- Year built
- 1999
- Type
- Condominium
- Units
- 40
- Floors
- 21
- Landmark
- No
- Pets
- Pets permitted under the condominium rules
- Subletting
- Permitted under the condominium declaration
- Pied-à-terre
- Allowed
Every recorded sale at this building, 2003–2026
Price-per-square-foot over time, the line- and floor-premium curves, and every recorded sale.
- Median $/sf
- $1,156
- Listing discount
- 5.5%
- Recorded sales
- 49
- On record
- 2003–2026
90 East End Avenue is one of the few full-service condominiums on the far-eastern edge of Yorkville, a pocket of the Upper East Side that is residential to the point of being almost suburban in feel. The building sits diagonally across from Carl Schurz Park and the East River Esplanade, with the Chapin School directly across 84th Street and the river breeze a half-block away. For buyers who want the space, light, and quiet of the far East Side without committing to a prewar co-op board, the building occupies a specific and useful niche.
Costas Kondylis designed it in 1999 — the same architect responsible for a long roster of Manhattan residential towers across the 1990s and 2000s. Here he worked in a restrained palazzo vocabulary: a rusticated limestone base grounding a red-brick shaft, with the proportions and detailing of a prewar apartment house rather than a glass tower. The result reads as a contemporary building that wants to belong to its prewar neighbors, and on East End Avenue — a street defined by 1920s and 1930s limestone-and-brick co-ops — that posture is deliberate.
The building's defining feature is its apartments. With only 40 residential units across 21 floors and roughly 96,000 square feet of residential area, the average home here is large by Manhattan standards: nine-foot ceilings, herringbone floors, gracious entry foyers, and separate dining rooms. This is not a building of efficient studios and one-bedrooms; it is a building of family-scaled two-, three-, and four-bedroom condominiums.
Architecture and unit composition
The 40 residences are distributed across 21 stories, producing a low unit-per-floor count and the privacy that comes with it. Layouts emphasize prewar-style flow — windowed kitchens, formal dining, and corner exposures — executed with late-1990s new-construction systems. Select upper-floor units carry private terraces, and a number of residences include wood-burning fireplaces, a genuine rarity in postwar and new-construction Manhattan.
The limestone-and-brick envelope was specified to age well and to harmonize with East End Avenue's prewar streetwall. Light is strong on the upper floors, with East River and park views to the east and open city exposures elsewhere; the building's location at the edge of the grid means many lines avoid the deep-lot darkness common in mid-block UES buildings.
Building operations
90 East End Avenue runs as a full-service condominium: full-time doorman and concierge coverage, a live-in resident manager, a fitness center, a children's playroom, central laundry, bicycle storage, and private basement storage. Common charges and property taxes reflect a staffed, amenity-bearing building of large apartments; buyers should model the full monthly carry on a unit-specific basis.
As a 1999-vintage building, the structure is past its earliest shakedown period and into ordinary mature-building capital planning. Buyers should review current financial statements, the reserve study, and board minutes during due diligence — standard practice, not a flag specific to this building.
Recent sales
Pricing at 90 East End Avenue is best understood on a price-per-square-foot basis, as at any condominium. The building's value proposition is space: large family-scaled homes in a full-service building one block from Carl Schurz Park, at Yorkville pricing rather than Fifth or Park Avenue pricing. Upper-floor and terraced units with river and park exposure command the building's premiums; lower and interior lines trade at a discount to those. Because the unit mix is heavily weighted toward larger apartments, the building's per-square-foot range is narrower than in buildings with a wide studio-to-penthouse spread, and condition — original 1999 finishes versus a recent gut renovation — is a meaningful driver of where any given sale lands.
Recent closings at this building, curated by The Roebling Team research desk. Apartment-level facts are independently verified before publishing; sale prices reflect the recorded transfer amount at the NYC Department of Finance.
| Date | Unit | Apartment | Price | PPSF | vs. Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 2026 | PH22 | 5 BR · 6 BA · 3,700 sf | $5,995,000 | $1,620/sf | off-mkt |
| Dec 5, 2024 | 16A | 4 BR · 4 BA · 3,124 sf | $3,200,000 | $1,024/sf | -39.0% |
| Oct 8, 2024 | 6B | 3 BR · 2.5 BA · 1,727 sf | $1,950,000 | $1,129/sf | off-mkt |
| Oct 2, 2024 | 14B | 3 BR · 3 BA · 2,164 sf | $2,850,000 | $1,317/sf | off-mkt |
| Jul 27, 2023 | 8B | 4 BR · 3 BA · 2,183 sf | $2,920,000 | $1,338/sf | -7.3% |
| Feb 15, 2023 | 7A | 5 BR · 5.5 BA · 5,300 sf | $7,800,000 | $1,472/sf | -5.5% |
| Aug 22, 2022 | 11B | 3 BR · 2 BA · 2,172 sf | $3,210,000 | $1,478/sf | -4.9% |
| Jun 14, 2022 | 3A | 5 BR · 4.5 BA · 3,828 sf | $5,200,000 | $1,358/sf | off-mkt |
Market read. Most recent trades (2024) cleared a median $1,156/sf across 3 sales. Median listing discount 5.5% from the last ask — a recurring negotiation gap worth pricing into any offer or listing strategy.
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 1-01580-7501) 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; square footage from recorded condo declarations and offering plans.
What to know if you’re buying
This is a space play. The building's reason to exist is large, well-laid-out family apartments. If you need a true two-to-four-bedroom home with separate dining and real foyers, this building delivers it at Yorkville rather than Park Avenue pricing.
Condo flexibility is real. 30–45 day closings, pied-à-terre and investment use permitted, subletting allowed under the declaration. There is no co-op board interview.
Location is the trade-off. The far East Side is quiet and park-adjacent but transit-light — the Q at 86th and Second is the nearest subway, with crosstown buses on 86th and 79th. Buyers who prize walk-to-everything density should weigh this honestly; buyers who prize quiet and the river will find it a feature.
Run the carrying cost. Model common charges plus property taxes plus utilities and insurance on the specific unit. Larger apartments carry larger monthly numbers.
Mansion tax thresholds apply. At this building's price points the $1M and higher mansion-tax cliffs are routinely in play. Run pricing through the Mansion Tax Calculator.
What to know if you’re selling
Lead with the apartment and the park. The building's buyers are families and downsizers who want space and quiet near Carl Schurz Park. Marketing should foreground layout, light, fireplaces and terraces where present, and the park-block location.
Condition drives price. With a homogeneous large-unit mix, the spread between sales is driven by renovation level and exposure more than by floor count alone. A turn-key renovation is worth pricing for; an original-condition unit should be priced to its reality.
Closing timelines are condo-fast. 30–45 days from contract to closing.
Comparable buildings
If you're considering 90 East End Avenue, also evaluate:
- 120 East End Avenue — prewar co-op on the same avenue; classical East End Avenue pedigree
- 40 East End Avenue — newer-development condominium nearby; comparable full-service program
- 200 East End Avenue — large prewar co-op anchoring the avenue's northern end
- 1 East End Avenue — anchor co-op at the avenue's southern gateway
- 200 East 83rd Street — newer luxury condominium a block west; tower program and amenities
- 180 East 88th Street — Yorkville new-development condominium; tall-tower alternative
The Roebling Team at 90 East End Avenue
The Roebling Team at Compass specializes in the Upper East Side, Central Park West, and the broader Park-facing Manhattan market. We publish this profile because buyers and sellers of large family apartments deserve building-specific intelligence — architecture, operational reality, transactional mechanics, and pricing at the apartment level — not generic market commentary.
If you're considering a purchase or sale at 90 East End Avenue, a 30-minute consultation is the right starting point. We'll bring the full context this page provides plus the transactional specifics your situation requires — financial structuring, due diligence priorities, comparable analysis at the apartment level, and the pacing strategy that fits your timeline.
The neighborhood
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