Manhattan · 18 buildings
Midtown
The skyline's oldest icons and the apartments that sit among them.
18
Buildings
4,071
Recorded sales
$135.04M
Highest · The Crown Building
1,250 ft
Tallest · Empire State Building
1885
Oldest · The Osborne
Midtown is where the famous office towers are: the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building a few blocks east, Rockefeller Center. They have no apartment deeds, so their records are the buildings' own: the leases, the financings and a century of permits.
Among them are the apartments. The Plaza, the Crown Building and the Baccarat were built or converted as hotel condominiums; the Osborne, across from Carnegie Hall, is one of the city's oldest co-ops; Olympic Tower, Trump Tower, CitySpire and 53 West 53 are condominiums from four different booms.
The buildings
ranked by highest recorded sale
01
The Crown Building
730 Fifth Avenue · Hotel condominium · 1921 · 382 ft · Warren & Wetmore; Aman conversion by Jean-Michel Gathy
The 1921 tower at Fifth and 57th, remade as Aman's New York hotel and residences.
$135.04M
Highest · 2024 · unit 26A
$19.75M
Latest · Jan 23, 2026
27 recorded sales
02
The Ritz-Carlton Residences
50 Central Park South · Hotel condominium · 2002 · 384 ft · Emery Roth (1930); conversion by Frank Williams & Associates
The old St. Moritz, reopened as the Ritz-Carlton with a dozen apartments on top.
$70M
Highest · 2012 · unit 30/31
$28.38M
Latest · Nov 25, 2025
20 recorded sales
03
The Plaza
768 Fifth Avenue · Hotel condominium · 1907 · 280 ft · Henry J. Hardenbergh
The château on the corner of the park, half hotel and half home since 2008.
$65.84M
Highest · 2023 · unit 1109
$2.16M
Latest · Aug 4, 2026
309 recorded sales
04
Baccarat Hotel & Residences
20 West 53rd Street · Hotel condominium · 2015 · 602 ft · Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
A crystal company's name on a glass tower across from MoMA.
$42.55M
Highest · 2016 · unit PH
$5M
Latest · Sep 18, 2026
77 recorded sales
05
Hampshire House
150 Central Park South · Co-operative · 1937 · 447 ft · Caughey & Evans
The copper-roofed Art Deco tower on the park, begun in 1931 and finished after the Depression stopped it.
$35.2M
Highest · 2023 · unit 27
$73K
Latest · Aug 12, 2026
242 recorded sales
06
53 West 53
53 West 53rd Street · Condominium · 2019 · 1,050 ft · Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel's diagrid, rising out of the Museum of Modern Art.
$29.94M
Highest · 2020 · unit 72A
$5.35M
Latest · Jul 28, 2026
111 recorded sales
07
Trump Tower
721 Fifth Avenue · Condominium · 1983 · 664 ft · Der Scutt with Swanke Hayden Connell
The sawtooth tower on the Bonwit Teller site, and the deeds behind the name.
$16.5M
Highest · 2013 · unit 38F
$1.62M
Latest · Aug 18, 2026
231 recorded sales
08
Olympic Tower
641 Fifth Avenue · Condominium · 1976 · 620 ft · Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Onassis's bronze glass tower beside St. Patrick's, the condominium that taught Fifth Avenue to live upstairs.
$15.15M
Highest · 2018 · unit PH1
$1.55M
Latest · Sep 14, 2026
229 recorded sales
09
Essex House
160 Central Park South · Hotel condominium · 1931 · 441 ft · Frank Grad
The Art Deco hotel with the red sign on the park, and one of the city's first condominiums.
$11.38M
Highest · 2025 · unit 4001
$4.25M
Latest · Jul 30, 2026
221 recorded sales
10
Museum Tower
15 West 53rd Street · Condominium · 1985 · 589 ft · Cesar Pelli
The condominium that paid for MoMA's 1984 expansion, rising from the museum's own roof.
$9.25M
Highest · 2018 · unit PHA
$1.36M
Latest · Aug 27, 2026
257 recorded sales
11
Metropolitan Tower
146 West 57th Street · Condominium · 1987 · 716 ft · Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron
Macklowe's black prism on 57th Street, thirty years before 432 Park.
$9.15M
Highest · 2012 · unit PHBC
$2.7M
Latest · Sep 3, 2026
306 recorded sales
12
The Bryant
16 West 40th Street · Condominium · 2018 · 361 ft · David Chipperfield Architects
David Chipperfield's first New York building, in polished concrete, looking straight down Bryant Park.
$8.5M
Highest · 2019 · unit 30A
$2.52M
Latest · Jun 4, 2026
53 recorded sales
13
Trump Parc
106 Central Park South · Condominium · 1930 · 406 ft · Murgatroyd & Ogden (1930)
The Barbizon-Plaza Hotel, turned into condominiums on the park in 1988.
$7.1M
Highest · 2013 · unit 38A
$1.25M
Latest · Sep 15, 2026
337 recorded sales
14
CitySpire
150 West 56th Street · Condominium · 1987 · 814 ft · Murphy/Jahn
Helmut Jahn's domed tower behind City Center, the one that whistled.
$6.5M
Highest · 2023 · unit 6503
$1.78M
Latest · Sep 18, 2026
379 recorded sales
15
The Osborne
205 West 57th Street · Co-operative · 1885 · 165 ft · James E. Ware
An 1885 apartment house facing Carnegie Hall.
$6M
Highest · 2015 · unit 3A4AB
$965K
Latest · Dec 23, 2024
105 recorded sales
16
Worldwide Plaza
350 West 50th Street · Condominium · 1989 · 366 ft · Frank Williams & Associates (residences); Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (office tower)
The residential half of the block that replaced Madison Square Garden's old site, a 38-storey tower and a row of low-rises.
$2.35M
Highest · 2015 · unit 5C
$845K
Latest · Aug 28, 2026
1,165 recorded sales
17
Empire State Building
350 Fifth Avenue · Office · 1931 · 1,250 ft · Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
Built in 410 days, the tallest building in the world for four decades.
No apartment sales
18
30 Rockefeller Plaza
30 Rockefeller Plaza · Office · 1933 · 850 ft · Raymond Hood and the Associated Architects
The slab at the centre of Rockefeller Center, with the Rainbow Room at the top.
No apartment sales
2 recorded sales
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Highest and latest sales from the public record · co-op sales from transfer-tax filings · every deed, party and permit is in each building's dossier for members