9 East 97th Street
9 East 97th Street, New York, NY 10029
Upper Carnegie Hill, Upper East Side
BBL 1016030009 · BIN 1051460
- Year built
- 1925
- Type
- Cooperative
- Units
- 25
- Floors
- 6
- Landmark
- No
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A Private Pricing Opinion — what your apartment at 9 East 97th Street 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.
9 East 97th Street is a small six-story co-op half a block from Fifth Avenue, at the northern edge of Carnegie Hill. Its neighbors are two of the block's better-known buildings: the Fred F. French Company's six-story neo-Georgian apartment house at 1160 Fifth Avenue (1922–23), which wraps the corner and runs 205 feet along 97th Street, and the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Nicholas, with its onion domes, next door to the east. A buyer here is getting a prewar co-op of about two dozen apartments on a block with Fifth Avenue and Central Park at one end.
The landmark position needs to be stated plainly, because it is easy to assume otherwise. The Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District, designated in 1993, runs up Fifth Avenue past 98th Street. On this block its boundary covers only the two Fifth Avenue corner lots. 9 East 97th Street is outside it, and LPC's building database has no record for the lot. Window, façade and rooftop work here goes through DOB alone, without LPC review.
The co-op history is a mid-1980s conversion. ACRIS shows the building passing through a series of owners from 1970 onward. The cooperative corporation was incorporated in November 1984, and the deed to it from the sponsor entity was recorded in 1986. The building has now been shareholder-owned for four decades.
Architecture and unit composition
The building sits on a single 50-foot lot of about 23,500 gross square feet per the Department of Finance, six stories over a cellar, with one passenger elevator. City records carry 25 apartments across six floors, which puts roughly four apartments on a typical floor. The share transfers recorded in ACRIS run from the A through D lines, which fits that layout. Since the 2014 combination of 1A and 1B, the ground floor has a larger combined apartment.
The original architect is not documented in the public records we reviewed, and the date is recorded as 1925 by the city and as 1930 in some other records. The building's DOB file for the past 25 years shows routine prewar maintenance: parapet and chimney repairs in 2000, a façade-repair permit and sidewalk shed in 2013, gas-piping replacements in 2016, and a 2019 shaft renovation with structural, mechanical and plumbing work from the cellar up. Apartment renovations make up most of the rest of the file.
The top floor is the one to look at closely. DOB filings from 2001 to 2005 established a roof deck and solarium and later a new roof deck and garden above the sixth floor, with a stair up from the apartment below. Whether the roof is private to that apartment or partly common is a question for the proprietary lease.
Building operations
9 East 97th Street Owners Corp. owns the land and building and carries an underlying mortgage. ACRIS records a refinancing in August 2019: a first mortgage and a smaller second mortgage recorded the same day, with assignments of the prior loans. The maturity, rate and any credit-line terms are not in the public record. Get them from the audited financial statements; for a building this size, the underlying debt and when it comes due matter to every shareholder.
The building carries no J-51 and no other building-wide tax benefit, so there is no burn-off coming. Real estate taxes are part of maintenance. Eligible shareholders receive the cooperative abatement on their share of the tax.
Recent sales
9 East 97th Street trades as a small prewar co-op at the northern end of Carnegie Hill, priced per room. Turnover is thin: ACRIS records share transfers most years through the 2010s and a slower pace since, with transfers in 2021, 2022 and 2025. The building's pricing is best read against the Fifth Avenue co-ops on the same two blocks at a discount for the side-street address and the smaller scale, and against the Carnegie Hill mid-block prewars to the south. Floor and light decide the spread inside the building; the combined ground-floor unit and the top floor with roof access are the outliers. Unit-level transaction history is maintained in The Roebling Research Library and shared with clients during diligence.
The retrade record
Lines that have traded more than once in the public record — the building’s appreciation arc, apartment by apartment.
Recent transfers at this building, sourced from NYC Department of Finance records. Apartment-level detail (line, condition, asking-price context) verified upon consultation request.
| Date | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2025 | 1AB | $2,400,000 |
| Apr 15, 2022 | 6D | $1,795,000 |
| Jun 13, 2018 | 2A | $860,000 |
| Oct 18, 2014 | 5C | $922,534.5 |
| Sep 25, 2014 | 1A | $596,000 |
| May 16, 2014 | 3D | $825,000 |
Sales sourced from NYC Department of Finance recorded transfers (BBL 1-01603-0009) and verified listing data. Apartment-level facts (line, condition, asking-price context) curated and cross-verified by The Roebling Team research desk. Not all transactions cross-verify with ACRIS records — sponsor and LLC purchases sometimes record at stipulated values rather than market price.
Buying here? Co-op closing costs typically run 2 to 3% of the price. See NYC co-op and condo closing costs, line by line.
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What to know if you’re buying
The board package is the gate. Expect a full financial package and an interview. The board's financing ceiling, minimum down payment and post-closing liquidity requirement are not in the public record; ask for them before you make an offer.
Get the policy stack in writing. Subletting, pied-à-terre use, purchases through trusts or LLCs, pets and any flip tax must come from the managing agent. None of them is documented publicly for this building.
Read the underlying mortgage. Ask for the last two years of audited financials and confirm the maturity of the 2019 refinancing and any balance on the second loan.
Confirm the landmark status yourself if it matters to your plans. It is not in the historic district. That makes window and rooftop work simpler here than at the Fifth Avenue buildings next door.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the block. Fifth Avenue half a block away, the cathedral next door and the landmarked prewar buildings at both Fifth Avenue corners of the block are the building's setting; use them.
Prepare the building documents early. In a small co-op, the buyer's lender and the board will both want the financials, the mortgage terms and the house rules. Having them ready shortens the board-package stage.
Price per room against the right set. The comparables are other small Carnegie Hill prewar co-ops, not the full-service Fifth Avenue towers.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 9 East 97th Street, also evaluate:
- 1165 Fifth Avenue — J.E.R. Carpenter's 1925 co-op at the other end of the same block, inside the historic district; the Fifth Avenue alternative
- 1158 Fifth Avenue — C. Howard Crane's 1924 co-op across 97th Street; larger and landmarked
- 1170 Fifth Avenue — Carpenter's 1926 co-op at 98th Street, one block north
- 1150 Fifth Avenue — Carpenter's 1924 co-op at 96th Street; the larger prewar on the same stretch
- 16 East 96th Street — Clinton & Russell's 1906 mid-block building one block south; the side-street prewar comparison
- 4 East 95th Street — Carpenter's 1923–24 mid-block co-op of 37 apartments
- 12 East 87th Street — small prewar co-op on a Carnegie Hill side street farther south
More Upper East Side buildings
- 8 East 83rd Street — 1963 co-op
- 8 East 96th Street — 1928 co-op by Rosario Candela
- 9 East 96th Street — 1926 co-op by Gronenberg & Leuchtag
- 10 East 70th Street — 1960 co-op by Emery Roth & Sons
- 10 East 85th Street — 1925 co-op
- 10 Gracie Square (Upper East Side) — 1930 co-op by Pennington & Lewis
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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