Building Profile ·
834 Fifth Avenue
834 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10065
AT A GLANCE
Type
Cooperative
About the building
Why 834 Fifth matters
834 Fifth Avenue is widely regarded — by The New York Observer, by The Real Deal, by the building's residents themselves — as the single most prestigious cooperative address in New York City. Rosario Candela designed it in 1931 as a 16-story limestone-clad composition organized around…
Recent Sales
Last 5–10 closed sales at 834 Fifth Avenue (replace this section with current ACRIS data — pull at publication time and refresh quarterly):
[Recent sales table to be populated from ACRIS]
Sales context at 834 Fifth:
Inventory turnover is slow; multi-year gaps between transactions are common.
Apartments routinely transact above…
What to know if you're buying
Financing is not permitted. 834 Fifth requires 100% cash purchases. Alongside 740 Park, 820 Fifth, and 998 Fifth, this is the structural screen that defines the building. Buyers must demonstrate liquid capacity at closing without recourse to mortgage financing.
The 3% flip tax is seller-paid at closing. Distinct from 740…
What to know if you're selling
Marketing is largely private. Most 834 Fifth transactions occur with limited or no public marketing. The buyer pool is small, institutional, and accessible primarily through private broker networks.
Pricing requires building-specific context. Comparable sales at 834 Fifth are meaningful but heterogeneous — apartment configuration, floor, view, and renovation history drive…
The Roebling Team at
834 Fifth Avenue
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in Central Park West, the Upper East Side, and the broader Park-facing Manhattan market. We publish this building profile because Gold Coast buyers and sellers deserve building-specific intelligence — architecture, board culture, transactional mechanics, and the realities of pricing at the apartment level —…