The Alamo
55 East 93rd Street, between Madison and Park avenues, Manhattan · Upper East Side
Carnegie Hill, Upper East Side
BBL 1015057501 · BIN 1047142
- Year built
- 1899
- Type
- Condominium
- Amenities
- Elevator, central laundry and bicycle storage
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf, 2026 to date
- $1,624
- floor-adjusted, 1 sale
- Listing discount
- 2.0%
- Recorded sales
- 36
- On record
- 2004–2026
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The Alamo is a purpose-built Renaissance Revival apartment house from 1899–1900, designed by Frederick Jacobson for James Kilpatrick. Its six-story form and limestone entrance stand near the Madison Avenue end of East 93rd Street. The building now contains 29 condominium residences within the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District.
Compact one-bedroom apartments form a substantial part of the inventory. Separate kitchens, windowed baths and high ceilings preserve the room-by-room organization of an older apartment house. Larger two-bedroom homes and combinations extend the size range beyond those compact plans.
The building has an elevator, shared laundry and bicycle storage. Its common facilities are limited in scale, while the exterior retains the architectural treatment of an early Carnegie Hill flats building. The name Alamo is documented in the LPC designation report.
Architecture and unit composition
The façade has a frontage of approximately forty-three and a half feet and curves at its ends. Indiana limestone forms the lower base, with stone-trimmed brick above. The entrance portico and curved outer bays give the building a more elaborate composition than a flat brick front.
One-bedroom apartments commonly fall around 480–560 square feet. Several layouts arrange the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living room around a central hallway. This preserves separate rooms even where the total interior area is compact.
Ceilings around nine feet five inches occur in the inventory. Some apartments have living-room windows on two exposures, with additional windows in the bedroom and bath. Wood floors and the depth of the window openings retain the prewar character after kitchen and bathroom renovations.
Windowed kitchens can be closed off from the hallway with pocket doors in selected plans. In other homes, the kitchen remains a separate room adjoining the living area. Through-wall air conditioning has been installed in some apartments, leaving the principal windows available for light and ventilation.
Larger homes include two-bedroom configurations around 800–900 square feet and combinations around 1,600 square feet. The combinations create a different internal arrangement from the compact one-bedrooms. Recent three-bedroom combinations have had two bathrooms, while many of the smaller homes have a single bath.
Building operations
The Alamo has elevator access, a common laundry room and bicycle storage. The shared service program centers on those facilities. Interior common-area work has included the lobby, corridors and stairs.
All 29 residential tax lots are Class 2, with no cap on assessment growth. There is no building-wide tax abatement, although personal exemptions may apply to an eligible owner. The condominium's tax treatment therefore differs from a newer development with a temporary construction benefit.
The building is designated within the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District. Its limestone entrance, masonry and window pattern belong to that protected exterior. The current building is substantially below the residential floor-area ratio listed for R10 zoning, but the historic-district designation remains relevant to any proposal affecting its form.
Policy framework
Pets, pied-à-terre ownership and gifting are permitted — confirm with the managing agent.
Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Common charges + taxes, per room
- $473 per room a monthMedian of 4 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
- Common charges + taxes, per square foot
- $2.71 per square foot a monthMedian of 5 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Common charges plus real estate taxes, combined into one monthly figure the way New York condominium listings show them. Add a mortgage payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- Bike storage, laundry roomSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 limits apply to a building on its own. It is still covered if it shares a tax lot or condominium board with buildings totaling over 50,000 sq ft; confirm on DOB’s covered-buildings list.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. A filed Safe grade is not a guarantee of current condition: owners still maintain the facade and, where required, observe parapets each year. Future inspection timing (Local Law 49 of 2025 changed the cycle framework from October 1, 2026), repair and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2010–15 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
Recent sales
Recent closings at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2026 | 4E | 1 BR · 519 sf | $847,500 | $1,633/sf | — |
| Dec 22, 2025 | 5E | 1 BR · 1 BA · 519 sf | $891,000 | $1,717/sf | +4.8% |
| Aug 8, 2025 | 3E | 519 sf | $825,000 | $1,590/sf | — |
| Apr 28, 2025 | 6C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 480 sf | $830,000 | $1,729/sf | -2.4% |
| Dec 19, 2023 | 5B | 1 BR · 1 BA · 560 sf | $795,000 | $1,420/sf | -6.5% |
| Nov 30, 2023 | 1E | 1 BR · 1 BA · 501 sf | $720,000 | $1,437/sf | -4.0% |
| Dec 8, 2021 | 3A | 899 sf | $1,150,000 | $1,279/sf | — |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 4A | 551 sf | $2,325,000 | $4,220/sf | — |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $1,624/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 2.0% 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.
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 1-01505-7501; 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.
Closed rents at The Alamo, last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom | 3 | $3,800 |
3 closed leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease June 2026. Based on few leases. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
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At the recent median sale of $839K (4 sales in the past 24 months, since November 12, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $31,599 to close, or 3.8% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- Mortgage recording tax: $12,109
- Title insurance: $3,774
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $15,715
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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Comparable buildings
- The Gatsby: A larger prewar condominium in a taller Carnegie Hill building.
- 1085 Park Avenue: A prewar rental building with a broader avenue frontage and larger apartment-house scale.
- 55 East 86th Street: Another prewar condominium with a relatively modest residential inventory in a taller structure.
- 1235 Park Avenue: A nearby prewar condominium for comparing apartment size and building services.
- Morgan House: A prewar condominium alternative with a somewhat larger residential count and taller building form.
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- 55 East 76th Street — 1883 co-op
- 55 East 86th Street — 1924 condominium
- The Parc (55 East 87th Street) — 1963 co-op
- 56 East 87th Street — 1923 co-op
- 58 East 96th Street — 1929 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper East Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper East Side.
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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