Why this matters

Pied-à-terre ownership in Manhattan splits the market in half. The vast majority of trophy prewar Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue, and Carnegie Hill cooperatives explicitly restrict pied-à-terre use — and several (including 1120 Fifth Avenue and 740 Park Avenue) have famously rejected eight- and nine-figure-net-worth buyers for proposing pied-à-terre intent.

For pied-à-terre buyers — foreign principals, secondary-residence buyers, Hamptons commuters, family-trust acquisitions — the path is condominium, condop, or the small minority of cooperatives with explicit pied-à-terre permission written into the proprietary lease. This guide indexes the buildings on theroeblingteam.com that explicitly permit pied-à-terre ownership.

The pied-à-terre buyer's framework

Three structures permit pied-à-terre in Manhattan:

1. Condominium — standard policy framework permits pied-à-terre with right-of-first-refusal procedural only. No board interview blocks pied-à-terre intent.
2. Condop — hybrid structure with condominium-style governance over residential cooperative ownership. Pied-à-terre typically permitted; board interview required but typically less substantive than traditional cooperative.
3. Pied-à-terre-permitted cooperatives — small minority of cooperatives with explicit permission in the proprietary lease. Examples include 1 East 66th Street, 870 Fifth Avenue, 50 Gramercy Park North, 510 Park Avenue.

Highest-confidence pied-à-terre-permitted buildings on theroeblingteam.com

Trophy condominiums — Park Avenue / Fifth Avenue / Carnegie Hill

• 502 Park Avenue (Trump Park Avenue) — Goldner & Goldner 1929 / Kondylis 2005 condominium; standard condominium pied-à-terre permission
• 530 Park Avenue — Pelham Jr. 1940 / Aby Rosen 2013 condominium
• 610 Park Avenue (The Mayfair) — Carpenter 1925 / Kondylis 1998 condominium
• 715 Park Avenue — Emery Roth & Sons 1948 condominium
• 1110 Park Avenue — DDG 2015 condominium
• 985 Park Avenue — Kondylis 2007 condominium
• 60 East 88th Street (The Saratoga) — Beyer Blinder Belle 1987 condominium
• 3 East 95th Street (Carhart Mansion) — Trumbauer 1913-21 / 2004 condominium

Cooperatives with explicit pied-à-terre permission

• 1 East 66th Street — Candela 1947; trust purchases also permitted
• 870 Fifth Avenue — Hohauser 1949; welcomed, not merely permitted
• 510 Park Avenue — F.H. Dewey 1925; up to 80% financing on most units
• 535 Park Avenue — Herbert Lucas 1910; one of NYC's oldest cooperatives
• 485 Park Avenue — Dwight P. Robinson 1922
• 1045 Fifth Avenue — Horace Ginsbern 1967
• 965 Fifth Avenue — Irving Margon 1941
• 930 Fifth Avenue — Emery Roth 1940
• 850 Fifth Avenue (entry — verify) — verify specific policy framework
• 930 Park Avenue — Schwartz & Gross 1924; verify per current board policy

Condops with permitted pied-à-terre

• 45 East 89th Street (89th & Madison) — Lehrecke 1969 condop; comprehensive policy flexibility
• The Churchill (300 East 40th Street) — 1967 / conv 1991 condop; among most permissive in Murray Hill
• Two Waterline Square (30 Riverside Boulevard) — KPF / Yabu Pushelberg 2020

West Village trophy condominiums

• 150 Charles Street — CookFox / Witkoff 2015
• 165 Charles Street — Meier 2006
• 173 & 176 Perry Street — Meier 2002
• 160 Leroy Street — Herzog & de Meuron 2018
• Superior Ink (400 W 12th) — Stern 2009
• The Shephard (275 W 10th) — Beyer Blinder Belle / Gachot / Naftali 2017
• The Greenwich Lane — FXFOWLE 2015

Tribeca / SoHo / NoHo trophy condominiums

• 40 Bond Street — Herzog & de Meuron 2007
• 25 Bond Street — BKSK 2008
• 565 Broome Street — Renzo Piano 2019
• 60 Collister Street (American Express Carriage House) — Moore 2008
• 250 West Street — Birkmire 1906 / 2012 conversion

FiDi / Lower Manhattan trophy condominiums

• 1 Wall Street — Walker 1931 / Macklowe 2023
• 125 Greenwich Street (The Greenwich) — Viñoly 2022
• 5 Beekman Street (The Beekman Residences) — Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel 2016
• 20 Pine Street (The Collection) — Armani/Casa 2007
• 15 Broad Street (Downtown by Starck) — Trowbridge & Livingston 1914 / Starck 2005
• Cipriani Club Residences (55 Wall Street) — McKim Mead White 1907-10 / 2006

CPW / UWS

• 279 Central Park West — Kondylis 1988 condominium
• The Vaux (372 CPW) — SOM 1961 Park West Village condominium
• The Olmsted (382 CPW) — SOM 1961 Park West Village condominium
• 400 Central Park West — SOM 1960 Park West Village condominium
• 535 West End Avenue — Lagrange 2011 condominium
• 222 Riverside Drive — Fox & Fowle 1989 condominium

The Roebling Team — pied-à-terre advisory

Buying a pied-à-terre in Manhattan requires more than identifying buildings that permit the use. It requires:

• Verifying the proprietary lease or condominium declaration carries explicit permission — not merely silence
• Confirming the board posture through recent transactional data (cooperatives can change policy via board resolution)
• Cross-referencing the The Roebling Research Library offering plans and house rules for buildings where we have documents

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Corey Cohen · The Roebling Team at Compass 646.939.7375 · c.cohen@compass.com

Sources: The Roebling Research Library (offering plans, house rules, financial statements, board minutes, internal transaction records); publicly recorded NYC building data.