895 Lexington Avenue
895 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10065
BBL 1014010054 · BIN 1042466
- Year built
- 1908
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 63
- Landmark status
- Individual landmark; not in a historic district
- NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission records, updated February 2026
- Doorman
- Full-time doorman
Every recorded sale at this building, 2004–2026
Bedroom-by-bedroom medians, the full transfer record, and how units trade against ask.
- 2BR median, 2023–2025
- $1.8M
- 5 qualifying sales
- Recent range
- $1.8M – $5M
- Listing discount
- 2.7%
- Recorded transfers
- 67
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895 Lexington Avenue belongs to one of the most under-appreciated tiers of Upper East Side housing stock: the genuine pre-WWI apartment house, built in the brief Edwardian window — roughly 1900 to 1914 — when Lexington Avenue was first being rebuilt from low-rise rowhouses into elevator apartment buildings. Completed in 1908, it predates the 1920s luxury boom that produced the avenue's larger, better-known cooperatives by more than a decade. That early vintage is the defining fact of the building: the building belongs to an early apartment-house era, while present layouts, ceiling heights and circulation need unit-specific verification.
The Lenox Hill positioning is just as structural. The block of Lexington between East 66th and 67th Streets sits in the heart of the Upper East Side's most walkable retail-and-residential seam — a block from the 6 train at 68th Street/Hunter College, east of the Madison Avenue gallery-and-boutique corridor, and within an easy walk of the Cornell/Memorial Sloan Kettering medical complex and the museums of Fifth Avenue. For buyers, that means a building whose location does much of the work that, in other neighborhoods, a long amenity list would: transit, retail, services, and culture are all within a few minutes' walk.
At 63 apartments across 11 stories, 895 Lexington is a mid-scale cooperative — large enough to support a staffed operation and a steady transaction cadence, small enough to keep a tight-knit residential character closer to a community than to the institutional density of the avenue's largest postwar towers.
Architecture and unit composition
The building’s pre-WWI date does not establish present ceiling heights, room proportions, bedroom mix or service circulation. Likewise, sixty-three apartments across eleven stories does not establish six homes on each landing. Verify the specific home’s approved plans, interior measurements and current floor configuration.
Where original detail survives — moldings, hardwood floors, plaster work, and period door-and-window proportions — it is a meaningful value driver. Where apartments have been modernized, the question for a buyer is how sensitively the pre-war envelope was preserved. Upper-floor apartments and those with favorable street exposure carry the building's clearest premiums.
Building operations
895 Lexington operates as a full-service pre-war cooperative under professional management. The 63-unit scale supports a personal, attentive operating culture rather than the large-staff model of bigger towers. Buyers should expect a board package and interview, and confirm the building's current financing, occupancy and subletting requirements from its governing documents and application instructions when budgeting both time and documentation.
Monthly carrying charges in recent sales
- Maintenance, per room
- $882 per room a monthMedian of 6 recorded sales since October 2023Source: recorded sales, refreshed October 2026
Maintenance as recorded with each sale. A co-op's maintenance already covers the building's real estate taxes and the building's own mortgage, if it has one; add your own loan payment for the monthly outlay. A summary of recorded sales, not a current bill; charges change.
Building staffing and amenities
- Doorman
- Full-time doormanSource: recent listing records
- Elevator
- YesSource: NYC Department of City Planning records (PLUTO)
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
- $0 (under cap)
- 2030–2034 annual penalty
- $35,763/yr
- Per unit / month range
- $0 – $50
- Modeled exposure split equally across 60 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 FISP filing classified the facade as Safe — no repairs were required at that inspection. A filed Safe grade is not a guarantee of current condition: owners still maintain the facade and, where required, observe parapets each year. Future inspection timing (Local Law 49 of 2025 changed the cycle framework from October 1, 2026), repair and any assessment decisions remain building-specific.
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.
Recent sales
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 2026 | 2 | 3 BR · 2.5 BA | $5,000,000 | +5.3% | |
| Dec 22, 2025 | 5B | 3 BR · 2 BA · 1,800 sf | $1,800,000 | $1,000/sf | -5.0% |
| Nov 4, 2025 | 9C | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,800,000 | +0.0% | |
| Oct 27, 2025 | 3B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,999,999 | -9.1% | |
| May 31, 2024 | 5B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,800,000 | +0.0% | |
| May 29, 2024 | 2A | 2 BR · 2.5 BA | $1,800,000 | -2.7% | |
| Jul 18, 2023 | 8B | 2 BR · 2 BA | $1,800,000 | -2.7% | |
| Dec 7, 2022 | 11F | 1 BR · 1 BA | $850,000 | -22.7% |
Market read. $/sf is measured on the latest sales with reliable square footage (2025): a median $1,010/sf (floor-adjusted) across 1 sale. The building has traded as recently as 2026. Median listing discount 6.0% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
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 1-01401-0054). 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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At the recent median sale of $1.9M (4 transfers in the past 24 months, since October 31, 2024), a buyer putting 25% down would pay about $33,550 to close, or 1.8% of the price.
- Mansion tax: $19,000
- No mortgage recording tax or title insurance on a co-op purchase
- Attorneys, lender, building fees and filings: $14,550
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
The 1908 vintage is structural. This is genuine pre-WWI construction; verify actual apartment scale, ceiling height and circulation; those dimensions are not established by its age.
Location is the headline amenity. The 6 train, Madison Avenue retail, Central Park, and the East Side medical corridor are all within a short walk — a strong fit for buyers who prioritize a walkable, services-rich base.
Plan for a co-op admissions process. Expect a full board package and interview; confirm the building's current financing, liquidity, ownership, occupancy and subletting requirements from its governing documents and application instructions.
Renovation should respect the pre-war envelope. Where original detail survives, preserving it tends to support value; the board reviews alteration scope and quality.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the pre-WWI authenticity. Genuine 1908 construction and Lenox Hill walkability are the marketing core; the Edwardian vintage differentiates the apartment from the corridor's postwar stock.
Pricing requires apartment-level comparable work. With mixed layouts across 11 floors, floor altitude, exposure, and renovation history all move value materially; broad averages mislead.
Closing timelines are co-op standard. Plan for roughly 6–10 weeks from contract to closing, plus board review.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 895 Lexington Avenue, also evaluate nearby Lenox Hill cooperatives:
- 976 Lexington Avenue — nearby Lexington Avenue cooperative
- 1004 Lexington Avenue — Lexington Avenue peer
- 111 East 67th Street — pre-war Lenox Hill cooperative one block north
- 167 East 61st Street — nearby Lenox Hill cooperative
- 175 East 62nd Street — Lenox Hill peer
More Upper East Side buildings
- 809 Madison Avenue — condominium by Robert A.M. Stern Architects
- 826 Lexington Avenue — 1928 co-op by George F. Pelham
- 844 Lexington Avenue — 1927 co-op
- 901 Lexington Avenue — 1907 co-op
- 926 Madison Avenue — 1945 co-op by Sylvan Bien
- 944 Park Avenue — 1929 condominium by George F. Pelham
The neighborhood
For the full corridor — architecture, transit, and pricing across Upper East Side — read The Roebling Team Guide to Upper East Side.
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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