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
- Landmark
- Designated
- Amenities
- Elevator, central laundry and bicycle storage
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
- $1,624
- 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2026 | 4E | 1 BR · 519 sf | $847,500 | $1,633/sf | off-mkt |
| 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 | off-mkt |
| 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 | off-mkt |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 4A | 551 sf | $2,325,000 | $4,220/sf | off-mkt |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,624/sf across 1 sale. 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) 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.
At the recent median sale of $848K (4 sales since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $31,829 to close, or 3.8% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $0
- Mortgage recording tax: $12,236
- Title insurance: $3,814
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $15,779
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.
More Upper East Side buildings
- 55 East 72nd Street — 1924 co-op by Albert Joseph Bodker
- 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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