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156 East 79th Street is a prewar cooperative building on the Upper East Side with full-service amenities and staff. The building features updated elevators, a renovated lobby, and welcomes pets and pied-a-terres. Currently, 2 apartments are for sale.
156 East 79th Street is a 14 story pre-war apartment house designed by Schwartz & Gross and built by Julius Tishman & Sons in 1915. Converted to cooperative ownership in 1967, the 65 unit building has a beige brick façade, a gray granite base, and a two story arched entrance with foliate ornament.
The original floor plans generally comprised two eight room apartments and one seven room apartment per floor, although later divisions created smaller residences. Many apartments retain ceilings of about 10 feet, formal entrance galleries, beamed ceilings, herringbone floors, and wood burning fireplaces. South facing lines overlook the townhouses and courtyards of East 78th Street, while windowed kitchens and bathrooms recur in larger layouts.
The full service co-op has a 24 hour doorman, a live-in resident manager, a central laundry room, private storage, and bicycle storage. It is pet friendly, considers pied-à-terre ownership, permits up to 60 percent financing, and allows in-unit washers and dryers with board approval. The lobby has been renovated, and façade work has been completed.
The building is mid-block just east of Lexington Avenue in Lenox Hill. Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are several blocks west, and the 6 train stops at 77th Street and Lexington Avenue.
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For some co-ops, instead of price per square foot, we use an estimate of the number of rooms for each sold apartment to chart price changes over time. This is because many co-op listings do not include square footage information, and this makes it challenging to calculate accurate square-foot averages.
By displaying the price per estimated room count, we are able to provide a more reliable and consistent metric for comparing sales in the building. While we hope that this gives you a clearer sense of price trends in the building, all data should be independently verified. All data provided are only estimates and should not be used to make any purchase or sale decision.
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