55 East 86th StreetRecorded sales & closing prices
55 East 86th Street, New York, NY 10028
33 recorded closings, 2004–2022. Sortable and searchable below.
- Recorded closings
- 33
- Date range
- 2004–2022
- Median $/sf
- $1,882
- 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, adjusted to a floor-adjusted basis — standardized to the building’s average floor, so it reflects price rather than which floors happened to sell. (2022 marks the rate-shock inflection.) Like-for-like repeat-sale figures to follow.
The building trades as one of the few genuine prewar condominium options in Carnegie Hill, and pricing reflects that scarcity rather than the finish level of any individual apartment. Recent activity has centered in the low-to-mid three-million-dollar range for the larger prewar layouts, with the smaller lines trading well below that. On a dollars-per-square-foot basis the building prices above the surrounding prewar cooperative stock and below the new-construction condominiums that have arrived on East 86th Street in the last decade.
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, and index any market statement to the last complete year. 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 and verified listing data, then enriched apartment-by-apartment by The Roebling Team research desk. 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
19 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% |
| Oct 1, 2021 | 1C | 1,295 sf | $3,950,000 | $3,050 | — |
| Aug 26, 2021 | 9C | 3 BR · 2.5 BA | $3,285,000 | +0.0% | |
| 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% |
| Oct 17, 2013 | 4C | 2 BR | $1,270,000 | +1.6% | |
| Jul 15, 2013 | 7AC | 5 BR | $9,490,000 | -2.7% | |
| Apr 23, 2013 | 4C | 2 BR · 995 sf | $1,150,000 | $1,156 | — |
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% |
| Oct 1, 2021 | 1C | 1,295 | $3,950,000 | $3,050 | — | |
| Aug 26, 2021 | 9C | 3 BR · 2.5 BA | — | $3,285,000 | — | +0.0% |
| Nov 24, 2020 | 3C | 2 BR · 1 BAnon-market transfer (excluded from $/sf & trends) | 1,200 | $1,480,000 | — | — |
| 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 BR | — | $1,270,000 | — | +1.6% |
| Jul 15, 2013 | 7AC | 5 BR | — | $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 BA | — | $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 BR | — | $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 BR | — | $2,500,000 | — | -5.7% |
| Apr 13, 2006 | 7A | 3 BR | — | $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 | — |
| Nov 12, 2004 | 1A | 995 | $3,500,000 | $3,518 | — | |
| Aug 10, 2004 | 2C | 2 BR · 1 BA | — | $800,000 | — | +11.1% |
| Mar 15, 2004 | 4C | 2 BR | — | $820,000 | — | -3.4% |
The most recent eligible transfer recorded at this building is from 2022. Our records run through August 2026; no later qualifying sale has been recorded here, which for a small or tightly held building is common rather than a gap in the data.
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01498-7501) 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. 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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