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New York City's top sales and best-selling buildings of May 2020

View from The Centrale (via Douglas Elliman) View from The Centrale (via Douglas Elliman)
In May 2020, there were 436 residential condo, co-op, and condop sales recorded in Manhattan for a total dollar amount of $821 million, down 21.8% from even one month ago, when April's aggregate sales still hovered over $1 billion. The effects of the coronavirus outbreak and the lockdown to contain it cannot be ignored, but The New York Times notes that several of the top deals that closed in May entered contract while New York City was still open.

For the most part, flashy, amenity-rich new construction dominated the list of top ten buildings. However, a single sale of a full-floor home in a J.E.R. Carpenter-designed Upper East Side cooperative left even 220 Central Park South in the dust. See the fully sortable table of May's listings below.

In this article:

4 East 66th Street
4 East 66th Street Park/Fifth Ave. to 79th St.
The Centrale, 138 East 50th Street
The Centrale, 138 East 50th Street Midtown East
1165 Fifth Avenue
1165 Fifth Avenue Carnegie Hill
220 Central Park South
220 Central Park South Midtown West
One57, 157 West 57th Street
One57, 157 West 57th Street Midtown West

4-East-66th-Street-01 4 East 66th Street via BHS

220-Central-Park-South-01 220 Central Park South via Vornado Realty Trust

10-Riverside-Boulevard-01 One Waterline Square via Noe & Associates with The Boundary

157-West-57th-Street-01 One57 via Christian de Portzamparc/Extell

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138-East-50th-Street-01 The Centrale via Douglas Elliman

Two-Waterline-Square-01 Two Waterline Square (CityRealty)

80-East-10th-Street-01 Eighty East Tenth via CityRealty

1165-Fifth-Avenue-01 1165 Fifth Avenue via Halstead

121-East-22nd-Street-01 121 E 22nd via Toll Brothers City Living

224-Mulberry-Street-01 224 Mulberry Street via Nest Seekers


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