtown skyline out the window — 520 Fifth is built to be the address.
Architecture and residences
Kohn Pedersen Fox designed the tower with a contemporary, masonry-influenced expression rather than a pure glass curtain wall — a register meant to read as substantial and permanent against the Midtown skyline rather than as another reflective slab. At roughly 1,000 feet, the building reorders the Fifth Avenue silhouette around the Empire State Building, and its slender form delivers high floors with sweeping, multi-directional outlooks.
The 100 residences sit at the top of the tower, beginning above the office and club floors, which means even the lower residential homes start well into the air. New construction here delivers contemporary ceiling heights, modern mechanical and air systems, full-height glazing, and a high-specification finish program. Debut pricing opened in the low seven figures for the smaller homes and scales sharply with floor and exposure as the tower rises — the highest floors command the trophy premium that the building's altitude and views support.
Amenities and lifestyle
The building's signature amenity is Moss, a private members' club operated within it — a hospitality program that sets 520 Fifth apart from a conventional residential tower and gives residents a curated social and service layer downstairs. Alongside it, the residential floors carry the full amenity and attended-service program expected of a new luxury condominium at this tier.
The location is pure central Midtown: steps from Bryant Park and the New York Public Library, a short walk to Grand Central and the Fifth Avenue retail spine, and surrounded by Midtown's transit, dining, and office core. For a buyer who wants to be at the literal center of the city — with the park, the library, the trains, and Fifth Avenue all within a few blocks — the setting is unmatched, and the altitude turns that central address into open sky.
Ownership and what buyers should know
As a new condominium, 520 Fifth offers what its commercial-and-prewar neighbors structurally do not. Financing is flexible — condominiums impose no co-op-style financing cap. There is no board admissions process — purchases clear through a right-of-first-refusal rather than a board package and interview. Pied-à-terre, trust, LLC, and investment ownership are customary, and subletting and resale are materially freer than at a cooperative. The pricing tier runs from the low seven figures at the smaller homes to the top of the market at the highest floors; comparable analysis belongs against new Midtown and Billionaires' Row condominium product rather than older stock. The residences are offered under a condominium plan accepted for filing by the New York State Attorney General, with Rabina as sponsor; closing mechanics, common-charge and tax projections, and finish selections follow that plan, and we help buyers read it, benchmark the pricing, and structure the deal.
Recent sales
Recent closings 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2026 | 64A | 3 BR · 3.5 BA · 1,944 sf | $6,450,000 | $3,318/sf | +4.9% |
| Aug 11, 2026 | 43B | 3 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,506 sf | $6,775,000 | $2,704/sf | +0.0% |
| Aug 10, 2026 | 63A | 3 BR · 3.5 BA · 1,951 sf | $5,800,000 | $2,973/sf | +0.0% |
| Aug 10, 2026 | PH74 | 4 BR · 4.5 BA · 3,302 sf | $12,500,000 | $3,786/sf | -2.0% |
| Aug 7, 2026 | PH75 | 3 BR · 3.5 BA · 3,095 sf | $11,475,000 | $3,708/sf | -4.0% |
| Aug 6, 2026 | 64B | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,691 sf | $5,250,000 | $3,105/sf | -3.7% |
| Aug 5, 2026 | 44B | 3 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,341 sf | $6,300,000 | $2,691/sf | -3.4% |
| Aug 5, 2026 | 45A | 2 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,607 sf | $4,725,000 | $2,940/sf | -5.4% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $2,645/sf across 75 sales. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
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 1-01259-7503) 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
What to know if you’re selling
The marketing core is altitude, authorship, and address: a roughly 1,000-foot KPF-designed supertall on Fifth Avenue, with a members' club in the building and views no surrounding structure can match. Sellers should benchmark to new Midtown and Billionaires'-Row condominium pricing, not to the corridor's older inventory, and present the condominium's lighter closing mechanics — a right-of-first-refusal rather than a board process — as the faster, more flexible path the building's buyer pool will value. With only 100 residences and the first owners just taking title, early resale inventory will be thin, and a well-positioned home trades on the scarcity of comparable new product on Fifth Avenue.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 520 Fifth Avenue, also evaluate these Midtown and Fifth Avenue buildings:
- 111 West 57th Street — SHoP Architects's 2021 Billionaires' Row condominium
- 277 Fifth Avenue — Fifth Avenue condominium tower
- 262 Fifth Avenue — slender Fifth Avenue tower
- 400 Fifth Avenue — a Gwathmey Siegel-designed condominium
- 146 West 57th Street — Harry Macklowe's 78-story black-glass triangular condominium
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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