- Year built
- 1921
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 64
- Floors
- 15
- Landmark
- No
- Amenities
- Central laundry, private storage, bike room; a roof deck appears in recent listing records (older architectural records predate it — verify current amenities)
- Pets
- Not firmly documented in public records — verify with the managing agent
- Financing
- 70 percent permitted per brokerage records
Park Avenue below Grand Central is the avenue's quieter, older residential register — Murray Hill blocks where the apartment houses of the early 1920s still face the brownstone side streets the neighborhood's covenants preserved — and 67 Park Avenue is one of its most intact examples. The building was designed by Schwartz & Gross, among the most prolific and reliable apartment-house firms of pre-war Manhattan, whose portfolio runs from 55 and 101 Central Park West to a long roster of upper Park Avenue cooperatives. Here, in 1921, the firm delivered a disciplined red-brick corner house: fifteen stories, bandcoursed at the base and crown, with a side-street entrance on East 38th Street that keeps the avenue frontage clean — a Gold Coast format executed a mile south of the Gold Coast.
What distinguishes the building operationally is its service model. 67 Park Avenue still runs attended elevators with operators alongside a 24-hour doorman and a live-in resident manager — a staffing pattern that has nearly vanished from buildings of this size, and one that sets the house's tone more than any amenity could. With only a handful of apartments per floor, the building reads as a private, quiet house rather than a corridor building, and its interiors carry the full early-1920s program: 10-foot beamed ceilings, fireplaces, herringbone floors, and proper entry foyers.
The market logic follows from the address. A Park Avenue corner co-op with this level of pre-war finish would price dramatically higher above 59th Street; in Murray Hill, the same vocabulary trades at a deep discount per foot, four blocks from Grand Central, between the Morgan Library and the Union League Club. For buyers who want the pre-war Park Avenue product — the proportions, the staff, the address — without Gold Coast pricing or Gold Coast board culture, this building is one of the corridor's cleanest expressions of the trade.
Architecture and unit composition
The building rises fifteen stories on the corner lot, with Schwartz & Gross's characteristic restraint: red brick over a stone base, ornament concentrated in the bandcourses at the fourth, thirteenth, and fourteenth floors, and a canopied side-street entrance at 101 East 38th Street. The roughly 64 apartments distribute a few to a floor, predominantly classic one- and two-bedroom layouts with a number of larger combined residences assembled over the decades — the resale record shows combinations trading as three-bedroom-scale homes. Interiors reward renovation: the beamed ceilings, fireplace surrounds, and herringbone floors are the assets buyers pay for, and the corner exposures over Park Avenue and 38th Street carry the light premium. City records also tabulate professional/office space at the base, a common configuration for the corridor.
Building operations
White-glove in the original sense: 24-hour doorman, elevator operators, and a live-in resident manager, supported by central laundry, private storage, and a bike room; recent listing records also describe a roof deck. There is no garage and no gym — buyers comparing carrying costs should weigh the attended-elevator payroll against amenity programs elsewhere, because here the staff is the amenity. The cooperative's policy framework per brokerage records — 70 percent financing, permitted pieds-à-terre and subletting, a transfer fee — is moderate by pre-war standards and should be confirmed against current board documents during diligence.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $1,006/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $1
Recent sales
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent transfers at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 2025 | 8C | $860,000 |
| Feb 10, 2025 | 2E | $500,000 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | 9E | $500,000 |
| Jul 25, 2024 | 14E | $660,000 |
| Jul 25, 2024 | 15A | $775,000 |
| Jul 2, 2024 | 7B | $1,600,000 |
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 1-00894-0001) 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.
What to know if you’re buying
You are buying the service model. Attended elevators and a full door staff in a 64-unit house is a vanishing format. If that texture matters to you, very little else in this price band offers it; if it doesn't, understand that you are paying for payroll rather than amenities. Run the True Monthly Carrying Cost Calculator on the specific unit.
The policy stack is moderate but must be verified. Brokerage records document 70 percent financing, permitted pieds-à-terre, and subletting — flexible for a pre-war co-op — plus a transfer fee of undocumented size. Confirm all of it, including pet policy and washer/dryer rules, with the managing agent before offering, and run the Co-op Board Qualification Calculator before submitting.
Price the corridor honestly. Lower Park Avenue is quieter than the Gold Coast and more residential than its Midtown adjacency suggests, but the immediate blocks carry commuter traffic toward Grand Central. Spend time at the corner at rush hour and on a Sunday; the building's side-street entrance buffers most of it.
Confirm the conversion-era record. The co-op's conversion date is not firmly documented in public records. Your attorney should obtain the offering plan and recent financials from the managing agent; we supplement with the transaction record from The Roebling Research Library.
Renovation is the value lever. The spread between estate and renovated units is wide, and the pre-war envelope — beams, fireplaces, proportions — rewards quality work. Budget with the Renovation Cost Calculator and remember that attended-elevator buildings manage construction logistics closely.
What to know if you’re selling
Sell the Schwartz & Gross provenance and the staffing. Name the architect, the 1921 date, the attended elevators, and the few-units-per-floor privacy. This building's differentiators are specific and verifiable, and the Murray Hill buyer pool responds to substance over staging.
Anchor against the uptown discount. The most persuasive comp set for your buyer is not the building next door — it is the per-foot price of the same pre-war program at 67th and Park. Frame the value explicitly; we build that analysis from the Research Library's transaction record.
Condition and light drive the spread. Corner exposures and renovated kitchens clear quickly; interior-facing estate units need renovation-math pricing. Same-line history is thin in a 64-unit building, so corridor comparables matter — price with them, not against them.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 67 Park Avenue, also evaluate:
- 20 East 35th Street (Goodhue House) — the neighborhood's pre-war co-op benchmark three blocks south
- 160 East 38th Street (Murray Hill Mews) — the post-war full-service alternative on the same street
- 10 Park Avenue — the corridor's larger pre-war co-op anchor near 34th Street
- 35 Park Avenue — the post-war full-service co-op alternative two blocks south
- 80 Park Avenue — post-war co-op at 39th Street; the modern-layout alternative one block north
- The pre-war co-ops of lower Lexington and the Murray Hill Historic District side streets — the townhouse-scale alternative for buyers trading service for charm
The Roebling Team at 67 Park Avenue
The Roebling Team at Compass works the Park Avenue corridor — from the Gold Coast through Murray Hill — and the broader Midtown East market as part of our Manhattan practice. We publish this building profile because 67 Park Avenue buyers and sellers deserve building-specific intelligence — architectural provenance, policy framework, and corridor-level pricing analysis — not generic neighborhood commentary.
If you're considering a transaction at 67 Park Avenue, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point.