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685 Second Avenue (The Hendrik House)Recorded sales & closing prices
685 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10016
46 recorded transfers, 2003–2023. Sortable and searchable below.
Co-ops are normally measured by price per room, since square footage is not officially recorded for them. This building is shown in price per square foot because most of its sales carry documented footage, which makes the sharper measure the honest one here.
- Recorded transfers
- 46
- Date range
- 2003–2023
- Median $/sf
- $905
- Listing discount
- 1.5%
- Monthly carry/sf
- $1.13
- Price range
- $255K – $2.5M
Change in the building’s median $/sf over each window, on a floor-adjusted basis — standardized to the building’s average floor, so it reflects price rather than which floors happened to sell. This is a different method from The Roebling Index, which publishes plain medians and applies no floor adjustment; the two are not interchangeable. Floor adjustment standardizes for floor only. It does not control for condition, size, exposure, renovation or the mix of what happened to trade. (2022 marks the rate-shock inflection.) Like-for-like repeat-sale figures to follow.
The Hendrik House trades as a value-oriented prewar Murray Hill co-op, with the liberal sublet policy and pet-friendly rules broadening the buyer pool and appealing to owners who value flexibility. The Grand Central proximity and prewar character underpin steady demand across the building's studios through larger layouts.
The complete recorded-sale history for The Hendrik House, compiled from NYC Department of Finance transfer records, with apartment-by-apartment detail from The Roebling Research Library. Across sales with a public asking price, the building carries a median listing discount of 1.5% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy here.
Price per square foot over time
19 sales with a known square footage, by closing date.
Recent closings
The building’s 10 most recent market sales.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | $/sf | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2023 | 5E | $475,000 | — | ||
| May 25, 2022 | 5D | 1 BR · 1 BA | $525,000 | +0.0% | |
| Feb 3, 2022 | 3F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $515,000 | -1.0% | |
| Feb 26, 2020 | 2A | 1 BR · 1 BA | $539,000 | +0.0% | |
| Nov 25, 2019 | 2G | 1 BR | $532,000 | — | |
| Aug 21, 2019 | 4A | $475,000 | — | ||
| Jul 19, 2018 | 5C | $340,000 | -2.6% | ||
| May 11, 2018 | 2BC | 4 BR · 1,500 sf | $1,420,000 | $947 | -5.0% |
| Sep 15, 2017 | — | $390,000 | -2.5% | ||
| Sep 15, 2017 | 1A | 1 BR · 550 sf | $390,000 | $709 | +11.4% |
The retrade record
Lines that have changed hands more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Every recorded sale
Sort any column; filter by unit or keyword. Prices are the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance. Every sale sits in one of three states: counted in the building’s medians and trend; shown but excluded as a non-arms-length or nominal transfer; or shown and ⚑ flagged for review — a possible duplicate filing or an extreme $/sf outlier, held out of the statistics pending manual verification rather than allowed to move them.
| Apartment | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2023 | 5E | — | $475,000 | — | — | |
| May 25, 2022 | 5D | 1 BR · 1 BA | — | $525,000 | — | +0.0% |
| Feb 3, 2022 | 3F | 1 BR · 1 BA | — | $515,000 | — | -1.0% |
| Feb 26, 2020 | 2A | 1 BR · 1 BA | — | $539,000 | — | +0.0% |
| Nov 25, 2019 | 2G | 1 BR | — | $532,000 | — | — |
| Aug 21, 2019 | 4A | — | $475,000 | — | — | |
| Jul 19, 2018 | 5C | — | $340,000 | — | -2.6% | |
| May 11, 2018 | 2BC | 4 BR | 1,500 | $1,420,000 | $947 | -5.0% |
| Sep 15, 2017 | — | — | $390,000 | — | -2.5% | |
| Sep 15, 2017 | 1A | 1 BR | 550 | $390,000 | $709 | +11.4% |
| Feb 17, 2016 | 3E | 1 BR | 893 | $705,000 | $789 | +1.4% |
| Jan 8, 2016 | 3D | 1 BR · 1 BA | 800 | $600,000 | $750 | +0.0% |
| Sep 3, 2015 | 2H | 1 BR | 800 | $545,000 | $681 | -0.9% |
| May 13, 2015 | 2F | 1 BR | 700 | $515,000 | $736 | -6.4% |
| Mar 31, 2015 | 5D | 1 BR · 1 BA | 700 | $465,000 | $664 | -2.1% |
| Aug 27, 2014 | 2G | 1 BR | — | $480,000 | — | -9.3% |
| Aug 13, 2014 | 2E | 3 BR | 900 | $603,750 | $671 | -3.4% |
| Jun 6, 2014 | 4B | 2 BR | — | $679,000 | — | +3.0% |
| May 15, 2014 | 1A | 1 BR | 550 | $350,000 | $636 | — |
| Jul 25, 2013 | 1F | 1 BR | 822 | $509,125 | $619 | -3.0% |
| Jul 11, 2013 | 3C | — | $250,000 | — | — | |
| Jun 20, 2013 | 5F | 1 BR · 1 BA | — | $450,000 | — | — |
| Jun 19, 2013 | 1G | 1 BR | — | $465,000 | — | -0.9% |
| Jun 29, 2012 | 5C | 450 | $255,000 | $567 | -7.3% | |
| May 14, 2012 | 1B | 1 BR | — | $452,500 | — | -2.7% |
| Feb 16, 2012 | 3D | 1 BR | — | $446,160 | — | -7.0% |
| Jan 31, 2011 | 5A | 1 BR | 800 | $415,000 | $519 | -5.5% |
| Sep 11, 2009 | 3E | 1 BR | 893 | $540,000 | $605 | -9.8% |
| Aug 14, 2008 | 2H | 1 BR | 800 | $511,626 | $640 | — |
| Jan 29, 2008 | 6F | 1 BR | 800 | $485,000 | $606 | -4.9% |
| Nov 29, 2006 | 6G | 1 BR | 725 | $485,000 | $669 | +1.3% |
| Nov 7, 2006 | 1G | 1 BR | — | $369,000 | — | -6.6% |
| Oct 6, 2006 | 6H | 1 BR | 700 | $405,000 | $579 | +1.5% |
| May 23, 2006 | 6C | 492 | $265,000 | $539 | +0.0% | |
| Mar 28, 2006 | 6B | 2 BR · 1 BA | 1,200 | $600,000 | $500 | — |
| Sep 28, 2005 | BS | 1 BR | 850 | $450,000 | $529 | -5.3% |
| Aug 31, 2005 | 3F | 1 BR | — | $460,000 | — | +5.0% |
| May 5, 2005 | 5C | 450 | $222,000 | $493 | — | |
| Apr 5, 2005 | 2 | 3 BR | 1,500 | $905,000 | $603 | — |
| Jan 27, 2005 | 1A | 1 BR | 550 | $290,000 | $527 | — |
| Jan 27, 2005 | 2H | 1 BR | 800 | $413,600 | $517 | +3.7% |
| Jan 12, 2005 | 1B | 1 BR | — | $389,000 | — | — |
| Aug 24, 2004 | 11D | 2 BR | — | $2,495,000 | — | — |
| Aug 11, 2004 | 4H | — | $299,000 | — | — | |
| Dec 19, 2003 | 6G | 1 BR | 725 | $285,000 | $393 | +0.0% |
| Dec 4, 2003 | 5H | 1 BR | — | $285,000 | — | +0.0% |
The most recent eligible transfer recorded at this building is from 2023. Our records run through September 2026; no later qualifying sale has been recorded here, which for a small or tightly held building is common rather than a gap in the data.
Sources, exclusions and how these figures are computed
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-00918-0025). 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 on co-ops is not officially recorded, figures shown are approximate. Storage, parking, and commercial units are excluded from all figures. Floor- and line-level $/sf are time-controlled (each sale measured against the building’s going rate at the time of sale) and expressed at today’s pricing, so they isolate the floor or line premium rather than blend two decades of market movement.
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