Central Park West Apartments
Central Park West Apartments & West Side Real Estate Central Park West is one of Manhattan's prime strips of real estate.
Central Park West (sometimes referred to simply as CPW) is an avenue that runs north-south in the New York City borough of Manhattan, in the United States. As its name indicates, CPW forms the western edge of Central Park. It also forms the eastern boundary of the Upper West Side. It runs 51 blocks from Columbus Circle (at 59th Street, or Central Park South) to Frederick Douglass Circle (at 110th Street, or Cathedral Parkway). The gates into Central Park along its western edge are: Merchants Gate at 59th Street, Women's Gate at 72nd, Naturalists Gate at 77th, Hunters Gate at 81st, Mariners Gate at 86th, Gate of all Saints at 96th, Boys Gate at 100th, and Strangers Gate at 106th.
Central Park West's expensive housing rivals that of Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side. South of Columbus Circle, in Midtown, Central Park West becomes Eighth Avenue. North of Frederick Douglass Circle, in Harlem, it is alternately known as Eighth Avenue or Frederick Douglass Boulevard. Unlike many Manhattan avenues, Central Park West has traffic running in both directions. The IND Eighth Avenue Subway Line runs under the avenue, serving local stations. The most sought-after areas of Central Park West run between 61st and 97th Streets. Central Park West between 61st and 97th Streets is a mixture of late 19th and early 20th century architectural styles. By far the district's most dominant style is Neo-Renaissance, mostly neo-Italian Renaissance though there are German and Flemish Renaissance influences found in some of the structures. Art Deco, Second Empire, Beaux-Arts and Neoclassical architecture are all found in multiple buildings. Gothic and Romanesque Revival influences can be found combined with other styles in some of the buildings as well as on their own. A few Queen Anne, Art Moderne and Italianate buildings dot the streetscape of Central Park West. Central Park West is the address of several famous residences, including The Dakota (where John Lennon lived with Yoko Ono, who still resides there, and outside of which he was murdered in 1980), The San Remo (home to U2's Bono, Demi Moore, Diane Keaton, & Steve Martin), The El Dorado, The Beresford (home to Diana Ross & Jerry Seinfeld), The Langham, The Century, 15 Central Park West (home to Sting), 41 Central Park West (home to Madonna), The St. Urban, and The Majestic (which was home to some of the former heads of the Genovese crime family, including Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello. In 1957, Vincent "The Chin" Gigante shot Frank Costello in the lobby of The Majestic in a failed assassination attempt). Most of these housing cooperatives were built around 1930, replacing late 19th century hotels with the same names. Some, including The Century, The San Remo, and The Majestic, are twin towers. Other landmarks and institutions along its length include the New-York Historical Society and the American Museum of Natural History. The area from 61st to 97th Streets is included in the Central Park West Historic District.[1] The building located at 55 Central Park West is the infamous "Spook Central" from the movie Ghostbusters. The famed New York City restaurant Tavern on the Green
is located off of Central Park West, at 67th Street, within the grounds of Central Park. Central Park West ranks with Fifth and Park Avenues as the city's priciest real estate. It is the most desirable avenue on the Upper West Side and arguably in the city. The largest playground in the world, Central Park, is at your front door. The entire avenue below 96th Street is part of the Upper West Side Historic District. It is not entirely residential. There are several churches and synagogues, a handful of private schools and some of the city's museums, including the New-York Historical Society and the American Museum of Natural History. It is the most varied of all the linear avenues. People on Fifth Avenue have a much more beautiful view because Central Park West is more beautiful to look at. Along with the typical 12- to 25-story rectilinear apartment buildings, the avenue is home to five great towered buildings, the Century, the Majestic, the San Remo, the El Dorado and the Beresford with its smaller towers, all of which create a wonderful rhythm and silhouette. Although an elevated train opened on adjacent Columbus Avenue in 1879, most of Central Park West remained vacant land, even during this period of major development, because the land values were too high. A notable exception was the Dakota, opened in 1884 as one of the city's first apartment houses for the upper middle class. Many major buildings were constructed between 1928 and 1931. On the East Side, the buildings were so exclusive, the address alone sufficed. On the West Side they used the names for
marketing. A few buildings, like 2 West 67th Street, have side-street addresses, and others, like 1 West 64th Street/41 Central Park West have two addresses. Why is unclear... Below 96th Street, nearly every residential building is a co-op. Classic six-room units predominate. These have two bedrooms, a maid's room, a dining room, a living room and a kitchen, with around 2,200 to 2,400 square feet. You have grand, well-proportioned rooms with foyers and high ceilings. There's molding detail and beautiful hardwood floors. Some have fireplaces. A starting price for a classic six in original good
condition with a park view is around $2.5 million. A classic seven, with one more bedroom, is $2.5 to $3.5 million. Apartments with side views or no views of Central Park are less desirable, and prices drop accordingly. In one building, the asking price for a classic seven-room apartment on a ground floor with no fireplace and no park view is $3.5 million. In the same building, the asking price for a classic seven on a higher floor with a fireplace and a park view is $5.595 million. People differ on how high is best. Some prefer the fifth through seventh floors, which just about clear the trees. The price differential among floors below tree level is negligible but clearing the trees could add $400,000. One 10-room co-op sold for $2 million in 1985, for $3.2 million in 1987 and for $6.5 million in 1999 and today it would probably go for $10 million. Just south of 96th Street, a few buildings that are
not co-ops lie within a few blocks of each other. 279 Central Park West and 353 Central Park West are condominiums built about a decade ago. Central Park West originates at Columbus Circle where, three years ago, the old Gulf & Western Building was turned into the 52-story Trump International Hotel and Tower, 1 Central Park West. The ground floor includes the restaurant Jean-Georges. The hotel occupies floors 17 and below, with the
uppermost floors containing 158 condominium units. A one-bedroom, 1.5 bath unit with 1,300 feet, facing away from the park, sells for around $1 million; a five-bedroom, 6.5 bath penthouse with 5,500 square feet is more than $20 million. Two-bedroom units facing the park are in the $2.5 million to $2.7 million range; smaller two-bedroom units facing away from the park hover around $1.6 million. The next block up houses the Mayflower Hotel. Just north of that is the Century, 25 Central Park West, now a condominium. The blond Art Deco building was constructed by Irwin Chanin on the site of the old Century Theater. ''When my uncle built the building he reserved the basement, first and second floors for a restaurant,'' said Michael Mayers, Chanin's nephew, who grew up in the Century and returned after his marriage. ''Either no restaurant met his criteria or he couldn't rent it.'' The building includes the avenue's only retail pocket south of 100th Street, with a small Gristede's supermarket, Berger Cleaners and Jaros Pharmacy. ''I grew up with those floors being vacant,'' said Mr. Mayers, a retired venture capitalist. "In the 1950's the second floor was converted to an apartment and my uncle let Gristede's rent the first floor. There used to be many more older folks in the building who had moved in in the 1930's. The Gristede's used to pack for delivery and they would bring it upstairs." North of 96th Street, where the area is known as Manhattan Valley, the avenue turns more modest, with a mix of co-ops, condominiums and rentals. CPW Towers, a condominium, sits between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue from 97th to 100th Streets. Each of its four buildings has 414 units. (Between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues is Park West Village, with just under 900 rental units in three buildings.) You'll love coming out onto the park and watching equestrians from Claremont Stables ride around the park. But the highlight of the year for Central Park West dwellers is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The huge balloons are inflated on Thanksgiving eve on the streets surrounding the natural history museum, and the parade floats south early the next morning. This means you have something quite unique in this world.
Selected Central Park West Rentals •950 Columbus Avenue (Upper West Side) {1 available apt} Selected No-Fee Rental Listings Central park West Condo & Co-op Buildings
•251 West 74th Street (Upper West Side Apartments) {1 available apt} See our list of Upper West Side Apartment Buildings •130 West 80th Street (Upper West Side) Even though the construction of super-luxury condominums has been growing at a rapid clip in Manhattan over the last few years, Central Park West has been glaringly absent from this flurry of activity despite its obviously appeal to affluent buyers, because virtually no sites have been available for redevelopment. Even though the construction of super-luxury condominums has been growing at a rapid clip in Manhattan over the last few years, Central Park West has been glaringly absent from this flurry of activity, despite its obviously appeal to affluent buyers -because virtually no sites have been available for redevelopment. Call our Central Park Apartment offices at 877-855-7913 to make an appointment to see our Central Park West rentals
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