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55 East 86th StreetRecorded sales & closing prices
55 East 86th Street, New York, NY 10028
31 recorded closings, 2004–2022. Sortable and searchable below.
- Recorded closings
- 31
- Date range
- 2004–2022
- Median $/sf
- $1,830
- Listing discount
- 2.9%
- Monthly carry/sf
- $2.42
- Price range
- $1.15M – $4.75M
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.
The building is a prewar condominium in Carnegie Hill. Establish current price ranges from dated transactions matched for size, floor, condition, exposure and monthly costs; compare cooperative and newer condominium alternatives with adjustments for their ownership terms rather than assume a fixed pricing hierarchy.
The correct comparable set is narrow. Prewar co-ops on the same blocks match on layout and vintage but carry an entirely different policy and financing framework, which shows up as a price gap that has nothing to do with the apartments; nearby new construction matches on tenure but not on scale, ceiling heights or carry. With 46 residences across four lines, a building average tells a buyer very little — underwrite line by line and floor by floor. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The complete recorded-sale history for 55 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 2.9% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.
Price per square foot over time
20 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 12, 2022 | 2C2D | 3 BR · 3 BA · 1,740 sf | $2,570,000 | $1,477 | -19.6% |
| Jun 17, 2022 | 12B | 4 BR · 3 BA · 2,006 sf | $4,750,000 | $2,368 | -9.5% |
| May 27, 2022 | 9B | 4 BR · 3 BA · 2,200 sf | $3,650,000 | $1,659 | -26.3% |
| Nov 24, 2020 | 3C | 2 BR · 1 BA · 1,200 sf | $1,480,000 | $1,233 | -1.3% |
| Jun 30, 2014 | 15C | 3 BR · 1,643 sf | $3,500,000 | $2,130 | -6.7% |
| May 22, 2014 | 3C | 2 BR · 1,000 sf | $1,462,500 | $1,463 | +1.6% |
| Apr 23, 2013 | 4C | 2 BR · 995 sf | $1,150,000 | $1,156 | — |
| Oct 11, 2012 | 12B | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,200 sf | $4,700,000 | $2,136 | -5.9% |
| Aug 24, 2011 | 12B | 3 BR · 2,200 sf | $4,647,500 | $2,113 | -3.1% |
| Mar 4, 2011 | 16B | 3 BR · 2,200 sf | $3,650,000 | $1,659 | -8.6% |
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 12, 2022 | 2C2D | 3 BR · 3 BA | 1,740 | $2,570,000 | $1,477 | -19.6% |
| Jun 17, 2022 | 12B | 4 BR · 3 BA | 2,006 | $4,750,000 | $2,368 | -9.5% |
| May 27, 2022 | 9B | 4 BR · 3 BA | 2,200 | $3,650,000 | $1,659 | -26.3% |
| Aug 26, 2021 | 9C | 3 BR · 2.5 BAoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $3,285,000 | — | +0.0% |
| Nov 24, 2020 | 3C | 2 BR · 1 BA | 1,200 | $1,480,000 | $1,233 | -1.3% |
| Jun 30, 2014 | 15C | 3 BR | 1,643 | $3,500,000 | $2,130 | -6.7% |
| May 22, 2014 | 3C | 2 BR | 1,000 | $1,462,500 | $1,463 | +1.6% |
| Oct 17, 2013 | 4C | 2 BRoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $1,270,000 | — | +1.6% |
| Jul 15, 2013 | 7AC | 5 BRoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $9,490,000 | — | -2.7% |
| Apr 23, 2013 | 4C | 2 BR | 995 | $1,150,000 | $1,156 | — |
| Mar 1, 2013 | 6C | 3 BR · 2.5 BAoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $2,925,000 | — | -7.1% |
| Oct 11, 2012 | 12B | 3 BR · 3 BA | 2,200 | $4,700,000 | $2,136 | -5.9% |
| Jul 3, 2012 | 9B | 4 BRoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $4,300,000 | — | +0.0% |
| Aug 24, 2011 | 12B | 3 BR | 2,200 | $4,647,500 | $2,113 | -3.1% |
| Jul 19, 2011 | 3C | 2 BRnon-market transfer (excluded from $/sf & trends) | 1,000 | $1,200,000 | — | — |
| Mar 4, 2011 | 16B | 3 BR | 2,200 | $3,650,000 | $1,659 | -8.6% |
| Jul 17, 2008 | 9B | 4 BR | 2,006 | $4,300,000 | $2,144 | — |
| Jun 12, 2008 | 10B | 3 BR | 2,006 | $4,175,000 | $2,081 | -6.2% |
| Mar 13, 2008 | 6B | 3 BR | 2,006 | $3,800,000 | $1,894 | +0.1% |
| Jan 31, 2008 | 1B | 1,900 | $4,050,000 | $2,132 | -19.0% | |
| Jul 30, 2007 | 2C | 2 BR | 995 | $1,150,000 | $1,156 | — |
| Jul 9, 2007 | 12B | 3 BR | 2,200 | $4,300,000 | $1,955 | +7.6% |
| Jun 22, 2007 | 7C | 3 BR | 1,700 | $2,700,000 | $1,588 | -2.7% |
| Sep 13, 2006 | 6C | 3 BRoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $2,500,000 | — | -5.7% |
| Apr 13, 2006 | 7A | 3 BRoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $2,575,000 | — | -26.4% |
| Jan 24, 2006 | 3C | 2 BR · 1 BAnon-market transfer (excluded from $/sf & trends) | 1,200 | $985,000 | — | — |
| Oct 17, 2005 | 15B | 2,006 | $3,200,000 | $1,595 | — | |
| Aug 22, 2005 | 6A | 3 BR | 2,100 | $2,800,000 | $1,333 | +0.0% |
| Aug 2, 2005 | 7A | 3 BR | 2,008 | $3,600,000 | $1,793 | — |
| Aug 10, 2004 | 2C | 2 BR · 1 BAoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $800,000 | — | +11.1% |
| Mar 15, 2004 | 4C | 2 BRoutside the market statistics (eligibility screen) | — | $820,000 | — | -3.4% |
The latest qualifying transfer in our compiled records for this building is from 2022. The dataset is current through September 2026; that does not by itself establish that no later sale occurred.
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01498-7501; 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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