845 Fifth Avenue
845 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10065
BBL 1013800069 · BIN 1041153
- Year built
- 1920
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 16
- Floors
- 11
- Landmark status
- Not an individual landmark; in the Upper East Side Historic District
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Subletting by shareholders
- Permitted with conditions
- Pied-à-terre
- Requires confirmation
- Pets
- Pets permitted with conditions; species not stated
- Washer/dryer
- Permitted
- Flip tax
- 2% of the purchase price
- Doorman
- Full-time doorman
- Flip tax
- 2% of the sale price.
- Subletting
- Permitted with Board approval. Short-term rentals and AirBnB are not permitted.
- Pied-à-terre
- Requires confirmation
- Washer / dryer
- Permitted in-unit.
- Pets
- Permitted, subject to Board approval.
Compiled by The Roebling Research Desk from the building’s offering plan, amendments, and related building documents (primary source dated 2026). Board policies can change by amendment — confirm at the offer stage.
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845 Fifth Avenue is one of J.E.R. Carpenter's most restrained and most consistently celebrated Fifth Avenue commissions. Built in 1920 as a limestone-clad cooperative, it exemplifies Carpenter's early-1920s posture: an exterior that does not announce itself, wrapping apartments of genuinely substantial scale and detail. The architectural argument is that the apartments, not the façade, should carry the building's quality — and the building has been read that way for a century.
Carpenter was the dominant Gold Coast apartment architect of his generation, responsible for the largest single body of pre-war luxury apartment work on Fifth Avenue. The 1920 commission at 66th Street sits at the front of his mature period; his 907 Fifth had been completed in 1916, and the major mid-portfolio commissions followed through the 1920s. What 845 Fifth contributes to that body of work is the full-floor premise executed at boutique scale.
A count of sixteen apartments across eleven floors does not establish how many residences occupy each floor; check the current unit schedule. The apartments are large, with multiple fireplaces, formal entry galleries organizing the floor plate, and pre-war detail — paneling, plasterwork, marble — preserved across a century of stewardship. Confirm elevator-vestibule access, landing arrangements and actual circulation for the apartment rather than assuming privacy superior to all larger buildings.
What differentiates 845 Fifth from its immediate peers is that combination: an unusually consistent full-floor configuration paired with very small total inventory. 820 Fifth carries thirteen apartments and 998 Fifth seventeen; 845 Fifth's sixteen sit in a similarly intimate institutional culture, but in a building organized around Carpenter's specific architectural premise rather than Starrett & Van Vleck's, Roth's or McKim, Mead & White's.
The corner itself is structural. Central Park is directly across Fifth Avenue; the Frick Collection is four blocks north at 70th Street; the Madison Avenue retail corridor runs one block east. The position anchors the southern end of the Gold Coast Fifth Avenue cooperative corridor.
Architecture and unit composition
The sixteen apartments are predominantly full-floor configurations, with floor plates producing residences at the upper end of pre-war Manhattan scale. Carpenter's 1920 signatures run throughout: ceilings in the ten-to-twelve-foot range in the principal rooms, formal entry galleries running the depth of the apartment, library-and-living-room combinations, primary suites with extensive dressing and closet infrastructure, and service wings sized for staffed households.
Multiple wood-burning fireplaces per apartment are the building's distinguishing interior feature and are unusual even within the tier-one Fifth Avenue cohort.
Apartment-by-apartment heterogeneity is meaningful. A century of combinations, reconfigurations and individual stewardship — the lot carries a recorded alteration as recently as 2020 — has produced residences with substantially different layouts and finish conditions. Park-facing rooms on the Fifth Avenue flank face Central Park directly, with views that vary by floor; the East 66th Street flank carries the longer elevation and the side-street light.
Building operations
845 Fifth runs as a full-service pre-war cooperative with sixteen apartments.
The policy stack is not published in the manner of larger buildings. Buyers should obtain current information on the flip-tax structure and payor, the financing posture including whether an all-cash purchase is required, the sublet policy and the pied-à-terre allowance directly from the managing agent, and should review the proprietary lease and house rules during contract. Board approval is required; confirm the current financial, reference and occupancy requirements in the building's application instructions.
Substantive renovation is feasible but is reviewed with attention to the preservation of original detail, and the building sits inside a historic district, so exterior work carries a Landmarks Preservation Commission dimension in addition to a board one.
A note on the two addresses
845 Fifth Avenue and 4 East 66th Street are the same building. Block 1380, lot 69 carries one building, one building identification number, sixteen residential units and a single cooperative corporation — Fifth Ave and 66 St Corp., a name that itself preserves both street frontages.
The Department of Finance and PLUTO carry the lot's address of record as 845 Fifth Avenue, and that is the address this page uses. But ACRIS is split: recorded instruments on the lot appear under 4 East 66th Street slightly more often than under 845 Fifth Avenue, and the split runs across deeds, mortgages and cooperative assignments rather than clustering in one era. Historic listing and press coverage uses both.
The consequence for anyone doing diligence: search title, tax and transaction records under both numbers. A comparable set built on one address alone will miss roughly half the record for a building that only produces a handful of transactions in a decade — which is a material gap at this scale.
Application and transaction fees
- Terms
- 2% of the sale price.
- Rate
- 2% of the purchase price
Source: The Roebling Research Desk's building record, 2026
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Sublet and pied-à-terre policy
A condominium owner leasing a unit and a co-op shareholder subletting are different rules, and a building-wide rule is different from a restriction on one apartment. This is the building's rule; confirm it for the specific apartment.
- Subletting by shareholders
- Permitted with conditionsPermitted with Board approval. Short-term rentals and AirBnB are not permitted.Source: The Roebling Research Desk's building record, 2026
- Pied-à-terre ownership
- Requires confirmationSources differ. Confirm with building management.
- Short-term rentals
- Not permittedSource: The Roebling Research Desk's building record, 2026
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Pets and in-unit washer/dryer
- Pets
- Pets permitted with conditions; species not statedPermitted, subject to Board approval.Source: The Roebling Research Desk's building record, 2026
- In-unit washer/dryer
- PermittedSource: The Roebling Research Desk's building record, 2026
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Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Full-time doormanSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Live-in superintendent
- YesSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
- Amenities noted
- StorageSource: The Roebling Team's building profile
Staffing and amenities as our building profile and recent listing records describe them. A feature not listed is not confirmed absent. Outdoor space, parking and some facilities can belong to particular apartments or to a separate owner; confirm access for the specific apartment.
Local Law 97
- 2024–2029 annual penalty
- $34,013/yr
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $127,133/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $177 – $662
- Modeled exposure split equally across 16 units (the residential count on the city's lot record). Not an assessed amount; co-op shareholders are typically charged by share allocation.
Source: NYC LL84 benchmarking and PLUTO · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
See full Local Law 97 analysis — emissions history, scenarios, methodology →Facade safety — Local Law 11
The latest available filing classified the facade as SWARMP — Safe With A Repair and Maintenance Program: the inspector (QEWI) identified conditions requiring monitoring or repair, with repairs due by the deadline stated in the filing. The scope, timeline, and how the building funds the work are building-specific — we review the filings and board materials for you.
How to read this, and where it comes from
QEWI = Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector — a licensed professional engineer or registered architect who meets DOB’s FISP qualifications and signs the report (the independent expert, not the managing agent).
Penalties shown are amounts DOB assessed against filings on record across 2005–10 to 2020–25. The FISP dataset does not record whether they were paid, contested or remain open, so treat the figure as history rather than a current balance and confirm the building’s standing with the managing agent.
Source: NYC DOB facade filings (FISP) · The Roebling Research Library. City data last refreshed October 2026.
Management & transfer contacts
- Flip tax
- 2% of purchase price on any apartment owned less than 3 years
- Sublet policy
- Allowed
- Pied-à-terre
- Requires confirmation
- Policies and fees
- Managing Agent Fee $900 (individual) / $1000 (estate); financing each on own merit
Recent sales
Establish sales frequency at 845 Fifth from dated transfers and review the marketing history of comparable transactions. The sixteen-apartment count does not establish multi-year gaps, multi-decade tenures or predominantly private transactions.
The building trades at the apex of the Manhattan cooperative market. What a buyer should take from the transaction record is not a number but a structure: compare apartments by floor, exposure, configuration and renovation history, and assess the age and relevance of actual same-building sales before concluding that comparable evidence or an informative average is unavailable.
Market statements are indexed to the last complete year. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
Recent transfers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 2026 | 3 | 5 BR · 7.5 BA · 7,000 sf | $28,000,000 | $4,000/sf | -6.7% |
| Apr 13, 2016 | 5 | 4 BR · 7,500 sf | $52,000,000 | $6,933/sf | +8.3% |
| Oct 13, 2004 | 4 | 6 BR | $16,000,000 | +0.0% |
Market read. Most recent trades (2026 to date) cleared a median $4,000/sf (recorded) across 1 sale.
Other recent transfers
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 2004 | 7 | $25,000,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01380-0069). 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.
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Notable residents
The building's ownership history has been covered by major press. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen kept his longtime New York residence at 845 Fifth; following his death the apartment was acquired by Julia Koch, in a transaction widely reported in the national and financial press. Alan "Ace" Greenberg, the longtime chairman of Bear Stearns, also owned at the building. Transaction-level detail on those and other trades is held in The Roebling Research Library rather than published here.
What to know if you’re buying
Search both addresses. 845 Fifth Avenue and 4 East 66th Street are the same lot, and the recorded history splits between them. Incomplete searches are the predictable failure mode here.
Confirm the financing posture before you plan the purchase. Tier-one Fifth Avenue cooperatives commonly require all cash. The building does not publish its policy stack; get the flip tax, the financing rule and the sublet policy from the managing agent in writing.
Confirm the floor configuration. Check the apartment’s approved plan, interior measurements and elevator access before describing an entire-floor residence or pricing a privacy premium.
Board criteria are building-specific. Confirm the building's current financing, liquidity, ownership, occupancy and subletting requirements from its governing documents and application instructions.
Park views depend on the apartment. Central Park is across Fifth Avenue; views vary by floor, position and exposure, and none is protected without a recorded instrument.
Renovation is possible but supervised. Historic-district status and an institutional board culture both bear on scope.
What to know if you’re selling
The buyer pool is narrow and qualified. Sixteen apartments at this tier means the cohort is small, financially substantial, and reached primarily through private broker networks supplemented by selective public exposure.
Market at the apartment level. Each residence is essentially unique. Positioning should reflect the specific floor, exposure, configuration and renovation history rather than any building-level characterization.
Plan the marketing deliberately. Turnover here can be limited; review recorded sales and discuss public and private marketing options before choosing a launch.
Closing schedule. Account for the substantial board-package work when planning the transaction.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 845 Fifth Avenue, also evaluate:
- 820 Fifth Avenue — Starrett & Van Vleck 1916; thirteen apartments; the closest peer on scale and posture
- 834 Fifth Avenue — Rosario Candela 1931; tier-one Gold Coast peer
- 875 Fifth Avenue — Emery Roth 1941 Moderne; broader amenity package
- 907 Fifth Avenue — J.E.R. Carpenter 1916; the same architect, earlier vintage
- 998 Fifth Avenue — McKim, Mead & White 1912; tier-one pre-war peer
- 1040 Fifth Avenue — Candela 1930; tier-one Gold Coast peer
- 825 Fifth Avenue — J.E.R. Carpenter 1926; nearby peer of similar vintage
- The Pierre (795 Fifth) — Schultze & Weaver 1930; the serviced alternative to the south
More Fifth Avenue buildings
- 825 Fifth Avenue — 1926 co-op by J.E.R. Carpenter
- 834 Fifth Avenue — 1931 co-op by Rosario Candela
- 838 Fifth Avenue — 1950 condominium by Beyer Blinder Belle
- 857 Fifth Avenue — 1963 co-op by Sylvan and Robert Bien
- 860 Fifth Avenue — 1949 co-op by Sylvan Bien
- 870 Fifth Avenue — 1949 co-op
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Fifth Avenue — read The Roebling Team Guide to Fifth Avenue.
The full playbook — what goes in the package, how boards read your financials, the interview, and the timeline — plus sample cover, reference, and personal letters you can adapt.
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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