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166 East 61st Street is a 21-story post-war co-op building in the Upper East Side's Lenox Hill neighborhood, completed in 1962. The building offers 168 units and various amenities including basement storage, a full-service garage, laundry facilities, elevators, a bike room, and a live-in superintendent. Currently, 4 apartments are for sale.
166 East 61st Street is a 165 apartment post-war co-op completed in 1962 in Lenox Hill. Designed by Horace Ginsbern for developer Harry B. Helmsley, the red brick complex pairs a lower wing on East 61st Street with a taller, setback wing extending toward East 60th Street and Third Avenue. Angled corner windows and terraces break up the taller section, while the canopied entrance faces a row of townhouses.
Layouts range from alcove studios and junior one bedrooms to larger homes with separate dining areas and entrance galleries. Generous living rooms, substantial closet space and broad window walls recur, while upper floor apartments often have open city or Queensboro Bridge views. Several lines include private terraces, including unusually broad outdoor spaces, and some apartments permit an in-unit washer and dryer with board approval.
The building has a full time doorman, a live-in superintendent, central laundry facilities, a garage, bike storage, resident storage and a landscaped courtyard. Pets and pied-à-terre ownership are permitted, and subletting is subject to co-op board rules.
The East 61st Street entrance is between Lexington and Third Avenues, with Bloomingdale’s directly south across East 60th Street. The 4, 5, 6, N, R and W trains stop at Lexington Avenue/59th Street, while the F and Q stop at Lexington Avenue/63rd Street. Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s are also close to the building.
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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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