630 Park Avenue
630 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065
Lenox Hill, Upper East Side
BBL 1013800039 · BIN 1041137
- Year built
- 1916
- Type
- Cooperative
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2025
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median
- $3.4M
- Recent range
- $2.8M – $4.6M
- Listing discount
- 4.7%
- Recorded transfers
- 31
630 Park Avenue is one of the quietly distinguished pre-war cooperatives of Lenox Hill — a 1916 limestone building on the northeast corner of Park and East 66th Street, designed by J.E.R. Carpenter at the height of his run as the architect who, more than any other, defined the modern Park Avenue apartment house. Carpenter's name appears on a remarkable number of the avenue's best addresses, and 630 Park is a characteristic example of his early work: dignified rather than showy, scaled to large family apartments, and built with the masonry permanence that has kept these buildings desirable for more than a century.
The building rose on the site of five row houses, part of the wholesale transformation of Park Avenue from a street of private homes into the corridor of grand cooperative apartment houses it remains today. At just 34 apartments across 13 stories, 630 Park is an intimate building by Park Avenue standards — a low ratio of units to staff that translates into the kind of personal, well-run service that defines the avenue's better co-ops.
For buyers, the appeal is the combination that Park Avenue does best: a generously proportioned pre-war home with thick walls, real ceiling height, and gracious entertaining layouts, inside a small, financially conservative cooperative on one of the most recognizable residential streets in the world.
Architecture and unit composition
Carpenter clad 630 Park in limestone and detailed it in the restrained Italian Renaissance idiom he favored for the avenue — fluted pilasters, a defined base, and a canopied entrance that reads as understated rather than ornate. The result is a building that holds its corner with quiet authority, neither competing with its neighbors nor disappearing among them.
Inside, the apartments follow the pre-war Park Avenue template: large rooms, high ceilings, formal foyers and galleries, separate entertaining and private wings, and the kind of proportion that is difficult and expensive to replicate in new construction. With 34 homes across 13 floors, the layouts skew large — the building was conceived for substantial family apartments, and many retain their original room counts. Period detail such as hardwood floors, decorative moldings, and well-proportioned windows is characteristic of the stock.
Building operations
630 Park operates as a full-service cooperative: a full-time doorman and attended lobby, a live-in resident manager, and a fitness center, with private basement storage available to shareholders. The small unit count keeps the building's common charges focused and its service ratio high, and the co-op has the financially conservative posture typical of the avenue's better-run boards.
On house rules, the cooperative is pet-friendly and permits financing of up to 50% of the purchase price — a meaningfully conservative cap that, with the building's required equity, signals the kind of buyer it admits. A flip tax of 3%, payable by the purchaser, applies on resale. As with any Park Avenue co-op, board review is substantive and pied-à-terre and investor purchases are scrutinized; primary-residence buyers with strong, liquid financials are the building's natural audience.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- Per unit / month range
- —
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the engineer identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair before the next inspection cycle. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — the licensed engineer the city requires to sign the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent). Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library.
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Recent sales
Recent transfers at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Apartment-level facts are independently verified before publishing; sale prices reflect the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 2025 | 9B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $2,756,000 | -1.6% | |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 8B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $3,525,000 | -4.7% | |
| Apr 11, 2025 | 9C | 3 BR · 3 BA | $3,325,000 | -20.8% | |
| Mar 25, 2025 | 10A | 2 BR · 3.5 BA · 2,625 sf | $2,800,000 | $1,067/sf | -18.8% |
| Oct 24, 2024 | 5B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $4,600,000 | -7.1% | |
| Jan 12, 2023 | 11C | 3 BR · 4 BA | $3,200,000 | -2.9% | |
| Nov 10, 2022 | 10B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $3,575,200 | +19.2% | |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 6C | 3 BR · 4 BA | $3,225,000 | -2.3% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2025) cleared a median $1,067/sf across 1 sale. Median listing discount 5.2% 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 1-01380-0039) 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 on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate.
What to know if you’re buying
Buying here means buying into a small, conservative pre-war cooperative, and the diligence is the diligence of any top Park Avenue co-op. Expect a thorough board package and interview, a 50% financing ceiling, and a board that prioritizes financial strength and primary residency. The 3% flip tax paid by the buyer should be modeled into your acquisition cost from the outset.
The reward is scale and location. Apartments at 630 Park are large pre-war homes on a corner that delivers excellent light, on a stretch of Lenox Hill that puts Madison Avenue's boutiques and restaurants, the Lexington Avenue 6 train at 68th Street, and Central Park all within a few blocks. We help buyers read the building's financials, prepare a board package that clears, and judge condition and price against the avenue's comparable stock.
What to know if you’re selling
A J.E.R. Carpenter co-op address and large pre-war proportions are the marketing core here. Selling well at 630 Park means presenting the apartment's scale, light, and condition to the right primary-residence buyer and positioning it accurately against other large pre-war homes on Park and Fifth.
The board's standards work in a seller's favor: a conservative, well-run building with a strong balance sheet is exactly what discerning buyers want, and the small unit count means little competing inventory. Pricing should be anchored to recent large-format pre-war trades nearby and to the apartment's specific condition, with the 3% buyer-paid flip tax accounted for in the buyer's underwriting. We market these apartments to the qualified, board-ready audience the building requires.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 630 Park Avenue, also evaluate nearby pre-war Park Avenue cooperatives:
- 605 Park Avenue — pre-war Park Avenue cooperative nearby
- 620 Park Avenue — limestone Park Avenue co-op a block north
- 625 Park Avenue — pre-war Park Avenue cooperative peer
- 640 Park Avenue — distinguished Park Avenue co-op nearby
- 650 Park Avenue — full-service Park Avenue cooperative
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, schools, transit, and pricing across Park Avenue — read The Roebling Team Guide to Park Avenue.
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