The Met sells adjacent Carnegie Hill townhouses for $29M

The entity 6-8 E 82nd St LLC in care of the law firm Konner Gershburg Melnick Darouvar paid $29 million to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for the specialty buildings (W3) at 6 and 8 East 82nd Street in Carnegie Hill, Manhattan. The expected use is conversion to a single-family home, according to news reports.
The deal closed on October 16, 2025 and was recorded on November 3, 2025. The two properties have 12,645 square feet of built space and 3,898 square feet of additional air rights for a total buildable of 16,548 square feet according to a PincusCo analysis of city data. The sale price per built square foot is $2,293 and the price per buildable square foot is $1,752 per the PincusCo analysis. (The price per square foot analysis is the transaction price divided by square feet as reported in public records and assumes no air rights have been sold.)
The signatory for Metropolitan Museum of Art was Jameson Kelleher . The contract date was October 7, 2025. The buyer plans to convert the properties to a single family home, The Real Deal reported.

Prior sales and revenue

Prior to this transaction, PincusCo has no record that the buyer Konner Gershburg Melnick Darouvar registered had purchased any other properties and has no record it sold any properties over the past 24 months.
The seller Metropolitan Museum of Art had not purchased any other properties and had not sold any properties over the same time period.

The property

The specialty building in Carnegie Hill has 12,645 square feet of built space and 3,898 square feet of additional air rights for a total buildable of 16,548 square feet according to a PincusCo analysis of city data. The parcel has frontage of 21 feet and is 102 feet deep with a total lot size of 2,145 square feet. The zoning is R8B which allows for up to 4 times floor area ratio (FAR) for residential. The property is in the Metropolitan Museum Historic District. The city-designated market value for the property in 2022 is $4.2 million.

Violations and lawsuits

There were no lawsuits or bankruptcies filed against the properties for the past 24 months. In addition, according to city public data, the properties have received $100 in OATH penalties in the last year.

Development

There are no active new building construction projects or major alteration projects with initial costs more than $1 million on this tax lot.

The neighborhood

In Carnegie Hill, The majority, or 56 percent of the 13.5 million square feet of commercial built space are elevator buildings, with walkup buildings next occupying 18 percent of the space. In sales, Carnegie Hill has 3.4 times the average sales volume among other neighborhoods with $1 billion in sales volume in the last two years and is the 10th highest in Manhattan. For development, Carnegie Hill has had very little major development activity relative to other neighborhoods.It had 1.1 million square feet of commercial and multi-family construction under development in the last two years, which represents 8 percent of the neighborhood’s built space.

The block

On the tax block of 6 East 82nd Street, PincusCo has identified the owners of three of the nine commercial properties representing 112,915 square feet of the 179,637 square feet. The largest owner is Nyc Department Of Education, followed by Jm Revocable Trust and then Albert Feinstein.
There are no active new building construction projects on this tax block.

The majority, or 72 percent of the 179,637 square feet of built space are specialty buildings, with mixed-use buildings next occupying 11 percent of the space.

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