Lenox Hill

About Lenox Hill

Lenox Hill, as covered here, is the Upper East Side from 59th Street up to 77th Street, east of Park Avenue to the East River. Roosevelt Island is excluded.

Park Avenue and the blocks just east of it are lined with pre-war co-ops, many of them inside the Upper East Side Historic District, designated in 1981. The side streets between Lexington and Third Avenues have rows of townhouses, including the Treadwell Farm Historic District on East 61st and 62nd Streets.

East of Third Avenue the neighborhood is mostly post-war: about half of its homes are in buildings from 1940 to 1979. York Avenue is lined with medical and research campuses, including Rockefeller University, Weill Cornell Medicine and the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Hunter College is at Lexington Avenue and 68th Street.

Landmarks Preservation Commission historic districts in the neighborhood include the Upper East Side Historic District, the Treadwell Farm Historic District and the Upper East Side Historic District Extension. Exterior changes to buildings inside a historic district need Commission approval, which is worth knowing before buying a townhouse or planning a renovation. Check any address on the LPC designations map.

Lenox Hill market report

From October 2025 through September 2026, NYC Department of Finance records show 1,032 home sales in Lenox Hill, with a median price of $1.12M. Half of those sales fell between $646K and $2.30M.

The total breaks down as 660 co-op sales, 350 condo sales and 22 sales of 1–3 family houses.

The overall median is up 1.9% on the previous 12 months, and the number of sales is down 0.8%.

Source: NYC Department of Finance rolling and annualized sales, October 2025 – September 2026, compared with October 2024 – September 2025. Residential sales of $100,000 or more; bulk and duplicate records removed. Recent months may be incomplete because sales appear as deeds are recorded. Area covered: 59th to 77th Street, Park Avenue to the East River (excludes Roosevelt Island). Updated quarterly.

Homes in Lenox Hill

Co-ops made up about two-thirds of recorded sales in the last 12 months, from pre-war apartments near Park Avenue to post-war buildings on the avenues further east. Condos were most of the rest, and there were 22 recorded sales of 1–3 family houses, mostly townhouses on the side streets.

• HomesAbout 50,500 residential units
• Age35% of units are in buildings from before 1940; 4% are in buildings from 2000 or later
• Building types56% in elevator apartment buildings, 22% in condominiums, 17% in walk-up apartment buildings
• Co-op buildings177
• Condo buildings110
• Townhouses and small buildings407 (1–4 units)

Building data from NYC Department of City Planning PLUTO. Counts are approximate.

Getting around

The 6 runs along Lexington Avenue with stops at 59th, 68th and 77th Streets, and the 4, 5, N, R and W also stop at 59th Street. The Q stops at 72nd Street on Second Avenue, part of the Second Avenue Subway opened in 2017, and at Lexington Avenue–63rd Street. The Roosevelt Island Tram leaves from 60th Street.

Stations in the neighborhood

• 59 St456NRW
• 68 St-Hunter College6 Accessible
• 72 StQ Accessible
• Lexington Av/63 StMQ Accessible

Stations from the MTA’s station list. Plan a specific trip with the MTA trip planner.

Parks

John Jay Park, at 77th Street by the river, has a pool and courts. St. Catherine’s Park on First Avenue and the East River Esplanade are nearby.

• East River Walk4.6 acres
• John Jay Park3.3 acres
• Andrew Haswell Green Park2 acres
• St. Catherine’s Park1.4 acres
• Queensboro Oval1.2 acres
• Twenty-Four Sycamores Parkunder 1 acre

NYC Parks properties in or next to the neighborhood. Areas from NYC Parks.

School district

The Garson Team in Lenox Hill

The Garson Team’s Lenox Hill listing is at 150 East 61st Street, a 1960 elevator co-op on Lexington Avenue.

• 150 E 61st St, Unit 16DActive

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