655 Park Avenue
655 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065
Lenox Hill, Upper East Side
BBL 1014020001 · BIN 1042467
- Year built
- 1924
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 50
- Floors
- 11
- Landmark
- Designated
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 3BR median
- $4.1M
- Recent range
- $2.9M – $16M
- Listing discount
- 8.2%
- Recorded transfers
- 53
655 Park Avenue is structurally distinguishing within the Park Avenue cooperative tradition for a single architectural feature: the H-shaped plan with a landscaped courtyard garden opening to Park Avenue. The building's two projecting wings flank a deliberate setback that breaks the corridor's typical lot-line-to-lot-line apartment-house massing — a gesture borrowed from the Georgian country house tradition and rare on Park Avenue.
The building's architectural pedigree is a structural pairing. J.E.R. Carpenter brought the apartment-house planning grammar he had perfected at 550, 580, 625, 630, and 635 Park; Mott B. Schmidt — the leading American Georgian classicist of the day, also responsible for Vincent Astor's townhouse and the Sutton Place residences for the Astors and Vanderbilts — supplied the proportional and ornamental restraint. The result reads less as a stacked-mansion apartment block than as a single Georgian country house broken into wings. The 655 Park commission represents one of the rare instances where the two architects worked together on a Park Avenue apartment house.
The building's origin story is structurally consequential to its architectural composition. In 1919, four owners of the Pyne-Davison townhouses on the west side of Park — Harold I. Pratt, Percy Pyne, William Sloane, and Arthur Curtiss James — purchased the property from Hahnemann Hospital specifically to control what would be built across from their houses. They initially commissioned Delano & Aldrich (the firm that had designed Pratt's townhouse) for a 7-story building of 12 triplex apartments. There were no takers. By 1923 the syndicate sold the property to Dwight P. Robinson & Company with strict height and façade restrictions — restrictions that effectively forced Carpenter and Schmidt to design the courtyard-and-wings solution that became 655 Park's defining architectural feature.
655 Park Avenue sits directly across the avenue from the Pyne-Davison neo-Federal townhouse row — the Americas Society at 680 Park and the Italian Consulate at 690 Park — one of the most architecturally significant blockfronts on the Upper East Side. The architectural dialogue between the courtyard at 655 and the protected townhouse row across the avenue is part of the building's structural identity.
Architecture and unit composition
The approximately 50–55 cooperative apartments distribute across the building's mid-block main mass and the two wings. Apartment configurations carry the architectural fabric characteristic of Carpenter's 1924 Park Avenue planning combined with Schmidt's Georgian classical detailing. The H-shape produces three structurally distinct apartment categories: the central mid-block apartments looking out to the courtyard and Park Avenue, the East 67th Street wing apartments, and the East 68th Street wing apartments.
The courtyard garden is the building's principal shared outdoor amenity and a structural architectural feature uncommon on Park Avenue.
Building operations
655 Park operates as a full-service cooperative with 24-hour doorman, elevator operators (the building retains attended elevator service), live-in resident manager, and the landscaped courtyard garden. Specific cooperative policy details (financing maximum, flip tax structure, pet policy, pied-à-terre allowance, sublet duration limits) should be verified directly with management.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $91,061/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $149
Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. Facade inspections run on a fixed five-year cycle; future inspection, repair, and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
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.
See the full facade history →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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 2026 | 5E | 3 BR · 3 BA | $5,100,000 | -10.5% | |
| Apr 30, 2025 | 3C | 4 BR · 3 BA | $3,553,619 | -5.2% | |
| Feb 19, 2025 | 6D | 3 BR · 3 BA | $2,912,500 | -7.5% | |
| May 2, 2024 | 8C | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,300 sf | $4,150,000 | $1,804/sf | -8.8% |
| Jul 7, 2023 | 7E | 4 BR · 5.5 BA | $6,850,000 | -2.1% | |
| Jan 31, 2023 | 10C | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,400 sf | $4,100,000 | $1,708/sf | -12.8% |
| Nov 2, 2022 | 1A | 3 BR · 2.5 BA | $925,000 | -28.8% | |
| Aug 4, 2022 | 3E | 3 BR · 3 BA | $4,400,000 | -2.2% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2024): a median $1,708/sf across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 11.4% 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.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2003 | 3F | $4,750,000 |
| May 14, 2003 | 3A | $7,095,000 |
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 1-01402-0001) 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
The Carpenter + Schmidt architectural pairing is structurally distinguishing. The combination of Carpenter's apartment-house planning grammar and Schmidt's American Georgian classical detailing produces a building that reads as a stacked Georgian country house broken into wings.
The courtyard garden is structural. The H-shape with the Park Avenue-opening landscaped courtyard is uncommon on Park Avenue and a function of the building's specific origin story.
The Pyne-Davison blockfront across Park Avenue is real architectural context. The Americas Society at 680 Park and the Italian Consulate at 690 Park — both single-family Walker & Gillette townhouses converted to institutional use — produce a structurally protected architectural setting directly across the avenue.
Apartment-line variation is meaningful. Central mid-block, East 67th wing, and East 68th wing apartments each carry distinct exposure characteristics and structural conditions.
Verify operational specifics during due diligence. Specific board approval framework, financing structure, flip tax, sublet duration limits, current capital project pipeline, and the LL11 façade cycle on the 1924 vintage should be reviewed.
Closing timelines are cooperative-standard. Plan for 6–10 weeks from contract through board approval to closing.
What to know if you’re selling
Marketing should emphasize the Carpenter + Schmidt architectural pairing and the H-shape courtyard. Both are real architectural identity features.
The Pyne-Davison blockfront across the avenue is part of the marketing context. The protected townhouse row produces a structurally distinctive architectural setting.
Pricing requires apartment-line-specific comparable analysis. Central versus wing apartments carry meaningful pricing differentiation.
Closing timelines are cooperative-standard.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 655 Park Avenue, also evaluate:
- 635 Park Avenue (The Adelaide) — Carpenter 1912; same-architect Park Avenue peer
- 625 Park Avenue — Carpenter Park Avenue peer
- 640 Park Avenue — Carpenter 1914; full-floor configuration peer
- 740 Park Avenue — Candela / Cross & Cross 1929–30; trophy pre-war cooperative
- 820 Fifth Avenue — pre-war Fifth Avenue trophy peer
The neighborhood
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