- Year built
- 2020
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 22
- Floors
- 8
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Pet-friendly; confirm specifics at offer stage
- Subletting
- Permitted under the condominium bylaws
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed
Every recorded sale at this building, 2023–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf (floor-adjusted)
- $1,938
- Listing discount
- 0.0%
- Recorded sales
- 15
- On record
- 2023–2026
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 75 First Avenue would likely sell for today, what it costs to sell, and what you’d walk away with — reviewed personally against condition, exposures, renovation quality, and the competition actually on the market.
75 First Avenue is one of the East Village's most architecturally assertive boutique condominiums — a glass-clad building whose upper volume cantilevers dramatically over an adjoining low-rise, a genuinely modern gesture on a First Avenue block otherwise defined by tenements. Designed by HTO Architect with interiors by Stefano Pasqualetti, the building carried its sales launch in 2017 and reached completion in 2020, bringing Italian-made materials and a contemporary sensibility to the heart of the neighborhood.
For the buyer who wants new-construction systems and design-forward interiors inside the East Village — between the Bowery and Tompkins Square Park, steps from First Avenue's restaurants, bars, and the L and F trains nearby — 75 First Avenue is a clean proposition. Deeded condominium ownership, imported finishes, and a boutique 22-residence scale in a building with a distinct architectural signature.
Building operations
The condominium runs on a boutique contemporary model, with the imported Italian finish package — kitchens, wardrobes, vanities, and wood floors — as the defining feature of the residences. The building's staffing is scaled to its boutique size; confirm the current arrangement at offer stage.
As a condominium, ownership is by deed rather than shares. Purchases avoid the share-loan structure and interview process of a cooperative; financing is a matter between buyer and lender; and pied-à-terre, investment, and subletting uses are permitted under the bylaws. The building is pet-friendly. Any transfer fee and specific sublet terms should be confirmed against the current bylaws at offer stage.
Architecture and residences
HTO Architect designed 75 First Avenue around a glistening glass façade and a gravity-defying cantilever that extends the building's upper floors over a neighboring one-story retail structure — the feature that gives the building its presence on the avenue. The residences, laid out by Stefano Pasqualetti, run to spacious one-, two-, and three-bedroom homes, and nearly everything inside is Italian-made — from the kitchens, wardrobes, and vanities to the Italian wood floors.
The 22-residence count keeps the building intimate, and the one- to three-bedroom mix skews toward larger, family-usable homes rather than the studio-heavy inventory typical of the surrounding walk-ups. Select residences carry private outdoor space.
Local Law 97
This building is below the 25,000 sq ft threshold at which LL97 emissions caps apply. No regulatory capital pressure from this law specifically, current or 2030.
See full Local Law 97 analysis →Recent sales
Condominium pricing is read on a per-square-foot basis, and 75 First Avenue trades as a design-forward new-construction East Village condo — a distinctive glass building, imported Italian finishes, and a one- to three-bedroom mix that draws buyers wanting real space downtown. When sales first launched in 2017, nearly half the building's units went to contract within roughly two months, a signal of the appetite for new construction at this scale in the neighborhood. With only 22 residences, resale volume is thin: a handful of closings in an active year. Pricing is driven by floor, exposure, outdoor space, and layout rather than by any neighborhood average. When underwriting a purchase or a list price, capture the specific unit's square footage, light, and finish level rather than leaning on an East Village headline number.
Recent closings at this building, from The Roebling Research Library. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 2026 | 5C | 1 BR · 1 BA · 609 sf | $1,175,000 | $1,929/sf | -2.1% |
| Jul 25, 2025 | 7BSponsor Sale | 2 BR · 2 BA · 938 sf | $1,988,337 | $2,120/sf | -5.3% |
| Jan 21, 2025 | 2ASponsor Sale | 1 BR · 1 BA · 815 sf | $1,458,847 | $1,790/sf | +0.3% |
| Oct 21, 2024 | 7ASponsor Sale | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,152 sf | $2,400,000 | $2,083/sf | -6.1% |
| Aug 21, 2024 | 5ASponsor Sale | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,056 sf | $2,150,000 | $2,036/sf | -4.4% |
| Aug 9, 2024 | 3ASponsor Sale | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,056 sf | $1,900,000 | $1,799/sf | -4.8% |
| Jan 23, 2024 | 4ASponsor Sale | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,056 sf | $2,060,182 | $1,951/sf | -1.9% |
| Nov 15, 2023 | 6ASponsor Sale | 2 BR · 2 BA · 1,106 sf | $2,392,887 | $2,164/sf | +1.8% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026) cleared a median $1,938/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. Floor-adjusted means each sale is restated to a constant mix of floors, so the figure can differ from the plain median of the sales listed above. Median listing discount 0.0% from the last ask.
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 1-00446-7503). 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 from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
Closed rents at 75 First Avenue, last 36 months
| Size | Leases | Median / month |
|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom | 4 | $7,947 |
| 2 bedroom | 2 | $12,500 |
7 closed leases, October 2023 to September 2026. Most recent lease November 2025. Sizes with fewer than 2 leases are not shown. Compiled by The Roebling Team at Compass from closed leases.
At the recent median sale of $1.99M (4 sales since 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $80,246 to close, or 4.0% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $19,883
- Mortgage recording tax: $28,707
- Title insurance: $8,948
- Attorneys, lender, building fees, reserves and filings: $22,708
Assumes a resale (the seller pays transfer taxes), a $4,500 attorney fee and a mortgage on the rest.
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What to know if you’re buying
This is a condominium, so the path is straightforward: no board interview, financing set by your lender, and a review of the building's financials, reserve, and bylaws during due diligence. Read the bylaws on pet rules, any transfer fee, and sublet terms, and confirm them at offer stage. As a recent new-construction building, review the reserve and any capital-planning history on the building envelope and systems — contemporary construction carries its own diligence profile.
The reasons to buy are the architecture and the flexibility: a distinctive HTO-designed glass building with imported Italian interiors, larger one- to three-bedroom layouts, deeded ownership with pied-à-terre and investment latitude, and a boutique scale in the center of the East Village.
What to know if you’re selling
The story is design and modern space downtown. An HTO Architect building with a cantilevered glass façade, Italian finishes, and family-sized layouts is a specific, marketable proposition that sells to buyers who want contemporary systems and real room inside the East Village. Pricing is an apartment-specific exercise: square footage, floor, light, outdoor space, and layout drive the number. We position the architectural narrative, benchmark against the right tier of boutique downtown condominiums, and market to the design-minded East Village buyer.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 75 First Avenue, also look at these East Village and downtown boutique buildings:
- 101 East 2nd Street — new-construction East Village condominium nearby
- 100 Avenue A — a boutique new-construction condominium
- 212 Avenue B — boutique pre-war East Village condominium
- 143 Avenue B — boutique East Village building nearby
- 199 Bowery — downtown boutique condominium
More East Village buildings
- 63 Cooper Square — 1984 condominium
- 64 East 1st Street — 2015 condominium
- 72 East 3rd Street — 1900 condominium
- 83 First Avenue (347 East 5th Street) — 1900 condop
- 87 East 2nd Street — 1910 co-op
- 87 St. Marks Place — co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across East Village — read The Roebling Team Guide to East Village.
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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